What are the characteristics of literati bonsai? How to make it?

Literati bonsai is the main expression of the literati's feelings through bonsai, making it in nature, due to the wind or snow pressure tree branches suddenly twist downward, the change is clear, can create this artistic conception in the bonsai.

1 Shanshui bonsai is conducive to improving people's ecological knowledge.

The inorganic environment (including rocks, water, organic matter, inorganic salts, air and sunlight, etc.) and biological communities (including plants, animals, and microorganisms) in the cultivated landscape bonsai constitute a micro-ecosystem. Therefore, the production, maintenance and management of landscape bonsai must follow the laws of ecological science, including the law of biological adaptation to the environment, the law of the interaction and coordinated development of various factors of the ecosystem, the law of material cycle, transformation and regeneration of the ecosystem, the law of ecosystem development and evolution, the law of dynamic equilibrium of material input and output, and the law of stability caused by diversity, which embodies the ecological concept of Taoism and nature. Only in this way can the biological communities in the landscape bonsai be vibrant, presenting the beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers.

It is in this process that people have learned and mastered a wealth of ecological knowledge and improved their ecological knowledge and education.

2 Landscape bonsai is conducive to improving people's ecological ethical education.

Ecological values believe that human beings must establish an ecological ethics of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and have a minimum of ecological ethics education, in order to be conducive to the restoration of the ecological environment and promote the harmony of the relationship between man and nature. The natural ecological activities of human beings reflect the relationship between man and nature, which also contains the relationship between people and people, and expresses specific ethical values and value relationships. Ecological ethics can expand the moral scope of human debate, transcend the relationship between people, and achieve the harmonious development of man and nature.

Landscape bonsai contains people's strong attachment to life, or full of people's sincere love for the motherland's landscape, or reflects the literati's yearning for a light and secluded life, so that people can live in the room, and the soul can also get the comfort of returning to nature. "The benevolent person enjoys the mountain, the wise man enjoys the water", landscape bonsai can inspire the love and care of Youxun people for natural landscapes from the depths of their hearts, and establish the harmony between heaven and man.

First, the concept of equality of all beings, thus improving people's ecological ethical upbringing.

Landscape bonsai is a bonsai with a variety of mountains and stones as the theme material, taking the landscape scene in nature as a model, after selection and cutting, carving, chiseling, splicing and other technical processing, arranged in the shallow basin, showing the dangerous peaks and distant Xiu, beautiful mountains and beautiful waters and other landscape scenes. According to the different compositions and artistic conceptions, landscape bonsai is usually divided into three types: Pingyuan landscape type, far-reaching landscape type and high landscape type. Landscape bonsai is a good bend chain of natural landscape and natural spirit, full of profound Chinese cultural traditions.

Landscape bonsai organically combines natural beauty with artistic beauty, which is not only loved by Chinese, but also welcomed by bonsai lovers around the world.

The first thing is to choose a bonsai you like, and then prune, first of all, you should prune off some broken branches and leaves, and secondly, you should water it frequently to make it look more vibrant.

If you want to make literati bonsai, you can first choose some suitable bonsai materials, and then prune the branches, you can use rope or tape to protect the branches of the bonsai, and after the main shape of the bonsai is preliminarily completed, you can prune the bonsai in detail according to your own preferences, so that the literati bonsai becomes more beautiful.

If you want to make your own bonsai, first of all, of course you have to prepare a plant. There are many plants that can be used to make bonsai, including jade trees, golden branches, honeysuckle, triangular plums, rhododendrons, podocarpus, and even succulents. There are many common flowers to choose from.

As long as the plant is healthy. When choosing plants, try to choose plants that are easy to maintain and manage.

1. The processing of literati tree bonsai should start from a young age, at this time, the plasticity is large, and subtle bending changes can be made.

2. For the selected tree materials, after careful observation and thinking, after determining the ornamental surface, you can carry out a pruning of the basic structure.

3. Generally, the branches of the main part of the main trunk are cut off first, leaving only the branches of the upper part of the main trunk 1 3, and sometimes a small number of small branches can also be left in the lower part for decoration.

4. According to the needs of modeling, the upper branches of the trunk need to be thinned and the trade-offs must be carefully considered, and the branches that are not needed should be cut mercilessly. For the retained branches, do not rush to cut them short to leave them for pricking, if the branch thickness is not enough, you need to continue to cultivate.

Landscape bonsai is made of inanimate stones, processed and laid out. It is not affected by time and environmental conditions, and the modeling scenery basically does not change at any time, and it is relatively convenient to manage. For beginners, there is no need to worry about whether watering and fertilizing are appropriate, let alone how to start plastic pruning.

And the stone can be found everywhere, and it can be made at any time.

This book is illustrated by Mr. Wang Zhiying, a famous painter and professor of Tongji University in Shanghai, and has been provided with bonsai works by domestic bonsai photographers Zhou Yuan, Lin Yunxi and many bonsai masters.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the pursuit of seclusion among scholars and doctors became more and more popular, and they carried forward the idea of Laozhuang, taking the mountains and forests as the happy land, and taking seclusion as the clear height, combining the ideal life with the beauty of the mountains and forests. As a result, landscape bonsai was gradually introduced from the court to the people, and has been greatly developed.

After the Jin Dynasty crossed to the south, the economy of Jiangnan was greatly developed, and the nobles built a large number of garden villas and lived a leisurely life of touring the mountains and rivers. At that time, the prevailing metaphysics guided scholars to seek the philosophy and interest of life from the natural landscape, which promoted the formation and development of landscape poetry and landscape painting in China, and then also promoted the development of bonsai art.

Landscape bonsai is an important part of China's bonsai art, it is based on the natural mountains and rocks and waterscapes, accompanied by the essence of China's landscape painting, forming a strange artistic three-dimensional landscape.