Orchid-- appreciation of flowers and leaves

Chinese orchids are an old and young topic. In the past 20 or 30 years, after the reform and opening-up in China, more and more people play orchids, orchids are surging, and there are more and more words to say about Chinese orchids. As people's aesthetic level of orchids is getting higher and higher, their aesthetic consciousness is increasing, and various orchid varieties are constantly discovered, people's appreciation of orchids is constantly innovating. Orchid flowers and leaves of multi-arts, it can be said that today's orchid is one of the hottest topics. It should be said that the variety of orchids has been recorded as early as 580 years ago in Yang Andao, Dali, Yunnan Province (whether this book comes from Ming Dynasty is still controversial). Among the 38 species of orchids introduced in this spectrum, at least Hongmei element (plum petal plus element heart) and Huang Jiansu (element heart plus gold edge) belong to multiple art. The gold element (tiger spot or treasure art plus element heart) recorded in Linghai Lan Yan written by Jin Ce in Lingnan District in the late Qing Dynasty should also be multi-arts. At that time, such flowers were only recorded as varieties, and did not form a hot topic in the orchid community. Ye Yilan has been recorded from time to time in Jin Zhang Lan Pu of Southern Song Dynasty and various orchid books after that. As for petal-type flowers, there are also plum, lotus, narcissus and bamboo petal-type in Yunnan's Nanzhong Youfang Record in Ming Dynasty, but it is later to form hot topics. Today, people call this high-level appreciation of orchids "the art of nature", and its colorful appreciation is also called the various "arts" of orchids. Looking at the history of East Asian orchid appreciation with Chinese as the main body, we can see that the "art" of orchids can have such a development process as follows. The oldest saying is Confucius '"orchid should be the king incense", Qu Yuan's "autumn orchid green, green leaves purple stem" and so on, appreciate the orchid fragrance, orchid leaves. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was an atmosphere of appreciating plain heart orchids. To the early Qing Dynasty, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Baowei Province wrote "Yi Lan Za Ji," the predecessor of plum blossom, lotus, narcissus petals appreciation experience into orchids, and be sorted out, the system also put forward the orchid appreciation of the petal theory. To 200 years ago, a blacksmith in Japan cultivated the first pot of Ye Yilan, which was popular in the orchid world at that time. The influence reached, and in Japan, Taiwan Province of our country formed the Ye Yi theory of appreciating leaves. To Dharma orchid, leaf line dragon orchid is appreciated, and there is a view of orchid plant appreciation. Nearly half a century, orchid flowers, butterfly flowers and big popular time. There is also a craze for color appreciation represented by the "peach blossom" of ink orchid and safflower in Taiwan Province and a craze for crystal appreciation in the mid-1990s. With the development of large quantities of orchids in southwest China, there are translucent crystal flowers and special Zhu Jinhua flowers, etc. Today, people appreciate orchids, in addition to appreciate their aroma, in the visual appreciation, has shown a colorful trend, has become increasingly refined, there is a variety of arts, more appreciation of the era. Orchid art, summed up into flower art, leaf art, plant art and so on. There are a lot of flower appreciation points. From the color of flowers, there are white flowers, vegetarian flowers, vegetarian flowers, and special color flowers. From the color and shape of flowers, there are butterfly flowers (calyx petals or holding petals of the shape, color was tongue flap). From the shape of the flowers, there are petal-type flowers, exotic flowers (multi-petal, multi-tongue, multi-nose or few-petal, hetero-petal). White flower refers to petals (including tongue flap) pure white, such as its tongue flap has other stains, called white flower color heart. The heart is tongue and lips. Plain flower refers to petals (including tongue) for pure color, not necessarily pure white, pure red, pure yellow, pure other colors can be. If the whole red pigment means that the whole flower is red, green ink element means that the whole flower of ink orchid is tender green. Plain heart is a single finger tongue flap for the whole color, without any other variegated. If the tongue flap is all red, it is called red, and the tongue flap has red tongue spots and other background colors or edges, which is called red tongue, which cannot be called red. Ye Yi is the color line on the leaf, color spot (usually yellow, white, but also green line, green spot and even black line, black spot). Plant type art has short, medium short, row dragon leaves, tornado leaves and so on. Among the orchids that can be appreciated, only one of the above flower art, leaf art and plant type art is generally outstanding and strongly expressed in one orchid. Such as lotus petal orchid small snow element, originally only white flower element heart a kind of art, but now found that there are several small snow element on the middle transparent leaf art, these few small snow element has two arts. We call this kind of orchid with two or more strong and prominent appreciation points (i.e. art) called multi-art orchid or orchid multi-art. Generally speaking, the ornamental value of orchid products is higher. Multi-arts and crafts are mostly existing famous products, treasures mutated into new arts and become multi-arts, and there are also newly picked mountain orchids that appear as multi-arts. The more prominent the orchids, the more rare they are, and the more popular they are in the orchid community. Therefore, orchid multi-arts has become the new pursuit of orchid industry, new hot spots.