The most important thing in bonsai creation is to be realistic and to create nature with its charm.

Han Qi Landscape Bonsai-Lishan Chunxiao

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The most important thing in the creation of bonsai is to realistically seek its charm and create nature.

Original author | Han Qi

It is necessary to create good mountain and stone bonsai, carry forward the tradition and highlight the personality. Master the characteristics of the geographical environment, put your feelings into the basin, and seek its appearance in the artistic conception of realism and simplicity in complexity. Bonsai art originates from nature and is higher than nature, the key is to skillfully use simplified techniques, shrink the dragon into an inch, and see the big in the small, which is the embodiment of seeking change in Jane. Concise and clear, the artistic conception is detached. Give people a sense of beauty and rich associations.

Landscape bonsai can not only show the essence of Chinese culture, but also have a panoramic experience of people's elegant interest in life. My hometown is in the plain of northern Anhui. I heard of mountain scenery and bonsai when I was a child, but I never saw it. When I was a teenager, I liked to read geography books, draw mountains and rivers, and try to make mountain shapes with yellow clay. After walking through the deep mountains and wild forests behind the work, facing the real scene, we will have the opportunity to reduce the beauty of nature.

The creation of landscape bonsai requires aesthetic vision and rich emotion. When the mountain even rises from the flat ground, the scene is born from the mountain, which is to see the scene. Huang Binhong, a famous landscape painter, said: the land of China is beautiful without mountains and water. The natural landscape is scaled down and miraculously displayed in the bonsai, which is the landscape bonsai.

I use the overall mountain stone collection for many years to make landscape bonsai, the stone texture is naturally pale, magnanimous, strong as a whole, does not look piecemeal, very lasting. In particular, the hard stone landscape bonsai, composed of many mountains and rocks, must have a sense of integrity, not simply thinking that the upper view seal the foot, and make the foot numerous and complicated. Many enthusiasts see that it is a pity that the stone is discarded and put it into the basin as far as possible, so that the head is light and the foot is heavy, and the picture is broken. Some are not the whole stone, it is best to achieve seamless splicing, a stone to the sky, do not buckle, the top of the mountain is not too sharp, the hillside should not be too fat. It is necessary to control the ratio between the top and bottom to prevent the foot of the mountain from being loose. There are also changes in landscape bonsai. The upper part of the mountain is real and should have spiritual temperament; the lower part is virtual and lively and changeable, forming a sharp contrast and balance between the top and bottom. In the layout of hard stone, we can not accumulate the big with the small, but first the main and then the secondary, the big first and then the small. At the foot of the mountain, we should win more with less, and achieve the most beautiful effect that one cannot do without. When laying out, we should pay attention to the crisscross of each other's positions, and avoid monotonous, rigid and static composition, such as trapezoid arrangement, pointed angle upward, isometric symmetry, pyramid composition and so on.

I have persisted in the innovative exploration of landscape bonsai in the past 40 years, accumulated several creative experiences in a realistic way, and discussed it with people both inside and outside the industry.

First, waterfall production (elegant and beautiful)

The uneven stone waterline is carved out of white marble and sandwiched in the cracks of the mountain stream. The uncracked stone can be cut by machine, carved into a waterline, inlaid with white stone and bleached with hydrochloric acid to make it as white as water.

Wet white cement is smeared on the rocks and pasted with glass to form a sparkling waterway. Even if it is not filled with running water, it still looks like it is pouring down.

Second, the production of pool water (clear but not muddy)

The use of white marble basin, cut green thin stone as the bottom, selectively lay the bottom of the basin, in the injection of clear water, that is to form the feeling of green water and green mountains.

Use iron oxide green or iron blue, mix a small amount of cement, adjust to water green, smear on the bottom of the basin, 24 hours after injection of clear water is not turbid, contrast with the natural lake (do not mix pigments with water, because of opacity).

Third, ice and snow creation (spring snow has not melted)

It is generally made of natural real stones, such as cloud stone, seaweed stone, snowflake stone and Xuancheng stone.

Stones of different colors (such as black stone, brown stone, etc.) want to produce ice and snow effect, first use a small sieve basket to sift the white cement, make it fall on the stone and basin, then spray it here with a small water spray can, and then sift the white stone powder to make it fall on the white cement. Cement and white stone powder will not fall off after solidification, much like snow and ice.

