Museum environmental landscape and art display complement each other

In 2005, Yangzhou Garden Department rebuilt Yangzhou Bonsai Garden into Yangpai Bonsai Museum. Due to the limitation of space, many functions were affected.

In 2009, a new multi-functional bonsai museum was built in the north of Yangzhou thin West Lake Scenic spot to relocate the original Yangpai Bonsai Museum. The new bonsai museum integrates collection, display, popularization, research and other functions, and has become an important display window for Yangpai bonsai.

The island next to the main entrance of the bonsai museum

In order to better demonstrate the cultural and historical value of Yangpai bonsai, the new museum absorbs the experience of bonsai gardens and bonsai museums at home and abroad, highlighting bonsai themes, defining functional zones, configuring corresponding facilities, and coordinating with the surrounding environment; the style is a combination of classical and modern, fully taking into account the rich local characteristics of Yangzhou gardens with both Nanxiu and Beixiong.

Photography in the outdoor exhibition area of Bonsai Museum / Shen Songsong

Yangpai Bonsai Museum covers an area of more than 40 mu, with a construction area of 3200 square meters. The museum has a collection of ancient bonsai works, as well as works that have won prizes in domestic and foreign exhibitions over the years. They are living cultural relics, and although some of their works have gone through hundreds of years of changes, they are still flourishing and full of vitality.

At present, there are more than 500 bonsai and more than 200 ancient bonsai in Yangpai bonsai museum, and the number of bonsai displayed all the year round is about 280.

The museum is divided into three parts: indoor exhibition area, outdoor exhibition area and production and maintenance area, and has bonsai lecture hall, master studio, bonsai research institute and other institutions.

Photography in the indoor exhibition area of Bonsai Museum / Zhong Yafeng

The indoor display is divided into four parts: bonsai display, ancient basin display, several display and picture and text display. The picture and text display includes three parts: Chinese bonsai, Yangzhou bonsai and world bonsai. The indoor display is divided into four parts: bonsai display, ancient basin display, several display and picture and text display. The picture and text display includes three parts: Chinese bonsai, Yangzhou bonsai and world bonsai.

Enter the indoor bonsai display area, vivid bonsai, a variety of ancient pots, antique several frames, telling the past life and complete style of bonsai art.

Combination display of outdoor display area

The outdoor exhibition area uses garden walls to form the background of bonsai display. Bonsai collections are arranged according to their performance themes, which are mainly divided into? There are several combinations, such as "Yungou pine wind", "ancient wood Qingchi", "aim at Lingyun", "born in the sky", "deep in the shade", "ancient style and ancient charm", "delicious color", "in full bloom" and so on.

Bonsai is generally not too large, the ancients said that "a few cases can be bought for the best." But in some modern large-scale places, such as parks, professional bonsai gardens, and so on, sometimes some large-scale bonsai can be set up appropriately as the highlight of environmental layout. "Yungou Pine Wind" is a very large flood and drought bonsai set in the Yangzhou Bonsai Museum. It takes two century-old five-needle pines as the main material, with simple tortoise stone, rhododendron and other plants. In the large basin, which is 5.5 meters long and 3.5 meters wide, it shows a landscape-like landscape, and has now become a main scene in the garden.

An island on the water around the bonsai museum

Some expressive techniques of Yangpai bonsai have also been fully used in the environmental landscape of the bonsai museum. Whether it is the island on the surrounding water, or the sketch group scenery in the outdoor exhibition area are like super-large bonsai.

Commemorative Island of International Bonsai Congress

At the north end of the outdoor exhibition area of Yangpai Bonsai Museum, there is an island area surrounded by water, covered with flowers and trees, and the scenery is beautiful. This is the memorial island for Yangzhou to successfully hold the 2013 International Bonsai Congress and the 50th anniversary celebration of the International Bonsai Association. The scenic spot is called "Shulin Guanfeng". At the entrance to the west side of the memorial island stands a stone tablet with the words "Shu Lin Guan Feng". The island is planted with commemorative trees planted by important guests and a stone monument to the Yangzhou Declaration of the 2013 International Bonsai Congress. The works of 10 international bonsai masters who demonstrated at the conference are on display on the island as a permanent collection. On the wall behind each work, there is also a stone head portrait of the master and his perception of the art of bonsai. You can feel the Chinese style and the world style here. Memorial Island has left valuable material and intangible cultural heritage for Yangzhou. It is not only a memorial site for the successful holding of the 2013 International Bonsai Congress in Yangzhou, but also a permanent scenic spot of Yangzhou Skinny West Lake Scenic spot.

Linger in the Yangpai Bonsai Museum, ancient relics and modern boutique reflect each other, environmental landscape and art display complement each other, every tourist can get the enjoyment of nature and beauty.

Yangpai bonsai beautiful picture

The ancient wood is towering

Listen to the sound of the waves

The sound of the waves remains the same.

Vaguely hometown

A long time

Lying drunk in Qingyun

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