An exclusive interview with Hu Leguo, a Chinese master of bonsai art

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The memorial album of Hu Leguo, a master of Chinese bonsai art

The old pine in the bonsai world

An exclusive interview with Hu Leguo, a master of Chinese bonsai art

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This article is the original article of China Flower Bonsai Magazine. China Bonsai is authorized to release.

On August 11, 2018, Mr. Hu Leguo, a master of Chinese bonsai art, passed away, which is undoubtedly a great loss to the bonsai world. Hu Leguo has been engaged in bonsai art creation for several decades and has made indelible contributions to the development of Chinese bonsai industry, and is still active on the stage of bonsai art in his later years. To this end, the China Flower Bonsai Magazine will make a commemorative album of the articles published by Master Hu Leguo in "China Flower Bonsai" magazine and the articles interviewed by "China Flower Bonsai" magazine to express the highest respect to Master Hu Leguo!

Master Hu Leguo has gone through the ages!

Editor of Chinese Flower Bonsai Magazine

Hu Leguo

When I first saw this thin old man, I didn't expect to be associated with the brilliant achievements and fame I heard in my ears. he was clearly an ordinary old man. The scratches of the years covered his face, kind-hearted and gentle. But during the conversation, you gradually feel his inner energy and wisdom. In his eighties, he has a quick mind and a clear point of view, revealing a little elegance and a little bit of elegance between conversation and laughter. Like the bonsai behind him, the appearance is peaceful and serene, with a strong scholarly temperament, while the inner persistence, progress, engraved with distinct characteristics of the times, whether he or his bonsai, have endless stories, endless wonderful.

Hu Leguo was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. When he was a student, he especially liked music. There was a loudspeaker on the way to the school, and every time he passed home from school, he would stop, stand below and listen carefully to the Russian songs being played by Bo, and hum along. At that time, he wanted to be able to gallop on the road of music in the future, but he was unable to do so due to various factors. But the seeds of music have been planted in my heart and remain unswerving until now. Perhaps it is his love of music that makes him more artistic than others when creating bonsai.

The mottled silhouette of the moon falling through the pine forest

Know the bonsai for the first time in the dark

In April 1959, Hu Leguo, who graduated from high school, was arranged by his family to work as a temporary worker in Wenzhou Garden Office. Because he is beautifully written and has a certain love of art, he is mainly responsible for the work of advertising wax carving paper, but this kind of work does not happen all the year round, and when he is free, he is arranged to do a little help in the flower bed. Only when I got to the flower bed did I know that there were bonsai, a special potted plant.

When he first came into contact with bonsai, he felt that there was a kind of magnetic force attracting him. One is that the composition of bonsai is very close to that of art and has a strong sense of art; the other is that the temperament of bonsai is very special and has an indescribable charm; and more importantly, the creation of bonsai only communicates with plants and does not have to deal with people. this makes him feel very free and comfortable, which makes him feel very free and comfortable, so that he can shield himself from external interference and let his thoughts fly in the bonsai world. So slowly, he developed a strong interest in bonsai and fell in love with the profession from the bottom of his heart. Because of the earnest work, the leaders spoke highly of it. He was chosen as a "model worker" every year, which began his life with bonsai.

Step on the song line

At that time, the ideas and techniques of bonsai creation were in the transition period between the old and the new. Xiang Yanshu, the bonsai technician responsible for taking him, has a strong sense of innovation, which is different from other old masters. He advocated breaking the traditional regular bonsai modeling form and pursuing the feeling of novelty and nature. Hu Leguo stressed: "teacher Xiang believes that regular bonsai has fallen behind and needs to be replaced by a new bonsai form." But this cannot be done overnight. Although Xiang Yanshu did not develop a new form of bonsai, his attitude of not doing regular bonsai was firm, and he also made some useful attempts. For example, he put two trees in a basin and simply pruned them to achieve a distinctive effect. Teacher Xiang's thoughts and actions had a great impact on the young Hu Leguo. He saw them in his eyes and kept them in mind.

