Huilan's "head shape eight methods" and "five doors and eight styles"

The "five-door eight-style" shape of the cymbidium is a summary of the valuable experience of the predecessors in selecting the best species according to the shape of the small bud of the cymbidium, and it is a priceless treasure left to us by the Yilan ancestors. "five doors and eight styles" spreads all over the world, has a far-reaching influence in the circle, and is a permanent topic that orchid friends often talk about. However, because previous works often use classical Chinese, cherish words such as Jin plus many special terms, jargon, dialect slang, and different language environment, which brings great trouble to the correct interpretation of Lanyou today. The earliest written records of Huirui's head shape "five doors and eight styles" can be found in Yuan Shijun's outline of Lan Yan in the second year of Guang Xu in the Qing Dynasty (Bingzi, AD 1876). The book was written in 1923 (Gui Hai, AD 1923). Wu Enyuan's Lan Hui Xiao Shi also recorded "five and eight styles" in the shape of Huihua Xiaorui head. As follows: "when the cymbidium reaches the small row bell, the head shape has five doors, which are divided into eight types, such as left: skillfully planted centipede forceps-- thick meat on the open side, hard support on the closed back, mostly on the small tongue, few in the big tongue fairy, and the soft one is divided into the big tongue plum. This pushes the top grade first. Big flat cut-Kaiping edge thick meat, big tongue, divided nest support in the majority, hard, small tongue plum is few, plum immortals are out. This pushes the second best. Small flat cut-open flat edge, long foot round head, split nest, big tongue are mostly, hard, small tongue are few, more fairy species. This pushes the third of the top grade. (gazi) Qi á o Corner Gate Guazi Kou-open the edge of the text, the majority of immortals, but few plum. This pushes the fourth of the top grade. Pomegranate head-widen Bianwu (Kaipi), the flying hand lacks the tongue, and all the plum immortals come out. This pushes the fifth of the top grade. Official door almond-shaped-open wide edge, pu fan holding, Chunlan tongue, is for daffodils. This pushes the sixth of the top grade. Put the putty block at the door-- the flowers are in front of you. The so-called putty block holds the heart as hard as putty block. When the outer three petals are opened, the curling angle cannot be stretched. If a person has a disease of arthralgia, it is said to be free. The majority of people hold the whole hard, there are (skin) hard tongue, there are split heads with no tongue, its name is "three valves and one nose". The worst product among the plum immortals. The tip of the flower gate is shaped like this, except for the plum fairy in Huizhong. The top is deep and core-shaped, short and wide, or open lotus petals, otherwise they are nameless and coarse flowers. In addition, there are inverted pine nut shape, jasmine shape, convulsion screw shape, fly head shape, ginkgo shape, sand bean shape, crab clamp shape, bee tail shape, robe flap type, olive core type, incense lantern form, sheep horn form, scissors type, crescent type and so on, or different flowers, but there is no good product. "

In the "five doors and eight styles", the "door" refers to the category, divided into categories, and "style" needless to say refers to the style. The word must be explained. It is a variant character with a traditional "Joe" on the left and a "leather" on the right. Read half of the word, pronounce Qi á o. The word "skin" is often used to describe the warping of flaky objects in Jiangsu and Zhejiang dialect slang. Orchid friends in some areas may not have an intuitive understanding of the meaning of the word, never mind, potato chips have seen it, that thing is typical. It is very appropriate for our ancestors to use this word to describe the warping of the national orchid petals. The simplified orchid works of Chinese characters mostly use the word "wrinkle" instead of the word "wrinkle". The meaning of the word "wrinkle" is similar to that of the word "wrinkle", but the uneven shape of the word "wrinkle" is different from that of the word "wrinkle", such as the word "wrinkle", which is often used in daily life. As far as Guolan petal is concerned, the word "wrinkle" is far less accurate and awkward to read, so it can only be regarded as a way to do it. In comparison, the later term "floating door" is more attractive, but here in order to reflect the "original ecology" of "five doors and eight styles", because the current character set does not support and cannot be typed, we have to temporarily replace it with the form of "(naughty)". In the original text, the word "close back" in the centipede forceps refers to the split head and close the back, the "nest" refers to the five nests, and the "soft person" refers to the holding of the flap; the word "close hard" in the big flat section refers to the split head and closed back in the formula of the centipede cl the almond-shaped section "pu fan" refers to the weakly masculine holding, which is slightly pocketed or sealed white, which is similar to the sealing edge of the pu fan used in the past. "Chunlan tongue" refers to the tongue flap of ordinary Chunlan. We know that the floral organ of Cymbidium is much more developed than that of Chunlan. As for the labellum, the length of the labellum of Cymbidium is about 3 times that of the common Cymbidium. Therefore, compared with Chunlan, when people first chose Cymbidium, they obviously lowered the standard for the tongue (lip) flap, and thought that the tongue of Cymbidium only had to reach the ratio of length to width of the common Chunlan tongue petal. You can enter the ranks of fine flowers. The putty block in the putty block section refers to the lime mixed with tung oil in the past, which is often used to repair the cracks in wooden boards such as wooden boats, but now it is probably not needed; the disease of arthralgia is the combined name of arthralgia and dysphagia. Arthralgia syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine is a kind of limb pain or numbness caused by wind, cold, dampness, etc., that is, rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Rickets is the disease of rickets today. To sum up, the definition of "five-door and eight-style" is as follows: skillfully planting door centipede forceps-- after relaxing the flap, the outer three petal with tight edge and thick flesh, split head and back hard hold, and small tongue plum valve are more likely, while the probability of opening split-type and big-tongue daffodil valve is less. After relaxing the petal of this type of small flower bud, if the petal is softer, it will open out a big tongue plum petal with five nests. This bud-shaped cymbidium should be counted as the first among the top grades. After the big flat cut-out flap, the probability of opening the outer three flaps, big tongue and divided nest is more, while the probability of opening split head, closing back and hard holding, small tongue plum flap is less. In the opening of this style of small flower buds, there are both plum petals and daffodils. This bud-shaped cymbidium should be counted as the second in the top grade. Small flat cut-open flap after the opening of the flat edge, long feet round head of the outer three, divided into the pattern of holding, the probability of the palace in the big tongue is in the majority, and the probability of opening the closed back and the middle palace of the small tongue is less. Most of these small buds will open daffodils after relaxing their petals. This bud-shaped cymbidium platoon should be counted as the third in the top grade. QI á o Corner Gate Guazi mouth-Shu valve will open a wide edge, valve end microstrip warped outer three valves, the probability of opening daffodil valve is more, the probability of opening plum valve is less. This bud-shaped cymbidium should be counted as the fourth in the top grade. Pomegranate head-Shu flap will open a wide edge, floating obvious outside three petals, cat ears hold, square lack of tongue. In the opening of this style of small flower buds, there are both plum petals and daffodils. This bud-shaped cymbidium should be counted as the fifth of the top grade. Official door almond-shaped-Shu valve will open a wide edge outside the three petals, pu fan hold, Chunlan tongue, is a daffodil valve. This bud-shaped cymbidium should be counted as the sixth in the top grade. Put the putty on the door-you can see the bracing valve before the outer valve is opened. The so-called putty block is said to hold the flap bonded like a putty block. When the outer three valves are opened, the curling angle cannot be stretched, just like a patient suffering from rheumatic rickets, so it is called Jiefang. After relaxing the petals of this type of small flower buds, the holding petals are often completely bonded together, and the tongue petals are floating and twisted hard and small, and there are more nasal tongue adhesions without tongue flaps, which is called "three valves and one nose". This bud-shaped cymbidium is the worst of the plum fairies. The tip of the flower gate-except for the plum and daffodil petals in the cymbidium, all belong to this shape. If the top is deep and the core shape is short and wide, it is possible to open the lotus petal, except for the nameless coarse flowers. In addition, there are inverted pine nut shape, jasmine shape, consternation screw shape, fly head shape, ginkgo shape, sand bean shape, crab clamp shape, bee tail shape, robe flap type, olive core type, incense lantern form, sheep horn form, scissors type, crescent type and so on. There may also be strange flowers, but there are no good varieties.

It is not difficult to see that the "five-door and eight-style" of the cymbidium is a tree-shaped structure, which has five main branches, namely: Qiao Gongmen, (Tanpi) Corner doors, Guan Zi doors, Xinghua doors, a total of five doors. These five doors have their own branches, among which the Qiao species door has three branches, namely: centipede forceps, large flat-cut and small flat-cut; the corner door has two branches, namely: Guazi mouth and pomegranate head; the door has only one branch: putty; the flower door also has only one branch: tip-shaped. Synthetic octave. So, where does Huihua Xiaoruitou's "five doors and eight styles" come from? Looking back to the source, there are similarities and differences between the four years of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1865). In the appendix to the Book of Lan Hui of Xu Kui Lou, Shen Peilin in Xiaoshan divided the Huiri's "head shape eight methods": "Plum petal door-three-shaped centipede clamp shape: opening tight edge plum." Pod holding or crab clamp holding, long pointed tongue or long tongue. Hold it hard, split up and close your back, Meimen is inferior. Junior and head shape: open the tight edge and close the back plum. Hard silkworm moths hold or dig ears, tongue can be loose, Meimen top grade. Mistress and head shape: open heavy tight edge five-petal plum. Soft silkworm moths hold or dig ears, as big as the tongue, Meimen boutique. Narcissus Gate-official type of two-shaped large flat cut head, open flat edge five-petal daffodils. Wide Guanyin pocket, big round spread tongue, five-petal fat round, eight-shaped leader. Xiao Ping cut his head and opened the edge of the official to grow daffodils. Guanyin pocket, spread the tongue, fall one or two shoulders, quality waxy meat thick can also be selected. Corner door-wide edge three-shaped melon seed mouth shape; open flat edge micro (peel) daffodils. Round lack of tongue, slippery mouth or pipa head holding, thick meat glutinous, but also a selection. Clean bottle head shape; open wide edge small (skin) angle, pipa head holding, round lack of tongue, no back tendons, meat glutinous, is also a good species. Pomegranate head shape; wide edge and large angle, back to hold, plate square tongue, back tendons, there are few high species. " After analysis, we will find that the essence of "head shape eight methods" is "three doors and eight shapes", namely: plum petal door-three shape, centipede clamp shape, big three and head shape, mistress head shape, daffodil gate-official type, Daping cut head shape, small flat cut head shape, (peel) corner door-wide side three shape.