10 years of experience and insight into orchid harvesting

Carry forward the national orchid culture and spread the knowledge of orchids

Just after dawn, the orchid friends brought enough dry food and water, and the lotus hoe met on the journey. From the place of residence to the hillside of Cailan, about 20 li, patrolling back and forth in several mountains with orchid grass, smell its fragrance before seeing orchids, looking for orchids along the fragrance. Some mountains, seen from a distance, seem to be connected to each other, but when they go up for more than half an hour, they walk sweaty, but when they see orchids, all fatigue is forgotten. Most of the orchids grow on soil slopes, under oak, birch or pine trees, and some of the mountains are steep but not dangerous. Huilan and spring send how long on the rocky mountains, some are still on the cliffs, need to climb up the cliffs, but it is difficult to come down. Once Lanyou S and I were unable to get down the mountain, so we had to make a detour down the back of the mountain. When I was almost home, I saw the lights of the town flashing in the distant mountains; I heard the news broadcast on the central radio station.

He has been picking orchids every year since his retirement and climbing mountains all the year round; sometimes he is in the hot sun, sometimes he is caught in heavy rain, sometimes he falls into the river, sometimes he falls under the forest, and he is startled by the sudden appearance of hares and pheasants. Hands and feet are often red and swollen by caterpillars and wild bees. Mr. S is most afraid of snakes, so as soon as I find snakes, I will lead the way.

Because of the attraction of orchids, they often forget the time to go home, and they don't realize that it's dark, so they have to spend the night at the local fellow-townsman's house. Occasionally, I am lucky enough to meet students from many years ago, so accommodation is not a problem. On one occasion, several seedlings were sent to spring in the cracks in the rocks on the cliffs and could not be dug. For the second time, they had to dig rock orchids with hand hammers and drills to open the mountain, and they had to dig it back until the goal was reached.

Sun and rain, over the mountains and mountains, it seems that the orchid is really hard, but whenever I go home to check the results of the day, I recall the picnic in the wind and waves of the forest, birds and flowers, bees and butterflies, and looking for orchids along the fragrance. "the tiredness of the day has long gone. If you pick a few satisfactory orchids, you should be happy for a few days, and invite several orchid friends to watch them together.

Speaking of orchids, I am infatuated. Because he grew up in the orchid-producing area, he always liked orchids. In his youth, he applied for a horticulture major, but he finally became a foreign language teacher because of the "needs of revolutionary work". Although I used to like orchids, because of the busy teaching, I only planted a few pots of spring orchids, spring gifts, Taiwan orchids and other local varieties. The real realization of the dream of Lanyuan is still a matter of retirement. Zhijin County is rich in orchid resources, but due to economic, cultural, transportation and other historical reasons, orchids fend for themselves in the mountains, no one cares.