The basics of bonsai modeling: you can learn all the ways of bonsai topping.

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Bonsai top is the production of bonsai, that is, the top treatment of bonsai, most of which are the highest dry at the top of bonsai, with natural tops and cloud tops; it is related to the integrity and appreciation of trees and is a necessary condition for the success of each work. Bonsai.

Some people also think that the torso can have a top to achieve a layering goal. The double-pole bonsai has two knots. Of course, if the trunk is tight, we take the highest trunk as the top of the knot. First of all, if the tree belongs to the attribute of the tree, the second is the expression of the author's personality.

Special technology of pine and cypress bonsai

Pine and cypress bonsai need to restrain the growth pattern. In ancient pine trees, ancient cypress trees and knots, they are often characterized by flexion of intervertebral discs, sudden and dense internodes, and the power of the whole body achieves this purpose.

The spine should be stable, neither backward nor forward. But the top can move forward slightly, have the best perspective in the body posture, and so on. In this way, there is a sense of intimacy, and the two are implicit beauty.

The top branch does not necessarily have long branches. If there is elimination or reduction or distortion, the top branch will easily form a "big cap" because of its vertex advantage. It must be clear, not just a string of green. All overlapping branches should be cut off.

Bonsai roof. According to the shape of the treetop, it can be roughly divided into loose crown, fan-shaped crown, triangular crown, flat crown, rear crown and dry crown.

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Scattered crown

The crown of a scattered crown is a knot in technical terms, but it only means that the top of the treetop protrudes upward. The lateral branches at the top are distributed at multiple points. The product mainly shows the natural, concise and vivid feeling of bonsai. It is suitable for tall bonsai, straight bonsai, oblique dry bonsai and so on.

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Fan-shaped crown

Then, the crown of the fan-shaped crown is the crown with three branches at the top, top and side. The main distribution is high tip, dense distribution and radiation.

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Triangular crown

The crown of triangular crown is high and low, and the main branches are distributed upward. The side branches spread out. Most of them appear on top of dry bonsai.

Parallel crown

The parallel crown is that all the branches at the top of the tree are bent horizontally, basically in the shape of a cloud. This distribution can show regularity and simplicity.

Juniper cypress remains of the Qing Dynasty

Crown

The crown is not obvious, but basically the treetop returns to the trunk. It is mainly through the vertical contrast of the vertical branches of the WACOM torso to form a visual impact.

Branch crown

The shooting crown is dominated by the crown and points to the sky of the dead branch. But there is a strong contrast between the ups and downs of Shimobe Mieshigeruhashi. This is common in Shirley's dry bonsai.