The Beautiful Story of Green Cloud, Queen of Chunlan

Green cloud picture

In the 1869 year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Chen Luyun, a 14-year-old woman from Liuxia Town in Hangzhou, was chopping firewood with her father in Daqingli (place name) of Wuyun Mountain in Hangzhou. She stumbled upon a cluster of fragrant orchids under the pine tree where her clothes were placed. Out of curiosity, Chen Luyun dug up the orchids and took them home to plant in a broken rice rag. Around March of the same year, Shao Zhiyan, the owner of the charm room of Hangzhou Guanxiangkou Bizhuang, a famous orchid predecessor in China, inadvertently discovered Loryland flowers when he stopped by Chen Luyun's family on the road from Qingming to Wuyun Mountain. Because Shao Ailan was affectionate, it was like Chen Luyun's father, Chen Zhongbin, who asked for this orchid. To this end, Shao promised to build a house and buy a hundred mu of fertile land in Chen Zhongbin's ancestral town. Unexpectedly, Chen Zhongbin's only daughter, Chen Luyun, was married home together. It's a good story for a while. After marriage, the couple were even more in love. In order to leave this beautiful memory, Shao Zhiyan named this orchid after his wife Luyun. Also specially asked the artist to carve the image of the orchid "green cloud" into relief, as the trademark of Shao Zhiyan pen village to attract customers. Until the early 1950s, there was still this Lan Fangzi on the wall of the pen store opened by Shao's sons and grandchildren.