There are many sketches in Japanese gardens, including stone, wood and iron, but most of them are made of stone. Carefully selected rocks are arranged in special positions, and the stone heads are paved like gravel. Inclined, large and wide gravel represents waves or rainy days. Stone lanterns, washing bowls, five-wheel towers, dust holes and other stone sketches are countless. Teahouses are the main style of Japanese courtyards. The road leading to the teahouse in the teahouse is decorated by gardening, with flying stones as the main body, hand-washing bowls as the ornamental body, water bowls as the guardian stones, front stones as the worship stones, and behind the shady background, lanterns are set inside. Therefore, stone lanterns and washing bowls have become two common sketches.
Stone lanterns are lanterns made of stone, which are used for lighting and viewing. Lanterns can be divided into sacrificial lanterns and palace lanterns according to their uses. The former is earlier and is generally used as a lamp in front of the Buddha. The latter is used in gardens as tea ceremony etiquette and garden sketches. Hand-washing bowls and squatting hand-washing bowls are essential supplies for tea farms. The tall one is called a washing bowl, and the short one is called a squat. At the tea party, tea drinkers must wash their hands and rinse their mouths before entering the tea room and passing through the tea field, so as to purify their bodies and minds.
Usually, the garden hand-washing bowl is made of a boulder, but its shape can be made into various styles, so it has various names, such as chrysanthemum-shaped hand-washing bowl and octagonal hand-washing bowl. As a stone group of washing bowls, it is composed of several Shi Jing. Generally, a hand-washing bowl with a stone base is the center, and there are several foil stones around it, which are used for fetching water, washing hands and standing. It has also gone through a long process from enclosing stones to a single hand-washing bowl, and then from a single hand-washing bowl to a group of squatting stones. This also reflects the development of tea plantation from flying stone standard to crouching tiger standard.