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Top; Chengmei Culture Park,
one of the convention venues
that hosted demonstrations,
workshops and exhibits, is
a beautiful park in Yongjing
Township, Changhua County,
with wonderful gardens that
feature impressive bonsai and
an enchanting landscape.
Middle left and right; Nacho
Marin, from Venezuela created
an elegant composition with
his demonstration tree.
Seok Yu Kim from Korea and
his team make dramatic
changes their demo tree.
Lower middle, left and right;
Carved and polished Hualien
rhodonite, 46 x 33 x 5 cm.
Collection of Rong Hua Zhong.
Gudrun Benz, BCI director and
Helen Su, BCI 1st Vice President Demonstrations
who translated for Gudrun at
her lecture on Suiseki. and Exhibits at
Bottom; View of suiseki exhibit
Chengmei Culture
at Chengmei Culture Park.
Park

By Gudrun Benz, Germany

ne of the four venues of BCI 2017 convention
in Taiwan was the Chengmei Culture Park,
OChanghua, about an hour’s drive from our
hotel in Taichung. It is a kind of museum which was
brought into being by a private foundation. It consists
of several buildings, partly in traditional Taiwanese
style, and a park in Japanese style. The welcoming
center, a modern building, is reserved for education,
equipped with a stage, benches for the audience, a
space for small exhibitions and a café. Guided tours
throughout the building and the garden with many
old trees were offered to the large number of visitors
that come on weekends.
The bonsai demonstrations by Nacho Marin (Ven-
ezuela, Darrieux Laurent (France) and Seok Ju Kim
(Korea) as well as my power point presentation about
Suiseki were conducted on Saturday and Sunday,
November 4 and 5. I was surprised that the audience

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