Huizhou Bonsai ~ Flower Selling Fishing Village

Huizhou bonsai

Once Huizhou, galloping for hundreds of years has formed many fields of glory and influence, today I would like to talk to you about our bonsai art in Huizhou.

Bonsai, which is the scenery in the basin, is the artificial cultivation and pruning of the strange plants in nature. Fixed into shaped and meaningful ornamental value plants through tools, this kind of potted plant is suitable for handling, indoor, courtyard, park, community and so on.

Zhang Chao, a writer in the Qing Dynasty, said: "if you live in a city, you should use pictures as landscapes and bonsai as gardens." What do you mean?

Bonsai is a work of art which combines painting conception and artistic conception with natural rocks, living trees and flowers as the material and full of vitality as the feature. It is a combination of natural trees and flowers and natural rocks, but it also contains the thoughts, feelings and ideals of production. It is the product of people's yearning for nature, returning to nature and embracing natural desires.

The development of bonsai art in China has a history of thousands of years, and the 900-year history of bonsai art in Huizhou has also been developed in various districts and counties, but the longest development is from the flower fishing village in Shexian County and the museum of bonsai in Bao Jia Garden.

Selling Flower fishing Village the first Village in Shexian County, the real name is Hongling Village. It is located in the hinterland of the valley on the south bank of Xin'an River, 7 kilometers southeast of Yixian County. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Hong moved here and gradually formed a village. The shape of the village is like a fish, the tip of the village is like a fish's mouth, the waist of the village is getting wider and wider like a fish's belly, and the house at the foot of the village is spread out to the two wings, like the scissors tail of a fish. The surname of the village is Hong, and the water is surging, while the fish water is full of vitality, so adding three points of water next to the fish word is called the fishing village.

The village is located in a mountain depression. After crossing the Xin'an River, there are all mountain roads. If you are an outsider, you'd better not drive there, because it is very dangerous and the road is very urgent. Even we locals sometimes can not adapt and can only move slowly. After the car reached the top of the mountain, you could see a stone workshop in a flower fishing village and then slowly went down the hill. Both sides of the road can be seen covered with plum blossom stumps, all kinds of red plums, green plums and so on. There are stout, there are hovering, different shapes, all kinds of strange, said that this plum blossom, a bird's-eye view here is a sea of flowers! Whenever the flower season, tourists from all over the country come here to watch, but also everywhere traffic jams, today's outdoor tours, hikers, photographers are not without in promoting the Huizhou bonsai art, so that more people know the beautiful world in the gully!

The modeling technique of Hui-style bonsai is unique. The florist fixed the embryo of the young plum strips with palm leaves and re-adjusted every two years, and the larger branches were tied with palm ropes; after the trunk was roughly shaped, the side branches were processed, and the branchlets were only pruned instead of flat binding, thus forming a plastic art technique of "rough pruning, rough cutting, and shearing". The Hui style bonsai is planted in many places, and after it is formed, the basin is selected for seating. on the hillside of dozens of hectares of flower fishing villages, hundreds of thousands of plum stumps and tree stumps are cultivated, which can be described as the "first village" of planting and selling flowers in the sea. In terms of reproduction, it is also quite rare in China to adopt the method of pressing strips and raising piles at the same time.

Walking on the simple, quiet and fragrant village road, looking at the beautiful mountains, Lishui, withered vines, old trees, strange flowers, grass concentration and sublimation in the large bonsai, such as reading poems without words, watching a three-dimensional painting, step by step, the scenery changes with people, which not only gives people the enjoyment of beauty, but also makes people ponder.

In our family, we have also planted some bonsai, such as black pine, Luohan pine, elm, plum blossom, Ying Shanhong, Elaeagnus angustifolia, Finch plum, wisteria and so on. It seems that in every family in Huizhou, as long as there is a courtyard, they all like such bonsai, because flowers and plants, like calligraphy and painting, are the culture of Huizhou, a kind of expression of feelings, a kind of spiritual inheritance!