The Flower of the Literati Orchid

Orchid fragrance, color, spirit and rhyme are four unique, which are rich in the artistic aesthetic value of connotation beauty, sentiment beauty, character beauty and charm beauty. The beauty of strange fragrance inspired many ancient and modern writers to express their thoughts like a spring of literature and praise and chant orchids, so there are ten thousand poems about orchids. Perhaps the reason for the prosperity of the poet lies in the rhyme of orchids. As the ancient poem says, "the charm of Orchid Arrow is like a poem."

Through the ages, Songlan is endless, and there are "words of one heart" in the Book of changes, which stink like orchid. " Confucius, the ancestor of Confucianism, wrote in the words of Confucius: "A gentleman who practices morality does not mean that he is poor and reformed." "and good human settlements, such as into the room of Zhilan, do not hear its fragrance for a long time, that is, with it." And his long sigh in his later years: "Orchid is the king of incense, and today it is alone with all the grass." Lan has been handed down from generation to generation in the carrier of Confucian ideology and morality. Lan also appeared many times in the Book of songs and Lisao. Qu Yuan wrote Lan seven times and Hui six times in Lisao. Is the "orchid" chanted in these classical poems the orchid of the genus Orchid that we now refer to? In reality, although there are some entries in the books to prove it, but it is not enough to convince people that the orchid is not the same thing in ancient and modern times, perhaps there is no need to distinguish the true from the false.

Orchid has the elegant metaphor of "the flower of a gentleman" and "the beauty of empty valley". The shadow of orchid can be found in various literary genres, such as poetry, ci, song, Fu, prose, novel and so on, especially in Tang and Song poems. Some famous poetry saints left behind a lot of orchid songs, Tao Yuanming wrote the poem "you Orchid": "you Orchid Life vestibule, including fumigation waiting for the breeze." The breeze came suddenly, and I said goodbye to Xiao Ai Cong. " It has a long charm and is very popular. Li Bai's "Gift Friends" poem says: "Lansheng is not a household, not idle grass." Bai Juyi asked the friend the poem: "the orchid does not grow moxa, Lansheng Ai Yisheng …"... Hoe Ai afraid of hurting orchid, irrigation orchid afraid of aids. Lan could not be killed, and Ai could not be removed. " Profound philosophy and poetic feelings. Li Hongrui, a native of Minhou in the Qing Dynasty, compiled the poems of the literati chanting orchids into "Su Lan Sing and Collection" and collected many famous poems eulogizing Jianlan. Among them, "Jian Gu Qifang Sheng Ling Tea, Suxinren cherish Suxinhua" expresses his love for Jianlan.

Orchid Huixiang is quiet, the literati are lofty, and the literati always love to come from the mountains, holy and otherworldly orchid self-metaphor, expressing that the literati hold Fang and keep the festival, impartial, and do not seek to hear the lofty spirit of Yilan, so there are many literati who express their feelings and express their aspirations through the orchid. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Zheng Sixiao, a poet and painter from Fuzhou, thought that the officials were clean and honest, and Gao Feng Liangjie was popular with the people. The orchid did not draw roots and soil to show the fall of the "land", but was determined to return; the studio was called "Benxue World", and "Benxue" was the implicit meaning of "Great Song Dynasty". Moving the "ten" of "Ben" to the bottom of the word "acupoint" became "Big Song", showing Zheng Sixiao's meaning of resisting "invasion to the south". On the 15th day of the first lunar month in 1306, Zheng Sixiao made a soilless and rootless Chunlan paper ink painting, which is still preserved in gallery, Osaka, Japan, signed by Nanweng, with the inscription: "always bow your head and ask Emperor Xi who is here." Without opening the nostrils before painting, the ancient fragrance floats all over the sky. "

The literati have an inextricable relationship with orchids. On the one hand, orchids are included in poetry and painting as a literary theme; on the other hand, scholars use noble orchids to describe people and things, which is the reason why orchids are called the flowers of personality.