The Story of celebrities and Orchids

Orchid is a traditional famous flower in China, which is called "four gentlemen in flowers" together with "plum", "bamboo" and "chrysanthemum". Orchids are fresh, elegant and free from vulgarity. People usually use "Lanzhang" to imply the beauty of poetry, "Lanjiao" to imply the purity of friendship, and use orchids to express pure love.

Confucius Yong Lan

Confucius loved orchids and said that orchids have "the fragrance of kings". Confucius once composed the piano song "Orchid exercises", eulogizing beautiful orchids. Confucius attached great importance to the cultivation of personal thought and quality and placed deep feelings on the orchids.

Confucius used a series of metaphors to illustrate the effect of making friends and environment on human conduct. He said: "Zi Xia likes to be with people who are wiser than himself, so his moral cultivation will improve day by day. Zi Gong likes to get along with people whose talent is not as good as his own, so his moral cultivation will be lost day by day. If you don't know how the child is, just look at the father of the child and know the future of the child; if you don't know yourself, just look at the friends around him; if you don't know the master, just look at the messengers he sent; and if you don't know the local situation, just look at the local vegetation. So often spending time with people of noble character is like bathing in a house full of aroma from planting orchids. After a long time, you can't smell the fragrance, but it is already full of fragrance. Being with people with poor conduct is like going to a place where abalone is sold. You can't smell it even after a long time, because it's integrated into the environment. The place of Zangdan will turn red for a long time, and the place of lacquer will turn black for a long time, which is also due to the environmental impact! So a true gentleman must carefully choose the environment in which he or she lives. " From then on, "the Room of Zhilan" became synonymous with a good environment and became an idiom for Songlan and Meilan.

Qu Yuan Peilan

Qu Yuan was knowledgeable and strong-minded, well-informed and adept at speech, but his political propositions were strongly opposed by the old bureaucrats and aristocrats, while the king of Chu Huai, whom he relied on, was incompetent and incompetent, listened to slanderers and turned his anger on him. When he arrived at King Xiang of Chu, qu Yuan was exiled in Yuanxiang for a long time. Although qu Yuan was in poverty, his ambition remained the same and his conduct was cheaper. He expressed the patriotism of the monarch and the feeling of saving the world through a variety of fragrant flowers and plants, touched things to start with emotion, asked for things to send wishes, and made a new development of this method of comparison, which melted things with me, feelings and scenes, thus greatly expanding the expressive force of poetry.

In the selection of fragrant flowers and different plants, qu Yuan specially selected Orchid. In many poems, such as Lisao, Nine songs, Nine chapters, and so on, he wrote about how to nourish orchid, Perrin, sewing orchid, chrysanthemum orchid, cut orchid. He placed unlimited hopes on orchids. He took orchids as friends and wore orchids as objects to show his clean sentiments: "Hu Jiang Li and Pi Zhi Xi, sewing Qiu Lan thought he was wearing it."

Goujian orchid

The land where Goujian planted orchids-Lanzhu Mountain is 25 miles away from Shaoxing City, with hills to the south, Gujian Lake to the east and Huaiji Mountain to the west. The pottery unearthed from the Hemudu cultural layer in Yuyao can be determined to have the consciousness and technology of potted plants at that time. Because Gou Jian planted Lanzhu Mountain, later generations named it Lanzhu Mountain, named the market under Lanzhu Mountain Huajie, and named the post pavilion under Lanzhu Mountain Lanting.

Xi's description of orchid

Wang Xizhi, the sage of the book, attached great importance to the theory of calligraphy. His father Wang Kuang carefully instructed him to study the "pen theory" from an early age, and he was good at understanding the theory in his own calligraphy practice. And turn to more and more teachers, carefully study the body. More importantly, he also created a smooth body.

Wang Xizhi's creation of cursive and cursive calligraphy has a lot to do with his hobby. Wang Xizhi loves orchids and geese. The reason for the story of loving geese is that he once wrote "Huang Ting Jing" and "cage goose" for a Shanyin Taoist priest, and extended the word "goose" and became a household name. On the other hand, the more interesting Alan is said to have been neglected. On the third day of the third month of March of Yonghe, Wang Xizhi chose the Orchid Pavilion as the place to repair the cymbidium. In addition to "there are high mountains, thick forests and bamboo trees, as well as clear currents and rapids, the left and right sides of the belt," the place is also in full bloom, with a sweet fragrance to the nostrils. As a result, the celebrities who went with them left behind famous sentences such as "swinging vegetarian waves and encouraging Fanglan", "micro-sound swimming, fragrance for Ruolan", "backstroke Yifang Yifang, pleasing spirit and taste Chongyuan" and so on.

