What are the five schools of bonsai art?

1, Shanghai style

With Shanghai as the representative, evergreen conifers are the main representative tree species: Pinus pentaphylla, Pinus arhat and Pinus thunbergii. Shanghai-style bonsai modeling is characterized by free form, informality, no program, natural painting, exquisiteness, agility and fluency. Shanghai-style bonsai has two branches: natural and mellow. Although some tree bonsai are round, they are different from Su-style and Yang-style clouds in shape, size and quantity. And they are all naturally distributed, scattered and dense, and pay attention to change, so the form still tends to be natural.

2. Supai

Suzhou, Jiangsu Province is the representative, representing tree species: elm, bromeliad, triangle maple, pomegranate and plum. The characteristics of Su-pai bonsai style are, first of all, simplicity. Shrinking the withered old branches of decades or even hundreds of years old into inches and transplanting them into pots close at hand looks simple and vigorous. For example, Zhu Zi 'an, an old artist, created a pot of bromeliads, and some people praised it as "the king of bonsai".

? 3. Sichuan School

Taking Chengdu as the representative, the representative tree species are: golden marbles, crape myrtle, ginkgo, bamboo, plums and Podocarpus. Artistic style: Stump is characterized by simplicity, preciseness and diversity. Chuanpai bonsai has very strong regional characteristics and modeling characteristics. Its landscape bonsai shows the majestic and steep landscape of Bashu, which constitutes a high, hanging, steep and deep landscape in momentum.

? 4. Yang Pai

Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province is the representative, representing tree species: pine, elm and poplar (boxwood). Artistic style: The artistic feature of Yangpai bonsai is "rigorous and changeable, exquisite and magnificent". The foreign style bonsai adopts the modeling method of brown silk "fine binding and fine cutting", just like the "nuance" in Chinese painting. Yangpai bonsai also pays special attention to "profound skill and self-cultivation from an early age", that is, "the pile will be old and expensive for a long time; The film must be flat and the work is the most expensive. "

? 5. Lingnan School

Guangzhou is the representative, representing tree species: Murraya murraya, Fujian tea, Bromus, Plum, Banyan and Mantianxing. Artistic style: Learn from nature, or imitate the brushwork of Lingnan School, carefully cultivate the charm of towering trees in nature by the method of "shrinking the dragon into an inch", and "concentrate" the beautiful natural scenery in a small pot at hand after thousands of times of resolute cutting, which looks like nature and is higher than nature.