Wen 丨 Hunan Daily New Hunan client reporter Li Tingting
【Introduction】
Mr. "Little Treasure" was sitting in the middle of the courtyard in the sunlight that had just moved over, cutting a tree.
It's a boxwood. The scissors were in his hand, like keys that were constantly being played, and the leaves and branches made a rhythmic "clicking" sound. "Be willing! There is a sacrifice to get. "Hands up and down, without hesitation.
"What was cut off, we called it 'sacrificial branch'. Cutting off the branches is the most important step in landscaping. "Cut off the thick branches, store the small branches, and make countless changes in a small scene through continuous trade-offs," so that it can be all-encompassing, small in the big. ”
Experiencing wind, frost, rain and snow, clouds, fog, thunder and lightning, the form of a plant, how many possibilities are there in nature? Mr. "Xiao Bao" feels that he is like a plant archaeologist, and the work in his hand is to simulate the magic of nature, moving the vast universe and the wonders of heaven and earth into the small basin in front of him.
1. The respect that grows from a fern
The mountains, seas, islands and reefs and cliffs of his hometown gave him unlimited inspiration and imagination.
"Xiao Bao" is named Su Zhengbao, born in the Xiapu East Mountain Peninsula of Fujian Province, backed by the mountains and facing the most beautiful beach in China. Soak in the sea every morning, swim in the longtan on the mountain in the afternoon, rinse the salt on your body, and watch the vegetation around you... Since childhood, I have been familiar with nature's body temperature, heartbeat and breathing.
Every family loves to grow flowers. Plants can be seen in the yard, balcony, window. When I was in elementary school, even the principal loved flowers, and set aside a special piece of land in the school to encourage children to plant flowers and grass, saying that whoever planted well had a reward.
The school is across the street from home. In addition to soaking in the sea, Su Zhengbao likes to squat at school and tinker with his plants. At the end of the year, the school competition won the prize for the plant he raised, and since then he has been particularly favored by the principal who likes piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
For raising plants, it seems that they have had their own weird "ideas" since childhood. For example, when he saw an inconspicuous fern, he always felt "beautiful", in order not to be "destroyed" by other friends, he dug it out of the roots, climbed the tree, and carefully planted it on the top of the tree.
Do you have to live?
This small experiment, Su Zhengbao continued to observe for a period of time. After class, he climbed the tree and went to see his baby. It turns out that plants are stronger than people think, "as long as there are roots, they will grow desperately and desperately complete themselves." ”
The strength of life is in humble details. A fern that gave birth to his first respect for the plant.
(Su Zhengbao bonsai works)
2, look at a tree, is to see the wind, frost, rain and snow it experienced
When I grew up, I did DJ and helped others "DJ". But "music that can be heard" does not seem to be what he wants most, and the "inaudible music" flowing in nature makes him even more moved.
In the face of a plant, in addition to "seeing" it, you must also "listen" to it. Its branches and meridians are all making sounds, "If you don't listen carefully, especially when pruning and kneading the branches, if you don't listen to its heart, if you don't understand its language, you can't create this scene, you can't touch the limits of its life." ”
After a few years as a music DJ, Su Zhengbao picked up scissors and made a plant "dj".
In 2015, he studied under Mr. Feng Liansheng, a master of Chinese bonsai art, a master of bci international bonsai art, and the vice chairman of the International Bonsai Association. Learn the "three passes" of bonsai modeling with the teacher: watering off, modeling off, and artistic conception off. Just watering, I learned for three years. "Watering seems easy, but there is actually a lot of learning behind it. Having a deep understanding and grasp of the habits of each plant requires a long period of study. ”
Inspiration is in nature. When you go out with your friends, as long as you enter the mountains, you will definitely be left behind. Staring at each plant, "I can't move my feet." ”
For example, the Qifeng peak in Zhangjiajie, a tree suddenly hanging upside down on the cliff. Why did it look like this? What has it been through? "It could have been a heavy rain that almost swept it off the cliff, but the roots were still in the stone walls." For example, those huangshan pines with outstretched arms and beautiful stretch themselves into the appearance of "welcoming guests" in order to absorb water vapor. "Every part of nature cannot be completely repeated."