Fourth, Sandy Mountain production (rigid, soft and harmonious)

It's best to make it with yellow stones. The surface is made of iron oxide yellow mixed with a small amount of dry cement. The theory is the same as the second method of making ice and snow, which is the same color as the original desert.

5. Digging holes in rocks (natural vicissitudes)

Many healthy stone hills are not sunken and cannot grow plants, so they can be drilled with carborundum in the shade of the rocks, which not only does not damage the stone skin, but also maintains the natural shape. First of all, make a small hole from above, scatter it left and right with the machine, and dig a big stone hole. The back of the stone is drilled with a diamond to make a small hole that can leak, plant flowers and plants, adjust the cement to a color similar to that of stone, and apply it to the edge of the hole. When the cement is not hard, stick a small stone on the cement according to the texture, so that the surface shows wrinkles consistent with the texture of the real stone, and after the cement is solidified, it will be the same color as the original stone.

6. Discoloration of rocks (pale and lifelike)

The specific way to change the color of the real stone: it is best to use acrylic paint, colorful collocation, mixed use, and adjusted with a small amount of water, so far as the color of the real stone is similar. Then, according to the texture of the real stone with unmixed propylene, gently draw the ribs and lines of the real stone with the tip of the brush, which is lifelike and natural. Because propylene does not fade and does not change color after drying.

Change color with cement, match with stones of what color you want to make, mix cement with iron oxides of different colors, wait for the cement to solidify, and then use propylene to do the same with real stones.

7. Disintegration of rocks (natural cracking)

To make landscape bonsai, there are many kinds of hard stone, such as wood fossils, axe split stone, etc., how to break the stone? Hold up the stone on a steel frame, bake it directly above the coal fire for about 1 hour, wet the stone with cold water, and barbecue at a distance of 10-20 cm for about half an hour. After baking, tap a few times with a hammer and crack naturally. Then use fire balloons and hydrochloric acid water to cast and transition, the gap will not leave a trace.

Splicing stone had better use more than 40 kilograms of cement, because it sticks firmly, dries quickly, has strong water resistance and is not easy to fall off.

The whole stone in the water can also be adhered with AB glue and glass glue, and can not be released until 24 hours after being glued. But these two kinds of glue can not be used to splice stones.

Qifeng ancient rhyme

The main material of the work is wood-carbonized stone, with Qifeng, mountains and rivers connected, virtual and real reflecting each other, green trees and grass, mountains and mountains, vigorous and straight, majestic and precipitous, straight to the sky. Between the main peak and the matching peak, there are continuous low mountains, steep cliffs, lifelike shape, dynamic and static combination, majestic. Reflects a precipitous and quiet elegant demeanor of Stone Forest.

Shenfeng Jingxiu

This basin work, using the composition of Gao Yuan method, is shown in the famous mountain and the beautiful between the famous mountains and clear waters. Inspired by Stone Forest in Zhangjiajie, Hunan, and the combination of the two feelings of Yunnan Lunan Stone Forest, Zhangjiajie Stone Forest has the elegant demeanor of Qifeng, and the appearance of Yunnan Stone Forest, which rises to the top of the boulder, is strange and magnificent. The feeling of the mountains is rich and stable, the peaks are bright and clear, straight into the blue sky, the mountains are connected, the clear water reflects each other, high and mighty, far-reaching twists and turns, deep and long feelings. A picturesque poem.

Spring returns to the earth and joys to the forest (people living in streams)

In this jungle-style work, the author uses natural sand and stone to create, with several wild old boxwood stakes of different sizes (20-50 years old). The mountains and forests are thick and cute, gentle and atmosphere, with the charm of nature and ancient wild. The grass of the fishing village on the hillside of the wild forest is green and lush. A winding stream gurgling out of the deep valley and beautiful forest, the water is as clear as a mirror, falling straight into the pond, a clear water, full of green, quiet and elegant, full of natural, deep breath.

Lin Quan map

The work is taken from Guo Xi's "Lin Quan Gao Zhi" in the Song Dynasty, which is a wild island-style work of flood and drought, which is composed of tortoise stone, four Osaka pines and mixed trees and tiger thorns, with green grass, a natural connection with the city, a blend of feelings and scenery, and a reflection of land and water. give people a kind of pine flying leisurely painting.

