1. Spring orchids are like beauties, they don’t need to be ashamed to offer them to themselves.
Whenever you smell the fragrance of wind and dew, you can't see the deep wormwood.
——Su Shi of the Song Dynasty, "Inscribed on Chunlan by Yang Cigong"
2. I regret that Youlan insists on it, and Huakai does not discuss it with me.
Touching at the end of the nose creates a feeling of relief, and I look for the fragrance but it doesn’t smell good.
——Li Rihua, Ming Dynasty, "Two Orchids"
3. Plant two or three orchid pistils by hand, and the warm wind will warm the day.
I sit for a long time without knowing the fragrance in the room. When I open the window, butterflies fly in.
——"Yong Orchid" by Yu Tonglu of Yuan Dynasty
4. The fragrance of orchid is far away in the wind, and the fragrance of cymbidium flows through its roots.
——Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty
5. The fragrant grass is green and luxuriant, and I miss you in the west of the Li River.
The leaves are full of dew, as if they want to cry to people.
——"Coloring Orchid" by Zhang Yu of the Ming Dynasty
6. Light green flowers bloom on the snow path, and small red buds sprout from the everlasting roots. He was born without peaches and plums in the spring breeze, and his name was in the family of a scholar in the mountains and forests. When the government takes the national incense and goes to court and market, there is no room for old clouds and clouds in the frost festival. Jiang Leipu Hui is not my wife, so I will pay the scholar a certain amount of money.
——Song Dynasty Yang Wanli's "Three Songs of Dendrobium and Three Right Orchid Flowers"
6. At dawn, there is a slight cold and bone disease, and the national fragrance and dew reach the poor. I don’t want to be a member of my current sect now, lest I be misled by the people of the time.
——"Xie Hui Orchid" by Li Daohua of the Song Dynasty
7. Traveling to Lisao country, no orchids were seen in the depth of spring. Rong Feiyin is a gentleman, and he is among the old ferns and weeping trees.
——Song Dynasty Li Zengbo's "Miscellaneous Ode to Orchid from Hunan to Guangdao"
8. Two pots of last-year-old flowers were moved in, one with carved lanterns and the other with moss. My humble duty is to command the leaves to grow thin, but you can arrange and protect the flowers to bloom. The servants pick up beetles and patrol thousands of times, and the young children water the springs and walk several times. I also want to imitate the small nursery, but the land will eventually become barren and it will cost me money to cultivate it.
——"Ode to the Neighbor's Orchids" by Liu Kezhuang of the Song Dynasty
9. Breaking away from the solitary fragrance of hundreds of flowers, the good fortune will be improved. There is nothing going on in the common hall, and a branch is emitting a fragrance to each other.
——Liu Zai of the Song Dynasty, "Three Orchid Rhymes with Zhao Jixing"
10. Thank you to Qunfang in the root rock valley, and thank you to the light and wind for carrying it forward. The poets don't have to worry about wearing clothes, and the provinces are full of fun and fragrance.
——"Three Orchid Rhymes with Zhao Jixing" by Liu Zai of the Song Dynasty