Penjing (bonsai) styling values the beauty of the strange, the vertical and the abrupt.

Of the Strange and the Abrupt: On Penjing

A Penjing of the Strange and the Abrupt

Vigorous life

Blooms in the study

No branch is an inch straight

One inch, three bends

Where sparse, a horse can pass

Where dense, not even wind can pass

One branch shows twists and turns

Two branches divide into long and short

Three branches speak of gathering and scattering

Many branches have both exposed and hidden parts

Straight, long positions should be hidden, not exposed

Straight and curved positions should be exposed, not hidden

Better broken than bent

Better slanting than straight

On the day the scene is complete

The effort lies in ten years

Fear not cutting the wrong branch

Fear only placing it in the wrong position

Build up branches, cut the trunk

A zhang of mountain, a chi of tree

An inch of horse, a fen of person

Distant mountains have no trees; near things large, far things small

Shaping creation into form, wondrous as a painter's craft

The terrain within a foot yet reaching distant emptiness

Dragons come and go across thirty thousand qing

Clouds and rain crisscross twelve peaks

Pure seating frees one of vulgar air

In leisure it summons clear breeze in summer heat

Mountains and falling waters on a bleak night

Drunk and dreaming of rivers and lakes within a single leaf

Shu comes to the noble one; friendship endures forever

Hongjiang Penjing Garden proudly launches the cultural-creative "Junzi Shu" gift souvenir~