Chapter 101: Small Landscapes
It is a landscape bonsai made of water stones, in fact, Yunxi really doesn't know anything about this. is not a professional gardener, and there is no family heirloom magic skills, at most she has seen a lot of bonsai pictures on the Internet, as for herself, she has also played with two stones, others gave them, one planted a saxifrage plant, and the other planted a clump of money calamus. There's nothing to model, so she hasn't paid much attention to it.
Hey, I knew I was going to cross, how could I buy a few books on bonsai making to read, the bonsai in the early Song Dynasty had not developed much, and the theoretical technology of later generations was here, how could I be a master?
Yunxi thought about it again and again, and then thought of a few essentials for making bonsai, which she saw when she was a flower friend who loved this and forced everyone to popularize science in the chat group.
The first is to win more with less, and win more with simplicity.
The second is to highlight the theme and distinguish the main and secondary points.
The third is surprising and contrasting.
Fourth, there is hidden in the dew, from the surface to the inside.
Fifth, it is false and real, and plausible.
The first thing that is easy to understand is the so-called blank space, artistic conception, and fascinating. The second item is not difficult, and the Chinese teacher teaches the common words when writing essays. The third game can also be understood, flowers still need green leaves! The fourth item should be holding the pipa and half-covering the face, which leads people to guess countless meanings. As for the fifth item, Yunxi is a bit of a circle, which means that flowers are not flowers and fog is not fog, right? But the question is, how to express this artistic conception? It's not ordinary! Since you know that it is plausible, let's play casually. Anyway, it's for self-entertainment, and it's not for sale for money, so it doesn't matter how you play.
The next day, Yunxi and his partners began to make their landscapes, not daring to call themselves bonsai, not so thick-skinned, not looking good, just looking good, just looking at it, hey, it's so unproductive!!
Yunxi chose a mountain-shaped Shangshui stone, and Yunkai chose a dwarf stone with ravines, which has the feeling of a stone ridge. Fu Junzhuo chose two stones, one U-shaped and one hillside-shaped.
The stones they choose are compared, no way, choose a big pot can not find a suitable pot, at this time there is no shallow pot dedicated to the production of landscape bonsai, most of the popular ones are pile stone bonsai, and the scene between the case is even rarer, most of them are more than 80 centimeters of large extra-large bonsai, mostly used in halls and studies, there are special pots and a few frames.
The pots used for large bonsai are naturally not too much, and if they use deep pots, the characteristics of the water stone will not be easy to show, so Yunxi and they use the largest plate on the dining table at home.
There are more than one year that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and there are still dinner plates for making whole fish, although they are still round, but they are big enough. Ye Yuan was going to go to a nearby kiln factory to customize a batch of shallow square pots, but because he was busy all day and had no time to draw patterns, he never made them.
That's right, the ancient literati were very good at playing, not only to raise plum orchids and bamboo chrysanthemums, but also to play with carving seals, making ink, making paper, and the like. Even the pots of this kind of flowers have to be painted by themselves, and they are taken to the kiln factory to be fired, and it is even more necessary to add their own private seals. The flower pot of the Ye family was drawn and fired by Ye Yuan himself, but according to his own defense, it was because there was a kiln factory a few miles away, so it was elegant.
However, compared to Lin's dislike and spending more money, Yunxi likes it, in fact, she also drew a set of simple drawings of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum to Ye Yuan, and Ye Yuan was amused, but she still achieved her goal. Isn't it beautiful to plant your own flowers in a pot that you have drawn yourself?
Yunxi first took a chisel and hammer to deepen and enlarge the hole between the two peaks on the right, and planted a dense cluster of bamboo, it was best to plant a bamboo here, but it should not have been passed from South Africa, so I had to make do with the bamboo first. Looking back, if you can find a short pine tree or bamboo to plant, the more herbaceous ones can only last for a while, and if you want to look good all year round, you still have to find evergreen varieties!
Then the larger holes were stuffed with stone lotus leaves (saxifrage), and finally the holes between the peaks were filled with moss. Now the moss is much easier to find, it can be seen everywhere, shoveled down with skin, broken into pieces and plugged, and it will be done in a while.
Lean back, take a closer look, well, not bad, drench off the excess dust, put it on the plate, and finally pour water on it, and you're done!
Looking at Yunkai Fu Junzhuo again, it is almost done.
According to the original shape, Yunkai has paved most of the ravines with moss, but he chiseled off a mountain ridge at the upper foot to connect the two ravines, and tiled the moss in them, which looks chic.
Looking at Fu Junzhuo again, like Yunxi, he planted water bamboo in the big hole, and the upper mouth of the shape was facing another stone, and it was also tiled with moss along the hillside.
It's okay at first glance, but the more you look at it, the more awkward it becomes. Yunxi thought about it, and suddenly slapped his head, isn't it better to reverse that U-shaped? Guilin landscape! "Fu Junzhuo, this, turn it over, turn it over and try it."
Fu Junzhuo also felt awkward, but he didn't know how to deal with it, as soon as he heard Yunxi, he pulled out the planted things, turned them over and put them away, and it was really different, but it was a little unstable, but it was no problem after putting a stone on it. The two of them worked together to load the plants and spread the moss.
"Yunxi, it's so much more beautiful!" Fu Junzhuo was pleasantly surprised, "This empty place is like a river. ”
"Let me see it too!" A voice came, and Ye Yuan also came in, followed by Yunjin and Yunxiao, "Look at what happened, don't you go to eat?" ”
Yunxi looked out, I don't know when, the blue sky and white clouds have been soaked in the colorful sunset, and the sun is sending out its last brightness. "It's so late!"
"It's not too late, let me see which of you do a good job," Yun Jin said, "It's time to eat, and there's no one to be seen." ”
"I'm the number one on this." Ye Yuandao, who was the first to enter, Yunxi looked at it, but it was Yunkai's, and it didn't look good just now, but after a closer look, Yunxi couldn't help but marvel, it turned out that Yunkai also covered the remaining space of the plate with moss, and connected it with the hillside as a whole, like a green stream, which finally converged into a river, and then merged into a lake.
Looking at Yunkai's work, Yunxi actually remembered Haruki Murakami's classic quote: Then, you hugged the bear and rolled down the hillside covered with clover, and played all day. Are you awesome?
That's great! So Yunxi was convinced.