Orchid is loved by Xiangqi.

Orchids are rare fragrant flowers with high ornamental value, as Wang Guixue said in the Song Dynasty: "among the tall flowers, bamboo has festival and sik flower, plum has flower and stingy leaf, pine has leaf and sik incense, only orchid has it alone." Orchid fragrance, color, god, rhyme four unique, and with a peculiar fragrance to become the length of a hundred grass, it can be said that one fragrance is enough to press a thousand red. Say orchid words must say its fragrance, write orchid Road its incense is the finishing touch, fragrance is the soul of orchid.

The orchid is beautiful, but what is more beautiful is its fragrance. Lan has Xiangzu, the first incense laudatory name. As Confucius said, "Orchid is the king of fragrance." During the Spring and Autumn period, it was recorded in the three chapters of Zuo Zhuan Xuangong: "Orchid has national fragrance, and people are flattering." Huang Tingjian, a writer in the Song Dynasty, said: "if a scholar covers a country with virtue, he is called a scholar; if a woman's color covers a country, it is the color of the country; if the fragrance of the orchid covers a country, it is called the fragrance of the country."

The orchids cultivated in China are mainly terrestrial orchids, most of which can blossom and give off fragrance. Most of the orchids raised by Chinese people are also planted because of the incense of magnolia. Among the Qunfang, Lanfang is peculiar, and the fragrance of orchids is Qingyuan. In ancient times, there is the saying that "Pine Toon has its own thousand years of life, and Lan Hui competes for ten miles of fragrance." the fragrance is elegant, pure and pure, and the fragrance of orchids is always appropriate to make people smell refreshingly. As the poem goes, "there is no fragrance of orchids in the room, and only butterflies know that the fragrance is in the room." Its aroma is not as strong as sweet-scented osmanthus, jasmine and nocturnal incense, even pungent and irresistible, nor as dull and light as cold plum, daffodils and peaches and plums. Therefore, the orchid is known as vanilla in ancient times.

The aroma of orchids is better than that of spring orchids, cymbidium orchids and Jianlan orchids; wild orchids on the mountain are more fragrant than home orchids; newly blooming orchids are more fragrant than faded orchids; and white flowers are more fragrant than mixed-colored flowers. Orchids are usually fragrant from morning till night.

As the saying goes: "after thousands of years of trees, orchids smell at 04:00." Relatively speaking, the aroma is better in the morning or evening.

Orchid fragrance is wonderful, botanists have not yet figured out the specific parts of orchid flowers, chemists have not been able to understand the chemical composition of orchid aroma, let alone synthesize artificial flavors like chrysanthemum, jasmine, violets and other flowers. Scientists from Japan, the United States, Switzerland, China and other countries did everything possible to reveal the mystery of Lanxiang. Dr. Kaiser, a Swiss chemist, used modern techniques to study the mechanism and process of orchid fragrance, analyzed the aroma components of orchids, and published a monograph Orchid fragrance, but in the end, he did not get the desired scientific conclusion.

Orchid incense is mysterious and strange, arousing people's strong interest in exploring orchids, being kind to orchids, and constantly deducing its magical stories.