Move forward with gratitude

Hu Leguo has been a teacher of Xiang Yan Shu for more than 10 years and has benefited a lot. After Xiang Yanshu died, he inherited the spirit of his teacher and continued to move forward on the road of innovation, and his steps were bigger than those of his teacher. He abandoned the traditional form of bonsai, cut out the old form of bonsai and changed it into a new form of bonsai. Speaking of his innovation in bonsai, Hu Leguo is very grateful to his teacher for his teachings.

Then, taking advantage of his work, he came into contact with bonsai styles and bonsai people in many areas. at the same time, he paid attention to observe the shape and growth of trees in nature to understand their natural growth rules. During this period, he met many famous elders in the bonsai world at that time, and learned and communicated with them, which greatly expanded its thinking space.

Five-needle pine

In the early days of the industry, the unit took his bonsai works to the exhibition, he felt very honored, of course, he also won the honor for the unit. He boldly changed the regular form into the natural form, which gave birth to some works. Such as the early black pine work "born in the sky", won a lot of praise, which is also a milestone for him to break into the bonsai world. In terms of modeling, he learned from the practice of Shanghai bonsai and changed the brown wire into metal wire to make the branches of bonsai more natural. During the Cultural Revolution, there was a depression, but by chance, he came into contact with Japanese bonsai through books.

In 1979, Hu Leguo was deeply impressed by the first National Bonsai Art Exhibition held in Beihai Park in Beijing. In this activity, he had extensive contact with outstanding talents in the bonsai field all over the country, and had a comprehensive understanding of different bonsai schools and styles, which inspired him greatly and made him see the level he had reached in bonsai creation. His works such as "weather-beaten" and "Love of Life and death" were appreciated by many people at the exhibition. Later, the two works were printed and published as stamps.

Hu Leguo believes that bonsai is interlinked with literature, music, poetry and other arts. They all have poetic feelings, rhythm and charm. The high and low of poetry, the treble and bass of music, and the high and low branches of bonsai are all cadence, echoing up and down, showing elegant connotation and artistic conception. In order to improve his artistic sense of bonsai, he delved into the painting of Mustard seed Garden. After slowly chewing and groping, his artistic attainments have been greatly improved. Since then, some of his bonsai works are more literati and cultural, which have aroused great repercussions in the industry and injected new vitality into the overall style of Zhejiang bonsai.

In 2001, the Department of Urban Construction of the Ministry of Construction and the Chinese Landscape Architecture Society jointly awarded Hu Leguo the title of "Master of Chinese Bonsai Art". In 2011, the Chinese Landscape Architecture Society jointly awarded him the "Bonsai Art Lifetime Achievement Award".

Hero song

Innovation is a constant theme

From the initial contact with innovative teachers, to the later attempt to innovate in the form of bonsai, and then to the launch of innovation after rich heritage, along the way, continuous innovation and transcendence seems to have become the constant theme of his bonsai career. Until his retirement, he did not stop the pace of innovation.

After retiring, Hu Leguo built a small bonsai garden on the roof of his building and continued to study bonsai in depth, hoping to make new breakthroughs. What made him proud was his work "stepping on the Song Line" written by Huang Shansong after his retirement. When creating, he took the agreed front as the back of the work, and the original back as the front, because he felt that this side could expose the branches and have momentum. This decision made the work continuously praised when it was published. Some people say that it has the charm of calligraphy and has a strong sense of movement.

