Appreciation standard of lotus petal orchid

Lotus petal orchid is a unique spring orchid among Chinese orchids. Its appreciation standard is the same as the traditional orchid appreciation standard in China, but with the passage of time, people's modern aesthetic consciousness has formed new and more identification criteria and appreciation contents. Appreciation is the thinking activity after contacting the famous orchids through the sense organs of human beings, while identification is to sort out various grades of good flowers according to the natural beauty shown by the flowers and flower colors, leaves and leaf postures of the lotus petal orchids, and to determine its beautiful and touching points as well as the beauty of the meaning contained in the flowers. Appreciation of the taste of orchid varieties is, after all, an activity of harmonizing and unifying subjective knowledge with objective reality. Beauty should be recognized as something good, and through observation and appreciation, the effect of pleasing to the eyes and the mind can be achieved. Appreciation of lotus petal orchid is in accordance with this law, appreciation and identification of the plant's leaf type, flower petal type, color and fragrance, etc., from which to experience the form of each part or a part of the beauty and the beauty of the mood, so that the appreciators of a certain standard and feel the real art of the temple. Combined with the general requirements of today's lotus orchid appreciation, it is specifically summarized as the following five standards:

Harmonious beauty of form and mood

The appreciation of orchids has always required a flower not only to have natural beauty, but also to have the highest level of beauty, i.e., it is also to contain some kind of beauty of the realm outside of the physical object. The natural beauty extends to the implicit meaning of the beauty, endowed with poetic and picturesque. Therefore, both the beauty of form and emphasize the beauty of context, the two should be harmonized, become the aesthetic principle of lotus orchid appreciation, become the standard of appreciation.

Shape refers to a lotus petal orchid flower flower wear flower appearance petal texture and composition of geometric shapes, flowers and fragrance and fragrance, as well as the orchid plant's leaf type and leaves and flowers of the spatial location and so on. Context is a flower or a part of the leaf flower gives a kind of enlightenment association, from the physical to reach a certain realm, such as the petals of the flower for the big lotus petal, it contains the stability, a flower of the two secondary petals into the flying shoulder, it contains the spirit and so on. Form and mood unity is beautiful, the two are harmonious, fascinating, associative, from the form of quality flow immersed in another realm of beauty. Appreciation and aesthetic activities start from the form and return to the spiritual thought, which is the core of the aesthetic art of orchids in China. Loving orchids and keeping orchids is a kind of expression of love of beauty. People who keep orchids express their spiritual outlook and ideology through the beauty of orchids themselves, and aspire to the ideology of truth, goodness and beauty. Planting orchids can send some kind of feeling, imply some kind of sentiment, and promote some kind of spirit, etc. There is a saying that orchid keepers should think about the beauty of the leaves, think about the feelings of the flowers, and think about the fragrance of the orchids.

To sum up, the harmonious beauty of form and mood is the fundamental measure of what is a famous flower, and it is a standard of appreciation.

China's ancient times valued orchids from the very beginning of its allegorical character and spirit, often as a metaphor for their own life and situation, such as Confucius first in the "interlude orchid manipulation" in the lament: "Confucius hired lords, can not be appointed; hidden valley, see Fen (the same incense) orchids alone lush, singing sigh: 'Orchid should be for the king of the incense, this is with the crowd for the ranks. He sang and sighed: 'The orchid should be the fragrance of the king, but now it is with the crowd.'" At that time, the understanding of orchids from the pleasant fragrance to the spirit of no one in the valley of the birth of the self-flowering, advocating the establishment of the virtue of cleanliness, advocating the concept of appreciation of "the appreciation of this special, the meaning of the ghost is not my feelings", highlighting the appreciation of the importance of the meaning of the appreciation of the requirements. In the early nineteenth century, it can be said that the systematization and standardization of orchid appreciation in China was formed. Chinese orchid artists firstly materialized the beauty of form and quality, used the shape and structure of flower petals as the manifestation of beauty, and combined it with a certain spirit or a certain mood as the whole content of floral art. In this way, orchids are classified into different grades, and the sub-diaries of famous products are listed, such as the four heavenly kings as the highest floral grade of famous products in traditional spring orchids, so that the unification of shape and quality and the contained mood as the principle of appreciation becomes the perfect standard of appreciation. This principle of Chinese orchid appreciation has been widely popularized and applied, so much so that Japan, Taiwan and other places still use it as the standard for selecting and identifying good orchid varieties today. Of course, this appreciation principle is mainly summarized for the floral art, with the deepening of the understanding of the objective things, especially the discovery of the leaf artwork later on, and the idea that the present leaf is better than the flower. Lotus petal orchid belongs to the excellent spring orchid varieties in Chinese orchids, and the appreciation principle at the beginning is also inseparable from the appreciation requirements of Chinese orchids, and the harmonious beauty of form and mood is respected from the flower art.

