Bonsai is a treasure of garden art with a long history in China, and Lingnan Bonsai is one of the five schools of bonsai art in China (Su School, Yang School, Sichuan School, Hui School and Lingnan School). In the creation of Lingnan bonsai, local materials are mostly used, and subtropical and tropical evergreen broad-leaved trees are selected. Generally speaking, there are more than 30 kinds of stumps called "Shuzaitou" in Guangzhou, such as Murraya murraya (orange), Ficus, Fujian tea, Pinus tabulaeformis, Cypress, Elm, Mantianxing, Boxwood, Podocarpus, Rhododendron, Pineapple and Mountain. 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. Among them, Shi Ying is a special product of Guangdong Yingde, which is wrinkled, thin and transparent, so it is often selected as the production of Shishan bonsai. In recent years, Guangzhou bonsai artists have developed magnificent tree shapes, tall and straight shapes, jade-like beads and wild natural shapes.

Speaking of Lingnan bonsai, we should introduce three characteristics, three styles and three excellent bonsai. Lingnan cooperation is fruitful and talented. Kong Taichu, Surin and Mofu are often referred to as "three outstanding bonsai artists" in Guangzhou bonsai industry. The bonsai they created respects nature, is higher than nature, conforms to nature and is higher than painting. Kong Taichu has been engaged in bonsai creation for more than 60 years, creating a magnificent and vigorous "tree-shaped" bonsai and creating a plastic art of "saving branches and cutting stems". The uneven trunk, full crown and dense and orderly branches show the great charm of the wilderness. 1990 won the national bonsai master. Surin is a Buddhist master, presided over by Haimin Temple in Guangzhou. Most of the bonsai he created imitated the paintings of Ni Yunlin and Badashan people, with superb techniques and slender lines. Because trees follow the trend, they do not seek to flourish, forming a "towering" bonsai. Mo is the founder of "natural" bonsai. He is good at drawing lessons from the composition of traditional Chinese painting to create bonsai. His composition is vivid and diverse, full of wild interest, with the combination of reality and reality, sharp contrast and unique style. If bonsai is compared to painting, Kong Taichu's bonsai is meticulous painting, while amateur and Mo Min's bonsai are freehand brushwork. The three of them are outstanding representatives of cultivating and making bonsai in Guangzhou, and they are called "three outstanding bonsai". Their works have their own characteristics and styles, which all reflect the distinctive features of Lingnan bonsai.

Guangzhou garden bonsai is famous all over the country. Not only do almost every balcony, rooftop and living room of urban and rural residents in Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta have all kinds of bonsai, but they also cross the ocean. Many Chinese families in Hong Kong, Macao, Europe, America and Southeast Asia also like to display Lingnan bonsai. Guangzhou Fangcun is the earliest and most famous hometown of Lingnan bonsai in Guangdong. Many excellent works of Lingnan bonsai were exhibited in Cui Hua and Fangcun's Guangzhou Flower Expo Park "Southern Water Town". Xiyuan, located at the lakeside of Liu Hua, Guangzhou, was built at 1956, covering an area of 5,000 square meters. It is a park in Guangzhou, which is mainly for planting and displaying bonsai, with beautiful scenery and rich poetry. It is a famous "hometown of Lingnan bonsai" at home and abroad, and it is also one of the attractions that bonsai art, lovers and tourists at home and abroad yearn for. 1982 held a national bonsai exhibition in Xiyuan, with 5000 pots and more than 300 varieties of exhibits. 1986, Xiyuan sent 50 pots of exhibits to participate in the 5th International Horticultural and Flower Expo held in Genoa, Italy, and won 3 gold medals and 0 silver prizes 1 piece. 1 9861June 18 Queen Elizabeth II visited the West Garden, and Ye Xuanping gave her1pot of Murraya murraya bonsai for more than 60 years. Xiyuan won the prize for participating in the bonsai exhibition, which won honor for the country and Lingnan bonsai art.