How should Yangzhou-style bonsai works be protected?

  The Yangzhou Yangpai Bonsai Museum in Yangzhou, China, houses a collection of ancient surviving bonsai works. They are living artifacts; despite centuries of change, they still maintain their original vibrant form, which is likewise inseparable from the use of Yangpai bonsai techniques for maintenance, management and re-creation.

  The Yangpai Bonsai Museum has formed a technical team combining old, middle-aged and young members, shouldering the important task of protecting, passing on and developing Yangpai bonsai techniques.

  Contemporary Yangpai bonsai, while inheriting tradition, shows a trend of diversified development. Many representative works of traditional Yangpai tree bonsai and representative works of Yangpai water-and-land bonsai innovated on the basis of tradition have won grand prizes in top international and domestic exhibitions and competitions.