Bonsai skills (Su style bonsai skills)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Bonsai skills (Su style bonsai skills)

Applicant: Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Item No.: 870

Project No.: Ⅶ - 94

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Jiangsu Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Protection unit: Suzhou Huqiu Mountain Scenic Area Management Office

Introduction to bonsai skills (Su style bonsai skills)

Applicant: Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Supai bonsai is one of the main schools of bonsai in China. It is mainly distributed in Suzhou and its surrounding areas, Jiangsu Province. It has a unique modeling structure and artistic style.

It is said that the bonsai technique of the Su school originated in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Ming Dynasty, and matured in the Qing Dynasty. Through artistic processing and careful cultivation, it created the beauty of image from nature and artistic conception higher than nature, and gradually formed a unique style of elegant and elegant. The main materials of Su style bonsai modeling techniques are trees, pots, brown silk or aluminum wire, and the main tools are scissors and saws. The main tree species of Supai bonsai are native tree species, "six platforms, three supports and one roof" is its traditional modeling, and the core technology is "rough binding, fine cutting, cutting and binding", "mainly cutting, supplemented by binding". "Rough binding" is binding modeling with brown or aluminum wire, including "full binding" and "half binding". "Fine cutting" is the requirement of pruning, which can be divided into growth period and dormancy period. His most influential bonsai works include "tiger dominates the dragon" (plum), "Wei Ran Lv Si Hao" (cypress), "Qi Ke Nong Shi" (juniper), "Long Feng Cheng Xiang" (juniper), "Yi Zhi Cheng Xiu" (ELM), etc. Since modern times, Su style bonsai is famous for its distinctive local characteristics, and has won many awards in exhibitions at home and abroad.

At present, with the development of society, many factors restrict the inheritance and promotion of Su school bonsai, such as long creative cycle, scarce creative materials, difficult inheritance, lack of successors and so on, which need to be protected.