The story of "suddenly looking back" behind the bonsai in Nanshan Cottage

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The story of "suddenly looking back"

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The work of Lu Banyan Tree in Nanshan suddenly looks back

This banyan bonsai work, called "suddenly looking back", is taken from the meaning of the Southern Song Dynasty poet Xin Qiji's "Qingyu case Yuanxi". Wang Guowei, a famous critic of ci, said, "those who have achieved great achievements and great learning in ancient and modern times must go through three realms: 'the west wind withered the trees last night. Go up the tall building alone and look at the Tianya Road.' (Yan Shu's "butterfly in love with flowers") this is the first place. When you get wider and wider, you will not regret it, and you will be haggard for Iraq.' (Liu Yong "Fengqiwu") this second environment is also. Looking for him thousands of degrees in the crowd, he suddenly looked back, but the man was in the dim light.' (Xin Qiji's Qingyu case-Yuanxi) this third boundary is also. In this way, "suddenly looking back" should be the third realm of life.

In late July 2016, in order to participate in the "2016 Electric City Qingyuan Bay Bonsai Invitational Exhibition", I pruned "suddenly look back" again and enjoyed it carefully after pruning. The main branch of looking back is more vigorous and powerful, and it is really a bit of a taste of suddenly looking back. Let me unconsciously recall my bonsai career in an obsession.

Qu Zhi has been associated with bonsai for nearly 20 years. In fact, the bond with bonsai is really because of this banyan tree. One spring day 19 years ago, I watched my colleague Xu cut bonsai. Seeing that Lao Xu cut off a thick branch like a big lobster, which was strangely good-looking, he played with it in his hand. Old Xu saw this and said, this is a banyan branch, which can be cut to survive. If you like it, you can take it back and try it to see if you can grow it. Out of curiosity, I actually took the "big lobster" back to "cuttings". Cultivate the soil, water, two weeks later, the "big lobster" really sprouted, which made me very excited. This "big lobster" is the pile material of this basin "suddenly looking back". Soon after that, I bought a motorcycle, followed them up the mountain to dig tree stumps, and gradually became infatuated with bonsai, which has been a mystery for 19 years.

In nineteen years, he climbed high mountains, walked through dense forests, and almost traveled all over the nearby backcountry. When he dug up a satisfactory stump, he could be happy for several days; watching the stump he liked gradually withered, he was too sad to eat. In the beginning, he regarded the planting of living stumps as the greatest success, and often revelled in the new shoots of green leaves. And later, can gradually through the stump to express poetic feelings, bonsai has become an indispensable element of life. On weekends and holidays, nothing is happiest than taking a pair of scissors to trim bonsai and watching the trees gradually take shape under their own cuts. Whenever the dead of night, always love to carry a cup of tea, take a flashlight, look at this basin, that basin look, thoughts and hearts will slowly return to nature in the sound of insects.

Nineteen years have passed in a flash. "suddenly looking back" has grown from a big lobster-like banyan branch to a large bonsai, and I have also gone from a warm-blooded youth to a 40-year-old. Now I suddenly look back and find that although my sleeves are still empty, I still feel satisfied with the green eyes in front of the court and the poetic feeling between the branches and leaves.

One day in late July 2016, I pruned "suddenly looking back". It took more than half an hour to find a wasp nest in the bushes. Fortunately, it was found in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

This is the wasp hive.

This is what it looks like after pruning. Looking back, the main branch has a stronger sense of vicissitudes.

"suddenly look back" in the dusk

[feelings of bonsai people]

Text | Xiamen, Fujian @ Zhou Yingzhi

Appreciate yourself, believe in yourself, affirm yourself, encourage yourself, in this way, you will find that your life will be full of new vitality, so that every day of your life, be a new self, a dare to challenge yourself, a life flying self. Everyone is different and has his own unique beauty. Life was so beautiful, the sky was so clear, what needs to be changed is not the environment around us, but our state of mind.

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