Huizhou Style Bonsai

The potted landscapes are used to using various kinds of flowers, trees, and rocky of miniature trees. Passing through the skilled workers, made artist processing, and modifying the natural elegant demeanor and graceful bearings, they become the lively arts. People always praise the potted landscapes, The no sound poems and the stereoscopic paintings. In fact, this article of art not only has rich poetic flavor, but also it can give people the feeling of life.

To the potted landscapes, naturally, people might think of the Maihuayucun Village (selling the flowers and fishing village) in Shexian County. This is a potted landscape expert village, and it is one of the few wood stake production bases supporting the potted landscapes in the whole country.

According to the Hongs Generation Record, in the Qianfu 6th year, Shizong of Tang Dynasty, the fourth generation of the Hongs, named Hong Bixin, was fond of books and good at composing and singing. He had planted the plum trees in front of his house, and composed a hundred poems for it and enjoyed himself very much. Therefore, in other wards there is about over one-thousand-year history of planting the flowers.

From the People's Great Hall of Beijing to the Guangzhou Export Trade Fair of Goods, from Wuhan Changjiang River's Large Bridge to the Outer Bank Park of Shanghai, there are lots of the rare flowers and woods cultivated meticulously by the skilled flower peasants from the Maihuayucun Village which, as beautiful as a flower's name, is well known far and wide for its production of the miniature bonzai and potted landscape. (Click to see the video: The Huizhou Style Potted Landscape)

The potted landscapes are usually divided into two parts; the one is the stake potted-landscape, and the other is the mountain and rockery potted landscape. It received influences of the different areas' art styles, weathers, and the seeds of the trees, so it formed different styles. The mainly of them are the Yang's, Sichuan's, Shanghai's, Shexian's, of which Maihuayucun is the representative.

The Huizhou potted landscape belongs to the stake potted landscape. Because the form is affected on the Xin'an Paint School, it is also called the Xin'an style. Its characteristic is old, peculiar and strange strong and firm, and natural. On the breeding the new various kind of the potted landscape is formed with a big stake head, and its shape is simple and unsophisticated. The playing dragon form is the model of Huizhou potted landscape. The flower peasants made the dragon oppressed into no more than an inch. From the small appearing the large, here are no different signs of the flowers and woods.

It usually takes a long time to make a plum stake potted landscape because it needs subtle skills. At first it must be oppressed on the ground, when February and March come, the flower peasants must tie it with the palm skins and sticks, make it winging year by year with about 20-30 winding bends, therefore the plum stake with the big stake might usually take about over 20-30 years to become strange shape with lots of the winging bends.

The materials of the Huizhou potted landscapes are widely chosen. There are mainly such things, as the plum trees, the Camellia, the Nandina, the yew podocarpus, the Emerald green cypress, the purple myrtle, the pomegranate, the sweet-scented osmanthus, the Azalea, the elm, and so on. Each seed of these kinds of trees also has various different seeds. To take the plum and the sending spring plum stakes for example, there are the kinds of the green sepal plum, the sending spring plum with inner red color, light edges, the purplish red sand plum, the red bones plum, the snow white like the Jade butterflies plum, and the yellow-golden shining winter calyx canthus, and which is about 10 kinds.

When you are walking into the Maihuayucun, you will feel as if you are walking into the world of flowers. Seeing the sights, there are full of flowers, woods and the potted landscapes inside the garden. There are flowers and woods in front of the door, in the house, on the mountain, at the roadside. It said as if that it was the flowers peasant's ingenuity that had moved the heaven and god with their skilled hands overcame the whole nature.