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Introduction: Unity is Strength - A Glimpse of the 2018 Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association Member Congress. Photos and text by Xunmei Taxue. Bagui bonsai advances with the times. Pioneering and enterprising, striking out for the midstream! To further boost the momentum for building a strong bonsai province, raise the creative enthusiasm of Guangxi's bonsai world, strengthen the cohesion of the Guangxi Bonsai Association, reward the advanced,

Unity Is Strength

- A Glimpse of the 2018 Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association Member Congress

Photos and text by Xunmei Taxue

Bagui Bonsai, advancing with the times. Pioneering and enterprising, striking out for the midstream!

To further boost the momentum for building a strong Bonsai province, raise the creative enthusiasm of Guangxi's bonsai world, strengthen the cohesion of the Guangxi Bonsai Association, reward the advanced, and respond to development trends, on June 16, 2018, the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association held a grand Member Congress at the beautifully scenic Nanning Yinlin Villa. Guo Pingsheng, Deputy Director of the Greening Committee Office of the Forestry Department of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; Bao Shiqi, President of the China Bonsai Artists Association; and Fan Shunli, Rui Xinhua, Wu Jicheng, Wang Zhigang, Zeng Anchang and Xie Keying, Executive Vice Presidents of the China Bonsai Artists Association; Wang Dingding, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Bonsai Artists Association; Peng Shengcai, a China Bonsai art master; Wei Qunjie, President of the Yunnan Provincial Bonsai and Viewing Stone Association; Zhang Gao, Chairman of the Guangxi Society of Landscape Architecture; Wei Min, President of the Guangxi Flower Association; Liu Qihua, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Flowers, Trees and Bonsai magazine; Li Jian, Administrator of the Lingnan Bonsai website; and other guests, together with nearly 500 member representatives of the Guangxi Bonsai Association, attended the congress to celebrate the grand occasion together.

This congress was the largest event hosted by the Guangxi Bonsai Association since the Bonsai exhibition marking the 30th anniversary of the association's founding, when the whole province was mobilized in 2015 and showed its full strength. It was also a major review of the organizational ability and appeal of the new council, led by President Mao Zhu, after the leadership election. In early June, as soon as the plan for arranging the meeting was announced, members from all regions enthusiastically signed up to attend, expressing their support for and endorsement of the provincial bonsai association through practical action - the number of registrations soared and quickly exceeded expectations. Limited by reception capacity, the organizing committee had no choice but to set a registration deadline, thereby reducing the scale of the meeting to a controllable range.

It is reported that when arranging this meeting, the pragmatic and diligent leadership of the Guangxi Bonsai Association fully considered the association's actual circumstances, visited grassroots areas in various places, mobilized enthusiastic people to provide sponsorship and donations, and gathered small contributions into a great effort, with everyone united as one city, thus solving the vast majority of the funding for this event. Opening up sources and reducing expenditure, what a great virtue!

Art knows no borders, and Guangdong and Guangxi are one family! In 2017, the Guangdong and Guangxi bonsai associations signed an agreement to become friendly associations, further solidifying the foundation of the strategic cooperative relationship between the two associations and injecting a boost into cooperation and exchange in Bonsai between Guangdong and Guangxi.

After more than ten years of substantial development, the Lingnan Bonsai website has long since gone beyond the scope of the official website of the Guangdong Provincial Bonsai Association and has become a spiritual home for Bonsai enthusiasts at home and abroad, as well as a well-known media outlet in the industry. The Lingnan Bonsai website has close working ties with the Guangxi Bonsai Association and spares no effort in promoting and facilitating exchange for Bagui Bonsai. It attaches great importance to the developments of the website forum's second-largest group - Guangxi-origin bonsai friends, netizens and moderators - and pays close attention to this Member Congress series of activities, successively publishing related reports to present a panoramic view of the grand event in the Bagui bonsai world. Please stay tuned!

This thread selects a set of pictures of the grandeur of the Member Congress and passes them on to the forum for the enjoyment of the broad community of netizens.

With the grand gesture of a group photo of 500 people, the Guangxi Bonsai Association opened the curtain on the 2018 Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association Member Congress

The congress venue

Head table

Mao Zhu, President of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association, introduces the attending guests

This meeting was divided into two main parts: the "Member Congress" and the "Art Performance"

Highlights of the Member Congress

Luo Chuanzhong, Executive Vice President of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association, presided over the Member Congress.

Mao Zhu, President of the Guangxi Bonsai Association, delivers the Guangxi Bonsai Association 2017 work report

Yang Xiaozhen, accountant of the Guangxi Bonsai Association, delivers the 2017 Guangxi Bonsai Association financial work report

Bao Shiqi, President of the China Bonsai Artists Association, speaks

Photography: Huang Hao

Guo Pingsheng, Deputy Director of the Greening Committee Office of the Forestry Department of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, speaks

Zeng Anchang, President of the Guangdong Provincial Bonsai Association, a friendly association of the Guangxi Bonsai Association, speaks

Professor He Taiping of Guangxi University is engaged as Honorary President of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association

President Mao Zhu issues the letter of appointment, accepted on his behalf by Zhang Gao (right), Chairman of the Guangxi Society of Landscape Architecture

Xie Keying and Mao Zhu issue letters of appointment to the newly promoted Vice Presidents and Assistant to the President of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association

