At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, Eucalyptus and her mother went to the flower and bird market to buy potted plants.

In previous years, the flower market was already hot at this time, but this year it seems a little deserted, and small potted plants have become the mainstream, and online flower potted plants are also quietly becoming popular.

Most florists invariably place small and medium-sized flowers in front of the door to "attract customers", and high-end flowers are difficult to find.

Narcissus, begonia, rhododendron, camellia...... The price of these potted flowers ranges from 10 yuan to 70 yuan, and a large pot of "classic" phalaenopsis orchids does not exceed 300 yuan.

When she passed by the street in front of the flower and bird market, she saw that many shops were selling strange-shaped root carvings.

Root carving, is a carving method, is one of the traditional Chinese carving arts, is to take the tree roots (including tree body, tree nodules, bamboo roots, etc.) of the self-generated form and distortion form as the object of artistic creation, through the conception of ideas, artistic processing and technological processing, to create figures, animals, utensils and other artistic image works.

The art of root carving is to find natural beauty and show the plastic art of creative processing, the root carving process pays attention to "three points of artificial, seven points of nature", which means that in the creation of root carving, the natural form of the root material should be mainly used to express the artistic image, and the auxiliary artificial treatment and modification are carried out, therefore, the root carving is also known as "the art of the root" or "the art of the root".

Mom said, "Let's go in and have a look." I saw that the root carving placed at the door was the treasure of the store's collection, called "Tingting Yulian out of the water". Collectible-grade Aka ox blood water lotus ornaments, rare such a size of root live material, ox blood, ruddy and crystalline. The raw materials naturally wrap the reef, and the hibiscus is carefully carved out of the water. The lotus leaves surround the lotus flower, the petals are delicate, the leaf veins are vivid and curly, the morning dew is just over, the snail is slow, and it is a vivid lotus.

Blue eucalyptus at a glance took a fancy to a cypress root carving with the shape of the twisted ornament pen holder, and my mother liked the Taihang cypress root carving ornament aging old material natural conformal flower stand.

The owner Hu Sang has been obsessed with root carving for 24 years, and he has carved the old roots of dead trees with his skillful hands. No one could have imagined that Hussan's major in college was incompatible with carving, and he studied archaeology.

Hussan found that the ancients not only used wood, jade, bone, stone, and shells to make ornaments, but also used tree roots or bamboo roots to make ornaments.

In 1982, from the No. 1 Chu tomb of Mashan in Jiangling, Hubei Province, the root carving work of the Warring States Period was unearthed "to ward off evil spirits", as the root carving work of the tomb beast, the tiger head dragon body, the four-legged carving has snakes, finch, frogs, cicadas and other patterns, full of momentum, showing that the root carving artwork of the ancient Chinese working people more than 2,300 years ago has reached the level of natural form and artificial carving ingenious combination.

As early as the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the Jurchens had a precedent of using trees to make platforms and shelves to place things. Later, some people carved the strange-shaped roots into works of art with unique aesthetic value, and gradually formed the art of root carving, which has been passed down to this day.

In the book of Southern Qi, there is a record of Qi Gaozu giving the hermit monk Shao bamboo root "Ruyi", and at the same time, some root practical products, furnishings and furniture appeared. In the poem "Inscription Wood Jushi 8" by the Tang Dynasty poet Han Yu, a root carving "figure" work is also described.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the descendants of Confucius used the naturally curved form of the wood to make crutches. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were many practical items and furniture made from tree roots, such as cane heads, pen holders, Buddha handles, grapples, and pipes. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the root carving was not only widely circulated among the people, but also favored by the royal family and nobles.

According to the "New Tang Dynasty Book: The Biography of Li Bi", it is recorded: "Secreting the pine tree branch to hide the back, the name is called Yanghe, and then it is like a dragon, because of the dedication to the emperor, the Quartet strives for it." It is about the fact that Li Mi, an official of the Tang Dynasty, used natural tree roots to make a dragon-shaped back and dedicated it to the emperor.

Han Yu has in "The Title of the Wood Layman" that "the fire penetrates the waves and does not count the spring, and the roots are like the head and the face are dry like the body." Occasionally, the title is a wooden monk, and there are infinite blessings". The "Mu Jushi" in the poem is a root art work that is regarded as the image of "gods and Buddhas".

During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the art of roots was not only popular in the court and among the people, but also appeared in grottoes and temples. In some grottoes and temples in China, root carved Buddha statues are still preserved.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the root carving technique has matured. In the Ming Dynasty, there were the Jinling School represented by Pu Zhongqian, who was famous for bamboo root carving, and the Jiading School represented by Zhu He. Root artists not only use wood and bamboo roots to create ornaments that people can admire, but also carve furniture and other practical objects with practical value.

From the paintings such as "Golden Ancient Map", "Peach and Plum Garden" and "Earning Orchid Pavilion" painted by Qiu Ying, a painter from Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty, you can see a variety of root carving artworks such as the root Taishi chair and the root crutch depicted by the painter in detail.

In the "Five Miscellaneous Works" written by Zhao Xian of the Ming Dynasty, it is recorded: "Wu Zhong used the roots of dead wood as a meditation chair, and the cover was here." This proves that the level of root art production in Wu Di has developed at that time.

The Suzhou Museum has a boxwood table and pen holder from the early Qing Dynasty, which is a root carving work created by skillfully using the natural root form. In the early 50s of the 20th century, the Suzhou Cultural Management Association had collected several tree root furniture, one of which was a relic of the four sons of the late Ming Dynasty. Mr. Gu Duhuang, a Kunqu opera expert in Suzhou, has a "Langyu vase" in his home, which is also a root carving masterpiece left in the Ming Dynasty.

During the period of the Republic of China, the production and production of root art gradually declined, many artists changed careers or changed careers, and the root carving skills reached the brink of extinction.

Hu Sang's works are characterized by refinement, fineness, elegance and strangeness, such as "Grass Withered Eagle Eye Disease", "Arc Shadow of Hantang", "Ancient Bottle of Hanmei", "Hydrangea", "Arc Shadow of Waves", "Lonely Bloom in the Cold" and so on.

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