Appreciating the Three Gorges Landscape Bonsai: Cherish This Encounter in This Life
[Bonsai Enthusiast's Reflections]
Text | Xiamen, Fujian @Zhou Yingzhi
Fate is a song, a kind of beauty, gently nourishing the tender heart. One encounter, one mood, warming the damp season, giving voice to sorrowful feelings; a poem, a passage of words, making life wonderful, making fate beautiful; a scene, a treasured moment, warming each other, beautifying each other, with no need for promises, no need for oaths, crossing colorful seasons, keeping an unchanging expectation. On the journey of life, with you, with me, please cherish this encounter in this life!
Worries arise from the mind; every circumstance is created by the mind. If you cannot master your destiny, destiny will dominate you; if you cannot straighten your mindset, your life will surely tilt. To take control of your own destiny, the key is to cultivate a good mindset: what you cannot see, do not probe excessively, you need not know everything; what you cannot see through, do not grieve over, only sages can see through all the myriad aspects of the world; what you cannot let go of, then change your perspective, and perhaps everything will turn bright and clear.
Title: Folk Songs Are Like the Spring River Water
Stone type: Turtle-pattern stone
Tree species: Japanese juniper (Juniperus chinensis var. procumbens)
Dimensions: 110cm*55cm*58cm
Appreciating the Three Gorges Landscape Bonsai (Six)
Original creator of the Three Gorges Landscape Bonsai | Zhang Mingwan (Owner of the Three Gorges Bonsai Garden in Wanzhou, Chongqing)
Chinese landscape bonsai is a major highlight of Chinese bonsai and has been recognized by the bonsai world internationally. It has a long history, having evolved from the mountain stone bonsai of the Tang Dynasty. It embodies the principles of Chinese landscape painting, expressing many fine scenes of famous mountains and great rivers, possessing both the meticulous realism of gongbi painting and the freehand grandeur of splashed ink in Chinese painting. In recent years, the Three Gorges Bonsai Garden in Wanzhou, Chongqing has made beneficial explorations in the creation of Three Gorges landscape bonsai. Below, some new works are shared with everyone.
Title: I Come from the Snow Mountains
Stone type: Stalactite
Tree species: Japanese juniper (Juniperus chinensis var. procumbens)
Dimensions: 163cm*83cm*69cm
Title: The Window Frames the West Ridge's Thousand-Year Snow
Stone type: Stalactite, sandstone
Tree species: Japanese juniper (Juniperus chinensis var. procumbens)
Dimensions: 163cm*83cm*68cm
The Window Frames the West Ridge's Thousand-Year Snow, detail (One)
The Window Frames the West Ridge's Thousand-Year Snow, detail (Two)
The Window Frames the West Ridge's Thousand-Year Snow, detail (Three)
Title: Sitting to Watch the Clouds Rise
Stone type: Stalactite
Tree species: Firethorn (Pyracantha)
Dimensions: 120cm*60cm*52cm
Title: A Lone Boat Below Gaotang
Stone type: Turtle-pattern stone
Tree species: Japanese juniper (Juniperus chinensis var. procumbens)
Dimensions: 120cm*60cm*49cm
Title: My Home Is Right There on the Shore
Stone type: Stalactite
Tree species: Japanese juniper (Juniperus chinensis var. procumbens)
Dimensions: 210cm*110cm*90cm
My Home Is Right There on the Shore, detail (One)
Title: Unafraid of Floating Clouds Obscuring the View
Stone type: Stalactite
Tree species: Japanese juniper (Juniperus chinensis var. procumbens)
Dimensions: 210cm*110cm*190cm
Title: Emei Snow Flurries, Three Gorges Flow
Stone type: Sandstone
Tree species: Japanese juniper (Juniperus chinensis var. procumbens)
Dimensions: 163cm*113cm*68cm
Title: Qutang's Peril Surpasses the Hundred-Lao Pass
Stone type: Sand-slice stone
Tree species: Japanese juniper (Juniperus chinensis var. procumbens)
Dimensions: 163cm*83cm*58cm
Qutang's Peril Surpasses the Hundred-Lao Pass, detail (One)
Qutang's Peril Surpasses the Hundred-Lao Pass, detail (Two)
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