The appreciation of lotus petal orchid inherits and carries forward the external formal beauty and internal implicit beauty of Chinese orchids, and at the same time, according to the characteristics of Qixing, the content of form and quality of beauty is further expanded from the floriculture to the foliage type of the plant, from the aroma and color of the flowers to the color of the flowers" bright and vivid, and from the petal type of the flowers to the spirit of the flowers, etc., so that more perfect aesthetic standards are formed. It forms a more perfect aesthetic standard. The formation of Lotus Orchid's appreciation standard also went through a long historical development process. With the advancement of the times, the content of its appreciation constantly absorbed new things, and gradually formed a richer and more perfect principle. At the beginning, the lotus petal orchid with white flower and plain heart was the best flower and the most beautiful flower, which became the famous orchid in Dali area. Because, in addition to the natural beauty possessed by the plain white flower variety, in can fully display the pleasant fragrance and high purity and lightness of the plant itself, with the spirit of not competing with peaches and plums and not changing color due to snow and frost. This kind of aesthetic concept is reflected to the appreciation of pontic orchids, and the vegetative orchid precisely expresses the realm advocated by the traditional cultural thought from the shape and quality, which has won the favor of the literati and the elegant people, just as the saying circulated in the past, "the people planted flowers, and the prime minister planted orchids". In the past, Dali area was influenced by traditional concepts, and only the white-flowering plain varieties were chosen to be domesticated and cultivated, carefully protected, and left behind the large and small snowdrops after hundreds of years of development. Due to the pure and elegant flowers, not only the beauty of nature, but also the profound meaning contained in the flowers, reflecting the beauty of the spirit of advocacy, it was selected as a precious orchid and crowned as "immortal product". Later, with the gradual recognition of lotus petal orchid, the concept of aesthetics also changed, and the interest was more extensive. Lotus petal orchid after many years of cultivation, the plant grows tall, leaf more and beautiful shape, not only from the ornamental flowers, but also pay attention to appreciate the beauty of leaf posture and leaf color. Lotus petal orchid is a big family, a variety of famous flowers, performance in the structure of the leaf, there are fine leaves and wide-leaved varieties, fine leaves and wide-leaved compared to a kind of beauty, small and beautiful, fine leaves; not only that, lotus petal orchid leaf posture is different, there is a curved leaf, there is a bow-type leaf and upright leaf varieties, of course, each with its own meaning, the beauty of the performance is also different. The curved leaf posture is like many jasper rings rolled on the edge of the basin, endowed with the art of curve beauty; the bow-shaped leaf posture is like the remnants of the sun in the sky; the upright leaf posture is like a sword pointing to the sky, strong and beautiful in the masculinity. In the appreciation of the beauty of form and mood of traditional orchid masterpieces, the beauty of leaf form is incorporated into the floral art as an essential content.

The aesthetics of the famous lotus petal orchids has added the breath of the times, absorbing and appreciating the concepts of appreciating orchids in foreign countries and overseas countries, and the requirements for the poor shape and quality of the flowers are bright and colorful, colorful and perfect, and the beauty of singularity is on the top. For example, Japan's spring orchid flowers are bright and beautiful in color, emphasizing the artistic beauty of flower color due to the absence of fragrance; Taiwan is an orchid empire, examining the beauty of orchids, inheriting the traditional aesthetic requirements of the Chinese nation, valuing both the artistry of the flowers and the color when appreciating orchids, valuing both the vegetative flowers and the exotic ones, and so on. Lotus petal orchid in the aesthetics also absorb the good things, from the traditional white flowers for the most beautiful heart to both recognition of this beauty, but also attach importance to a variety of colors of the beauty of the heart of the flower; and the importance of the color heart of the flower to the color of a single sharp, brilliant style, texture transparency for the United States. Lotus petal orchid appreciation of the famous not only from the shape of the quality of the rich content, but also in the mood to add a different requirement, the red series of colored flowers and vegetative flowers, performance warm, symbolizing the life and the mood of the hot; green symbolizes the hope of life and so on. Therefore, the red flower or red vein, yellow flower or yellow vein once found, it is regarded as rare flowers, which can not be said to be the result of the change of aesthetic concepts. In a nutshell, the lotus petal orchid shape and quality of colorful, novel and exclusive, with the beauty of nature's creation, is the objective existence of beauty. The beauty of form and quality of thought expressed by the realm of thought is also diverse, the world of the thousands of differences bred by the beauty of course, with the appreciators of the different, the associations fluttering, thoughts fluttering, highlighting the beauty of the harmony of the form and the mood.

The appreciation of Lotus Orchid, summarized in recent years, attaches more and more importance to the natural beauty of flowers, and at the same time, also attaches great importance to the poetic meaning expressed by flowers, and the spirit of flowers outside the expression of the beauty contained in the realm of the appreciation of the fundamental requirements, and as a basic yardstick for the division of famous products. No matter how big or small the flowers of a lotus orchid are, as long as the petals are beautiful and the whole flower is beautiful, with some kind of charm, with some kind of meaning, it will cause the ****song of the artists, and its price will be multiplied. Lotus petal orchid in large flowers, even giant flowers, but the shape of the flower quality is poor, is the long moment round petals, some thin as paper, petals are either twisted or rolled, the flower and no God is not intended, stagnant and ugly, there is no which art orchid home to ask about it. Therefore, the grade of lotus petal orchid flower depends entirely on whether the shape of the flower is harmonized with the mood, which has ornamental value and economic value and becomes a famous flower.

All these aspects are summarized above, the first and most important way to appreciate the lotus orchid is to appreciate the beauty of the natural form of the flowers and leaves to appreciate the beauty of a certain spiritual realm, and get a high level of enjoyment from it. This is the subtle aesthetics of oriental culture, which is also the basic principle of lotus orchid appreciation. As the beauty of the mood is the product of subjective thinking, is a kind of floral art outside the appreciation of effort, depends entirely on the individual's artistic cultivation and aesthetic taste.