Wu Gorge situation

This work is simple in color and old in shape, and the natural whole tortoise stone is created with a small turtle stone. The stone is rare today. It is cut and polished at the bottom. According to the trend of the rocks, Wu Gorge is known as a chivalrous man. Beautiful and deep, handsome, famous all over the world, long valleys, deep valleys, towering peaks, towering peaks, clouds and fog, tortuous rivers and twists and turns. During the boat, it was like entering a beautiful gallery. The author shrinks the beauty of nature into a basin in proportion, full of poetic and picturesque. (this scene is collected by Hefei Museum on August 8, 2018)

Range Rover in Yuanjiang River

The main mountain of the work is created with a large piece of integral tortoise stone, which is hard to find today, with a clever combination of hill-shaped stone. The creation of Yuanjiang scenery is just right. Yuanjiang River originates from Guizhou Province and flows into Hunan Province, which has a unique natural environment. Give the beauty of Yuanjiang natural landscape. Spring, summer, autumn and winter scenery are different, sunny, rainy, windy and snowy, the northeast is swampy Luzhou, the whole territory now shows three embankments, three continents, one-third of the water surface, and the characteristics of Huxiang geomorphology. With the pleasant scenery and climate on both sides of the river, the author shrinks in proportion and blends the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers in close proximity. (this scene has been collected by Hefei Museum.)

Strange mountains and beautiful waters

The main mountain chooses a whole piece of natural tortoise stone with a small natural stone. The whole cave is like Tianmen, which is used to create Qixiu magnificent scenery of mountains and rivers. This is a basin of cliff-river-style landscape bonsai with realistic techniques. It fully embodies the heroic, precipitous, elegant, strange, secluded and other artistic features of the rivers. The organic integration of natural beauty and artistic beauty. Make the viewer admire and sigh. (this scene is exported to Japan on August 8, 2018)

Green hills and clear water

This dolomite main mountain is perfect as a whole, matched with a small natural stone, the rock shape is strange and changeable, the stone color is interactive and natural, the change is reasonable, the color is the same, the layout of the mountain is connected with the undulating veins, the green water reflects each other, and the water is panting. Magnificent, magnanimous. The artistic conception is deep and quiet, and watching this scene gives people a beautiful enjoyment. (this scene is exported to Japan on August 8, 2018)

Dajiang Fish Song

The work uses a whole piece of natural Kowloon wall stone with a hill-shaped stone combination to reproduce the momentum of the mountain. The author has no scruples about turning out the most beautiful scenery of the Xiajiang River in his mind, achieving the most beautiful effect of man and nature, and showing the beautiful scenery of the Xiajiang River.

Out of a dangerous cliff

The main peak of this work is the creation of a large piece of dolomite, with a canyon-style combination of deep and secluded layout, and on the right with a hill-shaped stone with harmony and unity, put in a good position, looks like the overall effect is strange and natural, beautiful and chic. Majestic and majestic, strong and gentle, green water reflects each other without losing the meaning of painting. Make people have fun in the field of vision.

The drum is full of waves

This work is scattered stone island with three overall size of Kowloon wall stone combination, with small reef embellishment, Gulangyu ancient garden Zhouzi, due to the impact of the southwest seaside reef hole, such as beating drum, renamed Gulangyu in the Ming Dynasty. Longtou Mountain, Flag raising Mountain and Chicken Mother Mountain are juxtaposed on the island. The hills are undulating, with blue waves, white clouds and green trees, which reflect each other, giving people a clean and quiet feeling everywhere. Gulangyu is known in daily life as an island in the sea, and the landscape in the basin gives people a sense of prosperity and unadorned nature.

The river bank writes about landscapes.

The main mountain of this work is a mountain-shaped stone with mountains, which is the best choice for making bonsai landscapes. The author intends to create the scenery of the river island according to this rock. The material selection of the work is ingenious, and the lines of the oval basin coincide with the lines of the rocks. In the distance, several low-row hills are arranged in the distance, making a prospect, but you can't see the edge of the basin, there is a kind of elegant and quiet, soft and gorgeous beauty.

