Bonsai is male and female, don't you think?

Every spring, eye-catching crabapple flowers reflect the red sky, green flowers and bonsai tourists gather, which has become a major feature of Anlong town. Whenever the bonsai is mentioned, the pair of ancient piles of ginkgo biloba, the "Chinese dragon", appear particularly dazzling and eye-catching.

Rooted Anlong male and female bonsai tie a thousand years of love "two ginkgo ancient stakes, one male and one female, about 4 meters high, the trunk has been cracked and the bark has been carbonized into fish scales. According to the textual research of many experts, the age of the ancient pile bonsai of ginkgo biloba is more than 1000 years old, and the basin age is at least more than 400 years, so it has a very high collection value. " The author's questions were answered by Leng Yuegang, executive director of Sichuan Bonsai Association and cultural stationmaster of Anlong Town.

It is understood that although the ancient piles of ginkgo biloba, a pair of "Chinese dragons", have experienced thousands of years of vicissitudes and historical changes, what is precipitated on them from the bottom up is the root plate like the claws of the "Han brick" and the bark like armor. The nine bends are still visible and clear at a glance, showing the ancient body method of "Chinese crutch" unique to Sichuan style bonsai. Viewing from afar is like a flying dragon rising into the sky. The most amazing thing is whether the ancient bend of ginkgo biloba in the "Chinese dragon" is "one male, one female", which coincides with the Taoist philosophy (mutual roots of yin and yang).

Today, the two thousand-year-old "bonsai kings" hiding in Huijing Community, Anlong Town, are still braving new shoots to tell their stories about life to the outside world.

Hu Jiuquan, owner of the Hujiayuan sub-garden, said: "this is the oldest bonsai preserved in the village. due to various reasons, the bonsai was once damaged to only tree trunks, but after more than 20 years of hard work, it has now been restored to more than 85% of its original appearance."

When asked about the past experiences of this pair of ancient bonsai, the author learned more about the secret that Anlong could win the reputation of the first town of bonsai art in China. It is understood that the people of Anlong have advocated gardening since ancient times. on this land with beautiful environment, fertile soil and abundant water, they have carefully cultivated pile heads, bonsai, simple and elegant, beautiful and dignified flowers and plants. Hundreds of years ago, this village opened the curtain of making Sichuan style bonsai and became a veritable bonsai village.

According to the Annals of Anlong, Anlong had gardens and gardens such as "Fu Family Tucheng" in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty to "Xiangjia Garden", "Hu Family Garden" and "Zhou Family Garden" in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. In modern Anlong Town, Yang Jie'an, Zhou Haiting and the older generation of Sichuan bonsai masters, represented by Zhou Maohe, who once made bonsai for Chairman Zhu de, emerged. In the village, bonsai can be seen everywhere, simple and rigorous, Qiu qu colorful bonsai. Planted in pots, planted in the fields, a unique shape, a collection of elegant, interesting, beautiful scenery, and white walls and red tiles constitute a unique picture.

Today, the ancient bend of Ginkgo biloba, which was shaped by the oldest technique of "Chinese crutch" more than 400 years ago in Anlong Town, is the best proof of the history of Anlong bonsai. The soil and water on the side of Anlong also makes this pair of male and female bonsai have a more gratifying growth and become more and more infatuated.

Recently, the news that "some buyers wanted to pay more than 30 million yuan for this pair of bonsai but were decisively rejected by the garden owner on the grounds of inheriting Sichuan style skills" attracted people's attention.

As Leng Yue just introduced: "more than 400 years ago, the people of Sichuan at that time had fixed the two trees, so they had the bonsai shape of Sichuan school with three bends and nine turns." Therefore, these two bonsai plants are also called the ancestors of Sichuan school bonsai. "

It is understood that Sichuan bonsai originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It formed a landscape and expressed its aspirations with mountains, grass and trees, and formed a style and school at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. With its unique technical system and modeling style, it has become one of the five most influential schools in Chinese bonsai art.

Specifically, Sichuan bonsai production techniques are often divided into tree stump bonsai production skills, mountain and stone bonsai production techniques, tree and stone combination bonsai production techniques. Tree stump bonsai production technology is good at showing a variety of tree posture, with excellent aesthetic value and ornamental effect; it is often good at the traditional banding technique, bending the trunk and side branches according to different shapes from an early age, paying attention to three-dimensional space composition. The tree species used are golden marbles, pedicel begonia, Luo Han Song, June snow, plum, pomegranate, bamboo and so on. The treasure jade tree stump bonsai now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing, Chu Xiu Gong and Yang Xin Zhai, comes from the Sichuan School. "these tree stumps and bonsai should be birthday gifts given to the emperor by Sichuan officials at that time."

Today, this pair of ancient bonsai more as the ancestor of Sichuan bonsai describes the profound connotation of the whole Sichuan bonsai art, but also sets up the value benchmarking of Sichuan bonsai art from the side.