Traditional flower arrangement

Chinese national intangible cultural heritage Name: traditional flower arrangement

Applicant: Beijing Forestry University

Project No.: 869

Project No.: Ⅶ - 93

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Beijing

Type: new item

Applicant: Beijing Forestry University

Protection unit: Beijing Forestry University

Introduction to traditional flower arrangement

Applicant: Beijing Forestry University

Traditional flower arrangement is a kind of life art with flower branch as material. According to the research, the traditional flower arrangement art sprouted from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the spring and Autumn period, and has a history of more than 3000 years. In the long-term development process, traditional flower arrangement has gone through the initial period of Han Dynasty, the development period of northern and Southern Dynasties, the prosperous period of Sui and Tang Dynasties, the peak period of Song Dynasty, the mature period of yuan and Ming Dynasty, the decline period of late Qing Dynasty and other stages. Chinese traditional flower arrangement art advocates the beauty of natural simplicity, and is good at creating a poetic and picturesque realm with line modeling and asymmetric composition, which fully shows the national characteristics of Chinese culture and the aesthetic consciousness of traditional Chinese people. From Sui and Tang Dynasties, Chinese traditional flower arrangement art was introduced into Japan, which had a profound impact on the development of Japanese flower way. Traditional flower arrangement can be divided into four main types: Folk flower arrangement, temple flower arrangement, Palace Flower Arrangement and literati flower arrangement. Its conception, composition, material selection, pruning, fixation, adjustment and display all embody rich cultural connotation and aesthetic concept. The traditional flower arrangement art gradually declined in the late Qing Dynasty and revived since the 1980s. At present, the Beijing flower arrangement art research association headed by Wang Lianying and Qin Kuijie is committed to the advocacy, inheritance, development and promotion of this traditional art.