蔣海琳：自在地插一束花

高維微

蔣海琳是重慶航空空乘，還身兼重航的形態禮儀兼職教員，插花、茶藝、玉石鑒賞、書法，樣樣都能露一手，尤其喜愛插花。

“家中不可一周無花”，這是蔣海琳母親的“名言”，在母親潛移默化影響下，蔣海琳成了各類插花沙龍的忠實粉絲。作為插花藝術的資深愛好者，蔣海琳和我們分享了她最擅長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.

學插花先選流派Choose a Genre Prior to Learning Flower Arrangement

蔣海琳認為，西式插花中的自然流派，最適合上班族休閑的插花方式。

中式插花講究線條美，通過高低搭配等方式，用極少量的花勾勒出意境，且需要用原木、石頭、詩詞、繪畫做搭配，這對初學者來說，很難掌握。

西式插花中，運用在婚宴、商務洽談等大型場合的插花作品，不適合在日常生活中使用。

相比之下，西式自然流派插花藝術，講究的是小而美，身邊的所有容器所有的花，都能作為插花的原材料，因此更適合時間緊張的上班族。

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.

插花器皿選擇多More Choices of Flower Arrangement Utensils

自然流派中，“萬物皆可作花瓶”。蔣海琳家中，造型獨特的玻璃器皿、紅酒醒酒器、玻璃飲料瓶、竹編的菜籃子，甚至孩子的玩具外包裝紙盒，都成了蔣海琳插花的工具。她建議，初學者可以先嘗試使用現成的花瓶，更容易上手。

最偷懶的技巧是，選一只看著還不錯的花瓶，挑一支形狀還不錯的花，單支入瓶。購物網站上有很多造型別致的花瓶，通常情況下，只要花的形狀和花瓶好看，整體就會呈現出不錯的效果。

熟練掌握插花技巧以后，可以嘗試使用花籃等器皿插花，不過花籃中放的花會相對較多，初學者經驗不足時，擺放的花容易顯得雜亂，一定要注意擺放整齊，“東一坨、西一坨”的很難插出好看的花。

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

夏季鮮花選擇多，是一個百花齊放的插花好時節。

不過原材料越豐富，就越要學會選擇。蔣海琳推薦的方案中，最保險的就是選擇色系一致的花，呈現的效果會更整齊一些。蔣海琳當天從花市上買回的芍藥和向日葵，兩者色彩搭配就很合拍。

當然，插花就像時裝藝術一般，“好看”的形式有無數種，搭配自由度非常大，選花時可以先把花放在一起感受色彩的搭配度，對于高手來說，撞色、混搭都可以非常好看。

“雖說在比賽中，插花有一整套評判標準，但在生活中，個人的喜好最重要。”

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."

插花與節氣結合Pair Flower Arrangement with Solar Terms

七月大暑，可以選擇荷花作為主花，搭配蓮蓬以及一些水生植物，比如蘭草、鳶尾、菖蒲，如果要精致好看，也可以搭配同色系的玫瑰、澳梅、滿天星之類，以及高山羊齒、銀葉菊等。可以在炎炎夏日看營造清爽的感覺。

到了七夕，玫瑰是插花的主角，玫瑰品種眾多，可以搭配的空間也非常大。比如紅玫瑰搭配洋桔梗和小菊、香檳玫瑰搭配白色石竹梅、藍精靈玫瑰搭配幸福草，淡粉色的多頭玫瑰單支插花也是不錯的選擇。

日常生活中，蔣海琳推薦去各種沙龍學習，“現在網絡上插花活動非常多，費用不高，我平均每次消費也就八十元左右，如果自己去花卉市場購買鮮花，算下來可能費用更高。”

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."