Perhaps many people have such doubts. Hu Leguo's works are mainly about pine trees. Is he only fond of pine bonsai?. In fact, he also likes miscellaneous wood bonsai, but because pine trees are relatively common in Wenzhou, he prefers pine trees. After dealing with pine trees all his life, he has made great achievements in pine creation, but he is still constantly seeking new feelings from nature. In order to capture the more authentic and beautiful forms of pine trees in nature, Hu Leguo climbed Huangshan Mountain eight times and visited the surrounding famous mountains. Every time he goes, he is attracted by the grotesque pine trees. In particular, the famous welcome pine on the left side of the Yuping building is weather-beaten, but it is lush, reflecting the vigor of the branches and the beauty of the lines. These natural scenes inspired his new creation. He also found that pine trees grow upward when they are young, but as time goes on, the branches grow down slowly, and this natural drooping form has a more unique charm. He drew nourishment from the painting, and a new form of modeling became clear in his mind. Later, when creating pine bonsai, he deliberately pulled down the pine branches on the higher trunk, and gradually formed his original technique of "high stem and hanging branches". He believes that this is closer to the natural growth characteristics of pine trees, but also more Chinese cultural flavor. The hidden dragon in the valley, the mottled still shadow scattered by the bright moon through the pine forest, and the songs of heroes are all typical works of "high stem and weeping branches", which reveal a strong temperament of Chinese culture. "Gao Gan Shui Zhi" is undoubtedly a bright spot in his later years.

Song is an endless painting in his life, pine is an endless book in his life, song is an endless song in his life, and pine is an endless dream in his life.

He is the old pine of the bonsai world.

(this article is from the 8th issue of China Flower Bonsai magazine in 2015.)

Hu Leguo Huangshan Pine Bonsai "can't fall in Love"

On the creation of "unable to fall in Love"

Original author | Hu Leguo

Huang Shansong's bonsai work "unaffectionate" is a work I created 20 years ago. I always like it and think it is very beautiful.

Where is the beauty? The United States has a tacit understanding between the two very special trunks, both unified and varied. Unity in the change of the two trunks from opposite to opposite, which forms the unity of the whole tree potential, which is an important key point! The change is shown in that the front (left) trunk becomes a sherry stem, and the rear (right) trunk becomes a vibrant green crown. This is what we call contrast and change in bonsai aesthetics. Furthermore, the green crown symbolizes the beauty of femininity, while the powerful Shili stem symbolizes the beauty of masculinity. The harmonious combination of the two is very much in line with the way of combining strength with softness. It implies that the life form goes round and round, and shows the beauty of "neutralization", which is the "aesthetic realm" that we pursue.

The shape of "unable to fall in love" begins after a year of maintenance of the original material. In a year of maintenance, I have been thinking about its shape all the time. Therefore, we already have a clear idea of the production of the material. Just put pressure on the lower left somewhere in the middle of the right trunk so that the two trunks extend in a similar direction (as shown in the figure).

The treatment of the branches is to cut off all the branches growing on the left trunk so that it becomes a beautiful Shili stem, which is older, stronger and more varied than the right trunk. The length of the dry is just right, which is the ideal performance.

The treatment of the branches on the right trunk is also relatively simple, in principle, let it form an unequilateral triangle, let it join with the trunk under appropriate conditions, and then make the branches and needles dense, so that the crown has a proper sense of permeability. Only in this way can there be a strong contrast between the green crown and the trunk, so that the branches of the tree show the beauty of lines and changes in reality.

The modeling method and process is so simple, but in the actual creative process, every detail can not be careless, should be taken seriously, because the details determine success or failure.

(this article is from the 2017 9th issue of China Flower Bonsai Magazine)

The jump flight is 38 cm long and Hu Le Guozuo

jump? Flight

Original author | Hu Leguo

The modeling of bonsai trees focuses on applying skills in accordance with their aptitude, which is a serious and meticulous thinking process. It includes all the links from the root plate to the top of the tree, such as the thickness of the stem, the bending change and the direction of the root, the position of the branch on the trunk and the thickness, density, length of the branch, and so on. Then you have to consider what form of bonsai is most suitable for display.

The work "Jump Flying" is based on the Japanese five-needle pine with medium-sized short leaves (commonly known as Osaka pine). Look at its trunk situation, it is not suitable to make direct dry and other forms, the most suitable for semi-cliff bonsai to deal with. The top of the trunk is held high, in line with the characteristics of plant growth, but also close to the theme-jumping flight.

With regard to the cliff-style bonsai, it is intended to imitate the picture of trees clinging to the cliff in nature. This is a special tree shape that grows in a special environment. It symbolizes the perseverance of trees in order to survive and struggle in a difficult environment. This spirit is deeply praised and loved by people, so the cliff-style bonsai is also loved by everyone. Trees grow directly as the main form, and cliff-style bonsai came out of the sky, which is amazing.

