Orchids are one of the oldest flowers in China. There are legends of growing orchids as early as the time of Emperor Yao. The ancients believed that orchids have three beauties of "fragrance", "flower" and "leaf", as well as four clear qualities of "qi Qing", "color Qing", "Shen Qing" and "Rhyme Qing". They are "ideal beauty and the ultimate beauty of all forms". magic". The first person to endow orchids with a certain humanistic spirit was Confucius. According to Cai Yong's "Qin Cao" of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Confucius defended himself against Lu. In a hidden valley, he saw orchids growing alone. He sighed and said: "Orchid should be the king's fragrance." The real orchid culture originated from Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of the Chu State during the Warring States Period. He planted, loved orchids, and chanted orchids. He relied on orchids as his sustenance and has been influencing future generations for thousands of years. When later generations of poets chanted orchids, they also had many famous lines, such as Chen Ziang's "How can the beauty be achieved when the years are gone?" Liu Kezhuang's "As soon as I came to visit the master, I was ashamed of Wu Fan and Dou Yantao". Poets linked the nobility of orchids with the perfection of personality, which enabled the orchid culture to continue to expand and continue.
Orchids are famous for their purity, elegance and fragrance, with graceful leaves and distant fragrance. Since ancient times, orchids have been hailed as a symbol of beautiful things and have been widely personified among the people. Orchids have had a huge impact on social life, culture and art. Parents named orchid to express their feelings, painters used orchids to paint pictures to express their meanings, and poets chanted orchids and wrote poems to express their aspirations. The image and temperament of orchids have been deeply rooted in people's hearts for a long time and play a subtle role. Ancient dance dramas use "Orchid Steps" and "Orchid Fingers" as beautiful movements, call excellent literary works and calligraphy works "Orchid Chapters", call sincere friendship "Lanjiao", and describe people's fragrance, beauty and wisdom. It is "Lan Xin Hui Zhi". He also compared the death of outstanding figures to "the orchid destroying the jade". In the minds of the Chinese people, orchids have become the symbol of all beautiful things.