What are the best bonsai in Qing Dynasty?

In the Qing Dynasty, many excellent bonsai emerged in China, most of which became treasures in the court.

Such as Ruby Meishou Changchun Bonsai. A rectangular Jinjiao basin with a top opening and a bottom folding is slightly bucket-shaped. There are ruyi patterns on the edge of the basin mouth, and a moire pattern is raised on the lower edge. There are millions of words of leijin on the belly of the basin, and 22 words of "longevity" are raised every week.

The main scenery in the basin is plum trees, copper-plated trunks, emerald lobules, ruby petals, sapphire hearts and gold cores, which have vivid meanings. On both sides of the tree are lake stones made of lapis lazuli and white jade, ganoderma lucidum inlaid with precious stones, coral beads with jade leaves, agate leaves and camellia of grass. The scenery is full of vitality and patchwork.

Plum blossom is a widely used flower in bonsai in Qing Dynasty, which usually means "Mei Shou Changchun" or "Mei Shou Wan Nian". This scene takes gold as the basin, and the word "longevity" and the ten thousand characters carved on the basin wall are luxurious and dazzling.

Plum petals used 284 rubies. A sparkling red plum tree reflects the green leaves and the golden basin. In addition, there are elegant lake stones and small flowers dotted with rich and warm styles. This ruby plum blossom bonsai should be a special birthday present for the empress dowager in the palace.

Another example is the ivory inlaid with jade narcissus bonsai. Jade chrysanthemum petal washbasin, the four corners are carved into the shape of two-leaf chrysanthemum, the chrysanthemum is inlaid with rubies and green materials, the lower abdomen of the basin is carved with leaf patterns, and the green materials are inlaid with staggered gold wires. There are lapis lazuli lake stones in the basin, five narcissus plants are planted, carved ivory as the root, white jade as the flower and topaz as the heart.

Narcissus theme bonsai means "to Zhu Xianshou". When the court celebrates the emperor's birthday, local officials often give it away. This bonsai is elegant in style, and the jade basin is a typical Khundustan style. The landscape in the basin is straight, and the jade flowers are Ming Xiu, which reflects the craft level of the sculpture industry in the heyday of Qianlong period in Qing Dynasty.

There are also jasper evergreen bonsai. The basin is cylindrical, painted with red paint, and decorated with gold rolls and grass patterns around the mouth and bottom. The basin body is lightly engraved with the characters of ten thousand characters and eight immortals, and painted with gold paint. Jasper evergreen is planted in the basin, and the leaves are generous and fat, tall and straight like swords, and green and lush. Green silk stems are wrapped around leaves, and there are three clusters of evergreen seeds made of dyed bones and red coral beads on the stems, and the beads are bright red.

This bonsai is evergreen in the tube, which means "unification for ten thousand years". This work is a palace exhibit on the birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi in Qing Dynasty.

Another kind of tourmaline peach tree bonsai, painted with enamel diamond-shaped fancy pots, has deep and light blue glaze on the outer wall of the pots, and is painted with peony patterns. Peach trees are planted in the basin and flourish. Peaches are made of red and pink gems, such as hibiscus stone, tourmaline and beeswax. The tree is lined with lake stones, camellia and brocade for a week.

This scene is patchwork and lifelike, showing the refreshing and lively style of Jiangnan bonsai, which is the daily furnishings in the Qing palace. The peach tree scenery of the peony pot means "flat peaches offer blessings" and "wealth and longevity", which should be the birthday gift of the emperor.

Peach blossom tree bonsai is also an old collection of Qing palace. Draw a rectangular basin with enamel corners, and the murals outside the basin are broken. The peach trees in the main scene are leaves dyed with copper and petals dyed with teeth. Surrounded by dyed stone hawthorn and crystal begonia, ivory glass camellia, copper grass and so on. Peach blossom bonsai means "longevity in spring"

This style was widely used in southern bonsai in Qing Dynasty. According to the Qing Dynasty's Palace Entry List, 1748, Yue Jun, the governor of Guangdong Province, entered the palace with four kinds of tooth bonsai, and this bonsai was one of them.

There is also a bonsai embedded with the birthday picture of Yuxian in the old collection of Qing Palace. Rosewood vertical moire eight-legged conformal seat, with copper-plated and engraved "ten thousand" railings on the side of the seat, with natural wooden mountains in the seat, is full of ancient meaning.

In the mountains, white jade, jasper, agate, jadeite, tourmaline and turquoise are used to make Ganoderma lucidum, Xiantao and Yaocao Jiahui, which are hung upside down among pore stalagmites and are colorful.

There is a blue-topped pavilion on the mountainside. Seven immortals either stood on the mountainside, walked with them in the mountains, or talked to each other. Jade crane flies from the top of the mountain with fairy grass in its mouth. Jade deer lies beside the hillside pavilion, looking up at the Cao Ling above.

This landscape symbolizing the immortal's birthday has generous shapes, delicate characters and different expressions. Flowers, plants, birds and animals are colorful, dense and alternating, strewn at random and interesting, which is a fine product in medium and large landscapes.

Beeswax stone bangs play with toad bonsai. The square corner seat is inlaid with three kinds of color materials such as imitation suet white jade, imitation sapphire and imitation lapis lazuli, and five-color materials such as malachite, gold star stone and coral. Among them, blue Venus and malachite serve as the upper and lower boundaries and divide the grid.

18 jade-like material and 4 transparent blue materials embedded in the frame of the seat wall are carved with dragon patterns of square crutches. There is a relief bat moire coral piece on the front of the seat wall, and in the center of the coral piece, there is also a wishful beeswax piece engraved with dragon patterns.

The seat is made of peacock carved stone, and the stone is made of amber and beeswax. Holding a coral-carved money chain in his hand, he was beaming. It is playing a three-legged toad, made of Venus, inlaid with rubies and blue materials, hunched his back, held his head high, and looked up at the money chain in Liu Hai's hand, looking eager.

Beside the bangs, there are red coral bergamot trees, dyed tooth leaves, bergamot fruits made of red beeswax, copper branches and leaves, camellias and corals of coral flowers, and blue ganoderma lucidum.

There are many people who use the theme of "bangs hitting toads" in Qing dynasty crafts. This bonsai has a unique shape, exquisite and luxurious production, and lifelike figures and animals. It is a unique treasure in bonsai in Qing Dynasty.

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