Original - "The Gentleman's Orchid

? In the world, there are always some words that can move your body and mind, there are always some flowers and trees that can evoke countless desires in the heart, and there are always some bright and clear images that can evoke the desire to wash the soul. The realm of elegance and fun, so that throughout the ages the hearts of the masses of people to aspire to, and tend to be like.

Since ancient times, people who love orchids, keep orchids, sing about orchids, and paint orchids have always taken orchids as a symbol of purity and elegance, and called them the "Four Friends of the Year" together with "Plum, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum". Orchids have always been infused with symbolic cultural colors. Or "Orchid Chapter" is a metaphor for the beauty of poetry, or "Orchid Crossing" is a metaphor for the truth of friendship, or orchids are used to express the purity of love. The famous poet Qu Yuan not only planted orchids and wore orchids, but also compared himself with orchids. In "Li Sao", he wrote about orchids many times, "green leaves and vegetative branches, and the fragrance of the orchid attacks Yu", "Autumn orchid is a green table, green leaves and purple stems", "Yu not only nourishes the orchid's nine peas, but also trees and cymbidium's hundred acres". These famous lines were widely disseminated. These famous lines were widely spread, making the word "orchid" become a "gentleman", "virtue", "beauty", "beauty", "beauty", "beauty", "beauty", "beauty", "beauty", "beauty", "beauty", "beauty", "beauty", "beauty", "beauty", "beauty". The word "orchid" was widely spread, making it a synonym for "gentleman", "virtuous man", "beauty" and "beautiful woman", and thus making "orchid" a colorful cultural symbol instead of its own botanical nature. Tao Yuanming, a poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, loved orchids. He abandoned his official post and returned to his hometown, picking chrysanthemums and raising orchids, and wrote a poem about orchids: "Orchids are born in the front garden, waiting for the breeze, and when the breeze is gone, he sees the other Xiaoyi's bushes". Since then, there are also poems like "Orchids are born in deep valleys, and they do not become fragrant because of the lack of people", "The spirit is like an orchid, and the heart is like an orchid, and it will never change", "I found an orchid to report to my soulmate, and I gave one to Dream Xiaoxiang", and "A thousand years ago, chasteness was the most precious thing in the world. "This is the flower of ancient chastity, and it does not seek to be heard, but only smoke" "The fragrance of the orchid is far away from the wind, and the roots of the cymbidium grass are flowing" and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on. The colorful orchids are in the form and spirit, elegant and elegant silent painting.

? Orchids have been cultivated in China for more than two thousand years. It is reported that as early as in the late Spring and Autumn Period, King Goujian of Yue had planted orchids in the mountains of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, orchids have been used to decorate courtyards. At first, the ancients mainly collected wild orchids, but as for the artificial cultivation of orchids, it started from the court. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, orchids expanded from the palace cultivation to the private gardens of the scholarly class, and were used to embellish the gardens and beautify the environment, just as Cao Zhi described in his poem "Autumn Orchids by Changpo". Until the Tang Dynasty, the cultivation of orchids and cymbidiums only developed to the general garden and flower farmers cultivation. Tang Emperor Li Shimin was the first emperor who loved orchids, and he used to enjoy orchids in Shangxunwan, and wrote a poem called "Orchid": "Spring sunshine opens the purple garden, and the lady scenery winks at the orchid field. Reflecting the court with light color, condensation dew hyun floating light. The sun is beautiful with different shadows, and the wind spreads light and heavy fragrance. It will be folded by a gentleman and made fragrant by Perry." Wang Wei, a poet in Tang Dynasty, became addicted to orchids, and accumulated rich experience, "Khan Manlu" said: "Wang Wei to yellow magnetic bucket storage orchids, raised to the stone, years of Yisheng," creating a precedent of porcelain pot orchids. The orchids in the traditional Chinese famous flowers only refer to several kinds of ground orchids distributed in Chinese orchid plants, such as spring orchid, huilan, Jianlan, ink orchid and cold orchid, etc., which are usually called "Chinese orchids". This kind of orchid is very different from the big and colorful tropical orchids, no eye-catching showy, no big flowers and leaves, but it has the temperament of simple and quiet, elegant and noble, which is very suitable for the Oriental people's aesthetic interest.

