Suzhou Classical Garden Bonsai Exhibition Makes a Splendid Appearance

  Suzhou bonsai is created with unique ingenuity on the basis of absorbing the essence of China's traditional classical garden art and combining certain techniques of Chinese landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting, embodying “silent poetry, three-dimensional painting, and living sculpture.”

  These bonsai works, full of antique charm and outstanding ingenuity, will bring you the original and pure beauty of nature.

  This Suzhou Classical Garden Bonsai Exhibition covers types such as tree-stump bonsai, water-and-stone bonsai, water-and-dryland bonsai, and miniature bonsai.

  In particular, boxwood (Buxus) and elm (Ulmus) among the tree-stump bonsai are tree species commonly used in Suzhou bonsai making. These withered trunks and old branches, aged one or two decades or even over a hundred years, are carefully cultivated in narrow pots so that their height does not exceed one chi of the pot's size, appearing ancient, simple, and rustic yet full of vitality. Paired with purple clay pots and various delicate "Suzhou-made" pot stands, they appear even more antique and elegant.

  These works are made with fine and exquisite craftsmanship, delicate and subtle in every detail, excelling in layout and conception, in spirit and artistic mood, and even more in their ancient simplicity. The so-called Chinese painting principle of "bold when starting the brush, careful when finishing up" is fully applied in Suzhou bonsai, which has both rigorous artistic composition and elegant artistic bearing.