The wonder of Chinese orchids-the wonder of leaves

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

It has long been said that "it is better to admire leaves than flowers". In the Southern Song Dynasty, people found yellow edges on the leaves of orchids and classified them as strange. Then people gradually find that in addition to the yellow and white edges on the leaves, there will also be claws, spots, stripes, lines, moss, brushes, penetration and other markings. These markings make the color of orchids more varied and more beautiful. after hundreds of years of breeding and cultivation, people have established and perfected Chinese orchid line art in the practice of selection, cultivation and appreciation. It is known that the markings on the leaves of Chinese orchid are formed by genetic factors in the nucleus, as well as by the variation of intracellular pigments.

People have selected and bred three kinds of gardening varieties with artistic state in one, such as edge stripe, claw stripe, moss stripe, brush stripe, but so far have not yet bred four kinds of artistic state in one, which is one of the wonders in the national orchid line art. So far, only a small number of people can identify artistry by artistic state, that is, to distinguish between nuclear genetic factor spots and cytochrome variant spots, in order to determine whether they are commonly known as both floral and horticultural varieties. People who love orchid all hope to have their own knowledge, and after selecting the basic plant of line art, how to cultivate it into high art as soon as possible, such as brocade art, treasure art, crane art, crown art, penetrating art and so on. A small number of orchid friends can be secret but not spread, which is a special skill.

Raising and appreciating the national orchid pays great attention to skill, technology is the skill of raising orchid, art is knowledge, the key is understanding, and most of the understanding comes from character. The national orchid leaves are strange, and the dwarf is one of them. Among the national orchids, the first dwarf species was selected in 1900 AD, Chunlan "Cuigaihe". "Cuigaihe" is a middle dwarf species by current standards. Today, people appreciate that dwarves are only short, as short as 1mi 2cm. As a result, regardless of who raised it, it could not be seen clearly and did not blossom for a long time when it was appreciated in the flowerpot. The keeper just holds the whim and waits for it to grow up.

People ask for a short plant, wrinkled skin, round head and thick quality, but the old orchid dwarf "Dharma" only has ordinary flowers. Inspired by it, people add four more requirements: the texture of the leaf should be sticky, the vein of the leaf should be fine and bright, the leaf sheath should be round and tight, and the time groove should be exposed. Before and after a total of eight standards are expected to blossom. It has also been proved to be right in practice, for example, yellow lotus has bloomed in dwarf species, odd flowers with red petals, lotus petals and other flower arts. The pursuit of orchid art is endless, and dwarf plus line art is a new trend for people to seek wonder nowadays. In the first 3-5 years, conscientious people proposed to play the "crystal" and "picture spot" of the National Lanqi. The leaves of orchids show white translucent line markings, which are named crystal. Yellow and white water ripples, cloud spots and mountain patterns appear on the leaves of orchids, and their beauty is called "landscape painting", also known as "picture spot art". Because most of the "crystal" and "map spots" are invasive or guest green deficiency spots, the leaves of the old plant are easy to scorch for "crystal", and "map spots" are also easy to appear black spots on the markings.

Therefore, it is often shown that the new seedlings are beautiful and the old plants are ugly, not beautiful on the whole and can be appreciated for a short time. People hope that there are "crystals" on the flowers, and there are also flowers with "crystals" on them, but most of the flowers are twisted and not beautiful. It is true that both Japanese and Korean orchids classify it as a kind of spot art, which is relatively stable but less evolved and blossoms flat, so its taste in line art is not high. People choose "crystal" and "picture spot" as a kind of leaf art to play and appreciate, first of all, it has obvious defects, and secondly, many terms are borrowed from line art. From this, it can be seen that it is not easy for Guolan Middle School to create a new art category. In addition to the correct material selection, the creator must have a higher orchid art accomplishment, otherwise it is easy to copy the hard matching road, creativity is not high-altitude has its name. "Crystal" and "Tupan" are only lively for 3-5 years and are not fashionable after all. More than ten years ago, the phenomenon of labial flap was found on the leaves of Guolan, and then it was found that three labial flaps would be opened at the top of the central leaf of Guolan plant. Lan you found it very strange and asked Professor Yang Di-ching, director of the Jiangxi Lushan Botanical Garden. Teacher Yang said, "the flowers of flowering plants are mutated by pairs. In fact, flowers can also be called special leaves. It is possible that the leaves of orchids are alienated to flowers. " Confused, Lanyou carefully observed the characters of this variation in the practice of raising orchids and found that most of its flowering was "stamen butterfly" or multi-lip flower art. This kind of variation has been selected successively in Chunlan, Jianlan, Chunjian and other varieties. It can be called a strange leaf or a strange flower. The breeding and training of this kind of variation have added the new content of Guiye.

The strange leaves of the national orchid can be summed up into the four categories mentioned above, namely, thread art, dwarf species, lip leaf, "crystal and picture spot". The appreciation of Chinese orchids has always been new, green, rare and different. Constantly enrich the connotation of appreciation in the struggle for beauty, so as to contain the beauty of all flowers in orchids, such as the firmness of plum blossoms, the clear rhyme of daffodils, the tolerance of lotus flowers, the nobility of chrysanthemums, the wealth of peonies, the integrity of bamboo and so on.

The beauty of Chinese orchid contains the virtues of the Chinese nation; the wonder of Chinese orchid lies in its broad inclusiveness. We appreciate the beauty of the national orchid, in fact, we appreciate the beauty of character and thus reflect on ourselves. Our selection of novel horticultural varieties of Guolan is in fact the selection of the style of the new era, as well as the choice of character and artistic accomplishment.

Orchids, you are a good teacher on the way to raise orchids.