In the Yangtze River basin, cliff bonsai was subdivided into three forms: semi-cliff, cliff and upside down. The work "Jump Flying" belongs to the form of semi-cliff. The cliff-type tree generally goes out of the basin mouth and hangs down, and the tree body is lower than the basin mouth; the upside-down tree trunk seems to hang upside down on the basin mouth, which is interesting.

Different regions have different names for cliff forms. For example, Lingnan calls cliff-style bonsai "moon-fishing", and its bonsai forms are indeed different. The main feature of "fishing for the moon" bonsai is that the tree trunk crosses the basin to the left or right, which looks like fishing for the moon at the bottom of the water. It is a traditional form with certain rules. In addition, other cliff features are irregular hovering down the trunk after drooping, as long as the artificial trace is not excessive, otherwise it is not desirable.

Cliff style, which is flexible and dynamic, is a creative form of bonsai that can exert its imagination.

Jump and fly.

(this article is from the 2017 issue of China Flower Bonsai Magazine)

Calm and dignified, five needles pine 88X64 cm Hu Leguo

Casual feeling of "calm and calm"

Original author | Hu Leguo

Both Chinese pine paintings and Chinese pine bonsai have a long history of cultural accumulation, both of which are written by ancient Chinese cultural people, and both embody noble morality, sentiment and connotation.

"calm down" is one of my recent bonsai works. The title of the work implies that efforts should be made to express the moral sentiment of pine trees.

When I first came into contact with bonsai, I started with five-needle pine. Zhejiang is the second hometown of five-needle pine in Japan. In Chashan on the outskirts of Wenzhou, farmers have planted five-needle pines for generations. Up to now, there are still many young people who are willing to stay in the mountains to plant pine trees. Wenzhou bonsai families also raise five-needle pine, which can be said to have a special affection. As a native of Wenzhou, five-needle pine is also my preferred tree species, which makes it feel better.

All trees grow straight upward. The so-called curved stem can only be a special tree shape in a special environment, so I always regard the tall and straight as the most expensive, because this is the nature of pine. As long as it is endowed for the aged, there will be an ancient song rhyme, which will be more aboveboard and more precious.

The shape of "calm and calm" is still high-stem and hanging branches. Its material was originally a solo book, but when I noticed that the first branch was relatively thick, I pulled it up and grew with the trunk. Experience tells us that horizontal branches grow poorly, and it is better to grow vertically, so this five-needle pine soon became a well-coordinated double-dry work. Experience also tells us that the multi-dry type is always better than the stand-alone type, because it contains more content and more points to see.

The trunk tilts slightly from right to left, and the unequilateral triangle of the crown also tilts with the tilt of the trunk, which is naturally coordinated and calm. When modeling, the big tree made more sacrifices, resulting in many twigs in the lower part, giving the crown a sense of emptiness and transparency.

(this article is from the 2016 issue of China Flower Bonsai Magazine)

Hu Leguo

Talent is the tree and culture is the root.

Original author | Hu Leguo

Writing down this topic, I think that no matter how we pursue the sophistication of styling and the innovation of techniques, culture is the ultimate yardstick to measure the quality of a work and the golden rule to measure the superiority of a bonsai man. For works, culture is the soul; for talents, culture is the root.

I have been doing bonsai all my life, and when I live to this age, what I most want to see is that the bonsai world is full of talents and successors. At the end of the year, this wish is even more prominent and lingering.

The Chinese nation has thousands of years of splendid culture, how lucky we are to have such rich spiritual supplies! Unfortunately, since when, the color of culture has gradually faded in bonsai, and the connotation of culture has been gradually weakened in bonsai, replaced by the thirst for skills and the yearning for money. There is nothing wrong with these two points, but without culture, they are trees without roots-it is difficult to break through existing techniques and earn the desired wealth, because the focus is misplaced.

