Bonsai art is a comprehensive plastic art that uses natural scenery as its material

  Bonsai artists use creative techniques and reasonable layout to cultivate artistically shaped trees, flowers and plants, or artistically processed various rocks, in pots of different depths, lengths and widths, shapes and sizes, and colors and textures, so that they form a scene imitating nature and an ideal three-dimensional picture that surpasses the original state of mountains and fields.

  This plastic art is called bonsai. It is a traditional Chinese art treasure with a long history, deeply loved by the public, and also enjoys a reputation in the world. Bonsai is the epitome of natural scenery and a comprehensive plastic art that combines garden cultivation, literature, painting and other arts, blending them into one.

  Chinese bonsai art is the combination of traditional Chinese culture and outstanding art. It organically combines plants, rocks and flower pots to form wonderful and unusual scenery, enabling us to view, within a small space, landscapes as exquisite as nature itself, such as lush trees and tall bamboo, and layered green mountains. It contains literature and aesthetics, and integrates plant cultivation, plant morphology, plant physiology, garden art and plant shaping art into one.

  Chinese bonsai art displays the brilliance of Chinese national culture and has become a treasure of China's splendid culture. Bring nature into the home, let Chinese bonsai art enter thousands of households, green human dwellings, beautify cities, and make “harmonious unity between man and nature”.

  Chinese bonsai uses trees, rocks and other materials, and through artistic treatment and careful cultivation, concentrates and typically reproduces the spirit and appearance of nature in a pot. Bonsai is praised as “silent poetry, three-dimensional painting”. Say it is poetry, yet it conveys meaning within hills, valleys, forests and springs; say it is a painting, yet it is full of vitality and changes with the four seasons.

  This kind of artwork, originating from nature yet surpassing nature, and integrating trees and rocks, pots and stands into one, has been carefully carved by bonsai artists through the generations and has become a treasure in China's art treasury, renowned throughout the world for its distinctive national characteristics and ancient, elegant artistic style.