To look at a tree is to listen to its storytelling, about the wind, frost, rain and snow in different time and space, the stars shifting, the sun rising and the moon sinking.
3. With the "ingenuity" of artificiality, simulating the great "clumsiness" of heaven and earth
"Plants are very sensitive to the external environment, so they can predict danger. When its subconscious senses some kind of danger, it will quickly blossom and bear fruit, reproduce, and then put all its energy to feed the 'child' and let itself 'die'. ”
After talking to plants for a long time, I became more and more aware of the animism. "Plants also have their spirits, they just can't speak. But if you talk to it with your heart, you will resonate with it, resonate with it at the same frequency. ”
Like life, plants have all kinds of twists and turns, meandering and undulating. Where do these changes, these ups and downs, come from? If you look closely, you will feel their determination and strength to survive in the face of the countless uncertainties in nature and the dangers and disasters they have experienced. The inspiration of the bonsai stylist comes from the growth habits and growth laws of plants in different environments, and it is necessary to have a keen "mind reading" of nature.
"You see this boxwood, the long branches stretching out to the side, is its 'arm'. This shape is called 'waterside style'. Although the base does not make the appearance of 'water surface', a look at the shape of the bonsai shows the environment in which it is located. Placed in nature, the ground beneath the feet of this boxwood is the surface of the water. Plants have phototropism and water tendency, and if there is water underneath, it will stretch out its 'arm' to explore the water. ”
"A heavy snow will crush the branches of the plant. If it can't hold on, it's crushed. But many times, when the next spring begins, the ice and snow melt, and it slowly bounces back and re-'emerges', and there is this twist, this amazing bending change. ”
"If a tree grows too tall and too big, shading the sky, the sunlight will be 'snatched away' by the branches and leaves above, and the branches that cannot see the sun for a long time in the shade below will slowly wither." So when we make bonsai, we want to make it transparent before and after, and the 'deep branch' will provide a contrast between before and after, so that we can just see the structural changes that it may form in nature. ”
Observe nature carefully, understand them deeply, and then internalize them into bonsai. Borrowing the momentum of natural landscapes, "clever" artificial, simulating the great "clumsiness" of heaven and earth.
4, each piece of bonsai, has its own small universe
Simulating nature, simulating the "traces" left by various forces on plants, is the work of bonsai stylists. But after imitation, it is also necessary to be able to "rise above nature".
Where is the higher part?
"It's the place where the subtraction is done. With 'house', you can stay and cultivate what you want, 'take' the most beautiful part. "Willing to give up, and do its best to be concise, in order to maximize the original charm of the plant, leaving a vast spiritual space, in the minimalist abstraction to feel the complexity of creation." Looking at it, people and wood are one, and things and I forget twice.
"To truly know what paper is, you yourself should become paper." This is the words of the Japanese Zen master Daisuke Suzuki in "The Heart of the Orient". Su Zhengbao wanted to know the way of heaven and earth, the principle of nature, so he turned himself into a tree in his hand.
Every bonsai has a story and comes with an unparalleled little universe. "You see it, it's a 'sea view'. Under the big trees, there are boats, there are sails, there are islands, and this side of the sea, probably a village, is inhabited by fishermen. Because the scenery is too small to make them all, once it is made, it is out of proportion. Therefore, bonsai also needs to have a 'virtual' place, to have a blank space, to have imagination space, to be able to virtually correspond. ”
With the atmosphere of silence, seek the wonders of the mountains and wilderness; with the ingenious human heart, pass on the natural heart method. The process of landscaping is also the process of the unity of the inner and the outer. Respect the growth law of flowers and trees, express the brilliance of life in the connotation of plants, and show the longevity of time and space and the infinite sense of nature in a small space of bowl and pot.
5, simulated nature, but also the Sims life
Many times, plants live longer than people, so a bonsai often has to pass through the hands of generations. Bonsai reflects nature and is also their own heart, and is the worldview, time and space view and cosmology of generations of bonsai stylists.