This concept has affected a group of people. In today's environment that calls for the return of culture, we hope that we bonsai people will first wake up, nourish themselves with culture, and train themselves. This is the foundation of growing into a big tree!

Nowadays, there is a saying of self-study in the bonsai world, and I agree with this view. Because culture, which is invisible and untouchable, is not taught by teachers, but accumulated and understood little by little. Whether they are worshippers who have strong practical ability but weak cultural level, or technical school students who have certain theoretical and cultural knowledge but lack practical skills, they all need to improve their cultural accomplishment and understand the true meaning of culture through self-study. So that their own hands-on ability, cultural standards have been improved, and finally embarked on the road to success. The so-called talent here should also emphasize the requirement of having both political integrity and ability, and only in this way can we be an outstanding talent with achievements.

Watching a table tennis match on TV one day, the commentator said, "We have set up a table tennis university to give cultural supplementary lessons to athletes in order to improve their sports level." This immediately inspired me. Shouldn't friends in the bonsai world strengthen their study of cultural lessons and improve their cultural accomplishment, so as to improve their artistic level of bonsai creation?

I wrote an article entitled "Bonsai is Culture" in 2005, and now I find that it is not well written, and there is still a long way to go. It is the subject of a big article, but I didn't write it well. What a pity! At most, it can only tell everyone to read more and read Chinese traditional culture lessons well, and the way of bonsai modeling is among them.

The connotation of Chinese bonsai culture is rich and vast. But if you focus on one small point, it is the artistic law or artistic dialectics of bonsai modeling. It is a lesson that must be mastered in bonsai styling. There is no end to the study of this subject and it will never be learned thoroughly. Because it needs to be flexible, different bonsai materials, changes of the times, coping techniques must also be different. Experience tells us that excellent works must be born in the process of continuous improvement or adjustment. And excellent bonsai talents also grow up in the process of finding mistakes and adjusting them in time.

Talent is the tree and culture is the root.

(this article is from the 2016 issue of China Flower Bonsai Magazine)

Hu Leguo

I think five needles pine

Original author | Hu Leguo

I have been doing bonsai all my life and touching pine trees all my life, among which I have an inextricable fate with five-needle pine.

Five-needle pine seems to be born for bonsai. The plant shape is short, the growth is slow, the most valuable place is that the needles are short, after making bonsai, the overall proportion is very coordinated.

The five-needle pine originated in Japan and has a good reputation all over the world because it is born with excellent material for making bonsai. Five-needle pine has been introduced in China for a hundred years. Flower farmers in Fenghua Shiliuwan Village, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province have introduced and bred five-needle pine from Shanghai since 1920, and now the planting site has developed from the mountain to the plain. Ningbo Beilun District has also developed five-needle pine production in a large area. In addition, Chashan (Daluoshan) on the outskirts of Wenzhou is also a breeding ground for five-needle pine, and its products have a preliminary basic shape and are sold both inside and outside the province, but the production scale is far less than that of Ningbo.

Because of its strong adaptability, five-needle pine can grow in a wide area in China, all over the Yangtze River basin, from Sichuan and Yunnan to the Yangtze River Delta. However, it remains to be seen how wide the north and south along the Yangtze River basin is. At least practice has proved that five-needle pine is particularly adapted to the soil and water of Zhejiang, which can be called the second hometown of five-needle pine, and even regarded as a native tree species in Zhejiang. Zhejiang bonsai people really love it, giving five-needle pine bonsai a different artistic demeanor and cultural connotation. Zhejiang five-needle pine bonsai mostly has a high dry branch, handsome tall and straight, freehand brushwork vivid, full of ancient style.

However, realistically speaking, China also has three forbidden areas that are not conducive to the growth of five-needle pine. First, Lingnan, Hainan and south-central Fujian, there is no certain dormancy period for Pinus elliottii due to high temperature. Second, the saline-alkali land of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei makes it uncomfortable with soil and water. Third, it is difficult to adapt to high and cold areas.