Wang Xizhi benefited not only from raising geese but also from Ailan when he studied his calligraphy. The goose with curved neck singing and palm poking water brought inspiration to Wang Xizhi, and from then on he stretched out his arm to carry the pen and became more comfortable. And the fluttering and graceful orchid leaves inspired him to create a new style of calligraphy which is elegant and smooth and beautiful. Lan Ye is clear and tidy, plain and tidy, suitable for density, smooth and elegant. Wang Xizhi applied various postures of Lan Ye to calligraphy, making his calligraphy structure, writing and chapter skills to a high level of proficiency. His calligraphy orchid painting reflects the element, the spirit is connected, the font is beautiful, scattered naturally, and because of the character appearance, because of the situation, he has reached the highest state of vivid charm and arbitrariness.

The story of Wang Xizhi's Ailan has been widely read in history. A rare magnetic blue and white four-love plum bottle in the Yuan Dynasty in China has four pictures: "Wang Xizhi Ailan", "Zhou Maoshu Ailian", "Meng Haoran Aimei" and "Lin he Jing Ai he". It can be seen that Wang Xizhi's Ailan influence is far-reaching.

Xu Wei painted orchids

Xu Wei's poems, books, writings and paintings are all excellent, and his paintings are chic and unrestrained. In particular, flower-and-bird painting, with pen vertical and horizontal, unrestrained rope ink, incisively and vividly, unrestrained momentum, created a new style of freehand flower-and-bird painting in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Wei painted a lot of orchids and daffodils. The poem entitled "Narcissus Orchid" reads: "Narcissus opens late at night, what is it with Lan Ju?" Also like Moquco, Xueli painted plantains. " The title "Narcissus Orchid Bamboo" cloud: "Narcissus Cong Bamboo with Lanying, always three beauties in central Hunan." Mo Yichang E knows this generation and will throw the bright moon under Jiangjin. " In the "Orchid Bamboo Picture" with a poem: "Orchid and bamboo phase, irrelevant tone is the same." The dense fragrance is not far away, but I think it is a breeze. " In the poem "painting Orchid", as the saying goes, "drunkenness is always spring, and spirit is embellished on the branches of flowers." Since the painting of Xianglan, there has been no idle topic and vulgar people. " In addition, Xu Wei also wrote a lot of orchid poems, writing in "Langoo": "Gou Jian will choose the land of orchid, only this Lanzhu is its place." But there is a Yonghe event in a thousand years, and the right army ink algae flow to fix it. The orchid spectrum of our country is like this. " In addition, there are "Orchid Pavilion old species of Yue Wang Lan, Biography of Bilang and Hongxiang all over the world" and "Mohong Chunguang does not belong to Nong, one incense is enough to press a thousand red." Xu Wei sent paintings to his friend Xianhua and wrote a poem: "Fairy flowers and du's poems are clumsy and ancient." If I write about orchid bamboo, there is no beauty and bitterness. " "Wu Mei" and "Qingyu" are written about Lan, which is also a portrayal of Xu Wei himself.

Lu Xun Cailan

Lu Xun's family has loved orchids for several generations. Lu Xun said in his letter to Yamamoto: "my great-grandfather once cultivated many orchids and specially built three houses for this purpose." Lu Xun's grandfather and father also raised orchids. Lu Xun loved flowers, insects, fish and birds from an early age. In his spare time, he followed his father to plant flowers and plants in the patio and grass garden. Based on his own experience, he has corrected some errors in the Flower Mirror. A little older, often about the second younger brother as a person, the third younger brother built people to the city Fushan, Tashan Cailan. When the orchids bloom in February and March every year, the three brothers often go to Huaiji Mountain, Lanzhu Mountain and Ruoshan for a spring outing and picking orchids. In March 1911, Lu Xun, Zhou Jianren and Wang Hezhao went to visit the Dayu Mausoleum at the foot of Huaiji Mountain. Before leaving, Lu Xun specially brought the tools prepared in advance in order to go to Huaiji Mountain Cailan.

