NORTHERN SU  SCHOOLS  &  EASTERN SU  SCHOOLS

• Yangzhou - Styles include:

                                           Platform, Ingenious or Delicate Cloud,

                                           Pagoda & Three-Winding

• Tung - Styles include:

                                           Coiled & Dancing Dragon

WESTERN SU  SCHOOLS

• Suzhou - Styles include:

                                            Six Platforms, Three Bases & One Top,

                                            Tree Branches Overhanging a Cliff,

                                            Split Trunk, Screen, Following the Wind,

                                            Aslant & Supine, Erect with Spreading

                                            Foliage, Phoenix & Crane on Pavilion and

                                            Pagoda.

• Shanghai

• Nantong

• Zhejiang - Styles include:

                                            Tall Trunk & Forest

• Hunan - Styles include:

                                             Hanging Cliff

• Hubei  - Styles include:

                                             Flat-Top

• Henan - Styles include:

                                             Flat-Top

• Shandong

• Laoining

• Jilin

SICHUAN (CHUAN) SCHOOL

                 - Styles include:

                                              Straight, Reclining & Slanting Trunk

                                              Hanging Cliff & Earthworm

SOUTHERN SCHOOLS

• Lingnan Styles include:

                                               Ancient Tree, Large or Tall Tree,

                                               Towering Tree & Five-Tree

• Fugian

• Guangxi 

These six penjing schools, largely based on regional variations which emerged during the late Ming and Qing Dynasties, c.17th century;

are no longer a major influence and there is a return to the original free-spirited kinds of penjing traditionally created by scholars.

Their creations instead, reflected literati backgrounds and were never confined to rigid patterns, but rather sought expression emanating from Chinese paintings.