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may have chosen to describe his ideal.
Before his death, he gave away most of his penjing collection. In
addition to those found today at the National Bonsai & Penjing
Museum, where the Chinese Pavilion is dedicated to him, examples of
his work can be seen in Canada at the Montréal Botanical Garden and
at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver.
Dr. Wu’s influence was truly far-reaching. An asteroid discovered in
1979 in the Main Asteroid Belt between Jupiter and Mars by the Purple
Mountain observatory in Nanking, China, was named 3570 Wuyeesun
in honor of Dr. Wu in 1997.
Red chopsticks inserted in the penjing pots mark those to be sent by Dr. Wu to the United
States.
In 1986, Dr. Yee-Sun Wu of Hong Kong gave 24 penjing from his collection to the U.S.
National Arboretum’s National Bonsai & Penjing Museum.
