Linyi Online News (Gao Jun) On January 5, I met Xu Yufeng, an old farmer, at the Yufeng Bonsai Planting Base in Matou Town, Tancheng County. Holding seedling scissors in his hand, he carefully trimmed the begonia "old stump" bonsai. Looking up, the begonia bonsai is unique in shape and lifelike, bringing people into a bonsai-shaped art forest.
After talking with Xu Yufeng, an old farmer, I learned that he is a 63-year-old native of Sanhezhuang, Matou Town, Tancheng County. Since he was young, he loved the art of bonsai, studied bonsai skills, and learned from teachers in many places, and had traveled across the ocean to participate in foreign high-level Xi training, which has a history of 40 years. He is diligent in enduring hardships, boldly appreciating experiments, and has the courage to innovate, and cultivates his own bonsai plastic art works. In 2003, Xu Yufeng was absorbed as a member of the China Bonsai Association through the assessment, and participated in the national begonia bonsai exhibition for many times and won the award, which was well-known in the local area and became the pride of Tancheng farmers.
Winter is the hibernation of seedling bonsai, and it is also a good time for bonsai planting base. Digging out bonsai into pots, filling the pot soil, pruning and shaping the branches, etc., the garden presents a busy scene. It is understood that the Yufeng bonsai planting base covers a total area of 120 acres, such as deep mountain begonias, Xifu begonias, gorgeous begonias, weeping begonias, etc. Xu Yufeng, an old farmer, has been preferring "old stumps", "makeovers", "grafting", "crab claws and weeping branches", "high roots" and other techniques throughout his life. Among them, there are 30,000 "old stump" bonsai in the past twenty or thirty years, highlighting the charm of vicissitudes and being particularly eye-catching.
Today, Xu Yufeng, an old farmer, can make "special customization" bonsai according to everyone's preferences and needs to meet the needs of consumers. He relied on his excellent technology to live a good life, but to get rich do not forget the villagers, never conservative technology, hand-in-hand to teach technology, quickly improve the bonsai value-added space, driven more than 200 people to embark on the bonsai seedlings to get rich, and supported the establishment of Shanghe, Shuangma two flower seedling cooperatives. The old farmers have a preference for "old stumps" all their lives, which not only drives the economic income of the peasant masses, but also promotes the development of rural revitalization.