Legend Of The Bonsai Tree
All the legend of bonsai trees with the increasing affection in planting beginner bonsai trees bonsai beginners ought to know about the history of bonsai.
Legend of the bonsai tree. The miniature form of a bonsai tree seems to have a mystic pull on people. History and origin of bonsai. Bonsai has evolved and developed along different lines in china and japan. In those days this practice was called punsai which means the practice of managing single specimen trees in mugs.
Chinese bonsai is still very much in the ancient tradition and often appear crude to the uninformed. Bonsai are indoor trees. On august 6 1945 at a quarter past 8 a m bonsai master masaru yamaki was inside his home when glass fragments hurtled past him cutting his skin after a strong force blew out the windows of. While junipers and pines are traditional bonsai in temperate climates fig trees are popular in tropical areas.
By the year 700 ad the chinese had started the art of pun sai using special techniques to grow dwarf trees in containers. A tree stops growing once it becomes a bonsai hopefully not. We now know this as the bonsai tree the literal meaning of bonsai is planted in a container. Native trees around the world are becoming very popular with bonsai growers.
Originally only the elite of the society practiced pun tsai with native collected specimens and the trees where spread throughout china as luxurious gifts. He was so jealous of his designs he decreed death to anyone who tried to copy them. This is one of the bonsai myths that is rapidly disappearing. Legend has that bonsai originated in the han dynasty around 220 ad with an emperor who created a garden replicating his empire in miniature with realistic hills lakes and trees.
Bonsai are trees and as such should be located outside but there are trees of tropical and subtropical origin that can adapt to the interior environment of our houses.