For beginners to enjoy bonsai, pay attention to four taboos and get five good gifts.

[bonsai people tell stories]

(by Zhou Yingzhi, Xiamen, Fujian)

A president took his grandson for a walk, and a beggar bowed to him. The president immediately stopped to salute and bent deeper. Grandson was puzzled: "he is just a beggar!" The president replied, "I will never allow a beggar to be more polite than the president!" Don't think that others respect you because you are excellent, but in fact, others respect you because others are excellent, and excellent people respect everyone. "

Politeness and respect symbolize the realm and self-cultivation. Don't overestimate yourself and don't look down on others at will. Giving you face doesn't mean you have face.

Learning to enjoy bonsai and pay attention to "four taboos" can get "five good gifts".

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Bonsai takes the appearance of solitary trees and jungles in nature, with varied shapes and various postures; the artistic conception is far-reaching, there is love in the scene, there is scenery in the emotion, the scene blends, the twists and turns, the branches and leaves are verdant in spring breeze and green. The simple, vigorous and enterprising artistic modeling of the tree was intoxicated, and was impressed by the artistic conception of "vivid charm, spirit and shape, and blending of feelings and scenery"-yearning for such a few pots of beauty, which was unstoppable from that moment. I meditate on bonsai day and night, almost obsessed.

Four taboos

Avoid blind hobbies

Avoid blind hobbies when looking for a stake. Bonsai always wants to have many kinds of bonsai, and you can enjoy it at any time to relieve hunger and thirst, but when you first play bonsai, because the appreciation ability is not enough and the artistic realm is not high, you have to see the stump when digging tree stumps in the mountains. Carry out "carpet" excavation, waste resources and destroy the ecology; or buy stumps in large quantities when you buy stumps in the flower bonsai market. But the result is a waste of time, effort and money, and the survival rate of the stump is affected by maintenance management and other factors. For the general tree stump, "the stump does not carry soil, the stump is hard to die". Considering the protection of the natural ecological environment, it is not recommended to dig tree stumps. If you buy stumps, you should observe whether the stumps carry soil balls. Are protective measures taken at the root of the stump? The season of digging tree stumps and the climate in recent days? When the stump is dug up and put on hold? The stump root must be cross-sectioned, and so on. Therefore, beginners' eagerness to ask for piles is understandable, but when buying, they should consider various factors and be cautious. If there are professional people in the bonsai industry, avoid losses and take fewer detours, so as not to be blind and get half the result with twice the effort.

Two taboos at will

Don't keep the pile heart at will. As the ancients said, "what you do is done in thought, and it is destroyed by you", and so is the raising of piles. Tree stump maintenance requires patience and care, but also needs to understand plant growth habits, nutrition knowledge, soil structure knowledge, water and fertilizer irrigation knowledge, pest control knowledge.

When maintaining and managing:

Do not deal with the stump casually.

Each stump should be carefully cut according to its own modeling ideas, and after dealing with the wound, it can be planted in the soil, otherwise it is not conducive to the survival of the stump, but also not conducive to future modeling.

Do not be equipped with soil at will.

Soil is an important factor related to the long life of the stump. When the soil is well matched, the stump is 1/3 alive. It is necessary to understand the growth habits of each plant and allocate the soil in proportion to provide a good substrate for stump growth that is easy to ventilate and absorb nutrients.

Be sure not to apply irrigation and fertilizer at will.

Plant growth is inseparable from water and fertilizer, fertilization is recommended: thin fertilizer is applied frequently. Watering principle: do not dry do not water, watering will be through. Such as frequent watering (no separation of water and soil, pile death in vain), timely and appropriate amount of watering, if flood, big fertilizer, tree pillars can not be absorbed, survival will be in danger.

Is to avoid dealing with diseases and insect pests at will.

Many diseases and insect pests can endanger plant life within a few days, so they should not be ignored and insensitive. It is necessary to find and control in time (to do a good job in the prevention and control of diseases and insect pests according to the season), otherwise the appearance of the stump will be affected by the death of the branches of the tree stump, if it is serious, it will cause the death of the stump, and all the previous work will be wasted, not only economic losses, but also cause me great remorse for the death of the stump, and even a serious blow to my confidence in playing with bonsai.

Don't fiddle with the stump at will.

When the stump is planted on the ground or in a large basin, it is necessary to wait for its root system to develop and fully survive before it can consider comprehensive factors such as the size of the pot and the size of the pot in the appropriate season and weather. Do not bury it in the ground on a whim and appreciate it on a whim, and the living pile has become a dead pile.