Although the development of domestic five-needle pine bonsai is good in recent years, the materials produced by various breeding bases can basically meet the needs, and a number of excellent five-needle pine works have been published. Liangyuan in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province also has some of the best domestic old piles and five-needle pine. However, as an old bonsai man, I have to talk about the problems I have seen. First, there are not many old bonsai of five-needle pine with short history and high quality in China. Second, the production area of five-needle pine in China has decreased in recent years. The main reason is that the offspring of the old growers are unwilling to inherit their father's business, and the planting area naturally shrinks. In the long run, it will certainly affect the development of five-needle pine bonsai.

If there is no foresight, there must be immediate worries. Having experienced the prosperity of the five-needle pine from the beginning, I do not want to see its future decline from prosperity to decline. I hope that people of insight will pay attention to this problem early so that such excellent bonsai trees can be passed on from generation to generation. Of course, it will not be so serious in the short term, and the process will be slow.

(this article is from the 2017 issue of China Flower Bonsai Magazine.)

The sketch of Huangshan pine is 20 cm high and Hu Leguo is made by Hu Leguo

I said "Huangshan Pine"

Original author | Hu Leguo

After playing pine all my life, I have touched all kinds of pines, and all kinds of pines are very friendly to me, but I still feel that Huangshan pine has a natural flavor, so that 20 or 30 years ago, I climbed Huangshan Mountain no less than 10 times to watch the elegant appearance of Huangshan pine in its native place. to get inspiration for bonsai creation.

Huangshan pine up to 30 meters high, the crown is straight, branches spread slightly drooping, layer upon layer, very spectacular. Huangshan pine is suitable for growing in high-altitude mountains, the climate on the mountain is impermanent, sometimes the clouds steam fog, hazy; sometimes the clouds disperse and the fog disappears, and the peaks overlap each other. Looking at the top of the cliff or the gentle slope at the bottom of the cliff, there are all patches of Huangshan pine forest. In the event of a gale, the sound of pines is like thunder, the pines are like the sea, the waves are rough, the momentum is like ten thousand horses Pentium, magnificent. In an instant, it disappeared again and returned to calm. In a word, because of the strange danger of the mountain, Huangshan pine haunts the clouds all day long, taking the clouds as a drink and a breeze as a meal, forming its unique characteristics and adapting to this changeable living environment.

Friends, have you ever climbed Huangshan, Sanqing Mountain and Tianmu Mountain? That is the hometown of Huangshansong! Bonsai people, especially those who love pine bonsai, can't make bonsai well without going to Huangshan. Painters and politicians want to go to Huangshan in order to appreciate the verve of the mountains and the spirit of pine trees.

Pinus taiwanensis is an endemic tree species in China, which is suitable for growing in high-altitude mountains, but not suitable for planting in the plain. Huangshan pine grows not only on Huangshan Mountain, but also in the high-altitude mountain areas of all provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Xiyang, like cool and humid alpine climate and acid yellow land with deep soil layer and good drainage. And resistant to cold, wind and snow, fear of heat.

Huangshan pine alias Tianmu pine, winter buds dark brown, microcoat resin. Needles have two needles in a bunch, and the leaves are generally 5 to 13 centimeters long. However, the needle length, thickness, leaf color and so on will have different performance according to the growth environment. It is an excellent material for making bonsai in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and it is so famous because it is produced in Tianmu Mountain that many enthusiasts mistakenly think that it and Huangshan pine are two different tree species.

Huangshansong photos Penglai three islands

There is a saying that only the material of Huangshan pine growing in a special environment can be used to make Huangshan pine bonsai. This statement raises two questions:

1. What kind of environment is "special environment"?

two。 What are the characteristics of Huangshan pine bonsai material?

In my opinion, the Huangshan pine, which takes root in the crevice of the stone wall at high altitude or on the sand and stone beach that has not been completely weathered, takes cloud as its drink and breeze as its companion all the year round, and slowly grows into a small old tree, with its trunk flexion and colorful, with a feeling of age. The pine needle is short and green, and the tip of the leaf turns golden after winter, which is adorable at first sight. These are the "special environment" and characteristics of Huangshan pine.

