What are the schools of bonsai in China?

Chuanpai bonsai is represented by Chengdu and Chongqing. The production method is concise and lively, and the stump bonsai is famous for its colorful winding skills, colorful tree-shaped songs, ancient and magnificent, especially the flower and fruit bonsai. The landscape bonsai takes Bashan and Shushui as models, and only uses stone, bamboo and wood as clever combinations, which is simple and lively. Commonly used tree species are golden marble, Podocarpus, Liulixue, Lycium barbarum, Lagerstroemia indica, Begonia and so on.

Supai bonsai, represented by Suzhou bonsai, is famous for its rows of palms, and its main feature is to make cloud-shaped branches. The upper and lower clouds are almost absolute, the branches are like clouds, and the layers are distinct and scattered. In China, it is famous for making Meizhuang bonsai.

Yangpai bonsai, represented by Yangzhou bonsai, is characterized by being cultivated by small trees. According to the straight branch Chinese painting method, it is an inch and three bends. The clouds at the top of the tree are round and thick, and the clouds in the middle and lower layers are as thin as palms. It is famous for carrying baskets, knots and peach bonsai with three bays and five arms.

Shanghai-style bonsai, represented by Shanghai-Hangzhou bonsai, takes Japanese bonsai as a reference, and turns it into lead wire winding by using stumps, mountains and rivers, which reduces the difficulty of making, saves labor and time and takes shape quickly. Most of the materials are propagated and cultivated by themselves. In recent years, I began to create miniature bonsai, which is small and exquisite and cheap. At present, most flower workers all over the country use Shanghai-style bonsai as a model when making stump bonsai.

Lingnan school bonsai, represented by Guangzhou bonsai, began to form around the Ming Dynasty and was influenced by Lingnan painting school. Stump bonsai is mainly based on cutting branches, creating a unique branch-breaking technique with saving branches and cutting branches as the main method. Modeling methods are majestic trees, tall and straight trees, natural and wild trees, and short-stemmed and dense-branched trees. There are mainly banyan, murraya murraya, Bromus inermis, Fujian tea and so on.