The Roots Of Bonsai In Asia by Andrew Kozlowski
The Chinese began creating
miniature landscapes in containers more than one thousand years ago
Parajumpers. This art, known as
�penjing,� or �pun-sai,� translates to scenery in a pot. The artists used stones
and bits of plants such as lichen and moss to make tiny garden landscapes that
portrayed scenes in nature. The smaller the materials used and the more detailed
the landscapes, the more powerful they were thought to be. The practice of
growing a single tree in a pot, �bonsai,� arose from this practice
parajumpers coats. To the ancient Chinese,
these trees� gnarled trunks and roots resembled dragons and mountains and
contributed to myths about the mountain kingdoms of spirit beings.
The
artistic creations of bonsai were thought to represent harmony between heaven
and earth. To some of the ancient Taoist spiritual seekers,
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