In classical Chinese gardens, repetition isn’t redundancy — it’s resonance.
A curved corridor might echo the shape of a distant roofline. A window’s lattice may mirror the silhouette of a tree just beyond it. A stone set beside water recalls, almost imperceptibly, the brushstroke of a painting or the phrasing of a poem. These are not accidents. They are design decisions — quiet reinforcements of larger values, carried through form.
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