"Sichuan School" in Chinese Bonsai Art

Bonsai is a work of art with plants and rocks as the basic materials to show the natural landscape in the basin, which is called "three-dimensional painting" and "silent poetry".

The bonsai in China originated from the potted plants 7000 years ago, and appeared in the Han Dynasty, the landscape bonsai began to start in the Northern and Southern dynasties, the Tang Dynasty turned to poetic painting, the Song Dynasty made a distinction between landscape bonsai and tree bonsai, and the Yuan Dynasty realized a leap in miniaturization. mature monographs were published in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but they never recovered in modern times. Since liberation, from recovery to stagnation, and then to the stage of great development. These are the nine simplest pieces of history of Chinese bonsai.

In the long process of development, Chinese bonsai art has formed eight major bonsai factions, such as the elegant Su School, the Dragon and Lion style Yang School, the ancient Sichuan School, the meaningful Lingnan School, the simple Cang / Hui School, the vigorous and exquisite Shanghai School, the dignified General School, and the Zhejiang School with rich times.

Among them, the ancient and magnificent Sichuan bonsai originated in Chengdu, represented by Chengdu and Chongqing, with exquisite craftsmanship and strong regional and modeling features. There is a folk proverb in Sichuan: "bonsai without roots is like cutting wood." Therefore, Sichuan sent stump bonsai, known for its ancient clumsy vigor, elegance and elegance; its tree posture is more dignified, taking into account all directions, not going to extremes. Sichuan style landscape bonsai, to rough Shen Xiong, precipitous Qiyou mainly, reflecting the vigorous, concise, ancient, precipitous artistic features, the performance of the male, dangerous, quiet, show, strange, unique.

Sichuan school bonsai is divided into western Sichuan and eastern Sichuan bonsai. Although there are some differences in some specific production techniques and landscape modeling between western Sichuan and eastern Sichuan, the basic composition principles and production methods are the same. The bonsai made by Bashan Shushui has unique natural conditions. Sichuan school generally uses golden marbles, June snow, Luohansong, ginkgo, crape myrtle, pedicel begonia, plum blossom, fire thorn, camellia, rhododendron and so on. Landscape bonsai is made of sand flake stone, stalactite, mica stone, sand stone, tortoise stone, and newly developed varieties.

In the golden autumn, the seventh bonsai exhibition in Sichuan province in 2015 and the second bonsai flower seedling horticulture exhibition in Wenjiang district will set sail in Tianfu flower city of Wenjiang on September 28th At that time, the national bonsai master will be selected and the bonsai awards of gold, silver and bronze will be selected. For bonsai, especially for those who love Sichuan school, you can go to have a look.

Time: 2019-06-04 Click: