We need to know more about Han Lan in China.

We need to know more about Han Lan in China.

Liu Qingyong delivered a speech at the China Hanlan Research Society

Chinese people's understanding of Han Orchid in China can be traced back to the Jin Zhang Orchid Spectrum of the Southern Song Dynasty. Although there were no photos and drawings of various orchids at that time, and the text description was unknown, it was difficult to determine, but in the varieties described in the book, the shadow of Han Lan can be seen vaguely. What we know more about Han Lan should be after the founding of the people's Republic of China. Under the impact of orchid fever for many times in the past 20 or 30 years, although Chinese people have a deeper understanding of Han Lan, because Han Lan has been in a state of semi-cold and lukewarm among all kinds of national orchids, Chinese people need to have a better understanding of Han Lan. The author has written several articles about Han Lan in the past, and now I will have a better understanding of Han Lan's experience in recent years.

Han Lan is one of the most abundant species of national orchids.

The distribution of cold orchid in China can be divided into nine parts. 1. From Lishui and Longquan in Zhejiang to Wuyishan Hanlan in the area of Wuyishan and Shaowu. 2. Hanlan in southern Fujian, southwestern Fujian and northeastern Guangdong, such as Nanjing, Shanghang, Wuping, Jiaoling and Pingyuan. 3. Hanlan from Yifeng to Jinggangshan in western Jiangxi. 4. From Xunwu to Xinfeng, Nanxiong, Renhua, Rucheng and Zixing in southern Jiangxi, northern Guangdong and southeastern Hunan. 5. Hanlan in the border area of Hunan, Chongqing and Guizhou. 6. Hanlan is produced almost in the whole province of Guangxi. 7. Cold orchid in southern Guizhou. 8. Hanlan in southern Sichuan. 9. Cold orchid in southern Yunnan. These nine cold orchids are relatively concentrated in resources, and some ethnic groups are almost as dense as vegetation. There are also sporadic distribution in other mountainous areas south of 30 degrees north latitude in China. To the north of 30 degrees north latitude, there are only reports of Cymbidium and Cymbidium, but no report of Han Lan. To sum up, among all kinds of national orchids in China, Chunlan and Han Cymbidium are the most abundant, while lotus petal, Douban and Cymbidium are less. The resources of Chunjian, Cymbidium and Jianlan were the second.

In the past, we saw relatively few cold orchids in Orchid City, Orchid Exhibition and Orchid Garden, thinking that Han Lan had few resources. this is actually a misunderstanding of Han Lan. It should be said that the cold orchid is an orchid species that has not been fully developed in China, and it is still a cold species with great potential.

Among the cold orchids produced in the above places, according to their fragrance types, they can be divided into strong fragrance type, light fragrance type (such as some Xia Han orchids) and non-fragrance type (some cold orchids have no fragrance at all, which should be paid attention to when breeding varieties). From its flowering season, there are winter cold orchid, spring cold orchid, summer cold orchid. From its leaf type, there are broad leaves (big leaves) cold orchid, thin leaves (narrow leaves) cold orchid: thick veins cold orchid, sunken vein thick leaf cold orchid. Other points from its reward points are roughly the same as other orchids, such as butterfly flowers called butterfly cold orchids, vegetarian heart flowers called plain heart cold orchids and so on.

2. Hanlan is the most abundant orchid species in the national orchid.

This point may be debated. Anyway, the development of Han Lan resources has not been fully developed, if fully developed, there are a large number of famous products appear, we will feel that Han Lan has a lot of reward. At present, many articles have been published on Han Lan's reward, and many valuable opinions have been put forward. Can it be summed up like this:

1. Hanlan is beautiful and can be appreciated in accordance with the general principles of life beauty, natural beauty, form beauty, color beauty and charm beauty.

2. Hanlan is also beautiful in accordance with the common appreciation principles of other orchids, and can be compared with the same kind of appreciation of other orchids. It is not appropriate to reward Han orchid with the reward of other orchids. Wrong question. For example, the lotus petals and plum petals of spring orchids are also beautiful, and the art of appreciating Han orchids by chimera in the middle of the orchid is also beautiful. They are all homemade orchids of the genus Orchid, and there are many poor points that are similar. Sometimes, if this kind of reward is not found in a certain type of orchid, it does not mean that this kind of orchid does not have this kind of reward. For example, Han Lan has not been found to have black flowers, but other orchids have, and Han Lan is likely to have them in the future.

3. All kinds of national orchids have common reward points, but there is no denying that each has its own strong reward and unique reward, and Han Lan is no exception.

Cold orchid rarely has standard petal flowers, about the appreciation of cold orchid can pay attention to the following aspects.

1. Look at its plant type, leaf posture, elegant, tall and beautiful, graceful, elegant gentleman is better. Other crystals and dwarfs are the same as the general orchid appreciation.

2. If you look at the flowers of Hanlan, you can pay attention to its tongue petal, and the Japanese attach great importance to its tongue petal. The tongue flap of Hanlan not only has the same beauty as bangs, wishful tongue, round tongue, dragon swallowing tongue, glossy tongue, and so on, but also can appreciate the following kinds of tongues according to its ecological characteristics:

(1) the tongue is wide and long, and the flap of the tongue is very wide and long, like a hanging flag. The tongue spot is beautiful.

(2) the tongue is wide and round, and the tongue flap is stretched and moist into a semicircle. Tongue spots are regular and beautiful.

(3) large sharp-angled tongue, the flap of the tongue is in a broad angular shape. Tongue spots are regular and beautiful.

(4) wide shield tongue, incense valve like shield, neat and beautiful.

(5) wide peak waist tongue, waist girded above the tongue flap, or wide long or wide long angle below, shaped like a bee waist. This is a masterpiece in which plants imitate the forms of animals in order to lure insects out to pollinate.

The tongue petal of Hanlan is often wider than its calyx petal and holding petal, such as the top petal of Aristolochia, so it has become a prominent reward point in its flowers, such as flags such as emblems and badges.

3. In addition to the few positive lotus petals, plum petals and daffodils petals that have been found, you can also appreciate its dragonfly petal (holding the heart like dragonfly eyes, calyx petal narrow and long as dragonfly wings) can be high-grade or middle-grade. Enjoy the dragon claw valve of its calyx valve, look at its dynamics, such as the dynamics of birds and animals, and color quality can be high-grade or middle-grade. Then there is the white covering wheel that appreciates its calyx petal. This kind of flower often appears in the blue and white cold orchid. The Japanese quite welcome the cold orchid with white covering wheel.

Third, the bottleneck of the development of cold orchid is cultivation.

Now the situation of Han Lan is that there are many good varieties, but the number of seedlings of each good variety is not many. Some of the good varieties that came down the mountain disappeared and died within a few years. The popular cultivation of Cymbidium needs to be further studied. Based on the experience of cultivating cold orchids in various places, there are the following points for reference.

1. Plant material can be sour. Other national orchid plants are neutral (they can be planted well even if they are not alkaline or acidic). Some of the producing areas of Hanlan are in the red sand zone and are somewhat sour. Of course, not even too sour.

2. The air is wet, the basin is dry, and Han Lan is afraid that the basin is too wet.

3. The plant material is soft. Generally speaking, it can not be planted entirely with blue stone (hard plant material), but some humus soil should be put.

4. The orchid basin should be on the high side, the cold orchid plant is generally higher, and the root system is long, so it is appropriate to use the bucket basin commonly used in Sichuan. For example, the mouth basin of traditional planting of spring orchid in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is too low, and the lower part of plastic trumpet basin is too narrow, which is not suitable for the growth of cold orchid root.

5. The illuminance is overcast.

Fourth, about the promotion of Han Lan.

Now there are China Han Lan Research Association and China Han Lan net. Professional promotion is very beneficial to the development of Han Lan. Local orchid exhibitions should not ignore the selection of cold orchids in order to facilitate the further promotion of this kind of orchids. The spring of Han Lan is coming. May Hanlan lovers all over the country make efforts to promote it and welcome the arrival of Hanlan spring.