I had an encounter with Bonsai after a serious illness. Time: 1978; Location: Shashi, Hubei.
That year, I had nasopharyngeal cancer, and I was given radiation and chemotherapy in Wuhan Tongji Hospital, which made my face dark and I couldn't even touch a hair on my head. After being discharged from the hospital, one day when I walked to the flower room of the municipal party committee, a pot of five-needle pine on the root art shelf suddenly jumped into view, and I still remember the vicissitudes of dryness, curved branches, and verdant leaves. Facing the pot tree, I just stood on the threshold of death with soft legs, and I couldn't help but think of the twists, tenacity and tenacity of life - how similar is human life to bonsai?
So, on that drizzling spring day 44 years ago, I met Bonsai.
Top: Tree Species: Bolan Title: "Chu Feng"
Part II: Tree Species: Boland Title: "But Smell the Birds"
After that, bonsai "entered my life", went up the mountain to find piles, found Shennongjia; went down the river to find stones and found the Xiangxi River; learned from painting to be virtual and dense, learned from calligraphy, and spent all their spare time in the mix with bonsai.
In 1993, when I went south to Hainan, when I went to the island, my luggage was checked in, and I was holding a pot of small bonsai of Nantian bamboo that had just bloomed.
In Hainan, which is known as "tree raising paradise" in the industry, I almost traveled all over the landscape of Qiongdao Island, and in less than half a year, I had dozens of pile heads, which were held on the roof of room 401 of the old municipal party committee compound. Heavy wind and rain, especially when the typhoon, shaky, as if a roof of water is going to pour out, left and right neighbors are worried that the house can not stand, sometimes there are "complaints", simply, in the spring of 1999 in Xiuying Phoenix Flower City to rent a few points of land, built a small "Chu Feng Garden", specializing in bonsai.
Time flies through the ordinary and trots forward. Fingers crossed, and bonsai have been in the same vein for 44 years! In the half of my life with bonsai, although I am poor, there are a few things that are worth mentioning.
In October 2007, the "Hu Qingkui Hainan Native Tree Species Bonsai Exhibition" sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee opened at the Provincial Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, and the provincial leaders Zhou Wenzhang, Wang Weilu and Fu Yuelan watched the exhibition. Yang Lan's Hong Kong Sunshine Satellite TV sent a reporter to Qiong for an interview. It is said that the personal bonsai exhibition hosted by the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee is still the only one. From this point of view, Wei Rusong, a hainan daily registration reporter, made an interview with "Hu Qingkui: The encounter between the tree and him is his fate", sprinkled with thousands of words, accounting for the entire page of the newspaper. At that time, Wu Liyang, vice chairman of the Provincial Writers Association who was in charge of the Literary and Art Department of Hainan Daily, also "hit the iron by the heat" and launched 5 of my appreciation articles with bonsai pictures in the "Coconut Wind" supplement. Later, Li Yang, who was transferred to the vice chairman of the Sichuan Writers Association, said to me, your brother has set a precedent for the provincial party newspaper to publish bonsai appreciation!
Top: Tree Species: Po Mei and Volcanic Stone Title: Liang Zhu
Bottom: Tree Species: Pandan Title: "Duo Dance"
In 2010, I "went with the flow", with the support of the Provincial Bonsai Committee, published Hainan's first bonsai monograph "Hainan Tree Bonsai Production and Maintenance", which was listed as one of the series of practical technologies for tropical high-efficiency agriculture in Hainan, priced at 6.50 yuan, because of the cheap plus applicable, Mr. Chen Qicong of Hainan Ledong bought 100 copies at a time to give to the villagers. The book was republished in May of the following year.
The old days have gone by in a flash. I retired in 2012 and have since gone from amateur to "professional". In 2019, the Chufeng Wood and Stone Museum, which has Hainan elements as the main collection, opened on National Day, and half of its rivers and mountains are more than 40 kinds of Hainan tree species bonsai in the outdoor museum. In 2020, in the first national "Most Creative Bonsai Art Competition" sponsored by China Famous Enterprise Hui and CITS Shenzhen Company, "One Flower, One Wood, One Style, One Pot, One Scene, One World", Kodate passed the hurdle and won the championship with 27852 votes. In May 2021, ms. Lin Li's team selected 33 bonsai works from our museum to participate in the first China International Consumer Goods Expo.
Just now, on the morning of the first day of the Tiger New Year, I received a notice from the Chinese Popular Literature and Art Research Association that the Calendar of the Year of the Tiger made with my bonsai + poems has been donated to foreign embassies in China, which has been warmly sought after! ”
A friend has asked me online over and over again what are the benefits of making bonsai, worth spending 44 years of my life? In addition to the loftiness of passing on traditional culture, I do not dare to say four benefits. The first is to forget about worries. The world is troubled, there are many worries, once you pick up the scissors, the broken things are not on the heart, what else can not be released? The second is to succeed. What a joy to watch a rotten pile head that a peasant woman doesn't even want to burn a fire become a work of art under your scissors and lead wire! The third is to send affection. Mr. Zong Baihua once said that art is a view of life. I am always trying to give my work my thoughts, feelings and style. The fourth is pleasant. Imagine a century-old dragon's blood tree, resting on a Ming and Qing stone mortar, an old man with long hair and a shawl, facing a pot of literati tree bonsai on the stone mortar, a cup of Biluochun in his left hand, and a scroll of idle books in his right hand, "a cup of fragrant tea for half a day." "How cozy! Fifth, fitness. Making bonsai is both mental and physical. Plot layout, creative title, brain power; dig piles up the mountain (protect the ecology, now the government does not let dig), cure insects and fertilize, trim the shape, pull grass for pots, physical strength. It's a good thing to be able to do. Recently, I read a newspaper saying that the West advocates "static exercise", that is, exercise that does not sweat much and does not work very hard. I have been suffering from cancer for 44 years, and I still live as my friend said , "crunchy", is it also due to this "static exercise"?
