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Introduction of Suzhou Bonsai
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 Suzhou
is a city known for its long history and cultural tradition.
Its achievements in classical landscape architecture over the
past dynasties and the paintings of the Suzhou School in Ming
have provided a constant source of inspiration for its potted
landscape gardening to draw on. All these listed above contributed
a lot to the formation of the local features and unique style
of Suzhou's potted landscapes.
Tree stumps are used as chief material in Suzhou's potted
landscape gardening. Some of them are decades or even hundreds
of years old and theirbranches have withered and crooked, given
a strange and picturesque look by the workings of Nature. Some
even seem to be dead and rotten and are regarded as useless.
However, transplanted in pots and handled carefully, they will
put forth green and luxuriant foliage. Hanging low or shooting
upwards, many are beariful by nature and have a high decorative
value. Put in old-looking pots and stands, they are given a
flavour of antiquity. Hence the unique classic elegance and
simplicity of Suzhou's potted landscape, which are both life-like
and artistically suggestive.
Dating far back to Tang and Sung Dynasties and flourishing
in Ming and Qing, Suzhou's potted landscape gardening has continued
to develop in our times. Early in Qing, it already attained
the artistic standards of traditional Chinese landscape painting.
As a result, they have become famous not only on the mainland
of China, but also in Hongkong and Macao and the rest of the
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