Posted on February 14, 2010.
To Does how of the Plants Bonsai Begin in China and Japan?
The art to do bonsai has a very long history. Indeed, the this was about for the centuries. It is believed that at the start this practice was called Punsai, that means growing a tree in a jar. The first countries that popularize the art to do bonsai are China and Japan. Very recently it spread himself to Europe and to America.
The art to do bonsai in China
In old China, do bonsai was used to be called Penjing. It is believed that the bonsai was originated during the dynasty of Han. At that very moment, the emperor of China ordered a big course to be constructed. This course must is grandiose and it must includes various landscapes that could be found in his empire. To follow this order and please the emperor, the royal subjects cultivated small trees to do the garden to appear beautiful and realistic.
The small trees were strong pleased the emperor. It considered even the bonsai as one of its valid possessions. During the years, it was obsessed with that and it imposed a regulation forbids people to cultivate the plant. The penalty was the death for dared whoever to break this regulation. For a long period apreds this regulation was imposed, only the people with the strength and money were given to the right to cultivate the plant. Consequently, a tree bonsai was considered as a valid commodity in China for a lot of generations.
These days, the bonsai always is a valid commodity for the Chinese people because the this is an of legs that China developed for the world. Some modern people hate nevertheless the art to do bonsai because the process is similar as the practice to adhere the feet of women. During the old period of China, the women that had small feet were considered beautiful and thus they checked the growth of their feet while carrying sandals in iron, that was evidently a painful process. This imprisonment of the feet of women is similar as the imprisonment of plants bonsai. The plants are placed in the small receptacles to limit their growth. Consequently, some Chinese people are uncomfortable with the art of done bonsai.
The art to do bonsai to Japan
Otherwise that the Chinese, the Japanese people well also are known for their capacity in to do plants of bonsai. Around 794 to 1191 during the period of Heian, the Chinese people introduced to the manner to do the bonsai to the Japanese monks. They learned the process and began cultivating the bonsai plants in the monasteries. These monks were the first people to the Japan that knew to cultivate the plants.
The monasteries were visited by a lot of persons and they recognized the unique appearance of the bonsai. They wanted to know to grow one and after some time, a lot of persons including the royal family began cultivating these plants. The plants were famous at that very moment and they became the symbol of honor and the prestige among the Japanese people. Even today, the plants bonsai always decorate the houses of rich people and Japanese influential.
