Editorial: If you can choose, would you rather be a beautiful flower or a durable grass? From plants, you can see life. Ling Zongyong, the founder of CNFlower, used nature as the material to carry out a series of plans of "traveling with flowers" and found that many things in life actually don't need to worry about it, and flowers bloom and fall at their own time.
believes that "beauty should not have rules", and Ling Zongyuan, who founded CNFlower Sean at the age of 24, jumped into the framework of traditional flower art techniques, and used a creation that mastered nature and emphasized the essence of materials. He was recognized as the "Eastern New Flower Art Master". He said: My flower art skills are not the best, but I have a pair of eyes that can see beautiful things.
Follow Ling Zong to his "Sion Garden under the crater of thousands of years", which is a secret garden he has worked so hard for more than two years. There are various types of flower and planting plants in front and back of the house: herbs and spice garden, edible garden, moss garden, …… each has different styles, and it doesn't seem abrupt if it is mixed together.
The interior is equipped with a simple and elegant kitchen, tea room and long table, and an open terrace facing the mountains, making people feel like they can spend the whole afternoon here. Although the rain was quite heavy on the Tianshan Mountain, when we looked far away, we were warm in the house and drank the herbal tea made of salty grass picked from the yard. It was a scene.
Ling Zongyong's wife Ivy said that every few years, he would want to find a piece of land, and he would make it all over the place, "probably like a kind of energy release." From the first home on Xizhi Mountain (now a culinary mountain house), Jiufen's "tree house" to the garden in Yangming Mountain, Ling Zongyong always likes to build a world where he can enjoy life.
"I usually don't seek the perfect look in my mind, but find out the characteristics that attract me in different environments, and slowly follow it to shape a look." Ling Zongyong said.
Create flowers for many international first-line brands such as Aimashi, LV, Anzhi Hotel, etc., and show Ling Zongyong, who is unique aesthetics, his path to flower art actually starts with a flower art gift.
Ling Zongyong of the student era was not a type of outstanding performance, and he did not have very clear ideas about what path he would take in the future. After leaving the society, his first job was a delivery boy from the express company. On the third day, he thought to himself in the heavy rain, "I don't know what I am sending myself. Is this job meaningful to me?"
At this time, a friend introduced a delivery boy from a flower shop to him: In the same way, it is delivery boy from a fast one, why not try a flower shop? At least you can see the happy mood of the flower collector.
Unexpectedly, the flower collector's first task he received early in the morning on his first day at work was a stinky face. It turned out that the other party was a hotel lady, and the one who delivered the flowers was a drinker, and she was not the one she loved. And the lady obviously had just returned home from get off work and was extremely tired on her face.
to around noon, it is another story. He sent flowers to a husband to his wife's work company, and the other party designated that he must deliver flowers at 11:30. When he arrived, he saw his colleagues around him laughing, and then he understood the meaning of the designated time: it cannot be delivered at 12:00, because everyone went to have lunch. Beautiful flowers are not only sent to flower collectors, but also for everyone to see them.
Before getting off work in the evening, the boss handed Ling Zongyan a flower basket and asked him to take him to the NTU Hospital's ward. When he arrived at the venue, he was empty and had a strong atmosphere. He called and returned to the company and asked: What should I do if no one signs? The boss replied: Just put it at the door, no one will rob the flowers used for funerals.
Same thing is to send flowers. After a day, I have experienced three different situations: love, marriage and life and death. Ling Zongyong said: "What motivates me is not how beautiful the flowers are, but what is important emotional events in people's lives seem to have something to do with flowers. This makes me think that opening a flower shop may be a good job, because it is an industry that conveys emotions."
Flower art is not just a skill, but a lifestyleLing Zongyong's flower art creation was a flower artist when he went to Germany to work and change his days in his second year of his career.
Once they went on vacation to the famous Ibiza Island in Spain. In the flower artist's villa, the two carefully arranged the dining tables and put the flowers on them, and enjoyed a good dinner in the light. Later, Ling Zongyong learned that the flower artist usually rented his home in Flankford, but he was willing to buy the next vacation villa for this wonderful moment.
After following this flower artist for a year, it gave Ling Zongyong a deep feeling: it turns out that the distance between flower art and life can be very close. Flowers are not just goods placed in flower shops, but are picked up in nature.
"I am not a person who pursues strange flowers and grass. I prefer to find things that make me feel surprised in my daily life."
For example, he crossed a gas station and saw a very well-organized small flower bed next to him, so he would take a picture of it immediately and enjoy such a beautiful corner. Or when you enter the vegetable market, you will find that it is a kind of beauty when you see some businesses that are full of vegetables and fruits. Beauty is not far away, but one's own vision.
