蒋海琳：自在地插一束花

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蒋海琳是重庆航空空乘，还身兼重航的形态礼仪兼职教员，插花、茶艺、玉石鉴赏、书法，样样都能露一手，尤其喜爱插花。

“家中不可一周无花”，这是蒋海琳母亲的“名言”，在母亲潜移默化影响下，蒋海琳成了各类插花沙龙的忠实粉丝。作为插花艺术的资深爱好者，蒋海琳和我们分享了她最擅长的自然流派插花技巧。

Jiang Hailin， a flight attendant of Chongqing Airlines and a part-time teacher of etiquette， is a jack-of-all-trades who is well versed in flower arrangement， tea art， jade appreciation and calligraphy， but she is especially fond of flower arrangement.

Under the subtle influence of her mother who said the"famous saying" that you can’t live without flowers for a week at home， Jiang Hailin frequents all kinds of flower arrangement salons. As a senior fan of flower arrangement art， she shares with us her best flower arrangement skills of natural style.

学插花先选流派Choose a Genre Prior to Learning Flower Arrangement

蒋海琳认为，西式插花中的自然流派，最适合上班族休闲的插花方式。

中式插花讲究线条美，通过高低搭配等方式，用极少量的花勾勒出意境，且需要用原木、石头、诗词、绘画做搭配，这对初学者来说，很难掌握。

西式插花中，运用在婚宴、商务洽谈等大型场合的插花作品，不适合在日常生活中使用。

相比之下，西式自然流派插花艺术，讲究的是小而美，身边的所有容器所有的花，都能作为插花的原材料，因此更适合时间紧张的上班族。

Jiang Hailin believes that western-style flower arrangement of natural genre is the best choice for office workers for relaxing.

Chinese flower arrangement lays emphasis on the beauty of lines. You have to outline the artistic conception by arranging a very small amount of flowers in high or low positions and matched with logs， stones， poems and paintings， which is very difficult for beginners.

Flower arrangement works of western-style， commonly used for wedding banquets， business negotiations and other large occasions， are not suitable for daily life.

Therefore， western-style flower arrangement art of natural genre， which boasts of being small and beautiful and the use of all flowers and all containers， is more preferable for office workers with limited free time.

插花器皿選择多More Choices of Flower Arrangement Utensils

自然流派中，“万物皆可作花瓶”。蒋海琳家中，造型独特的玻璃器皿、红酒醒酒器、玻璃饮料瓶、竹编的菜篮子，甚至孩子的玩具外包装纸盒，都成了蒋海琳插花的工具。她建议，初学者可以先尝试使用现成的花瓶，更容易上手。

最偷懒的技巧是，选一只看着还不错的花瓶，挑一支形状还不错的花，单支入瓶。购物网站上有很多造型别致的花瓶，通常情况下，只要花的形状和花瓶好看，整体就会呈现出不错的效果。

熟练掌握插花技巧以后，可以尝试使用花篮等器皿插花，不过花篮中放的花会相对较多，初学者经验不足时，摆放的花容易显得杂乱，一定要注意摆放整齐，“东一坨、西一坨”的很难插出好看的花。

For flower arrangement of natural genre， "everything can be used as a vase". In Jiang Hailin’s home， unique glassware， red wine decanter， glass beverage bottle， bamboo vegetable basket， and even toy packaging box are used for flower arrangement. She suggests that beginners can try to use ready-made vases for an easier start.

The easiest flower arrangement is to put a single flower with good shape into a beautiful vase. There are many vases with unique shapes available on shopping websites. As long as the flowers have a good shape and the vases look good， the flower arrangement will be good overall.

You can try to use flower baskets and other utensils to arrange flowers when mastering the skills. However， it is easy for inexperienced beginners to make a mess of basket flower arrangement as a lot of flowers are used. Try to make it neat， otherwise， it may become a "lump" of flowers.

百花皆可用All Flowers are Usable

夏季鮮花选择多，是一个百花齐放的插花好时节。

不过原材料越丰富，就越要学会选择。蒋海琳推荐的方案中，最保险的就是选择色系一致的花，呈现的效果会更整齐一些。蒋海琳当天从花市上买回的芍药和向日葵，两者色彩搭配就很合拍。

当然，插花就像时装艺术一般，“好看”的形式有无数种，搭配自由度非常大，选花时可以先把花放在一起感受色彩的搭配度，对于高手来说，撞色、混搭都可以非常好看。

“虽说在比赛中，插花有一整套评判标准，但在生活中，个人的喜好最重要。”

There are many flowers available in summer， which is a good time for flower arrangement.

However， the richer the raw materials， the more you have to learn to choose. The safest option among the many recommendations by Jiang Hailin is to choose flowers in the same color scheme， which will present a more tidy overall effect. The fresh peony and sunflower that Jiang Hailin bought from the flower market are a good match in color.

Just like fashion art， flower arrangement is beautiful in countless forms and with great freedom in the matching. When selecting flowers， you can put them together to see whether they match in color. Masters can arrange in alarmingly beautiful works with both contrast colors or a mix of colors.

"Although there is a set of criteria for judging flower arrangement works in competitions， personal preferences count most in daily life."

插花与节气结合Pair Flower Arrangement with Solar Terms

七月大暑，可以选择荷花作为主花，搭配莲蓬以及一些水生植物，比如兰草、鸢尾、菖蒲，如果要精致好看，也可以搭配同色系的玫瑰、澳梅、满天星之类，以及高山羊齿、银叶菊等。可以在炎炎夏日看营造清爽的感觉。

到了七夕，玫瑰是插花的主角，玫瑰品种众多，可以搭配的空间也非常大。比如红玫瑰搭配洋桔梗和小菊、香槟玫瑰搭配白色石竹梅、蓝精灵玫瑰搭配幸福草，淡粉色的多头玫瑰单支插花也是不错的选择。

日常生活中，蒋海琳推荐去各种沙龙学习，“现在网络上插花活动非常多，费用不高，我平均每次消费也就八十元左右，如果自己去花卉市场购买鲜花，算下来可能费用更高。”

In the summer heat of July， lotus can be selected as the main flower， matched with lotus seedpod and some aquatic plants like fragrant thoroughwort， iris and calamus. To make it more elegant， you can add roses， geraldton wax or baby’s breath stars of the same color scheme， as well as arachniodes and senecio cineraria， etc， which can create a cool and refreshing feeling in hot summer.

Roses become the leading role in flower arrangement on Chinese Valentine’s Day. There are many varieties of roses with a great many matching choices. For example， red roses are can be matched with eupatorium grandiflorum and small chrysanthemum， champagne roses with white carnation plum， smurf roses with happy grass， and pale pink multi-headed roses are good choices for single flower arrangement.

Jiang Hailin suggest you go to various salons for learning about flower arrangement. "There are many flower arrangement activities available on the Internet with low cost. My average consumption for such activities is about 80 yuan per time， which is much cheaper than what I spent on buying flowers in the flower market."