Penjing Schools in China.
NORTHERN SU SCHOOLS & EASTERN SU SCHOOLS
- Yangzhou - Styles include:
Platform, Ingenious or Delicate Cloud,
Pagoda & Three-Winding
- Tung - Styles include:
Coiled & Dancing Dragon
WESTERN SU SCHOOLS
- Suzhou - Styles include:
Six Platforms, Three Bases & One Top,
Tree Branches Overhanging a Cliff,
Split Trunk, Screen, Following the Wind,
Aslant & Supine, Erect with Spreading
Foliage, Phoenix & Crane on Pavilion and
Pagoda.
- Shanghai
- Nantong
- Zhejiang - Styles include:
Tall Trunk & Forest
- Hunan - Styles include:
Hanging Cliff
- Hubei - Styles include:
Flat-Top
- Henan - Styles include:
Flat-Top
- Shandong
- Laoining
- Jilin
SICHUAN (CHUAN) SCHOOL
- Styles include:
Straight, Reclining & Slanting Trunk
Hanging Cliff & Earthworm
SOUTHERN SCHOOLS
- Lingnan Styles include:
Ancient Tree, Large or Tall Tree,
Towering Tree & Five-Tree
- Fugian
- Guangxi
These six penjing schools, largely based on regional variations which emerged during the late Ming and Qing Dynasties, c.17th century;
are no longer a major influence and there is a return to the original free-spirited kinds of penjing traditionally created by scholars.
Their creations instead, reflected literati backgrounds and were never confined to rigid patterns, but rather sought expression emanating from Chinese paintings.
