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What are the differences between Chinese gardens and Japanese gardens in terms of landscape design?

Both from the layout of the form, are natural landscape garden. Japanese style emphasizes water, the garden must have island; Suzhou garden emphasizes mountain nature, the garden must have mountain. From the mood, Japanese martial arts, natural artificial see; Suzhou garden is still literary, artificial see natural. I.M. Pei, as the designer of the Suzhou Museum, used gray and white as the color tone of the museum, refined the decorative language of the classical Suzhou gardens and simplified it into geometric shapes, which conveyed a feeling of ultimate purity, and carefully configured the garden's rockery and gravel to create the beauty of silhouettes and contours, and at the same time, give visitors a sense of the rising and falling of the mountains. In the design of Suzhou Museum, Japanese Kushanshui elements and traditional Chinese garden landscape elements are organically integrated, and a small space is chosen to convey the effect of Kushanshui, but also the spirit of the traditional Kushanshui, which extends the artistic charm of oriental gardens.