In the Ming Dynasty, Cheng wrote "Four Flowers and Trees in Youxue Qionglin": "Lotus is a gentleman in flowers, and Haitang is a fairy in flowers. National beauty and fragrance are the wealth of peony. Jade bone, ice muscle, is the wonder of plum blossoms. " Lotus elegance is a gentleman in flowers, and Haitang is called a fairy in flowers.
The beauty of the country means that peony is rich and gorgeous, and jade bone with ice muscle means beautiful and handsome plum blossoms. A gentleman in a flower is a orchid. Therefore, "a gentleman in a flower" is "elegant and plain". Clivia's name implies a gentleman's character and style.
Clivia is a noble and subtle flower. The gentleman in the flower in this sentence refers to the lotus, but now the gentleman in the flower generally refers to the orchid, so the orchid is called the "gentleman in the flower". For China people, orchids also have profound national significance. Among the four traditional gentlemen in China, plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum are different from plum's seclusion, chrysanthemum's wind and frost and bamboo's integrity. Orchids symbolize the temperament of an intellectual and the introverted elegance of a nation.