The city of Moscow. The Japanese garden in the Main Moscow's Botanical garden

If you want, without leaving Moscow, to make small travel to Japan, go to the Main botanical garden. In one of its corners since 1987 the Japanese garden is arranged. The Japanese architects and landscape designers took part in creation of this garden. Here it is possible to see a stone pagoda of a XVIII-th century, exotic stone lanterns and a waterpipe from a bamboo.

But at all these exotic details make the main feature of the Japanese garden. According to traditions of the Buddhism and синтоизма, the garden symbolically displays a peace arrangement. Water, stones, trees, bushes, mosses, flowers, grasses are not easier material, but the particles of the Universe possessing the secret importance for its founders. They help to express primary harmony of the world. The mountain Sumeru which in a garden was designated by a small hill in the middle of a pond repeating sacred lake Munetsunoti was considered as the centre of the Buddhist Universe. Stones in a pond represented nine islands and eight seas of a Buddhist cosmogonic myth. Water and stones - the main elements of the Japanese garden. Water is a symbol of negative, female, dark, soft force инь, and stones - light, man's, positive, firm force ян. Their eternal opposition and indissoluble unity, according to ancient дуалистическому to representation, are a basis of existence of the world. In the Moscow Japanese garden two ponds with picturesque islands and the cascade of falls.

Each of plants in the Japanese garden also possesses the symbolics. So, for example, white flowering of plums means spiritual beauty, and pink colour of cherries - sensual beauty. In a garden in Moscow grows about 100 kinds of plants. The part from them is brought from island Hokkaido, including the Oriental cherry well-known for the flowering. At first sight, in it there is nothing unusual, unlike exotic apple-trees with a flat crone. An apple-tree for Japanese - a world and consent symbol. Oriental cherry flowering in Japan mark as a special spring holiday. To admire colours go the big company. It can consist of friends, relatives, fellow workers or study. Hundreds people spread rugs in parks, blankets or mats and arrange cheerful picnics. Unfortunately, Oriental cherry flowering quickly. There is enough flaw or rain, and gentle flowers, without having had time to be dismissed, quickly fall down on the earth. Probably, therefore in the Buddhism the blossoming Oriental cherry is a symbol of caducity and inconstancy of life, and in poetry it associates with the left youth and love.

One of variants of the Japanese garden - tea. The garden conducting to an input in a tea small house, acts as the important component of tea ceremony. It is executed simplicity, modesty, naturalness, not striking charm and helps to be adjusted correctly on forthcoming action. The Japanese garden - space for elements and imagination, an original window in other reality. At the same time they remains and simply garden where it is possible to admire infinite beauty of the Nature.