Three taboos in haste

Don't be hasty in styling. Hands-on production of unique style of bonsai works is undoubtedly the most exciting and exciting thing, but do not rush.

One is to avoid maintenance is not in place hasty modeling. The branches of the stump must grow to a certain degree of strength and gradually form a transitional branch with the trunk before they can be trimmed and modeled. No matter how long they are, when the branches reach a certain length, they will be "twisted and twisted" to tie up and hang. On the surface, there appears to be a certain shape, but there is a "lack of heat" carefully, especially deciduous plants, which are obviously reflected when viewing in winter (when the stump is sub-healthy, it is not recommended to change pots).

The second is to consider immature and avoid random styling. A tree stump needs to be pondered and deliberated over and over again before the modeling scheme can be determined. Beginners have little knowledge of modeling technology, and then go to battle blindly, and then constantly correct it blindly, resulting in a tree stump swinging around and delaying the forming time and opportunity. Therefore, it is suggested that beginners should first put forward their own point of view when modeling, and then find professionals who play with bonsai and three pots to give advice (after the stump is cut off. The growth cycle is long and it is difficult to predict whether the sprouts will grow according to their ideal position) to avoid unnecessary losses, which can not only avoid detours, but also help to improve their artistic literacy.

Third, the stump modeling is not determined first, the idea should be done before and after, and the idea should be further improved in the production. It is suggested that the styling can be carried out in stages to avoid pulling out seedlings for a modeling and affecting the later growth of the stump (which can be determined according to the conditions of various stumps).

Four taboos to imitate

Do not imitate in the pursuit of artistic conception. Bonsai modeling is not only the embodiment of art, but also the expression of the producer's far-reaching artistic conception. Beginners' bonsai production can really improve their artistic quality and creative level through imitation, but if they blindly imitate creative works, then the level will never be improved, and the artistic realm will never be sublimated. Therefore, it is important to make bonsai and learn from "stones from other mountains". What is more important is that we should seriously study botany, actively study aesthetics, explore literature, observe the growth of plants in nature, and combine our five thousand years of cultural tradition of the Chinese nation. and combine their own emotions for systematic creation and processing, increase their own comprehensive quality, constantly improve artistic accomplishment, and constantly pursue a beautiful artistic conception and taste.

Because the survival rate of the stump is too low, and even if it survives, there are still uncertain factors affecting its survival in the future, coupled with the post-pruning, modeling, potting, maintenance and management of the stump, etc., the waiting cycle is too long (miniature bonsai, the date of completion, work in ten years, and large and medium-sized tree stump bonsai forming is more than ten years, or even decades), even if boiled into a landscape, there can be several pots of higher-grade bonsai.

Five good "Rites"

Understand and master the above four taboos, conscientiously learn plant habits, nutrition knowledge, soil structure knowledge, water and fertilizer irrigation knowledge, pest control knowledge and modeling techniques, etc., buy some easy to survive, easy to shape, have taken the semi-finished product or close to the finished bonsai to practice, and make micro-adjustments on the basis of its modeling, bringing five good "gifts" to bonsai friends:

First, it can get started quickly and greatly shorten the time to complete the scene.

Second, it is not easy to die to avoid economic losses.

Third, through theory and practice, explore and summarize the experience of bonsai maintenance and management.

Fourth, play a basin like a basin, the market circulation is convenient and avoid economic losses to pay too much tuition fees.

Fifth, gain confidence in playing with bonsai and enjoy the joy of its changes throughout the year.

The above contents are also applicable to miniature bonsai. Miniature bonsai is a kind of tiny bonsai, its basin is small, the soil is less, the height of the plant crown is 15mur20cm, the shape is small, the shape is exquisite and chic, the dragon becomes an inch, and the line is concise, it is a kind of work of art that can be passed on to life. it can see the whole through a small part, which can not only be enjoyed intuitively, but also have a rich imagination; therefore, although miniature bonsai is in the palm of the hand, it can also be skillfully crafted. In order to make miniature bonsai, we should first choose the plant material with small branches and fine leaves, easy to work on the pot, strange roots, beautiful flowers and easy to shape.

Miniature bonsai, the date of success, the completion time is greatly shortened than its large and medium-sized bonsai, its miniature bonsai advantages are more prominent, in line with the future urbanization room, the real meaning of bonsai into the family, is the mainstream of today's bonsai development (small posture, convenient transportation, smooth communication, scenery shows old, each basin is a solitary product, as a treasure, old, middle, young, young colleagues are playing miniature bonsai).

(this article is collated and recommended by Bonyi, and the copyright belongs to the original author. The picture was taken by Qiu Zheng)

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