Top: Tree Species: Bolan Title: "One Arm makes fun"
Bottom: Tree Species: Boland Title: "Forge Ahead"
Another thing – not pedantic, of course, not pretentious – is to make bonsai and learn from nature closely. Hugo said: Man is a product of nature. Tagore said: Nature is always the source of all beauty. I said: In the face of nature, man is nothing more than a three-year-old child who is very young and learns to speak. Learn from the vast and profound nature, which is enough! And do bonsai, daily reading appreciation, daily speculation taste, every day to listen to the vicissitudes of a century-old tree, watch young trees grow up, who said that the tree's tenacity, generosity, vivid and lively, elegant and calm, can not give people some education and enlightenment?
During the two sessions of the National People's Congress last April, the People's Representative Daily published a special page entitled "Exhibition of Hu Qingkui's Works", which included a small poem entitled "Bonsai":
I'm with a butterfly
Stand in front of you
New leaves are like fire
Old dry as iron
I read feminine
Read masculine
Reading the song
with fierceness
Butterfly said
That's you
vital
years
Note: Originally published in "Flower and Wood Bonsai", the first day of the Tiger New Year was changed to the Chufeng Wood and Stone Museum
(Text/Hu Qingkui)
Appreciation of Hu Qingkui's poetry works
"But Hear the Birds"
Hu Qingkui
There were three trees on the rock, and four or five people under the trees.
But the birds were heard, and there was no common voice.
"Forge Ahead"
Hu Qingkui
Hundreds of twists and turns of the original intention, Yanhuang descendants forge ahead.
Wearing thorns and thorns to expand Xinyu, his body is like a crouching dragon qi dry cloud.
《Liang Zhu》
Hu Qingkui
How many years have the trees and stones been together? Forever tango dancing.
Life and death are in love, and a song "Liang Zhu" moves Chu Garden.
"One Arm makes Fun"
Hu Qingkui
One arm is funny, and he can't bear to get a thick hand to get a branch.
Twenty years of hard work by whom? Moss Green Chrysanthemum white sighed far away.
Chu Feng
Hu Qingkui
I remember reading poetry when I was young, and I loved to deviate from my true temperament.
Chu Feng stained the ground square inches, and the spirit tree of the people was ethereal.
"Double Dance"
Hu Qingkui
White clouds punch card, tango dancing.
There are many beautiful strands, one book and two branches.
Artist Bio:
Hubei Songziren, graduated from the Department of Biology of Wuhan University. A member of the Communist Party of China In 1993, he moved south from Jingzhou, Hubei Province, and successively served in the Discipline Inspection Commission of Haikou City and the Discipline Inspection Commission of Hainan Province. He was the station chief of the Hainan reporter station of China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily. He retired in 2012.
In 1992, he joined the Hubei Branch of the China Writers Association and was awarded the senior title of journalism in the same year. He is a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Society, the Chinese Poetry Writers Society, and the China Reportage Literature Society. Reviewer of social science journals in Hainan Province. Member of the expert database of the Organization Department of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee.
Winner of the Contemporary Chinese Prose Award. There are novels, essays, reportage, poetry selected periodicals, anthologies and annual volumes. He has won several national awards. The essays "Xisha Soil", "Under the Pear Tree", and "Fisherman and Wild Duck" were selected as tourism volumes, women's volumes and lyrical volumes of the "Chinese Prose Series" respectively. The essays "Fisherman and Wild Duck" and "Me on the Trail" won the first prize of the 2011 and 2012 National Essay Writers Forum Essay Contest. The essay "Mother's Hand" was selected for the "Selected Masterpieces of Chinese Essayists". The essay "Dongzhai Mangrove Tree" won the 2010 National Best Prose New Work Award. The long-form reportage "Wind and Currents in Hainan" won the "Soul of China" National Reportage Essay Special Prize and was included in the national compilation of teaching books for colleges and secondary schools. In 2005, the reportage "Approaching Huang Chengmo" won the National Short Reportage Award of the Chevani Cup "Harmony and Beauty". The reportage "Lucheng Loyal Soul" won the first prize of the first "Pioneer Cup" reportage essay contest of people's literature. Essay "The Year of Looking Back at Hometown in Haikou" in February 2022 in "Nian Wei. "Nostalgia" won the gold medal in the first national literary and art competition. In March 2022, 36 poems were selected for the Dictionary of World Cultural Celebrities.
A number of essays and novels have been selected into the high school Chinese reading classics and test questions.
The essay collection "Peach Blossom Water" (Popular Literature and Art Publishing House), "In the South of the Sea" (Southern Publishing House), the reportage collection "People on the Red Land" (Hainan Publishing House), the long-form reportage "Wind Flow hainan" (Hainan Publishing House), the poetry collection "Chuyuan Xinyun" (Chinese Culture Publishing House) and the monograph "Hainan Tree Species Bonsai Production and Conservation" (Hainan Publishing House, Sanhuan Publishing House) have been published publicly.
He is currently the vice president of Hainan Stone Appreciation Association and Hainan Bonsai Special Committee, and the director of Hainan Chufeng Wood and Stone Museum.
The article was transferred from the People's Daily all-media platform