Representative Tree Species and Artistic Style of Shanghai Style Bonsai

Shanghai-style bonsai is one of the excellent traditional arts of the Han nationality, and it is a bonsai art school named after Shanghai. It contains literature and aesthetics, and integrates plant cultivation, plant morphology, plant physiology, garden art and plant plastic art.

Shanghai-style bonsai is mainly distributed in Shanghai and its surrounding counties and cities. Shanghai is the largest industrial and commercial city in China and one of the largest cities in the world. Shanghai is located in the delta of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, where the Yangtze River is crowded and has convenient land and water transportation. Mild climate, four distinct seasons, with the characteristics of maritime climate. The superior natural conditions and the economic and cultural development are the main factors for the formation of Shanghai-style bonsai school.

Representative tree species:

Evergreen coniferous trees: five-needle pine, Luohan pine, black pine

Artistic style:

Shanghai-style bonsai modeling is characterized by free form, no rules, no program, pay attention to natural painting, exquisite and vigorous, lively and smooth. The branches of Shanghai-style bonsai are natural and round, although some trees and bonsai are round, but they are different from the clouds and clouds of Su School and Yang School, mainly in the aspects of various shapes, different sizes, large quantity and so on. And the distribution is natural, scattered and dense, pay attention to change, so the form is still inclined to nature.

Shanghai-style bonsai also take a variety of ancient trees in nature as copies, refer to the branch method of Chinese landscape painting, take advantage of the situation, carry out artistic processing, and give the works more natural state. Therefore, it has the effect of "although it is done by man, it is like the opening of heaven". Shanghai-style bonsai is one of the first schools to use wire to process bonsai in China. The use of wire winding dry, branch, bending modeling, pruning method using coarse and fine cutting, shearing and application, easy to shape, smooth into strips, strong and soft.

The modeling form of Shanghai-style bonsai is relatively natural and is not restricted by any program, so it has a variety of modeling forms. There are mainly straight style, oblique dry type, qu Qian type, facing water type, cliff type, dry type, connected root type, stone-attached type, as well as more than type, double dry type, co-planting type, jungle type, flower viewing and fruit bonsai. In addition, there is a kind of "stone-like" bonsai, which is combined with the flat curvature of the tree trunk in the bonsai, and the root system is exposed with rocks to increase the interest of the mountains.

Time: 2019-06-04 Click: