Why has a courtyard with no profusion of blooms won over countless people?

Ordinary courtyards are full of blooming flowers, lively and brilliantly colored. There is a kind of courtyard that, plain yet quietly elegant, uses the charm of muted colors to captivate your eyes too.

Muted colors belong to the "colorless family"; though said to be colorless, muted colors still have distinctions among them, only most are pale and light. The colors shift between black and white; even flowers and plants that carry color are all in faint tones, highlighting a quiet and peaceful atmosphere.

Chinese-style courtyards generally favor refinement in their use of color, and large areas of gaudy color rarely appear. The refined taste of the literati is fully expressed, and the use of muted colors has reached the highest level of mastery.

Whether it is the new Chinese style that is all the rage today, or the classical Chinese style that has remained popular to this day, both are dominated by pale, elegant and plain colors in their color style.

A touch of quietly elegant muted color, a courtyard full of refreshing grace, and beautiful times flow quietly through the courtyard just like this.

There is no luxurious decoration or dressing up, nor any elaborate carving; the courtyard often has just a few trees, plus a raised platform of anti-corrosion wood, with a beautiful dining table and chairs set out. It seems simple and generous, yet every edge and corner detail seems to give off an air of unattainable refinement.

The plants in the courtyard seem accustomed to taking things as they come, growing freely, and precisely because of this, set out a lounge chair and slowly, quietly enjoy this beauty.