Bonsai appreciation: An old tree in a pot sprouts new buds, a delightful sight worth seeing

When viewed from a distance, I always feel that these upright, towering branches are like the peak of a mountain piercing the clouds, and the slanting branches and leaves on the sides further highlight such a scene.

Bonsai shaping principles: accumulate branches and cut the trunk. A zhang for mountains, a chi for trees, a cun for horses, a fen for people. Distant mountains have no trees; near things are large and far things are small.

For a dense forest-style bonsai, small leaves are the best material to choose. Layout is the key to a forest, and an odd number is best for the count, as it easily achieves a balance of gathering and scattering, meeting and parting.

The branches grow with bends and turns, three bends to a cun, no branch is a cun straight; they attract us with the beauty of their own curving forms.

The branches of this bonsai twist a hundredfold and wind around a thousand times, curving and coiling like a young girl's graceful figure, extremely attractive. Dear friends, do you like this kind of bonsai? If you do, then save, share, and follow me.