8 years Hunan 55-year-old uncle cut the vegetable garden into a "crazy animal city"

Sanxiang Metropolis Daily, November 24 (Correspondent Wang Zhai, Zhang Zhiwei, Luo Meng, all-media reporter Huang Yaping) In Miaoxi Village, Hengyang County, Hengyang County, Hunan Province, villager Wu Juyun's favorite thing to do on weekdays is to pick up large scissors, set up wooden ladders, and trim the "small animals" in the vegetable garden.

"You see, there are snakes, dogs, dragons, a total of more than 30 kinds of 'animals', all of which are trimmed and decorated from natural ebony wood, isn't that interesting?" Speaking of this carefully trimmed "crazy animal city", 55-year-old Wu Orange Yun proudly introduced that ebony is an evergreen shrub that grows slowly but thrives for a long time, and in the countryside, ebony is often used as a good firewood, but it is not known that it is a good material for bonsai.

When he was young, Wu Juyun gave up his dream of painting because of his family's circumstances, and then made a living by doing odd jobs and sending raw materials to the bamboo product processing factory at the foot of the mountain, with painstaking efforts to pull the eldest son and daughter; in 2013, Wu Juyun accidentally found that a sassafras wood in the mountain forest had a unique shape, and he had the idea of pruning and decorating it as a "cow".

The outline of the first "cow" began to appear, and the "painting dream" in Wu Orange's heart was slowly sprouting. In general, a tree is pruned into an imaginary shape, and in addition to 4 large prunes per year, daily detail pruning is also essential; each "animal" takes 5 years from cultivation to pruning. "I'm just a character, and when people say I can't make it, I'm going to do it." Wu Qiyun said that pouring a lot of time and energy into the "worthless" landscape not only puzzled the villagers in the same village, but even his son said: "The family still lives in an adobe house, you cut this every day, is not full of food and support?" ”

This time, Wu Qianyun did not want to admit his fate. For eight years, Wu Qiyun did not move every day, went into the vegetable garden to trim and cut; when night fell, admiring these "big guys" with the stars in the sky became his only pastime. In this way, there are new members such as giraffes, horses, and brown bears in the vegetable garden.

"Every year when the spring is in full bloom, the 'animals' are full of colorful flowers, like the animal world in fairy tales, welcome to visit!" Wu Qiyun said that the "zoo" is located at the foot of the Mountain of The Ridge Peak National Forest Park, the scenery is beautiful, and people who want to visit the "Zoo" can navigate to Miaoxi Village near the Jiulong Gorge Rafting in Hengyang City. ”