Representative figures and styles: First, the plastic arts represented by Ye Enfu in Foshan. He is good at making bonsai with stone piles, and loves to put Shi Ying and permeable stones in a pot with apricot, boxwood and calamus, so that the roots of plants cling to the rocks in the cracks, thus making the bonsai look intertwined, flourishing and antique.
The second is the plastic arts represented by Kong Taichu. Taking landscape painting as the image, artistic creation is based on the natural ecology of plants. The style is bold and resolute, the composition is rigorous and dense, and the method of storing and drying branches in miniature of big trees is pioneered, which makes the cut stumps present the original style of big trees, more magnificent and vigorous.
The third is the plastic arts represented by Su Renhe and Shang in Guangzhou Haiphong Temple. The artistic style is like freehand brushwork in Chinese painting, which uses only a few strokes of light ink and has no luxuriant foliage. Only a few branches form a "towering" bonsai, creating a lofty, refined, carefree and picturesque artistic conception.
Variety introduction:
Lingnan bonsai is one of the five schools of bonsai art in China (Su School, Yang School, Chuan School, Hui School and Lingnan School). The creation of Lingnan bonsai is mainly based on local materials, and subtropical and tropical evergreen broad-leaved trees are selected. Generally speaking, there are more than 30 kinds of stumps called "Shuzaitou" by Guangzhou people, such as Murraya (Vaccinium), Ficus, Fujian tea and water cypress.
The composition forms of Lingnan bonsai are single-stem big tree type, or double-stem type, cliff type, Shui Ying type, multi-stem type at one end, attached stone type and combined type. In addition to the stump bonsai, there are also stone mountain bonsai. The materials of Shishan bonsai are Shi Ying, calcite, coral stone, sand stone and so on.