Xiajiang River revolves around the cliff

The main scene of this overall cliff Qianshi, elegant and old, used to make cliff-style landscape bonsai, the performance of nature, powerful and dangerous, steep cliff scenery. With the characteristics of dangerous mountains and rocks and spectacular mountain-shaped scenery, it is one of the most dynamic shapes in the hard stone landscape bonsai. It is deeply loved by bonsai lovers. The works are concise in the open river style, open in artistic conception, towering and beautiful in the close-range mountains, and the contours of the distant mountains are continuous and beautiful. The whole work vividly reflects the poetic beauty of "solitary sails gone at the end of the water and sky", which is memorable.

Lihe Chunxiao

This basin mountain and river style work is used for Kowloon wall stone, the whole stone combination of different sizes, the artistic conception of the composition is open and sparse, lively and beautiful, it is a distant work describing the present era, with low rows of distant mountains in the scene, distinct levels, mixed trees sprouting, reasonable structure, strong sense of integrity, magnanimity of rivers and mountains, and the author is stable in composition by virtue of skilled techniques. Show the mountains and rivers perfectly with beautiful lines, which looks like a detached charm, majestic, unrestrained and open beauty.

Jiang is affectionate and quiet.

This scene of high and deep landscape, used to show the majestic tall and straight, cliffs, majestic scenery of mountains and rivers. This is the most common form of expression in China's landscape bonsai, with the characteristics of rigid and soft lines, strong integrity, magnificent and magnificent.

The rising sun reflects the cliffs

This cliff-like landscape bonsai made of natural integral stone of Kowloon Wall with small natural stone reflects the thrilling state of the cliffs in nature and symbolizes the indomitable and enterprising spirit. The main mountain is obviously in the shape of a cliff, placed on one side of the basin and hanging out to the middle, with a natural charm of a boulder overhead.

The situation of the Yellow River

The Yellow River is the mother river of China, the waves are rolling, the waves and sand are tumbling and rushing into the sea. For thousands of years, countless poets have chanted and sang "the water of the Yellow River comes from heaven". The work is made of Jiulong Wall integral stone, the mountain stone shape is wild and interesting, and the right side of the hill echoes relatively. The landform is treated with yellow stone sand and piled into a sand dune shape. The nature is realistic without losing the truth. Along the inner bank of the Yellow River valley, dotted with more than a dozen camels, lined up, marching forward in an indomitable spirit, transporting food and forage. The aftertaste of this scene is smooth, reproduces the dynamic sense of the work, and shows the author's love and praise for the Mother River.

Spring tide surging

There are two kinds of Kowloon wall stone, mountain stone and water stone. The stone in the basin is Kowloon wall stone, which is a Pingyuan style picture. The overall harmony of stone, landscape bonsai modeling, often use unequilateral triangle composition, unequilateral triangle overall layout collocation of the reasonable method. It will produce a sense of stability, integrity and gloomy atmosphere, and the matching peak is a whole small triangle with long oblique edges opposite each other, making the middle picture open and far-reaching, and the foggy sail shadow in the depths, showing the surging of the spring tide in the river.

Qunfeng towering

A large piece of integral stalactite mountain looks like a great sacred mountain with high peaks. The author has repeatedly conceived the work as "Qunfeng towering", because it is an integral stone mountain range, embellished with several small reefs, and its shape is natural and lifelike.

Famous mountains and beautiful waters

The main mountain is a natural integral stone of Kowloon Wall, which is composed of small integral stones to recreate the scenery of Putuo. Putuo Mountain, located in the Zhoushan Islands in the East China Sea, is known as "the victory of sea and mountains" and "the kingdom of Buddha in the sea and sky". It is one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China. The long human and geographical landscape has conquered countless scholars and poets from ancient times to the present, and the Buddha Yin and Dharma attracts tens of millions of monks who are sincere to the Buddha. The work truly reproduces the beautiful scenery of Putuo Mountain, the steep slope of the road, and the scattered beauty of ancient pagodas and temples, so that the humanistic landscape is in harmony with the miraculous craftsmanship of nature.

Spring is very much in the air

The use of natural sand water-absorbing stone, with a small natural water-absorbing stone collocation, the mountain style is stable, the whole is natural, the peaks echo, the clear water is connected, the virtual and real reflect each other, the grass and trees are green, fresh and beautiful, the scenery is quiet and deep, with a solid, thick and pale feeling.

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