From left: Chen Huachun, Lu Shanjin, Liao Baoji, Liu Ningsheng, Xie Keying, Mao Zhu, Chen Fuzhong, Xie Zuqin, Wei Hanxin

President Mao Zhu issues the letter of appointment to Liu Ningsheng (left), appointed Secretary-General of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association

Members of the Expert Committee of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association

Chairman: Qin Chaohua

Vice Chairmen: Luo Chuanzhong, Liu Xuewu, Xie Zuqin

Adviser: Xu Weihua

Members: Deng Yun, Wei Zhiru, Lin Yueyi, Pan Ninghui, Huang Hao, Ma Rongjin, Jin Huadong, Qin Chaogeng, Tan Daming

Xie Keying (seventh from left), Honorary President of the Guangxi Bonsai Association, presents certificates to members of the Expert Committee of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association

Newly promoted Deputy Secretaries-General of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association:

Tian Chengsheng, Wang Yonghong, Liao Qiang, Zou Hejun, Xuan Jianhua, Li Weicheng, Mo Daguang, Zhang Jingmou, Jin Huadong, Wang Tingyao, Xia Xiaoping, Ye Weibing, Huang Xiaoshan, Lian Wenqiang, Luo Xiao, Yang Zhuang, Fang Fang, Peng Lanlan, Ban Zhenglie, Huang Zhangheng, Fang Zhonglie, Xia Jianyang, Nong Guikong, Wei Jiajun, Lin Feng, Li Caicai, Lian Bing

Executive Vice President Qin Chaohua (left) and Ma Huacheng (right), General Consultant for the Development of the Guangxi Bonsai Association, issue letters of appointment to the newly appointed Deputy Secretaries-General of the Guangxi Bonsai Association

Newly promoted Deputy Secretaries-General of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association:

Executive Vice Presidents Qin Chaohua (left) and Luo Chuanzhong (right) issue letters of appointment to the newly appointed Deputy Secretaries-General of the Guangxi Bonsai Association

Newly promoted Deputy Secretaries-General of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association:

Executive Vice Presidents Qin Chaohua (right) and Luo Chuanzhong (left) issue letters of appointment to the newly appointed Deputy Secretaries-General of the Guangxi Bonsai Association

President Mao Zhu (second from left) and Executive Vice Presidents Luo Chuanzhong (left) and Qin Chaohua (right) present the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association annual medals

1. Liuzhou Municipal Landscape Research Institute - Annual Contribution Unit for Bonsai Culture (fourth from left)

2. Awarded to: Guangxi Xincheng County Bonsai Association - Outstanding Organization Award (fifth from left)

3. Awarded to: Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association (Lipu) Member Activity Center - Outstanding Member Activity Center (third from left)

Liu Xuewu, Vice President of the Guangxi Bonsai Association, shares his reflections on participating in the "Chinese Duke" competition

Representatives of the leadership of the Guangxi Bonsai Association take the stage to toast the attendees

From left: Ma Huacheng, Luo Chuanzhong, Mao Zhu, Qin Chaohua, Deng Yun

Highlights of the Art Performance

The beautiful female and handsome male hosts take the stage

Model and Bonsai Show

Women's Twelve Workshops instrumental ensemble

Tai Chi, Bonsai and calligraphy and painting are all outstanding cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, encompassing many fields of knowledge including health cultivation, Yi studies, philosophical thought, medical arts, and civil and martial arts.

Tai Chi emphasizes the combination of hardness and softness, overcoming hardness with softness, central uprightness and circular turning, balance and harmony.

Tai Chi and calligraphy and painting emphasize: extension and contraction, contention and yielding, emptiness and solidity, proper counter-pulling, and clear rhythm.

A theatrical performance "Tai Chi, Calligraphy and Bonsai" performed by the art troupe of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association

Three groups of performances, organically combined and interpreted together in the same frame

Bonsai art likewise emphasizes the combination of movement and stillness, tension and relaxation, dignified steadiness, moving like a fleeing hare, still as a maiden, free in gathering and releasing, harmonious and central, following one's inclinations.

Peng Lanlan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association, and assistants perform Bonsai styling

Completed Bonsai styling performance

Executive Vice President Luo Chuanzhong demonstrates a Tai Chi routine

Chen Fuzhong, Vice President of the Guangxi Bonsai Association, improvises calligraphy on the spot

Calligraphy works display

The theatrical performance "Tai Chi, Calligraphy and Bonsai" performed by the art troupe of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association is perfectly interpreted, and the performers take a curtain call

The grand finale - President Mao Zhu personally conducts the full chorus: "Unity Is Strength"

The resounding and impassioned full chorus of "Unity Is Strength" summarizes the essence, interprets the theme of the congress, and, with its majestic main melody, pushes the evening party to its highest climax

Unforgettable tonight, until we meet again!

Yesterday, for the development of the Guangxi Bonsai Artists Association, we used faith to overcome the hardships and obstacles along the way.

At the same time, it also inspired our determination to overcome difficulties and challenge ourselves. Willpower was fully embodied in each of us.

Time hurries by, and the sea of people is vast. Today, we meet in Nanning, and we set sail again here.

Our journey will surely be filled with laughter and joy; with the best spiritual outlook we look forward to the future, and with the most beautiful composition we celebrate today!

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