Calamus is a good material for cultivating bonsai
Bonsai and bonsai were collectively known as bonsai before the 1930s. After that, it is called bonsai with live plants as the main body and changing with the change of seasons; with mountain and stone scenery as the main body, fixed but unchanging is called bonsai.
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Chinese bonsai, exported to the world. In international commodity trading, in order to facilitate work, as soon as they see the word "potted plant", the merchants know that it is plants as the main body; as soon as they see the word "bonsai", the merchants know that it is mainly mountain stones. The subdivision of the name of bonsai and bonsai is a product of the action of the commodity economy.
In July 1982, the China Forestry Publishing House published "A Brief History of Potted Plants | Potted Plants": On the yongdao mural of the tomb of Li Xian, the prince of Zhanghuai, the only son of Empress Wu Zetian in Chinese history excavated in Qianling, Shaanxi Province in 1972, there are two internal attendants holding two pots of bonsai, and the pots are planted with live plants, and three or five pieces of stone with patterns or patterns are placed. This is a bonsai artwork that combines ornamental plants and ornamental stones, and is also the basic bonsai style of the Tang Dynasty Imperial Palace. The author will use ornamental plants, ornamental stones as one of the Tang Dynasty royal traditional bonsai style research and development, still according to the traditional "bonsai" title.
The source of the world's bonsai is in China; the source of Chinese bonsai is in the Tang Dynasty. The use of calamus as the source of bonsai planting materials, based on written records, can be traced back to the Song Dynasty more than a thousand years ago in China. According to the Ming Dynasty's "Compendium of Materia Medica| Calamus", the Northern Song Dynasty writer Su Dongpoyun: "Where grass grows on the stone, it must be micro-soil to attach its roots." Only the stone calamus is soiled, stained with clean water, placed in a basin, but it will not dry up for decades. The leaves are strong and thin, the roots are connected, and the sky is in the case, and it is more gratifying for a long time"; and it is also recorded in the "Book of The Hidden Book" cloud: "Stone calamus put a pot on several".
Bonsai Techniques | A Brief History of Bonsai also introduced that the Song Dynasty was the period of rapid development of bonsai in China, and it was also the beginning of calamus as a material for cultivating bonsai. In a figure painting of a famous figure in the Song Dynasty, there are seven pots of ornamental bonsai on display, with different sizes, square circles, and shades of pots, among which there is a clear painting of bonsai characterized by natural calamus.
Gong Xianglin, a poet of the Zhejiang Western School of the Qing Dynasty, wrote in his "Small Heavy Mountain": "The three-foot Xuanzhou white narrow basin, the Wu people do not take it, the planting of lansun, the pine fist stone stacked into a village, the tea smoke, like a cold cloud, the hills and ravines look at the middle, still the creek zigzag, protect the chai gate, autumn frost grows into xian moss marks, Dan QingSuo, see also set the soul." "The words of "Little Heavy Mountain" vividly depict the image and artistic conception of bonsai, which makes people feel touched by the scenery and imaginary. (leaving a white narrow pot) species of orchid ("orchid" is the alias of calamus), from which it is known that China uses the evergreen calamus all year round as the material for cultivating bonsai, and the history can be described as a long time.
Calamus is a good material for bonsai cultivation, because it is the best foliage plant, adapted to grow indoors and outdoors in two different environments. Through experiments, the author compared cultivation in the soil and cultivation in clear water to learn that the growth in the soil is luxuriant, and the cultivation in the natural water is secondary. Ancient books record that the strong aroma of calamus growing in the southern wild valley may be related to the long and short growth time of calamus (this needs to be verified).
The pots used to cultivate calamus do not have water holes. Placed in a few cases in this way, it is clean and water-saving, good for nourishment, and more importantly, it will not die for decades. Taking the soil in the middle of the pot as an example, it is best to water without accumulating water and not drying the soil skin in the pot. If the owner is outside, it is estimated that the length of time can be increased in the pot or drip irrigation to regulate. Because calamus is a wet biological species, it is afraid of drying and not afraid of bubbles. Calamus is not afraid of heat and cold outdoors, and will not wither when placed indoors for a long time without seeing the sun, it likes the sun and is resistant to shade, and is extremely adaptable. What's even more bizarre is that if you don't touch it, it has no smell, and once you touch it with your hand, the aroma will strike. That is to say, as long as a person "shakes hands" with a green calamus, it will repay with overflowing incense. This move is also a typical example of the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and the unity of nature and man. Some people cultivate bonsai with calamus as the characteristic of seven words of praise: hot summer is not afraid of the hot sun, and harsh winter is not afraid of ice and snow. The house is still green all year round, living up to the people called "a poinsettia".
