Today, I want to share with you the development history of the literati tree. Kublai Khan almost put it out, and with the development of China, it became stronger again.

Sophora japonica is a very popular potted plant in recent years. Its profound artistic conception makes it small and high. However, with the passage of time, the potted plant market has undergone tremendous changes. Time and time again, the succulents that were relatively hot two days ago were eliminated in the tide of time.

The literati tree, a potted plant that never seems to burn, has a history of 2000 years. Although there was no fire, it did not disappear. It keeps a very stable posture and carries a heavy load. No matter how the potted market changes, the literati tree is still as strong as the saplings inside. This species with the longest vitality in potted plants continues to grow, although it has not flourished for a long time.

There are three stages in the literati tree, which correspond to three stages respectively: looking at the mountains without looking at them, looking at them without looking at them, and looking at them without looking at them.

The so-called mountain view is the stage of the mountain. When ordinary people first came into contact with the literati tree, they thought that the tree was a simple potted plant and would not think of a deeper meaning. Although people will marvel at the delicate leaves and amazing bending skills of the literati tree at first sight, it is difficult to understand the deep meaning of the literati tree.

This is the first step of the literati tree. Seeing mountains is not the stage of mountains.

In the second stage, people can understand the ideas expressed by the literati tree when they see that the mountain is not the territory of the mountain.

Literati tree is defined according to literati. The ancients liked to express their feelings through art, whether it was calligraphy, literati painting, poetry or dance music. The author's ambition is often hidden under the plain surface.

From Li Mingming people to noble emperors, most people have unspeakable feelings or ambitions in their hearts. Art can usually be used as a good carrier to carry these feelings and wishes.

Among them, the literati tree is a very suitable artistic carrier for expressing wishes.

The third stage is also difficult for the author to reach. People at this level have a deep understanding of the literati tree.

The development of literati tree has gone through a long period. Since the Qin Dynasty, Confucian culture has prevailed, and the genes of China culture have been deeply embedded in the essence of the literati tree.

Especially after the Han Dynasty, Confucianism became the only recognized academic concept of the ruling class and spread from top to bottom. At this point, China people have carved Confucian genes into their bones. In this wave, the ideal tree of literati also has Confucianism.

Confucianism advocates filial piety, self-discipline and abstinence. Benevolence is the core concept, which teaches people to be loyal, honest and have the quality of staying away from dirt.

This is why the literati tree always looks thin.

Even today, most scholars' trees are very thin, and thinness is often associated with poverty, and poverty is also associated with good qualities such as cleanliness, abstinence, lust and mud removal.

In Confucian culture, the ancients were shaped into elegant, refined, simple and gentle temperament. In the next year 2000, China culture will be carved. This sculpture is directly reflected in the literati tree.

In the above works, we can see that the trunk has been growing to the sky since it broke ground.

On the whole, it looks simple and poor. Several leaves poured down from the top of the tree like a waterfall. Although the leaves are sparse, they are lively, lovely and full of vitality. The overall shape conveys a lively and agile temperament, and creates an excellent work with minimalist brushwork.

Because Confucianism worships pine and cypress culture very much, there is a saying in The Analects that eighteen years old is cold, only after the tune of pine and cypress.

Every year in the coldest winter, other pillars will wither, but the pine and cypress trees are still tall and straight, and can persist until the end. Confucianism appreciates the quality of pine and cypress, in fact, it hopes that future generations can have the same quality as pine and cypress. Confucius even praised the quality of pine and cypress by his age and entrusted the quality of pine and cypress to this gentleman.

Therefore, the scholar tree not only embodies the temperament of scholars, but also embodies the temperament of gentlemen.

However, in the Qin and Han dynasties, the development of literati trees was stagnant, and there was no time for people to recuperate after years of war. For the development of the literati tree, the nuclear bomb time is zero.

Pine and cypress are the most important branches of literati trees. There are two reasons for this.

First of all, the first reason is that the crown of pine and cypress is relatively small, and its proportion in the works is usually the same as that of real trees.

Authors can often carve roots to give literati a true proportion of tree flavor, but leaves can't be carved, and leaves are as big as them. If broad-leaved potted plants are used as literati trees, it is easy to destroy the aesthetic feeling of literati trees, because the proportion of leaves is different when viewing them.