When traveling with flowers, the unexpected beautyWhen Ling Zongyong was constantly asked, how can he design a beautiful flower art that can inspire people? He answered in a real way: "I don't have any skills or secrets, I can only tell you what I saw in nature. ”
Therefore, since 2016, CNFlower has held a "Travel with Flowers" flower art trip every year. Ling Zongyong brought his students from Hangzhou, India, South France to London, and how flower arts naturally occur in life. What touches everyone the most is often not just the works presented in the end, but the emotional connections and unexpected surprises arise between people during the creation process.
For example, in a small town in southern France, Ling Zongyong originally planned to borrow a local church to decorate the theme of the wedding, but he found out that there was really a couple in the church going to marry. Under emotional intelligence, the students arranged beautiful doors and bridal bouquets for this real wedding, and really carried out a wedding battle. This was completely unexpected.
When in Kinze, Japan, Ling Zongyong wanted to use seasonal cherry blossoms as the theme, but wild cherry blossoms could not be picked at will. However, if you go to the flower market to buy cherry blossoms, it looks like "deprived" and is not natural. Later, he asked through a familiar Japanese flower artist and found out that the park was filled with slums that were crushed by heavy snow, which was both beautiful and intentional. He immediately used this material to successfully complete his ideal work.
"I am a person who likes to have a beautiful experience in life. "I want everyone to feel the same way. If you just teach everyone to do what I do, then you still don't have those eyes."
Don't do it deliberately, nature will find your way for you. Isn’t this the same in life? Some students participated 7 or 8 times and cried every time. A mature male student who followed his wife to take classes said to Ling Zongyong: "Teacher, you are no longer teaching flower arrangement, but giving you a lesson."
The top ten luxury goods in life after 50 are different from what you thinkIt seems that Ling Zongyong, who is always a leisurely family, has never had a moment of trouble? He thought about it and said: Over the past few years, everyone called him a master, and it seemed that he was well-known, but in fact he earned less than others imagined.
But is he really worried? It was not the case. He recalled that someone had sent him a list of "Top Ten Luxuries in Life" and thought it was very suitable for readers of 50+ to think about it. Surprisingly, these 10 kinds of luxury goods are not related to material value, including:
1. The perception of life2. A free and joyful heart
3. The spirit that travels all over the world
4. Be curious about the world, and be confident in your potential
5. Go back to nature and have the ability to connect with nature
6. A peaceful and peaceful sleep
7. Really own space and time
8. The soul mate who loves each other
9. There are people who truly understand you at any time
10. After Ling Zong turned it over, he felt that he had it and laughed, "I don't seem to lack it."
But he thought that the most precious and powerful thing was the last item: "It can infect and ignite the hope of others."
From "traveling with flowers", he recently used the concept of "beautiful relationship" to transform the Shidong market with designers, or create a forest bus that is like a moving forest, and even to publish a book to share his aesthetic concepts, it is all about: all beauty comes from a beautiful relationship, whether it is human and human, or human and nature.
Someone once asked him, why would he spend time doing this "ideological" thing?
"If we feel beautiful and pleasant to do these things ourselves, why not convey this inner abundance to more people? That kind of traditional success is not what I want."
The town is accompanied by flowers, plants and plants. What kind of flowers does Ling Zong like most? He said that this question has different answers at different stages of life. When he was young, he liked fresh and fairy-like flowers, such as chrysanthemums and calla lily. Later, he preferred flowers with some lusciousness, such as roses and peony.
What they want now is the low-key camellia that is unique. It is not a type that attracts attention at a glance. The flowers are always hidden in the green leaves, but if you look carefully, you can see the delicate petal structure and remain intact when it falls down.
"I think it looks like me. I am not a person who can see what I have in my youth. When camellia is not blooming, it is just an ordinary tree. But when the flowers bloom, there are many details in it, like I did such strange things myself, but I care about it." Ling Zongyong laughed.
Not only uses flowers to describe himself, he also uses plants to describe people, colleagues and friends around him. For example, he described a stubborn Capricorn colleague like grass, which can be suppressed or lie down. Unexpectedly, the other party was not very happy, because everyone could not be a valuable "flower" rather than wear-resistant grass. "But I really like it because he will silently take root in places you can't see, which may be unsightly, but a garden cannot be without it." Describing another colleague like mint: he feels elegant and feels after touching.
Ling Zongyong said that being a person with a good eye may not be good. Some people are like peony and peony. They are graceful and generous when they bloom, and they are noble and beautiful. "But they are very thorough when they wither and do not leave anything. So if you want that kind of prosperous life, you have to accept that it will always be a day of decline."
said, "Flowers bloom from beauty, and they say it is by people." If life is a garden, Ling Zongyong chose the way he wants to grow, which is ultimately a unique scene that is alive with a local atmosphere.
Original text: There must be ten luxury in life, none of which are money! Flower Artist Ling Zonghong: Life is like a flower, and flowers bloom and have their own time