Stone Ideas-Stepping Stones

Nov 30, 2022

Stone Ideas-Stepping Stones

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Tingbu is also called stepping stone and flying step. The earliest Tingbu refers to the stepping stone set on the water. Later, people used to call the stepping stone on the dry land as Tingbu. Although Tingbu is a small scene in the garden, it is irreplaceable. The Taoist saying: Heaven and man are one, Zen cloud: Brahma and I are one. Stepping among the stones forms a beautiful streamline, like swimming in the water, a fairy in the painting, Lingyun steps, deep in the water clouds.

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Stepping Stones

Tingbu can be placed in water, walk on land, can be combined with gravel, and can also correspond to grass. Stepping steps can not only avoid or reduce the fragmentation caused by the road to the green space, gravel or water surface, but also enhance the integrity and unity of the landscape, and even play a role in the landscape through the sense of rhythm.

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Tingbu stone has its unique natural beauty and simple beauty. It can lie quietly on the lake, depend on the water, and accompany the fish. It can be made into various shapes. Although it is made by man, it can also be opened from heaven The use of various types of materials is very rich in texture and layering. Every shape of Tingbu is a style with a different charm.

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Stepping in the water: A spoonful of water also has a curve, a piece of stone also has a depth, like a bridge but not a bridge, like a stone but not a stone, it does not have the shape of a bridge, but it has the meaning of crossing a bridge.

There are only a few blocks of steps, scattered and uneven. Tourists experience the scene, stepping and looking around, low water, mountain streams, and unexpectedly feel like being in a deep mountain valley. On the calm water surface, steps are arranged neatly, regularly, or randomly. There is a gurgling water under the feet, and the garden is interesting to the eyes.

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Stepping on dry land ┃ perfectly combined with gravel

As time goes by, the beauty of elements continues to evolve and sublimate. For example, stepping steps in dry landscape water, gravel replaces water, and stepping stones are placed in dry sand, creating eternity of time with a supernatural harmony.

The stepping steps following the shape and the streamline, together with the different and changing sand patterns, form the unique image of the Zen courtyard landscape. Zen garden, the key is to see how Tingbu expresses...

Whether it is big or small, high or low, tight or sparse, intermittent or continuous, it is like a piece of music, soothing the suddenness.

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Stepping on the dry land ┃ Compatibility with the hardness and softness of the grass

Tingbu is very rich in texture, the same natural and casual, combined with the grass, is also a kind of pure beauty, forming a rhythmic and interesting garden path. Of course, the garden is not open and unobstructed. It must be set off by the surrounding trees and flower borders, so that Tingbu's carelessness can be revealed. From the perspective of visual beauty, the lawn spreads a pure sense of picture, while Tingbu creates the harmony between point and surface.

The beauty of Tingbu is endless, with different arrangements and charms, Tingbu stones, water, gravel, and grass permeate and tolerate each other, fully displaying the beauty of nature and rhythm.

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