Kaixian farmer wants to take turtle-vein stone bonsai rockeries to the world
Bonsai rockeries: Kaixian farmer wants to take turtle-vein stone to the world (photos)
Mountain boy who failed the college entrance exam starts a business making bonsai
Wang Quan lives in Wenquan Town, Kaixian, which is famous throughout Kaizhou for Wentang Well and Xiannu Cave. After Wang Quan failed the college entrance exam in 1987, he did not lose heart. Instead, relying on favorable conditions, he used the locally famous stalactite to try making bonsai for enjoyment. Unexpectedly, the bonsai he made won great favor with his neighbors, and city people also came in droves to buy bonsai rockeries. In 1989, Wang Quan, who had a good head for business, opened a bonsai rockery workshop in Wenquan Town, specializing in bonsai rockeries.
Spotting the business opportunity, he moves to the new town to open a workshop
As the construction of Kaixian New Town accelerated, Wang Quan realized that the business opportunity in making bonsai rockeries was also growing. In early 2006, Wang Quan simply closed the workshop in Wenquan Town and moved his whole family to the new town.
Opportunity always favors those who are prepared! Just as Wang Quan expected, after residents moved to the new town, they paid great attention to beautifying their living environment, and the demand for bonsai rockery arrangements for living rooms, balconies and roof gardens was enormous. So Wang Quan also developed a series of shashi stone bonsai rockery products that are light in texture and good at absorbing water.
"Hard work brings abundant rewards." In 2006, Wang Quan got off to a good start, making a profit of more than 100,000 yuan that year and earning a great deal.
Hoping miniature bonsai will go to the world
"The hardest part of making bonsai rockeries is choosing stones, searching for stones all over the mountains, looking for stones with form and stones that are useful; the difficulty can well be imagined." Wang Quan said that when quarrying stones, one must not damage the mountain scenery and can only collect scattered stones.
Kaixian New Town has already been selected as one of the "New Twelve Views of Bayu," and "Kaixian Hanfeng Lake" is about to store water. Kaixian is bound to become a major tourism county, and bonsai rockery making is also bound to meet new and greater business opportunities.
Wang Quan said that turtle-vein stone is a Chongqing specialty and is distributed over a large area in the northern mountainous region of Kaixian. If miniature turtle-vein stone bonsai rockeries are developed, visitors from other places will surely like them. Wang Quan said that his greatest wish is to let miniature turtle-vein stone bonsai rockeries, with their unique Kaixian characteristics, go out of Kaixian, out of Chongqing, out of China and to the world.
Bonsai rockeries: Kaixian farmer wants to take turtle-vein stone to the world (photos)
China Landscape Web, August 27 news: There is a gardening base on the middle section of Binhu Road in Kaixian New Town, where a large number of flowers and finely made bonsai and rockeries are sold. The most eye-catching here is the bonsai and rockery workshop opened by Wang Quan, a farmer from Wenquan Town. The bonsai materials Wang Quan sells are stones selected from the mountains, such as shashi stone, stalactite and turtle-vein stone. "Turtle-vein stone is a specialty of our Chongqing!" Yesterday, Wang Quan said that his greatest wish in his lifetime is to bring miniature turtle-vein stone bonsai rockeries to the world.Mountain boy who failed the college entrance exam starts a business making bonsai
Wang Quan lives in Wenquan Town, Kaixian, which is famous throughout Kaizhou for Wentang Well and Xiannu Cave. After Wang Quan failed the college entrance exam in 1987, he did not lose heart. Instead, relying on favorable conditions, he used the locally famous stalactite to try making bonsai for enjoyment. Unexpectedly, the bonsai he made won great favor with his neighbors, and city people also came in droves to buy bonsai rockeries. In 1989, Wang Quan, who had a good head for business, opened a bonsai rockery workshop in Wenquan Town, specializing in bonsai rockeries.
Spotting the business opportunity, he moves to the new town to open a workshop
As the construction of Kaixian New Town accelerated, Wang Quan realized that the business opportunity in making bonsai rockeries was also growing. In early 2006, Wang Quan simply closed the workshop in Wenquan Town and moved his whole family to the new town.
Opportunity always favors those who are prepared! Just as Wang Quan expected, after residents moved to the new town, they paid great attention to beautifying their living environment, and the demand for bonsai rockery arrangements for living rooms, balconies and roof gardens was enormous. So Wang Quan also developed a series of shashi stone bonsai rockery products that are light in texture and good at absorbing water.
"Hard work brings abundant rewards." In 2006, Wang Quan got off to a good start, making a profit of more than 100,000 yuan that year and earning a great deal.
Hoping miniature bonsai will go to the world
"The hardest part of making bonsai rockeries is choosing stones, searching for stones all over the mountains, looking for stones with form and stones that are useful; the difficulty can well be imagined." Wang Quan said that when quarrying stones, one must not damage the mountain scenery and can only collect scattered stones.
Kaixian New Town has already been selected as one of the "New Twelve Views of Bayu," and "Kaixian Hanfeng Lake" is about to store water. Kaixian is bound to become a major tourism county, and bonsai rockery making is also bound to meet new and greater business opportunities.
Wang Quan said that turtle-vein stone is a Chongqing specialty and is distributed over a large area in the northern mountainous region of Kaixian. If miniature turtle-vein stone bonsai rockeries are developed, visitors from other places will surely like them. Wang Quan said that his greatest wish is to let miniature turtle-vein stone bonsai rockeries, with their unique Kaixian characteristics, go out of Kaixian, out of Chongqing, out of China and to the world.