Only with experience can we enjoy the morbid beauty of bonsai at the highest level.

A senior once said: when you have experience, combined with life, you can enjoy the morbid beauty of the highest state of bonsai.

Compared with the beauty of natural health, morbid beauty seems to lack some rationality: twisted branches, exaggerated dead branches, or sparse branches and leaves. But it is undeniable that this morbid beauty has been recognized by the world.

Aesthetic is to understand and perceive the beauty of a thing or object rationally and emotionally, subjectively and objectively. It is as if most young people like to be lively, get together and be full of vitality. Older after the wind and snow, yearning for quiet, calm and calm.

Big tree type yellow poplar

Big tree-shaped green rice tea (emerald)

When I first came into contact with bonsai, I liked the dwarf tree with luxuriant leaves, and the flowers and fruits would be even more perfect. No matter how the older generations interpret the dead branches and cypresses, they all feel that they are not good-looking. At that time, he was young, shallow in knowledge, with no ravines in his chest, no mountains and rivers in his eyes, and only a pure heart. Think that the tree should be lush and leafy, the river should be slowly down, the clear flow to the bottom.

It was also at that time that I began to operate bonsai, from knowing nothing about the industry at the beginning, to experiencing a blood loss full of materials, having been tricked by the "bare pole" material bought by black-hearted tree vendors, and having experienced marriage and children. the great joys and sorrows of the death of relatives, the crowding out competition of peers, the predicament of the financial gap, the support or departure of friends and partners. These joys, anger, confusion, confusion, helplessness and frankness are intertwined into the "tuition fees" handed over to the industry over the years.

I do not know when, fell in love with bonsai qu straight, there are dew and hide. Understand that the so-called bonsai masters are not because of their technical skills, but because they are better at showing their feelings and skills in bonsai, which resonates with the appreciators.

Shili Gan Zhenbai

The so-called "living to death" is deeply struck by wind and lightning in nature, and soil erosion insect bites still struggle to survive on a waterline, seek vitality, multiply life, and be pressed by rocks to grow in twists and turns. The white bone of death is integrated with the green new branch, and life and death depend on each other. It is precisely because of this rare and precious that people call it "Shili dry". Also very much like life, do not avoid death, in order to face the challenge more bravely.

Another example is the "literati tree". Give people a morbid impression full of sadness, it is widowed, thin, crippled, yet arrogant. Literati trees are mostly for self-expression, in China, since ancient times, most of the literati are arrogant and arrogant, walking alone. Can not bear to see the complexity of the world, try his best but unable to change, but let himself be scarred, just think about it, or take care of himself, the rest let him go.

There is also a type of morbid beauty, that is Su Renge bonsai, the founder is the master of Haizhu Temple, Suren monk. Different from the id expression of the literati bonsai that "the world does not understand me, I will become an immortal", Suringer bonsai pays more attention to the expression of people's understanding of the world. Monks who practice all day long accompany with the ancient Buddha of green lanterns, study Buddhist dharma, and tend to the withered aesthetics of Zen Buddhism. In the form of expression, Surengge bonsai withered branches, few branches and leaves, leaving a large area of blank, appreciating not only pay attention to the tree itself, but also the image perception formed by the connection between the tree and the surrounding environment. People call it the "Zen tree". There is quite a feeling that "after great joy and sorrow, it finally returns to the stillness of serenity, sorrow but not injury, and all the wind is light and clouds are light".

Most people will feel that they like healthy and complete beauty, but they are often moved by morbid beauty. A professor in a hundred pulpit once said, "the highest state of Chinese aesthetics is morbid beauty." When I think about it, this is indeed true. Compared with Xue Baochai's magnanimity and versatility, and Lin Daiyu's pallor and melancholy, I find you pity even more impressive. Or in the movie story, the tragic ending can arouse the viewer's feeling and association more than the happy ending.

Welcome to follow the bonsai of the tree garden, and I hope you can communicate more.