China has a long history of flower arranging, so what are the characteristics of the traditional style of flower arranging?

China is the birthplace of Eastern-style flower arranging, and traditional Chinese flower arranging has a very long history. Our ancestors have loved nature since ancient times, favoring landscapes and flowers and birds, giving them a different kind of interest. We are also one of the earliest countries in the appreciation and application of flowers, five or six thousand years ago in the central plains of the Yangshao culture sites unearthed a lot of colored pottery pots with five-petal, four-petal flower pattern, continuous, rich in decorative. This is the people of the wild rose, chrysanthemums and other flowers carefully viewed or planted before the creation of the pattern, but also contains the meaning of praying for a good harvest. Some archaeologists believe that the combination of this culture, which is mainly characterized by floral motifs, and the north and south of the culture, which is mainly characterized by dragon motifs, is the combination of flowers and dragons, which is the predecessor of the Chinese nation. This is what we call today? Hwa Hsia? This is the origin of the term "Chinese descendants". This is the origin of the term "Hwa Hsia". Hua? is the ancient form of the Chinese character for flower.

Hua in this context means beautiful as Hua (flower). It can be seen that since ancient times, our people have been known by the name of Hua (华), which means gorgeous flower. In addition to archaeological objects, the earliest collection of poems in China, the Book of Songs, also records that young men and women who were in love with each other picked peony flowers and gave them to each other to express their love. This can be regarded as China's earliest application of cut flowers, wait until the Western Han Dynasty, there has been a flower branch evenly inserted in a pot of simple flower arrangement form. By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, as Buddhism began to spread into China, flower arrangement became one of the offerings in Buddhist activities, known as? Buddhist flowers. Since then for a long time, flower arrangement has a strong religious color. Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties, due to social unrest, injected into the seven sages of the Bamboo Grove and other literati or to religion, or secluded in the mountains, focusing on literature and art.

Let the culture and art of this period of thought break through the Han Dynasty boundaries, showing the transcendence of the world, cultivated in the natural beauty of the situation. Ikebana this kind of? close to nature? The art of "close to nature" has also been quite good development, appeared by the three branches of the main branch on behalf of the sky, earth, people, symbolizing the universe of the form of flower arrangement; by the seven branches of the main branch of the flower arrangement symbolizing the great world of Buddhism, etc., the flower arrangement and the cultural context of the combination. Accordingly, the application of flowers was also enriched, and there appeared a variety of daily decorative forms, such as holding flowers, wearing a corsage, and arranging flowers in a bun, and flower arranging also began to pursue the artistic beauty of modeling. Sui and Tang dynasties is the prosperous period of our feudal society, political stability, economic prosperity, culture and art has made great progress, the art of flower arranging also entered the popularization, development and prosperity of the stage.

In this period, the love of flowers prevailed for a while, flower arrangement from the Buddha to the court and folk. The flower arrangement in front of the Buddha was still based on the lotus flower, which was plain and simple, and was generally staggered in three branches. The types of flowers used in court and folk flower arrangements are also becoming more and more abundant, often dominated by peonies, with more elaborate configurations, such as peonies can only be paired with plums, orchids, lotus, etc., and the flower materials are given individuality, style, character, and ideological connotations. Palace flower arrangement put forward a set of strict regulations and requirements on the tools, containers, water, occasions and ways of appreciation used in flower arrangement. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the art of flower arrangement became more and more mature, and with the cultural and religious exchanges began to be imported into Japan, which played an extremely important role in the emergence and development of Japanese flower arrangement.