Author: Zhong Siyang
Since the ancient literati often use the temperament of grass and wood to refer to the character of people, boxwood is a representative of the personality of many literati and guests, Li Yu said that the boxwood that guards the hardships and has no complaints has the style of a gentleman, metaphorically referred to as "the gentleman in the wood", in the folk boxwood also has a deep cultural heritage, "the family has boxwood, generations of pillars", is the beautiful meaning that people send to the boxwood. As a precious tree species that can be collected and passed down, the fever of boxwood collection in the north and south of the river in recent years can be described as a high fever.
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In Longchuan, Guangdong, bonsai players especially like the local bird's tongue boxwood, which is large, old, tree-shaped, and excellent variety is a major feature of Longchuan boxwood. I have long heard that Chen Biaochen, vice president of the Guangdong Bonsai Association and president of the Longchuan Bonsai Association, is a boxwood idiot who has a large, odd and ancient fine boxwood collection in the rooftop garden of his home and another large mansion specializing in the cultivation of boxwood. Previously, some experts of the Bonsai Stone Appreciation Professional Committee of the Guangdong Garden Society stopped by to visit President Chen on their return trip after completing the teaching task of the Guangdong East Training Class, and saw President Chen's boxwood treasures.
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Chairman Chen Biaochen (first from right) introduced Longchuan Yellow Poplar to Xie Glory (second from right), Luo Kunming (first from left) and Xie Hanwen (second from left) to the special committee
According to Chairman Chen, he has been playing bonsai for more than 40 years, and he likes Lingnan tree species such as Jiulixiang, Elm, Banyan and so on, but he has a special love for the local boxwood varieties in Longchuan, and his boxwood bonsai are created according to the Lingnan cutting dry branching technique, because the growth of boxwood bonsai is slow, such as the technique of cutting dry branches in Lingnan takes too long, and it takes a lot of patience to consider the creator, and most of his boxwood bonsai works have been cultivated for more than 20 years and then potted. Chairman Chen is mainly engaged in the construction industry, weekdays go south and north is very busy, because of the obsession with bonsai, spend a lot of time in bonsai, it is said that he often travels to other places, the car must be loaded with bonsai, once went to Xinjiang to engage in engineering construction, he would rather transport an excavator and living materials less, but also bring more than a dozen bonsai! Such an obsession with bonsai, perhaps in today's bonsai players, Teacher Chen Biaochen is a representative figure!
▲Chairman Chen Biaochen (first from right) poses with Chinese bonsai master Liang Yuemei (second from left).
▲In the front row, from Chairman Chen Biaochen, Xie Glory, and Luo Zerong, and from the left in the back row are Xie Hanwen, Liu Ranbiao, Luo Kunming, and Zhong Siyang