Graceful Disorder (錯落有致 )

Western people find beauty in "in order" while Chinese people find beauty in "in disorder" as well as "in order". Graceful Disorder ( 錯落有致 ) is one of the expressions of this Chinese sense of beauty.








I have discovered:

1) Western people find beauty in ferns (mainly due to their symmetry pattern of leaves, plus maybe their light green color usually) and I know some women having the name of fern as a given name. I never heard of a Japanese woman having a name of fern or シダ（羊歯） 子(Shidako)，蕨（わらび）子 (Warabiko, it is a good name, isn't it?) and Chinese women having a name of fern or 蕨 (jué) . Symmetrical beauty does not so much attract the Japanese and Chinese people as Westerners.

2) Western people try to clean up the things placed in a seemingly messy or disordered way and change them to in a neat and ordered way and do not try to find some hidden beauty in the things arranged in an seemingly disordered but graceful way in a certain manner either intentionally or unintentionally.


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