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What are the characteristics of Lingnan bonsai?

The Lingnan School of Bonsai has three characteristics that are different from other schools.

First, the creation of a unique approach, the teacher of nature, highlighting the skills of branches and trunks, shaping or composition layout from nature and higher than nature, and strive for organic combination of natural and man-made beauty, so Lingnan bonsai is known as the "living Chinese painting".

Secondly, focusing on the modeling and selection of scenery and pots, and strive to harmonize pots and scenery.

Third, the good use of pruning without showing traces of knife and scissors. This technique is the most important feature of Lingnan bonsai, so people generally believe that Lingnan bonsai is purely cut with knives and scissors. Through pruning and leaf trimming to allow plants to grow and develop according to the will of man, with the passage of time, artificial traces of cutting gradually disappeared, a variety of modeling as heavenly, ingenious.