Anlong: A Chapter of Great Beauty - A Place to Live, a Land Where Dragons Coil, Let Me Bloom and Return You Prosperity

The World of Bonsai | The Great Beauty of Anlong

At the southern end of Dujiangyan City, a World "Double Heritage" site, there is a small town with nine pearls scattered like stars (9 communities including Bojiang, Yulan, and Huijing), two roads running side by side (Chengqing Tourism Corridor and the Third Ring Road), and one clear river (Bojiang River); it is home to the largest crabapple planting base in the country, the country's first Chinese intangible cultural heritage Sichuan-style bonsai inheritance base, a national-level ecological township, Sichuan Province's "Home of Bonsai", a Chengdu municipal-level garden town, and countless other fine reputations. It is a fertile land bearing a "colorful world" of green leaves and red flowers complementing each other; it is also a pure land harboring the "return to simplicity" of simplifying life; it is even more a hot land nurturing infinite business opportunities of hope and the future. This is Anlong Town of Dujiangyan City, long known as "a place to live, a land where dragons coil."

Set foot in Anlong, and you cannot help but marvel at its treasures of nature and its outstanding people. That is the visual impact brought to you by "silent poetry, three-dimensional painting," and even more the grand and majestic atmosphere you feel from "a pot embracing Qingcheng, scenery nourishing Dujiang." Anlong bonsai - one glance is all it takes to be etched in your heart forever.

Trunk Bonsai "Exquisitely Superb"

This "Chinese Dragon" ancient ginkgo curve with a history of more than 400 years lets you appreciate the unique charm of Sichuan-style bonsai - simple and rigorous, gnarled and varied.

Ancient Ginkgo Curve (Sichuan style formal style: Hanwen bend

Collection: Hu Jiuquan; over 400 years ago)

Golden Autumn Ancient Charm (Silver Award at the 9th China Bonsai Exhibition

Artist: Fu Wenjun)

Wonderful Ink Splashing on Rock Spring (Silver Award at the 9th China Bonsai Exhibition

Artist: Wang Ji)

Did you know that Anlong bonsai began in the Ming and Qing dynasties, originating from the "Hu Family Bay" and "Fu Family Earth City" of the prominent families north and south of Anlong town by the Bojiang River, and has lasted nearly 400 years to this day. Does the over 200-year-old crape myrtle ancient curve let you experience the excellence of the "rolling dragon embracing pillar" bonsai technique?

Ancient Crape Myrtle Curve (Sichuan style formal style: rolling dragon embracing pillar

Collection: Gao Zhifu; over 200 years ago)

Myriad Forms (Silver Award at the 21st Chengdu Bonsai Exhibition

Gold Award at the 9th Bonsai Art Festival Fine Bonsai Exhibition of Anlong Town, Dujiangyan City

Artist: Wang Yong)

Emerald Cloud (Gold Award at the Sichuan Province Sichuan-style Bonsai Exhibition

Artist: Wu Honglin)

The bonsai covered in abundant blossoms is named "Splendid China" - one bonsai tree seems to bring you into the entire spring.

Splendid China (Gold Award at the Sichuan Province Sichuan-style Bonsai Exhibition

Artist: Yuan Mingchang)

United as One (Gold Award at the First Du Fu Thatched Cottage - Shuyun Thatched Cottage Cup Bonsai Exhibition

Artist: Zhou Bin)

Lofty Peaks and Elegant Landscape (Gold Award at the 10th Bonsai Art Festival Fine Bonsai Exhibition of Anlong Town, Dujiangyan City

Artist: Wang Zhifa)

Small and Micro Bonsai "Containing the Universe"

Bonsai has the saying of "one pot, two scenes, three stands" - the three merged into one become a miniature of natural landscape. The "large, refined, and expensive" nature of traditional fine bonsai cannot make it widely popular in the market. Thus, "down-to-earth" small and micro bonsai emerged at the right time. "The universe is all contained in one pot" - I believe you must be tempted.

One Leaf Evergreen, Flowers Bloom in All Four Seasons

Has Anlong's bonsai already made you fall in love at first sight? Don't rush - take a look at Anlong's flowers too, watch flowers bloom and fall, observe clouds roll and unfold, and exclusively enjoy a touch of tranquility amid urban prosperity.

In Anlong, you can personally experience Su Shi's love for flowers in "I only fear that in the deep night the flowers will fall asleep, so I burn tall candles to illuminate their red attire." The largest crabapple base in the country, the crabapple park teeming with visitors, the Crabapple Expo Park, and the "Flowers Fill Yang Village" courtyard - roam freely, listen with your heart, and hear the sound of crabapples blooming.

In Anlong, the lotus scenery of "lotus leaves stretching to the horizon in endless green, lotus flowers reflecting the sun in distinctive red" is right before your eyes - perhaps with one turn, you may "stray into the depths of lotus flowers."

In midsummer time, roses bloom. In Anlong, casually find a small courtyard - that touch of purple-red passing through the wall will bring you a different kind of surprise.

Peonies bloom in May and are known as the "Flower Goddess of May," called the "flower of love" since ancient times, with the flower language of "single-minded devotion." Can Anlong's peony fields bring you into sweet love?

In Anlong, sunflowers blooming toward the sun are as brilliant as sunshine.

The Sanlian Flower and Tree Planting Base located in Guantian Community has bonsai, seedlings, and flowers all in one place.

"Rustic Flavor" High-Quality Products

Do you think bonsai and flowers are all Anlong has? I think you should take a look at our specialty agricultural and sideline products. Morel mushrooms cultivated in rich soil, free-range native chickens from the fields, absolutely authentic native eggs... a rich "rustic flavor" rushes toward you - that is what you and I miss most. Now, you can come to Anlong and take them home.

"Internet Plus" Online Marketing

Anlong possesses abundant industrial resources including bonsai, flowers and trees, and agricultural products. The masses' enthusiasm for participating in industrial development is high. To date, 15 related farmers' professional cooperatives have been established, and "O2O" and other models are actively used to build "online" trading platforms. On the basis of traditional "offline" exhibitions and sales, "Internet Plus" and "online" marketing are supplemented, such as agricultural product sales online stores and micro stores.

Abundant Talent, Flourishing Development

As the birthplace of Sichuan-style bonsai, the people of Anlong have revered horticulture since ancient times, and bonsai skilled talents have emerged in large numbers. In the late Qing dynasty, Sichuan-style bonsai masters such as Gong Jiru and Yang Caibing were nurtured; in modern times, older-generation Sichuan-style bonsai masters represented by Yang Ji'an, Zhou Haiting, and Zhou Maohe, who once made bonsai for Committeeman Zhu De, have emerged.

Gao Zhifu

Today, Anlong's bonsai craftsmanship still stands unique and is rich in talent, continuously being passed down. The entire town has 4 provincial-level outstanding Sichuan-style bonsai artists, 3 municipal-level Sichuan-style bonsai inheritors, 28 senior landscape technicians, 133 intermediate technicians, 231 junior technicians, and 29 professional brokers.

Yuan Mingchang

Wang Ji

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Anlong Town People's Government of Dujiangyan City

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