Located in the "heaven and earth" private garden garden, the bonsai, with the ancestor of ten thousand mountains - Songshan Immortal Grass (Tang Dynasty Li Bai called Songshan Calamus as Immortal Grass) as ornamental plants, the mother's river - Yellow River Beach Stone as ornamental stone, and the Tang and Song royal style of the town garden treasure "Yi Poinsettia", must be extremely proud!
The above is only a brief introduction to the source of calamus as a material for cultivating bonsai and its characteristics, but the most important thing is the practical value of benefiting human health and longevity. In general, two-thirds of a person's day is spent indoors. Therefore, indoor air pollution cannot be ignored. The chemical components released by modern interior decoration materials and modern equipment such as computers and photocopiers pollute the air and are harmful to human beings. The artificial environment in which we live has been seriously damaged by the green, and the original green of the earth must be restored in order to talk about ecological balance. Klaus, a famous German doctor, said: "The most effective and economical way is to place plant bonsai in the room" (China Flower Bonsai, No. 3, 1999, p. 33). Allowing those green plants to absorb harmful gases that cause people to be sick is the focus of modern people's attention.
Plant bonsai can supplement the humidity in the indoor air and make it reach the best state of generating negative oxygen ions indoors. Negative oxygen ions are called "air vitamins" and "longevity hormones". For example, the green and brilliant plant calamus planted in the bonsai will also photosynthesize in the environment of low light indoors, release oxygen, and form negative oxygen ions. Therefore, it is necessary to use plant bonsai to green, beautify the working and living environment, and do a good job in disease prevention facilities, which are large and irreplaceable.
The historical story of the bonsai with calamus as an ornamental plant has been introduced earlier, and the story of the yellow river beach stone as the ornamental stone is a true story related to the author, and it may wish to write it out and share it with you. One day in the last century, the author went to the Yellow River Xiaolangdi Scenic Area for tourism, saw that the sky was not early, and stayed in Potou Village on the bank of the Yellow River, looking forward to starting early tomorrow. When the author was looking for a hotel, he saw two Lingxiao trees in front of the gate of a family in the village, one of which formed a two-dragon play bead (lingxiao was referred to as a dragon in ancient times), and stopped for a long time to watch, and could not bear to leave. Because the author is the inheritor of the traditional skills of Lingxiao, the intangible cultural heritage of Zhengzhou, he has a special love for Lingxiao. While concentrating on the viewing, the hostess suddenly opened the door, which made the author standing in front of the door feel embarrassed. What's even more strange is that as soon as the gate opened, the author saw a patterned "stone painting" on the ground at the door, and exclaimed: This stone painting is unique in the world, natural and natural!
This sentence broke the deadlock. Just at this time, her husband also returned from outside, and when he heard this, he picked up the stone in one hand and pulled the writer into the house with the other. After entering the hall, the owner put the "stone painting" in the center of the strip and asked the meaning of the painting? The author answers: There is a red ball in the lower part of the upper center, which means that China, a great country, just like the radiant sun, has just jumped above the sea level, and there is a horizon underneath, which is a dividing line between heaven and earth. The author saw this excellent landscape when he was viewing the Sun In the East China Sea, and this "stone painting" is a reproduction of the excellent landscape of that year. On the broad surface of the Yellow River beach in your Potou Village, you can clearly see this landscape from a certain angle. I improvised a poem of seven words:
The stone paintings of the slope are amazing,
Natural nature is rare;
Round a round of rising sun,
A long line of boundaries.
The two sides naturally asked each other about their addresses and names, and the author said: Dengfeng people, surnamed Liu Shuangcheng. The other party said that he was a native of Jiyuan City, the former secretary of the party branch of Potou Village, and his surname was Wang Youcai. Legendaryly, the names of both sides are integrated into the Potou stone paintings: the author's name is "Shuangcheng", which is the first person to order the Potou stone paintings, the first person to have no "double" and natural days to "become"; the Potou stone paintings, there are talents and really "have" "wise eyes", he picked it up from the Yellow River beach, and the state also issued a patent certificate to Wang Youcai. Since then, the number of visitors has been endless, and the tourism industry of Potou Village has been revitalized. "Talented" is really "rich". At the same time, it also achieves a story of the endless charm of the Yellow River Qishi.
From this, the editor is reminded of a sentence by the Taiwanese poet Lin Qingxuan: The stone of treasure light can only be seen by the eye of the treasure light; the person who treasures the light can only reflect the heart of the treasure light. Add a note here, I don't know if?
(Author: Liu Shuangcheng. Member of Zhengzhou City and Dengfeng Old Science and Technology Workers Association, Representative Inheritor of Dengfeng Intangible Cultural Heritage Stone Calamus, Technical Consultant of Dengfeng Wild Plant Protection Research Association )