I was in the Flower fishing Village in Shexian County, Anhui Province at the end of the Cultural Revolution. I got two small old trees of Huangshan pine, which were very lovely. I planted it together in a pot, which was well coordinated and became a work of oblique dry literati trees with a height of about 45 centimeters.

Huangshansong photos on Shixin Peak

I like Tianmu Mountain, which is located in Anji, northwest of Zhejiang Province. It can also be said that Tianmu Mountain is backed by Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province and faces the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Great Plain. There are many big cities here, such as Su, Yang, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai and so on. The politics, economy and culture are developed, the people are well-off, and the atmosphere of playing bonsai is the most prosperous. So naturally, Tianmu pine has become an excellent bonsai tree species accepted by the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang for a long time. Up to now, Anji still has many professional households who specialize in the maintenance of Tianmu pine.

When it comes to Tianmu Song, we have to mention the Tulong of Yinxian County in the Ming Dynasty (that is, Ningbo today). He made a theoretical summary of the creation of Tianmu pine bonsai in his book "Kao Nan Yu Zabu play Paper": "in basin play, the one in the list of cases is the first, followed by the one in the pavilion, and the other side is the opposite. It is the most ancient to take Tianmu pine as the first, no more than two feet high and no more than two feet short. It is like an arm, its needle is like a cluster, and it is made up of Ma Yuan's leaning oblique plucked song, Guo Xi's exposed top fist, Liu Songnian's Yan sub-cascade, Sheng Zi Zhao's drag and so on. "

The most important feature of this paragraph is that its theme must be to write "Tianmu Song" bonsai, so as to avoid misuse. Second, it is clear that the medium-sized bonsai which is "no more than two feet high" is the first. Third, the modeling of Tianmu pine bonsai advocates learning the painting style of the four major painters.

Huangshan pine photo to send guest pine (dead)

Modern Tianmu pine bonsai material has its own arm of large bonsai material, but also small and medium-sized bonsai material, modeling should promote the principle of acting in accordance with their aptitude. I would like to tell you an easy-to-accept modeling method of pine bonsai, that is, regardless of the form of the trunk, the treatment of branches should be in the form of "high trunk and hanging branches". If you encounter special circumstances and do not find a more reasonable solution, you should find it more patiently, sometimes there is only a slight difference between the left and right sides. There is an old saying that "everything stays the same". For bonsai modeling, it is to make a small old tree. On this basis, it is possible to sublimate into a work of art.

The artistic modeling of Chinese bonsai has a set of artistic expressions derived from Chinese culture, which everyone must seriously learn. It is rich in content, enough for you to learn for a lifetime. Of course, if you want to make a good bonsai of Huangshan pine, you must study it carefully. Only when you learn it well can you make your work invincible.

By Hu Leguo, Huang Shan Song, a hidden dragon in the valley.

(this article is from the 2017 9th issue of China Flower Bonsai Magazine)

Appreciation of some five-needle pine bonsai that Master Hu Leguo has never seen before.

Original author | China Flower Bonsai Magazine

This octogenarian year, is still active in the bonsai world, "tree" ploughing. Needless to say, everyone knows that he is Hu Leguo, a famous contemporary Chinese bonsai master.

With more than half a century of cultural accumulation and more than half a century of bonsai practice, Master Hu Leguo has made remarkable achievements in the creation of pine and cypress bonsai. In particular, his creative concept of "high-ranking cadres and hanging branches" has been praised and implemented by colleagues in the bonsai field. This idea properly reflects the form and spirit of pine trees in nature on bonsai, which originates from nature and is higher than nature. Over the past few decades, he has created many popular pine bonsai with fresh composition and high realm, and enjoys a high reputation in the bonsai world.

As a typical pine bonsai tree species, five-needle pine has received special attention from Master Hu Leguo. Many of his classic works have been published in our magazine, and here we present some of his unpublished five-needle pine bonsai for everyone to enjoy and learn.

(this article is from the 2017 issue of China Flower Bonsai Magazine.)

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