How much do you know about the origins of the art of flower arrangement in China and Japan?

The origin of the art of flower arrangement is attributed to people's love of flowers, and through the framing of flowers, they express a mood to experience the reality and splendor of life. In China, nearly 2,000 years ago, there was a primitive idea and prototype of flower arrangement. There are many poems about the appreciation of flower arrangement in different dynasties. To the Ming Dynasty, the art of flower arrangement in China is not only widely popularized, and there are monographs on flower arrangement, such as Zhang Qiande's Vase Flower Spectrum, and Yuan Hongdao's Vase History. The development of Chinese flower arrangement art to the Ming Dynasty, has reached its heyday, in technology, theory are quite mature and perfect; in style, emphasizing the natural lyricism, beautiful and simple performance, elegant and bright colors, simple modeling. In the Qing Dynasty, the art of flower arrangement was not emphasized and popularized among the people. In modern China, due to many factors such as war and chaos, the art of flower arrangement basically disappeared from folklore. Until recent years, with the development of the national economy and the reform and opening up, people's living standards gradually improved, flowers gradually returned to people's lives.

China nearly 2,000 years ago, there has been a primitive idea of flower arrangement and prototype. Flowers to the Tang Dynasty has been prevalent, and popular in the court, in the temple as the altar of the Buddha in front of the flowers. Song Dynasty period flower arrangement art has been popularized in the folk, and by the literati favorite, each dynasty on the appreciation of the flower arrangement of many poems. In the Qing Dynasty, the art of flower arrangement was not emphasized, developed and popularized among the people. Eastern-style flower arrangement advocates nature and emphasizes beautiful lines and natural gestures. The layout of the composition of the high and low staggered, echoed, sparse and dense gathering and dispersal, works of elegant and smooth. According to the natural form of plant growth, there are different forms of flower arrangement such as upright, tilted and drooping.

The reason why a good work has a high artistic charm and vitality is that the author can capture the most beautiful moments in nature and process them artistically. It is neither a repetition of natural beauty nor an imitation of others' works, but a work with unique personality and expressive power created by the author. The author of artistic flower arrangement must be good at observing nature, keenly capturing the most beautiful moments of flowers and plants in nature, accumulating images of flowers, paying attention to familiarize with the rich vocabulary of flowers, possessing a certain basic knowledge of aesthetics theory, and being familiar with painting and music, so as to continuously create works of truth, goodness and beauty.

Chinese literati flower arrangement has a great influence on Japanese flower arrangement. Especially the book "History of Bottle" of Ming Dynasty was spread to Japan. Many people studied it and formed and developed many schools of flower arrangement, of which Kohara is one. At the same time, Japanese Ikebana adopted Chinese Confucianism for the inner thoughts of the art. For example, the three main flower branches are regarded as the universe of heaven, earth and man. Another example is the Misei Ryu, which was founded in the Meiji era. It advocates nature and is rich in realistic techniques. Which contains the Chinese yin and yang five elements of thought ~