? Lu Xun's family has loved orchids for generations, and on November 14, 1933, Lu Xun said in a letter to Hatsuie Yamamoto, "My great-grandfather used to cultivate many orchids, and built three houses specially for this purpose". Lu Xun's grandfather and father also raised orchids. Since he was a child, Lu Xun loved flowers, insects, fishes and birds, and followed his father to plant flowers and plants in the patio and the Hundred-clover Garden when he was not studying. He once corrected some errors in the Flower Mirror based on his own experience. When he was a little older, he used to ask his second brother, Zuoren, and third brother, Jianren, to go to Fushan and Tashan in the city to pick orchids. Every year in February and March, when the orchids opened, the three brothers often went to Huijishan, Lanzhu Mountain, Ruo Mountain spring tour, orchid picking. 1911 March 18, Lu Xun and Zhou Jianren, Wang Hezhao went to visit Huijishan under the Dayu Mausoleum. Before they left, Lu Xun asked them to bring along two painted tin buckets and a copper spade that had been prepared in advance. After arriving at the Dayu Mausoleum and visiting the Yu Temple and the Stone Pavilion, Lu Xun went up to the Huiji Mountain to collect orchids. Later, Lu Xun wrote about this experience and published it in the February 1912 issue of Yue She Series.

Orchid is a unique style of flowers, grass and trees, has more than thousands of varieties, with no competition with the group of flowers, not afraid of the frost and snow, perseverance and fortitude of the temperament, the color of its flowers is light and elegant, which is tender green, yellow-green most, but especially the heart of the precious. Orchids, elegant, dignified, fragrant and faraway, elegant and elegant, both God and charm, clear and not cloudy, fragrant, pure out of the far, refreshing the heart, relaxed and happy, intoxicating. "Hand cultivate orchid stamen two or three planted, warm sun and wind and the next open; sit for a long time do not know incense in the room, push the window when there are butterflies fly." This ancient poem will be the fragrance of orchids written to the fullest extent, Su Shi has also written "This is the king of the incense, root in the empty valley. The first spring flowers, fresh branches such as new bath. With the good people living, such as into the room of orchids, long time and do not smell its fragrance, that is, with the chemicalization of carry on." The poem. Orchid flower posture of some dignified and elegant, some graceful and noble, rich in change, elegant and handsome. Ancient people also had the praise of "watching the leaves is better than watching the flowers". Orchid leaves long and thin, fresh green all year round, just and soft, beautiful posture, excellent colorful, even if it is not the flowering period, is like a living work of art. "Sobbing dew and light is disorderly, containing the wind and shadow from the slant; the common people that dendrobium than, look at the leaf is better than look at the flower". It shows the beauty of the graceful and elegant orchid leaves.

"Orchids are born in deep valleys, and they are not fragrant because of no one". Although orchids are grasses, they have the classical oriental temperament of simplicity, quietness, elegance, and the elegance of noble and holy gentleman. Slender green leaves, is the elegant and graceful dancer's dance; the elegant flowers, is the dancer's hem; the light fragrance, is the dancer's elegant temperament. Dance in the hundreds of flowers, dance the dance of life.

? Ya, is a beautiful word. Zhu Xi said in "Poetry Collection Biography", "Ya, is also positive, the song of positive music." Xunzi - honor and disgrace" in the note said, positive and virtuous for the elegant. Therefore, the ancients called the good wishes of the elegant hope, the beautiful article called elegant piece, the extraordinary temperament called the amount of elegance ...... and orchids because of its own high and pure temperament, for the "elegant" into the tangible bones. The word "elegance" encompasses all aspects of human morality, knowledge, culture and cultivation. True elegance is a kind of connotation, it is contained in the blood, growth in the bones, infused in the human essence, gas, God.

Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, loved orchids. When he studied calligraphy, he benefited from raising orchids. Orchid leaves are clear and green, quiet and neat, sparse and dense, smooth and elegant, windy and graceful, the various gestures of the orchid leaves used in calligraphy, so that the calligraphic structure, penmanship, chapter skills orchid paintings Yingsu, chakra through the font is beautiful, the staggering natural, and the word is generated by the posture, because of the posture, because of the yin, because of the yin, because of the potential, because of the potential, the creation of a new body of flowing, yin beauty of the calligraphy of Thuji Mei, to achieve the charm of the vivid, The highest artistic realm of the heart. Zheng Sishao, a famous painter of the Southern Song Dynasty, was good at painting orchids, especially good at painting dew-root orchids. The orchids he painted were strong and upright, with sparse flowers and simple leaves. Interestingly, when he painted orchids, he did not paint the soil, and the roots and buds were exposed, so people asked why. He replied, "The land is taken by people, ninja?" In a few words, he expressed the painter's love for his country, which made people respect him. Wen Zhengming of the Ming Dynasty liked to raise orchids and paint them. He wrote in his poem: "Hand cultivated orchids two or three years, warm sun and wind and the next open. Sitting for a long time, I don't know that the fragrance is in the room, and when I push the air, there are butterflies flying in." The scene of the painter planting orchids and enjoying orchids jumped out on the paper. He loved Jianlan, a famous orchid produced in Fujian, and wrote a poem: "The spiritual root is precious from Oudong, and the blue and blue blowing incense and jade are two clumps." Therefore, Wen Zhengming constantly gained artistic inspiration from planting orchids and enjoying orchids, and the orchids he painted were so beautiful and graceful that they were called "Wenlan", which made him famous in the world of painting orchids. Zheng Banqiao, one of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou" in the Qing Dynasty, was fond of painting orchids, and wrote in "Orchids": "It is not worthwhile to paint many spring flowers, and a branch of orchids is half a branch of Yan." In his eyes, painting a variety of flowers is not as good as painting half an orchid. The orchids he drew were so beautiful and powerful that they were not commonplace, and people commented, "Banqiao wrote words like orchids, and the wave-fell limbs of the orchids were so strange and ancient; Banqiao made orchids like writing words, and the leaves of the orchids were so beautiful and sparse that the flowers could be seen in the gesture." Zheng Banqiao abandoned his post and returned to his hometown, his family was poor, when his daughter got married, he had no money to buy a dowry, so he took a picture of Orchids and Bamboos as his dowry, and inscribed a poem on the picture: "The official's bag was empty and two sleeves were cold, so I had to sell the picture to support the meal in the morning. The most gradual Wu Yin trousseau money is thin, give you the spring breeze a few strokes of orchids."

The fresh and elegant orchid is no longer related to money, fame and fortune, the literati, now orchids all over the motherland, has come out of the deep courtyard of the mansion, into the ordinary people's homes, and become elegant and common people **** appreciation of things, for people with a refined life, simple life added to the elegant flavor. Elderly Mr. Yang Jiang has always been as elegant as an orchid, like a wisp of breeze, a cup of fragrant tea, a pole of bamboo, and has experienced storms and ups and downs in his life, but has always been able to give the world warmth and touch. Regardless of the passage of time and changes in personnel, she is not confused in her heart, not trapped in love, not thinking of the past and not afraid of the future. Convergence and warmth is the best footnote of her elegance.

? "Shapely flowers and blue leaves, the wind is difficult to hide the fragrance of the valley. Not because of sewing can be for wear, even if no one is also self-flowering." Yalan, always let the human heart yearning, that wisp of fragrance, there are strong and unyielding spirit, there are simple and quiet, elegant and noble temperament. Walking through the complicated wind and rain in life, to raise a few pots of orchids in the room, eliminate the hustle and bustle of the world, not to the realm of silence and color, not because of the valley empty and look bad, nourishing the bright moon and clear air, calm as water, into the Zen realm of the body and mind, the dust and smoke into the orchid elegant and interesting days of joy.