History Of Bonsai Trees

Trimming and sculpting trees to bonsai has a longwide world public. The inquiry for bonsai started to
history. The first bonsai trees should have beenrise rapidly. The lack of natural small-grown trees led
planted in China already about 2000 years ago into the commercial production of the bonsai. Several
trays. People mentions the miniaturised creation ofbasic styles asserted themselves. The bonsai artists
bonsai trees in China Pensai. Besides, the typicalmade use of wire, bamboo canes and other
growth forms of the tree vegetation aretechnologies to influence growing, shaping and
postformed in some provinces as a Pensai. In otherdeveloping.
provinces Pensai are formed rather in weird,Still today bonsai is highly respected as a symbol of
symbolical shapes, for example, in dragon's figure.the japanese culture and ideals. Nowadays in Japan
China had traditionally a great influence on the culturalbonsai is not left any more only to the upper class,
development of Japan. Thus the Buddhism could gainbut has asserted itself in all social classes. Japanese
a foothold beside the state religion of the Shintoincline especially with pleasure to use only native
rather early in Japan. Walking monks of the Zenspecies for their bonsai trees. In particular pines,
Buddhism brought therefore the first Pensai to Japan.azaleas and maple are looked as the traditional bonsai
In the culturally very open imperial city Kyoto nobletrees. In other countries people are not fixed and
ladies and gentlemen soon dealt beside the art of theuses also many other tree species for growing bonsai
ikebana and the tea ceremony with the small bonsaiunder the most different climatic conditions.
trees.Particularly in last decades the development of the
In the 17th and 18th century the Japanese bonsai artbonsai was going on. The bonsai world has become
reached their peak. It had become a part of thesmaller. All over the world people began, whether in
Japanese way of life. Bonsai had served to betterAsia, in Europe, in the United States and even in
understand the nature and to improve in appearance.Greenland, to discover bonsai as their hobby. In the
The main factor in the development of the bonsaimeantime, bonsai art also reflected the great variety
was the restriction on the most important parts ofin predilections and characteristics of the most
the plant. All apparently dispensable parts weredifferent countries and their cultures.
removed. The removal of all insignificant and theWith proper care bonsai trees can become hundreds
reduction on the essential elements for the finalof years old. Such highly respected specimens are
improvement was symbolic for the Japanesetransmitted from generation to generation and are
philosophy of that time. Bonsai developed in differentadmired for their age and revered. The aging of the
style directions which considerably differed of eachbonsai trees is often connected also with the events
other. Bonsai artists attempted more and morein the life of the people that have looked in the
culturally important elements like rock to realisecourse of the centuries after them. Such old bonsai
accent works.trees are extremely beautiful. Nevertheless, with the
After more than 230 years of the global isolationbonsai tree the age hasn't the highest priority,
Japan opened at the middle of 19th century to thehowever caring bonsai for years away and
rest of the world. The travellers came back fromdeveloping of the knowledge about the tree. It is
Japan and had seen the miniature trees in themost important that a bonsai tree can generate his
ceramic containers which copied ripe, high trees in thedesired artistic effect and grows up in the right
nature. Then at the end of the century exhibitionsproportion to the suitable container, so that the tree
followed in London, Vienna and Paris. Especially thecan develop with good health.
Paris world exhibition in 1900 announced bonsai to the