{"id":1139,"date":"2010-08-23T09:06:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T01:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happybonsai.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2010-08-23T09:06:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T01:06:36","slug":"difference-landscape-bonsai-water-and-land-bonsai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/23\/difference-landscape-bonsai-water-and-land-bonsai\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference between Landscape Penjing and Water-and-Land Penjing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier, I had a few friends asking me about the difference between landscape penjing (shanshui Penjing, \u5c71\u6c34\u76c6\u666f in Chinese), and water-and-land penjing (shuihan penjing, \u6c34\u65f1\u76c6\u666f in Chinese). It seemed that they were quite confused. Same here indeed, when I first learned bonsai, I always got mixed up between landscape penjing and water-and-land penjing too. Somehow, to me this bonsai beginner, they just sounded so similar, and looked alike\u2026 Well, after learning and seeing more of the different types of bonsai, now I can tell the difference between these two types of bonsai of course.<\/p>\n

Here, I would like to show a few photos of landscape penjing and water-and-land penjing. Hopefully, this will be helpful to other bonsai beginners who may get all confused with landscape penjing and water-and-land penjing like how I was before.<\/p>\n

Water-and-Land Penjing (Shuihan Penjing, \u6c34\u65f1\u76c6\u666f)<\/h3>\n

Land-and-water penjing uses trees, rocks and water to create a complex scene that not only looks beautiful, but also tells a story. Like landscape penjing, trees may or may not appear; if they are included, they play a minor role in the overall composition.<\/p>\n

\"Water-and-land<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Water-and-land<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Water-and-land<\/a><\/p>\n

All three water-and-land penjing are by penjing master – Zhao Qing Quan<\/p>\n

Landscape Penjing (Shanshui Penjing, \u5c71\u6c34\u76c6\u666f)<\/h3>\n

Like water-and-land penjing, landscape penjing may use water when depicting the scene. Yet, in landscape penjing, it is often the rock rather than the tree is the central focus of the scene. In addition, landscape penjing always depicts mountain scene.<\/p>\n

\"Landscape<\/a><\/p>\n

Landscape penjing by Lingnan penjing master – Wong Chiu Shing<\/p>\n

Sometimes, I find that the line between landscape penjing and water-and-land penjing can be quite blurred. A penjing may look like a typical water-and-land penjing while has some strong characteristics of a landscape penjing.\u00a0 In my opinion, while we should understand the terminologies, it is not necessary to separate and classify everything clearly.\u00a0 Bonsai is an art and art has no clear-cut boundaries \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier, I had a few friends asking me about the difference between landscape penjing (shanshui Penjing, \u5c71\u6c34\u76c6\u666f in Chinese), and water-and-land penjing (shuihan penjing, \u6c34\u65f1\u76c6\u666f in Chinese). It seemed that they were quite confused. Same here indeed, when I first learned bonsai, I always got mixed up between landscape penjing and water-and-land penjing too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happybonsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}