With regard to that Huaiji mountain orchid picking, Zhou Jianren often mentioned in his later years: "the eldest (Lu Xun) was very excited when he picked the 'one leaf orchid' and said to me, 'third, we really made this trip worthwhile!' When we got home, we carefully planted the orchids in pots. Later, at the invitation of Mr. Cai Yuanpei, the boss went to Beijing to work. At first, he wanted to take the orchids with him, but in the end, he didn't take them all the way. Before leaving, he took special care of me to plant these pots of orchids. Soon, I also applied for a job to teach in a school, usually seldom go home, later, 'one leaf orchid' finally necrotic. In order not to upset the boss, I never told him the news. "

Boss Zhu Ailan

Comrade Zhu de is a fan of orchids. He was born in Yilong, Sichuan and there are many orchids in central Sichuan. After the Nanchang uprising, when Boss Zhu moved to northern Guangdong and Hunan to the Jinggang Mountains, he led his team to fight in the deep mountains and forests to keep company with orchids. In the 1960s, he was able to tell that there were orchids in the mountains of northern Guangdong and Hunan. In the fifties and sixties, he planted orchids in his residence in Chengdu. He gave "Jinggang Orchid" to Longhua Garden in Shanghai and "Wuyi Orchid" to Donghu Garden in Wuhan. He also gave his famous orchid "Green Cloud Pearl" and "Silver side Dagong" to the orchid garden in Chengdu, the orchid garden in Guangzhou, the flower bed in Hangzhou and the garden in Suzhou Humble Administration Garden. And write four big words "Tongyuanqingfang" on the horizontal plaque of the flower bed in Hangzhou.

In the "Women's Basketball No. 5" film shot in Shanghai in the 1950s by the famous director Xie Jin, according to the plot, the male and female protagonists put two pots of orchids in their study. One of these two pots of orchids is called "Song Mei" and the other is called "Western God". It is a famous species of Chunlan and is provided by the Zhangjia Garden in Shanghai.

When boss Zhu knew that the two pots of spring orchids in the film "Women's Basketball No. 5" were the famous "Song Mei" and "Western God" of Jiangsu and Zhejiang orchids, he was deeply infatuated by the unique charm of Jiangsu and Zhejiang orchids. He went to Zhang's flower bed several times to appreciate the orchids. When he knew that Zhu Zengfu came from Shaoxing, the hometown of Chunlan in China, and was an expert in orchid cultivation, he indicated his identity and hoped that Zhu Zengfu could move south to the north and move Jiangsu and Zhejiang orchids to the capital. Boss Zhu asked Zhu Shengfu to collect varieties and asked Zhu's son-in-law Ye Zhiqing as an assistant to go to Beijing. Zhu Zengfu was also in his twenties at that time, and he could not adapt to life in Beijing, but when he saw that Boss Zhu loved orchids so much, he gladly agreed.

After arriving in Beijing, Zhu Shengfu chose Zhongshan Park as the orchid nursery. In addition to personally arranging the orchid house and the orchid rack to the Beijing garden department, Mr. Zhu also personally wrote the "Orchid Room" plaque for the orchid house. From then on, Jiangsu and Zhejiang orchids had a home in Beijing.

In the spring of 1959, the first orchid exhibition in Beijing history was held in Zhongshan Park. Hundreds of pots of spring orchids in the south of the Yangtze River shook jade overflowing jade to welcome visitors from all directions. Boss Zhu also moved his own Sichuan orchids to the orchid exhibition to have fun with the people. At the opening ceremony, comrades Zhu de, Soong Qingling, Chen Yi, Kang Keqing and other comrades came, foreign friends also came, and Beijing citizens came. Since then, Jiangsu and Zhejiang orchids have settled in Beijing, breaking the forbidden area where southern flowers cannot bloom in the north. In this way, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese people's Liberation Army and the founding father of the people's Republic of China also forged a profound friendship with an ordinary flower farmer in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. On holidays, Mr. Zhu and Sister Kang always come to the Orchid Garden to have a chat and ask about the cold and warmth. Zhu Zengfu also went to Zhongnanhai many times to say hello to General Zhu.

