Huizhou-style bonsai is an intangible cultural heritage of Anhui.

Huizhou-style bonsaibegan in the Southern Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It has long enjoyed a high reputation and is one of the traditional schools of Chinese bonsai, with a history of more than one thousand years. It was one of the main schools of bonsai in China at that time. Huizhou-style bonsai originated early, has a long history, and has unique shaping techniques. It is known as "a silent poem, a three-dimensional painting" and has strong regional characteristics. It is an important part of Huizhou culture and is as famous as She inkstones and Huizhou ink.

The main characteristics of Huizhou-style bonsai are "ancient, peculiar, natural, vigorous, solemn, and elegant". The composition of Huizhou-style bonsai imitates nature, with clear primary and secondary elements, a combination of cleverness and simplicity, and proper concealment and exposure; the trunk styling highlights a simple, ancient sense of weathered age; the pruning of branches and leaves emphasizes agility and elegance, often seeking cleverness through simplicity and setting off simplicity with cleverness. Each work, through ingenious handling, forms different artistic viewpoints from top, middle, and bottom, and left, center, and right, giving people an organic, unified, and harmonious overall beauty. The main styles include: roaming dragon style, twisted spiral style, three-tier style, greeting-guest style, round-tier style, knot style, split-trunk style, deadwood style, cliff-hanging style, exposed-root style, and so on. Among them, the roaming dragon-style plum trunk is a representative form of Huizhou-style bonsai, emphasizing the beauty of neatness, symmetry, and solemnity.

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