Wang Shouwei, a big family of bonsai

Wang Shouwei is a 36-year-old from Jiulang Village, Zhongming Town, Tongling County, Anhui Province. Since 2001, he gave up the automobile transportation industry for many years, engaged in the bonsai planting of flowers and trees, and established the Nine Nut Private Bonsai Garden. After seven years of efforts, the bonsai garden has grown up with nearly 1,000 bonsai pots of pine and cypress size, with an annual net income of more than 100000 yuan, with a total value of more than 1 million yuan, making it the largest private bonsai garden in the county.

Recently, the author came to Wang Shouwei's bonsai garden.

Walking into the Nine Nut Bonsai Garden is like walking into the miniature nature. In the roof and courtyard, there are bonsai of different sizes and shapes everywhere. Bonsai is a beautiful scenery everywhere, which is beautiful, vivid and full of vitality. Behind all this, there is a great deal of painstaking efforts of Wang Shouwei.

In 1986, Wang Shouwei went home to work as a farmer after graduating from junior high school. After that, he went to work abroad and worked as a mechanic and welder. Because he loved root carving from an early age, he started his root carving creation while working. As soon as he had free time, he began to look for dead wood roots and strange branches scattered in the wilderness and mountains, and then carefully carved them to turn decay into magic.

In 1992, his root art work "Swan Lake" won the third prize at the first Bronze Culture Expo and the fourth Flower Show in Tongling. In 1993, at the folk craft exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of Chairman Mao's birth, his root carving work "Ming Chun Tu" was awarded the Excellence Award; in the same year, his other work "worrying about the Heaven" was awarded the second prize at the Fifth Flower Show in Tongling, China.

After getting rich, Wang Shouwei also took the initiative to help other bonsai growers, hand in hand to teach bonsai production technology. Under its influence and drive, dozens of farmers in Zhongming Town began to engage in bonsai industry, and more than 10 in Jiulang Village alone established a private bonsai garden, and bonsai industry has also become a characteristic industry and leading industry in the village. In 2006, Wang Shouwei was also named the city's leader in getting rich in rural areas.

Bonsai is an advanced work of art appreciated by both elegant and popular people, which is known as "wordless poetry and three-dimensional painting". Talking about his own creation of bonsai, Wang Shouwei told me that the purpose is to develop bonsai, promote industry, prosper the market and enliven the economy. In order to make the bonsai industry bigger and stronger, at present, he has invested more than 100,000 yuan to buy a number of alpine pine, cypress and other precious tree species from the Dabie Mountains for introduction and cultivation, so as to make new contributions to the development of Tongling bonsai industry.

It was in 2000 that we really began to focus on the newly emerging bonsai industry. He spent 20,000 yuan to buy back a batch of tree stumps, specially hired a person to manage, he still runs the transportation. However, because the person hired did not know how to cultivate it, and he was also a novice at making bonsai, more than half of the bonsai bought died in less than half a year. This time it cost him more than 10,000 yuan.

The first failure did not break the guard Wang. The next year, he gave up the transportation industry, sold his car and began to concentrate on making bonsai. In order to make the survival rate of the stump reach more than 90%, in addition to learning from books, he also spared no pains to consult the elders of the bonsai world. After hard work, the survival rate of the stump has reached the desired goal, and the production of bonsai has become a little famous. In 2003, he sold a pot to a Suzhou boss for 14000 yuan, the best price in Wang Shouwei's career in making bonsai.

However, before leaving, the Suzhou boss said to Wang Shouwei, "Xiao Wang, I think you are a nice and honest person." To be honest with you, as long as I go back and do some technical processing, this bonsai can be sold for more than 200000 yuan. " One word, such as a blow on the head, woke up Wang Shouwei, the value of bonsai depends on technology.

How to improve your own skills in making bonsai? Wang Shouwei thought of paying homage to his teacher and learning skills. In 2004, he paid homage to a senior artist engaged in bonsai in Hefei, traveling north and south to make bonsai and practice his skills. Today, Wang Shouwei's pine and cypress bonsai have a certain influence not only in Tongling, but also in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Its main feature is the combination of natural and artificial, drawing on the strengths of others, applying art in accordance with their aptitude, taking advantage of trees, constantly innovating on the basis of inheriting the tradition, combining majesty, elegance, chic and lightness in one, showing the simple and natural local style, but also showing the Tongling bonsai style, with certain local characteristics.