This is the picture above. Because the leaves are wide, there is no aesthetic feeling of the literati tree. Because of his bloated figure, it is difficult for the author to express his ambition.

If the literati tree was endowed with soul by Confucianism in the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was not until the Tang Dynasty that the embryonic form of the literati tree really appeared in form.

In the Tang Dynasty, many people liked to plant some smaller pine trees in their own yards. This kind of pine tree is not a young tree or branch, but a complete adult pine tree. Although it looks small, it is actually in its heyday.

People in the Tang Dynasty began to cut and shape these wings for the beauty of literati trees. At that time, bending technology began to take shape.

This plant appears in the paintings of ladies unearthed by archaeologists. Basically, you can see the embryonic form of the literati tree. At that time, Komatsu was relatively large, not as exquisite as the current works, but its fine texture and sparse leaves exposed from the top of the tree more or less had the charm of later literati trees.

In the Song Dynasty, it can be said that the tree of literati in the Song Dynasty seems to have a sense of the times. In this work, the nearby pine trees can show the aesthetic curve of Song people to potted literati trees.

In the present words, it looks more and more interesting, especially those tangled branches.

With the passage of time, Komatsu gradually became the exclusive cultural activity of the court in the Song Dynasty, and was endowed with more connotations by more and more civil servants. The strength of the Song Dynasty brought great changes to the cultural development. Bending technology was developed at this time.

This kind of literati tree was given a special name in the Song Dynasty, Pan Song.

At that time, the trunk shape of pine trees was changed because of the need of shape. The development of iron technology enabled them to produce excellent tools to change the trunk shape. But it is called pansong because the trunk can be twisted into a winding state, showing the general shape of a dragon.

Although we seldom see the photos of the literati tree in Song Dynasty, we can still feel the shape of the literati tree through poetry.

At that time, an ancient man wrote such a poem.

God-given Ramu comes from Cen.

There are thousands of branches that cannot be found twice.

Anger, the sound of playing the piano quietly

This means that although this pine tree was obtained from a high mountain, it is like a gift from heaven. Although the trunk is less than 60cm, the branches of pine trees spread out slowly and gradually like thousands of needles and branches. Although the rising part of the trunk is vigorous and melancholy, and the dragon hovers upward like a dragon, under careful observation, some women are calm and peaceful.

So the author deliberately found a modern work with the same temperament.

Well, almost.

It is the peak of the development of the literati tree in the Southern Song Dynasty. The literati garden art reached its climax in this period. During this period, all kinds of literati trees sprang up like mushrooms after rain, unprecedented.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the literati tree was officially named. In fact, due to historical reasons, the literati tree reached its peak in the Southern Song Dynasty.

First of all, Komatsu in the Tang Dynasty and Pansong in the Northern Song Dynasty provided a solid empirical foundation for the literati tree in the Southern Song Dynasty. Secondly, during the Southern Song Dynasty, the commercial economy in the south developed rapidly and the society was stable, which provided a good social foundation for literati to create such artistic creations.

Third, because the nomads from the south attacked the south, the whole society was in a panic.

At that time, Song Gaozu wanted to compromise in exchange for some peace in Wang Ye, but the whole country wanted to be strong.

However, at this time, enthusiastic literati expressed their demands through art.

The literati tree at this time is the most suitable carrier. The literati tree, an art form that carries gentlemen and humanity, reached its peak at this time.

But 1279, Kublai Khan went south to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty and unified the whole country.

The nomadic people in the north, represented by Huns, can't agree with all kinds of cultures in the south. The luxury of the rulers and the cruel notice to the Han people made the lives of ordinary people in a very miserable situation.

At that time, the social status of Han intellectuals ranked ninth, and this, although the name stinky came from.

Literati are in such a miserable situation that things like literati trees are needless to say.

The development of the literati tree suffered a devastating blow at that time.

However, although the powerful Han nationality suffered a devastating blow, it was deeply rooted in the broken historical soil like the small but powerful literati tree in the sky.

Wildfire never completely devoured them, and they grew taller in the spring breeze. Now, with the revival of China, literati tree once again stands on the world stage with China people.