What is the binding method in Lingnan bonsai?

The sowing and binding method is to shape the stump with brown silk or metal wire. Brown silk is a traditional modeling method for bonsai stumps. Generally, the trunk or branch is made into a semicircle, and the shape is repeated or changed. This bend is called "China Turn". The operations of brown silk include tying silk, turning silk, stealing silk, leaving knots and so on. Wire binding is divided into back binding, winding and hoop binding. Silk turning can be divided into single-strand upturning, single-strand downturning, double-strand inversion, double-strand downturning and double-strand upturning; Stealing silk is divided into hanging stealing and hanging stealing. Stealing, stealing, stalking, etc. ; Other knots are divided into slipknot, fixed knot, upper knot, lower knot and flat knot. There are half bends, crescent bends, one-inch three bends and rice bends.

Wire winding is to shape the tree blank with copper wire or lead wire. This method is simple and easy to bend and stretch freely, but it is troublesome to disassemble. Lead wire is generally used, and copper wire is more expensive. The thickness of the wires depends on the thickness of the trunk and branches, and 14 to 20 wires are commonly used. When binding, first fix one end of the wire at the base or intersection of the branches, and then wrap it close to the bark. Twist branches (branches) left or right while winding, and the silk forms a 45-degree angle with the trunk (branches). Force should be even to prevent the cambium and bark of the trunk (branch) from being sprained. If it is an easy-to-peel tree species or thick trunk, you can wrap the branches with hemp, brown skin, etc. Before winding.

Whether it is coiled by brown silk or metal wire, sometimes when the trunk is thick and not easy to bend, the trunk can be opened vertically or horizontally to make it easy to bend. There are dragon force method and hob method for longitudinal opening; In the horizontal direction, there are single incision method or continuous incision method.