The key techniques for the ancients to choose Cymbidium

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The history of ancient cymbidium breeding has been more than 300 years, and what can be traced in history is the "bee Qiaomei" during the reign of Qianlong. Since then, the phenomenon of emphasizing orchid and neglecting Hui began to change. Through the selection of orchid people, there are less than 200 varieties of traditional inscriptions, and so far there are only more than 60 kinds of traditional inscriptions, which shows that the selection of fine cymbidium is very standardized and difficult. Here is an excerpt of the ancients' method of selecting Huihua as follows:

Chu Ke-rou once wrote down the "Ten principles of Xiang Hui". In fact, it is nothing more than "Hui without a foreign minister." Wu Enyuan said, "selling Huihua head son is commonly known as' summer kidnapper'. So Yu Su doesn't like to buy it. " It means that it is difficult to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of cymbidium flowers by the bud. Hong Songling and Shen Peilin said in the True Biography of Lan Hui: "Miss is one in a thousand." The "five doors and eight styles" and "Shen Peilin's eight methods of the head shape of Huiri" left by the older artists are all about the shape of the stamens in the small rows of bells of the cymbidium.

The first fragrant Notes says: "the orchid shell is expensive and thin, the cymbidium shell is expensive and thick, and it must always be delicate. The shell is bright and bright, which is called water color. The cymbidium shell must be tightly wrapped and thick, commonly known as the 'Yuanbao capsid' pictograph. "

"Lan Hui Xiao Shi" in the cloud: "the choice of new flowers, always based on the sand halo on the shell." There are sand and halos, plum petals and daffodils are expected. However, meat color is the most important, that is, the so-called meat, that is, those who are as white as rice on the tips or stamens, and those who have heavy green petals on their shells. On the shell of the cymbidium and on the small sheath of the cymbidium, if there is a green color on one side and no green color on the other, the blossom must have a pocket on one side and no pocket on the other. As for those with no white meat on the tip, most of the flowers are blooming, and the cymbidium flowers or warped plum petals must be not a good species, and they will be tried and tested again and again. "

"Lan Huijing" said: "Huihua Ruimi is difficult to say, many changes are not easy to pass on, to be neat as the best, beads are also white trimmed." He also said: "the flower is no better than the spring flower, and the change is hard to say, but those who are shaped like pearl beans or inverted melon seeds must be big and small plum petals." If the short, wide and clean bottle, polished sharp corners, can also open the plum valve. I'm only afraid of a fine tongue in the abdomen. If pomegranate mouth, small clean bottle, crab pliers, horse fork type, fire fork head type, three heads are all out of the seesaw corner. And scissors crescent type, must belong to the lotus valve. Stamens have countless shapes and are difficult to carry. To sum up, regardless of the form, those who take a closer look at the tip of the mouth inward are the top grade; those who look outward are defined as seesaw corners. It is necessary to see through the white edge, and it is better to have neat grains. If there is a difference in size, the worms will fly.

According to the Secret Orchid Cymbidium Spectrum, "Cymbidium shells are different, and they are famous for green, white-green, red-purple, light red and red-green. The long clothes of lotus-shaped daffodils are round and pointed, and most of them have lotus shells. The plum petal comes out of the mouth of the magpie, the head of the regiment, or the mouth of the parrot. As for the straight tendons, thick and faint, they are not good flowers. " "where the orchid is fine, the gauze tendons on the shell must be rooted, soft and smooth, that is, there are fine tendons on the sheath to the top, and the light will seize the day. If the tendons are thick and the color is dizzy, there is no doubt about the flowers. "

"Yilan Tips" said: "the shell is loose and firm should be carefully reviewed, the general complexion should be bright, the thin and soft ones should not take more, and the thick shell should also be clear." "all kinds of shells, no matter whether they are short or long, can produce strange flowers, but they must be thick and waxy before they are good; if they are thin and soft, they are called rotten clothes, but not enough. But those who are thick and hard will have a bright color, which is enough to take. The stamens of Hui must be fixed in the lower part so that they can blossom and correct their famous flowers. "

In the Shu Hui chapter, as the saying goes, "if the petals of the cymbidium are all curled and the petals are curled, the petals will not be narrow; those who roll themselves will be able to open themselves; if they roll obliquely like ropes, they cannot be straight."

Zhu Youren said: "the shell of Cymbidium is thick, hard and full of bright colors, which can also meet the conditions for selection." "usually the shell of the lotus valve is shorter, while that of the daffodil valve and the plum valve is longer."