Symbolism of Orchids

The Chinese have always regarded orchids as a symbol of purity and elegance, and together with "Plum, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum", they are known as the "Four Gentlemen". Usually, "Orchid Chapter" is used as a metaphor for the beauty of poetry and literature, and "Orchid Jiao" is used as a metaphor for the truth of friendship.

Expanded Information:

Orchid (scientific name: Cymbidium?ssp.): Epiphytic or terrestrial herb, with several to many leaves, usually borne on the basal or lower nodes of the pseudobulbs, distichous, banded or rarely oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, the base usually with broad sheaths and enclosing the pseudobulbs, jointed. Racemes with several or many flowers, colored white, pure white, white-green, yellow-green, yellowish, yellowish brown, yellow, red, green, purple.

The orchids in the traditional Chinese famous flowers only refer to a number of species of endemic orchids distributed in Chinese orchid plants, such as spring orchid, huilan, Jianlan, ink orchid and cold orchid, etc., which are usually referred to as "Chinese orchids". This kind of orchids is very different from the tropical orchids with big and colorful flowers, without eye-catching gaudiness, large flowers and leaves, but with simple, quiet and elegant temperament, which is very suitable for the aesthetic standard of oriental people. It has been cultivated in China for more than a thousand years.

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Orchids_Baidu Encyclopedia