Illustrated Guide to Creating and Caring for Small Landscape Bonsai

Author: Wang Yiding
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: Landscape bonsai, as one of the major categories of Chinese bonsai art, possesses its unique charm. Its expressive content includes (dangerous peaks and distant peaks) and (graceful and beautiful waters). It may feature towering and steep peaks, or gentle hills with small bridges and flowing water; or cliffs with steep and dangerous terrain. A single peak can represent the majesty of Mount Tai, while a small container can depict the vastness of rivers and lakes. It embodies the principle of "seeing the big in the small" and "transporting the sky and shrinking the earth," resembling a three-dimensional landscape painting.
Table of Contents:
1. Tools and Materials for Making Landscape Bonsai
2. Forms of Landscape Bonsai Modeling
3. Common Composition Forms of Landscape Bonsai and Their Relationships
4. Methods of Making Landscape Bonsai
5. Making Landscape Wall Bonsai and Miniature Landscape Bonsai
6. Maintenance and Appreciation Conditions for Landscape Bonsai Works