What are the top ten bonsai varieties in China?

The top ten bonsai varieties in China are boxwood, pine, holly, Yingchun, Bai Cui, azalea, Lycium barbarum, goldfinch, willow in snow and plum blossom.

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Bonsai is one of the outstanding traditional arts in China, and it is a work of art that uses plants and rocks as basic materials to express the natural landscape in the basin.

It needs plants, rocks, soil, water and so on. As a material, and through artistic creation and horticultural cultivation, the beautiful scenery of nature in the basin is typically and intensively shaped, and the artistic effect of shrinking the land to an inch and seeing the small as the big is achieved. At the same time, it expresses its profound artistic conception with scenery, just like a three-dimensional beautiful miniature landscape scenic spot.

Bonsai originated in China, and there are generally two kinds of bonsai: stump bonsai and landscape bonsai. Bonsai consists of three elements: landscape, basin and shelf, which are interrelated and influence each other. People regard bonsai as "three-dimensional painting" and "silent poem".

Bonsai is generally divided into two categories: stump bonsai and landscape bonsai. The former takes trees as the main material and can be divided into four categories: branch view, leaf view, fruit view and flower view. The latter mainly takes rocks, water and soil as materials, water as the main bonsai, soil and stone as dry bonsai, and both soil and water as dry bonsai.

Bonsai consists of three elements: landscape, basin and shelf. These three elements are interrelated, influential and indispensable. The so-called trinity of scenery, basin and several frames. In bonsai, "scenery" is the main part, and pots and pans are subordinate parts. That is, a good bonsai, landscape, basin, basin should be coordinated with each other, with clear priorities. Pay attention to avoid drawing the viewer's attention to the "pot" or "several shelves". The relationship between the pot rack and the scenery should be handled harmoniously and naturally in shape, volume and color. Maintaining the relationship between subject and object is often said: one scene, two pots and three sets (shelves).