Each person shapes the plant according to their own aesthetics, tastes and ideas. Many years later, it is a high collection and condensation of heaven, earth, people, time and space.
In the garden, many plants are much older than this post-80s bonsai stylist. After years of washing, the branches are twisted and vicissitudes, the bark is finely layered, and the continuous pruning has cultivated the first, second, third branches... There are also more jumpy changes. The small sees the big, and the subtleties have the right things. Without making a sound, a tree stood there silently, telling its own story.
A plant, in different time and space, in the hands of different people, is endowed with rich and changeable life possibilities. After years and years of continuous pruning, tangling, and regrowth, through the hands of generations, the bonsai that condenses countless times and loves presents a rich expression. They carry a sense of age, and by looking directly at them and talking to them, they intuitively feel the passage of time.
Simulating the magic of nature is also the ups and downs of the Sims life. It seems small, light and concise, but it is the aesthetic taste of the designer after years of cultivation, and it is a deep aesthetic about life.
"If you understand plants, you can understand yourself." If you can raise plants well, you can raise yourself well. Plants are silent, three-dimensional poetry, and I really can't describe it in words except for concentration and feeling. ”
A small scene, there are cosmic gods. The thousands of weathers displayed in every inch are all aesthetics that cannot be copied.
The process of designing it is to feel every detail with your heart and feel its changes every day. "They calmed me down. I think this process is the 'Tao'. ”
(Su Zhengbao in the creation)
【Notes】
A bonsai is an evolution of life
How to integrate the size of heaven and earth into the smallness of pots and bowls? How to imagine the vast universe in every square inch?
Before meeting Mr. "XiaoBao", I always thought that bonsai was promoted in Japan. The mysterious, dull, quiet, and highly concentrated taste and aesthetics it creates can only be desperately needed and fully developed in countries with small geographical areas and limited living space.
But Mr. "Xiaobao" told me that although japan has taken the "norm" of bonsai art to the extreme, it is limited by the geographical environment, and their cultural imagination is more inclined and concentrated on the image of "Mt. Fuji". Japanese bonsai, the details are often breathtaking, but the overall shape, still can not escape the "mushroom head" of Mt. Fuji.
"China has a vast territory, covering a large difference in latitude and longitude, and the scenery formed by nature is very different, which also gives people a broader imagination." He believes that this is a natural advantage of Chinese bonsai stylists in cultural genes, "We have details, and we also have a world of great opening and closing." ”
Just as in the "Six Records of Fusheng", through Shen Fu's pen, we read about the Yunniang who sniffs the roses and cherishes the heavens and the earth, the Yunniang who can not only put the tea leaves on the lotus flower canopy, let the aroma and essence of the lotus be all in the bag, but also say "the universe is big, the same month". "Seeing things clearly, seeing small things, sometimes there is interest in things... The big picture can be god. God can get into it. "The subtlety to the vastness is the essence and subtlety of traditional Chinese culture.
When modeling, keeping one's heart is like "foolishness", creating form invisibly. We should have respect for every plant and tree, and all living beings, and treat them with caution. Each bonsai is an evolution of life, a natural stage, with a few branches containing far-reaching meanings, telling the true meaning of time.
In a limited space, it expresses the wonders of deep mountains and valleys, and the realm of isolated reefs in the open sea. At this point, all things in heaven and earth, all things in nature, all directions in the universe, and all the worlds on earth are in the midst of one sand and one stone, one pot and one scene.
【Biography】
Su Zhengbao, known as "Su Xiaobao", the founder of SuXiang Bonsai Garden, studied under Mr. Feng Liansheng, a master of Chinese bonsai art, a master of bci international bonsai art, and the vice chairman of the International Bonsai Association.
Pursuing the inheritance and innovation of bonsai creation, his works integrate natural beauty, artistic beauty and artistic beauty, and won gold, silver and bronze awards at the Beijing World Horticultural Exposition and the International Bonsai Art Exhibition.
[Editor-in-charge: Li Tingting]
[Source: New Hunan Client]