Technical characteristics of traditional crafts of rockery bonsai in Shi Ying

The folds in Shi Ying are bright and powerful, and the texture is changeable, which is easy to form mountain-like landforms such as peaks and valleys, and contains many artistic materials. Therefore, the local people use Shi Ying materials to create various types of traditional craft Shi Ying bonsai, which shows the boundless waters of Qian Shan and surges with myriad artistic conceptions. The traditional Shi Ying bonsai has the advantages of naturalness, simplicity, conciseness and simplicity. These bonsai mainly include landscape type, dry mountain type, tree-attached stone type and stone-attached tree type. The main shapes are peaks, mountains, ridges, gorges, cliffs, ditches, islands, rocky mountains, hills, cen and Zhu, which are called "silent poems". The making technology of Shi Ying rockery bonsai is based on natural stones and incorporates the wisdom of artisans, which makes Shi Ying's shape "thin, wrinkled, leaky and transparent", and embodies the "emptiness" and "spirit" of Buddhism and Taoism in China. In the 1990s, folk craftsmen creatively integrated ultrasonic technology into traditional stone bonsai to produce atomized stone bonsai.