Suzhou has been a famous historical city in the southeast of China since the Spring and Autumn Period of Wuyue. Scholars are creating landscape gardens, which can not only enjoy the material life of the city, but also appreciate the wild interest of nature. They think that bonsai appeals to both refined and popular tastes, is colorful, easy to obtain materials and convenient to make. When watching, they can see the world of Wan Li at close range, and they can find beautiful scenery in one square inch, which meets their requirement of enjoying the mountains without going out. Therefore, fiddling with bonsai has become the elegance of Suzhou feudal literati. There are a lot of poems in Suzhou history, which have just become the objects of bonsai artists' intentions. Paintings written by painters of past dynasties are often the objects of imitation of Suzhou bonsai.
Shen,,, and others, who had a great influence on Suzhou bonsai in the Ming Dynasty, became famous all over the world for their brand-new painting style and were called "Wu Pai" by later generations. Under the influence of this painting school, Suzhou bonsai presents a unique style. Mr. Zhou Shoujuan, a famous bonsai expert in Suzhou in modern times, once said: "Our bonsai, on the one hand, comes from ingenious creation, on the other hand, comes from the hands of the ancients. According to the famous paintings of the ancients, we have successively made Tang Yin's plantain stone map, Shen's crane listening to the piano map, bamboo interesting map in summer and half-window map. The artistic achievements of Suzhou classical gardens also have obvious influence on Suzhou bonsai. To some extent, Suzhou garden is a model of Suzhou bonsai, and Suzhou bonsai is a concentrated Suzhou garden.
There are mainly two kinds of bonsai in Suzhou, one is stump bonsai, the other is potted bonsai, and the characteristics of Suzhou bonsai are the most prominent in this kind of bonsai; The other is rock bonsai, also called landscape bonsai, rock bonsai, and then there are water stone bonsai and dry stone bonsai.
Good bonsai is thought-provoking, with beautiful artistic conception, beautiful scenery and beautiful environment. The inscriptions on bonsai, like those on traditional Chinese paintings, are all traditional national styles in China, such as "Heng Yun" and "Pan Gui". Just a few words can light up the lighthouse in your heart, make the landscape "poetic", increase the artistry and ideology of bonsai and open up the field of beauty.
The traditional shapes of Supai bonsai are downwind, pendulous, split, one-top, six groups of three-support, etc. From the above points, we can see the process of Su Pai bonsai from framing to modeling. Appreciating bonsai is known as "one pot, two views and three frames", and its main characteristics are: 1. Simplicity. Stump bonsai made of pine, bamboo, plum, elm, beech and other tree species will shrink the natural scenery into inch by inch, which is often the "birthday star" in the tree. Withered old branches that are 20 to 100 years old will be carefully cultivated in narrow pots, making them as tall as pots, pale and Gu Zhuo, and full of vitality. In addition, it will be equipped with teapot and various exquisite "vegetarian dishes" suitable for pottery and specialty. The second is exquisite. Suzhou bonsai is beautifully made, such as bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River, which is euphemistic and moving. It is good at layout and artistic conception, and it is also good in Gu Zhuo. Suzhou bonsai uses the so-called Chinese painting theory of "boldly putting pen to paper and carefully arranging", which has both rigorous artistic composition and elegant artistic temperament. The third is rhyme. Suzhou bonsai is a unique creation based on absorbing the essence of China traditional classical garden art and combining some techniques of China landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting, which embodies "silent poetry, three-dimensional painting and sculpture of life".
Suzhou bonsai art style is natural and simple, the image is lively, the technique is unpredictable and the mood is meaningful. It strongly infects people with rich life breath, and often shows the original and pure natural beauty, hoping to call on human beings to love nature and enhance their awareness of protecting and respecting nature.