The concept of bonsai_The difference between bonsai and potted plants, stone play

Bonsai originated in China, is a traditional Chinese art treasures, has a long history, loved by the majority of people, but also enjoys a reputation in the world. Bonsai is an ingenious combination of plant cultivation technology and plastic art. it is a kind of display that uses plants, rocks and other materials, processed, planted or arranged in a basin to imitate the beautiful scenery of nature. it is the crystallization of cultivation technology and plastic art. it is also the combination of natural beauty and artistic beauty.

Potted plants and bonsai were collectively referred to as bonsai before the 1930s. However, because they have the difference between trees as the main body or rock scenery as the main body, and trees are living plants, they constantly change with the change of seasons and the growth of tree age, while the mountain scenery does not change much; at the same time, the trees in landscape bonsai are made of man-made, there are "single stone bonsai", stone by stone to form a landscape; and "stone play" will not change. Therefore, two different works of art are gradually formed: those with trees as the main body are called bonsai or stump bonsai, and those with landscapes as the main body are called bonsai or bonsai. At present, trees as the main body of the international use of the name "potted plant", and literally translated into "Bonsai". However, in daily life, people are still used to using the term "bonsai".

Bonsai tree stump

Landscape bonsai

It is worth mentioning that bonsai is further developed from potted plants (potted plants), but there is a fundamental difference between bonsai and potted plants. Generally use pots and dishes to grow plants, which are commonly known as potted plants. Potted plants only put the plants in the center of the pot for viewing at 04:00, and their aesthetic objects are only bright colors and shapes such as branches, leaves, flowers and fruits, while bonsai is a work of art created into a landscape through artistic treatment and horticultural processing. In addition to achieving the viewing purpose of potted plants, we must also show endless poetic and picturesque feelings through meticulous artistic modeling, showing fascinating and imaginative natural beauty, showing people's love for nature. Therefore, bonsai is the sustenance and expression of the author's artistic emotion and the expression of subjective spirit. Bonsai is the blend of scenery and emotion, the organic combination of natural beauty and artistic beauty, the cohesion of natural charm and the coexistence of form and spirit.

The difference between bonsai, potted plants and stone games

Bonsai is the epitome of natural scenery, is a collection of garden cultivation, literature, painting and other arts, combined with each other, integrated into a comprehensive plastic art. Potted artists use creative skills, reasonable layout, different depths, lengths and widths, rows of different sizes, colors and textures to cultivate trees, flowers and plants that have undergone certain artistic shapes, or all kinds of mountains and rocks processed by art. make it form a landscape that mimics nature and transcends the original shape of the mountains. This plastic art is called bonsai.

Bonsai with plants, mountains, stones, water, soil and other materials, after the author's conception and design, modeling processing, meticulous care. It is arranged in a ruler basin; "shrinking thousands of miles" and "shrinking dragons into inches" can show the infinite scenery of nature, so bonsai is praised as "three-dimensional painting" and "silent poetry". With the change of time and season, it can also show different posture, color and artistic conception.

In terms of some concepts, bonsai is also a combination of aesthetics, literature and science. The so-called aesthetics, bonsai production should give people the appreciation of beauty, quaint and beautiful, vivid charm, intriguing; the so-called literature, bonsai modeling ideas, poetic, high and low levels, cadences, ups and downs, reflecting a higher level of literary talent The so-called science, the main modeling material of bonsai is plants, which has the characteristics of life and the law of growth and development, which determines that it must master the knowledge of horticultural science and carry out long-term artistic processing and maintenance and management. in order to ensure its survival and graceful posture.

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