Prime Minister Gift Orchid

In 1962, Premier Zhou cordially met with Kenzo Matsumura, a visiting Chinese-Japanese friendly figure, on the bank of West Lake in Hangzhou. At that time, Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations were not restored. As a social activist, Kenzo Matsumura devoted himself to Sino-Japanese friendship activities, visited China many times and became good friends with Premier Zhou. Kenzo Matsumura likes Chinese orchids very much and has collected many varieties. The prime minister was well aware of Matsumura's hobbies and took advantage of the opportunity to meet in Hangzhou and ordered his attendants to go to the Hangzhou nursery to choose a pot of famous orchids and give them to him. Comrades in the nursery specially selected a pot of orchids called "Global Lotus Ding". This flower was dug by Shaoxing Lannong in Shangyu Dayubu Mountain 40 years ago. When Kenzo Matsumura took over the pot of orchids from the prime minister, he was too excited to speak. He knows the value of "Global Lotus Ding", and he even knows the good intentions of the Prime Minister. The "orchid" symbolizes beauty and friendship, and the prime minister hopes that Sino-Japanese friendship will be as evergreen and fragrant as the orchid.

Kenzo Matsumura returned to Japan with "Global Lotus Ding" and devoted himself to the cause of Sino-Japanese friendship in his later years. When he was dying, he called his sons to bed and told them to inherit his cause of Sino-Japanese friendship and to raise orchids given by the prime minister.

His son Matsuura upright remember his father's teachings, wide knot orchid friends, assiduous research, a few years later, orchid technology greatly advanced, from an outsider to become a Japanese orchid expert. He gave the "Global Lotus Ding" to Lanyou, making the "Global Lotus Ding" fragrance float in Japan.

In 1978, regardless of the 79-year-old age, Matsumura contacted Lanyou and a group of six people went to Shaoxing, visited the Shaoxing Orchid Garden, visited the orchid friends, and presented to the Shaoxing Orchid Association the descendants of the "Global Lotus Ding" that Premier Zhou gave to his father. After decades of ups and downs, the orchids of Shaoxing, which are far away from Japan, with the friendship between the Chinese and Japanese people, went from China to Japan, took root and blossomed in Japan, and returned to Shaoxing from Japan.

Young handsome is addicted to orchid

After the Xi'an incident, Zhang Xueliang was placed under house arrest. He was secretly sent to Taiwan in 1946 and began a life of seclusion for half a century.

During his captivity, in addition to reading, General Zhang cultivated orchids. He once said frankly, "I love my wife first and orchids second." He also said, "you can express your ambition by writing poetry, and you can send love by raising orchids." He melted his love for the motherland into his love for Chinese orchids.

General Zhang has raised more than 200 pots of orchids at home and has personally planted and managed them for 50 years. Not only raised a large number of traditional Chinese Chunlan species, such as Lvyun, Song Mei, Dafuigui, but also cultivated many kinds of orchids, such as Guangdong News year, Fujian Jianlan, Sichuan Sword and so on.

In the early 1990s, when he was banned, his "degree of freedom" increased. Every year, when the flowers are in full bloom in spring, he often goes to the Orchid Garden in downtown Taipei and the suburbs to enjoy orchids and buy orchids, and often exchanges with the Orchid Friends of the World Orchid Exchange in Taiwan, and gladly becomes the honorary president of the association.

On April 25, 1993, the third China Flower Bolan Fair was held at the Beijing Agricultural Exhibition Hall. Among them, the Lanhui exchange meeting between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait was held in the fifth pavilion in the third exhibition area. At about 09:00 that evening, party and state leaders *, Chen Muhua, Chi Haotian, Song Ping, and others entered the orchid exhibition hall. When Huang Xiuqiu, president of Taiwan's World Orchid Exchange Association, presented the orchid named "patriotic" to the state * on behalf of Zhang Xueliang, comrade Huang Xiuqiu said to Huang Xiuqiu, "Please convey my thanks to Mr. Zhang Xueliang and wish Mr. Zhang good health."

Before the meeting, General Zhang Xueliang personally wrote a congratulatory letter, the full text of which is as follows:

"Orchid is a famous flower with superb character in Chinese history. Since the Spring and Autumn period, Confucius was able to defend himself and did the exercises of Lan Orchid, known as the 'fragrance of kings.' After that, the literati sang songs incessantly, Zuo never left the sign of Menglan, qu Zi Sijun Sewing Orchid was admired, and Zhouyi even said: 'two people are of one mind, and their interests break gold, and their words are as smelly as orchid', which is to compare the gentleman to the orchid, not to Lambiid to the gentleman.

General Zhang Xueliang once wrote a poem "Yong Lan" and said, "Fang has a reputation all over the world and has settled in ten thousand families." Ye Li contains righteousness, Fangyan is not flashy. Evergreen fight cold, smile in the middle of summer. A true gentleman in a flower is elegant in grace. "