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Brief introduction of Yangpai bonsai art

Yangpai bonsai is one of the "five schools" of bonsai in China. It integrates "poetry, calligraphy, painting and skill", which is a masterpiece of traditional Chinese bonsai art. The style of "comely, quaint, elegant and freehand brushwork" and the cutting skill of "one inch and three bends" are still the most remarkable characteristics that distinguish Yangpai bonsai from other bonsai schools. Yangpai bonsai is dignified and elegant, meticulous, decorative and far-reaching in artistic conception.

Foreign brand bonsai is a combination of art and technology, skill and culture. It takes trees as the main material, and through artistic treatment and careful cultivation, it creates the beauty of images derived from nature and the beauty of artistic conception higher than nature in the basin. It requires the creator to have profound cultural and artistic accomplishment, exquisite cutting and maintenance skills, and accumulate rich experience through long-term artistic practice. Yang Pai's bonsai works entrusted the author's aesthetic taste and life sentiment, and recorded the social features in a certain period.

Yangpai bonsai and its techniques germinated and grew in the natural environment of Yangzhou, Thailand. She benefited from the fertile soil of the traditional culture of the Han nationality and thrived after the wind and rain. She witnessed the development of bonsai in China, the cultural tradition and history of the region, and the genius production skills of the ancestors of the Chinese nation.