First, flower language
1, thin
Orchids have tall and straight branches, beautiful flowers and are born in valleys, so the flower language of orchids represents thinness. Moreover, orchids are elegant inside and outside the flowers, and there is no eye-catching gorgeous posture. Flowers and leaves are simple, quiet, indifferent, far away from the hustle and bustle of the secular, full of elegant temperament, which is very in line with the aesthetic standards of the East.
2. Love the national conditions
Orchids are known as gentlemen in flowers, symbolizing excellent moral sentiments such as simplicity, demure and introversion. There is a deep sense of national spirit and national plot, which can be used to express love for home and country. Long ago, orchids were the mascots of love, representing constancy. They are usually used to express loyalty, and they can also be given to lovers to express their feelings for her till death do us part.
Second, the significance
1, elegant
Orchids, daffodils, chrysanthemums and calamus are called four elegant flowers, while bamboo, chrysanthemums and plum blossoms are collectively called four gentlemen. Orchids are symbols of elegance and beauty. As early as May 1985, orchids were ranked fourth among the top ten famous flowers in China. It can not only cultivate people's sentiment, but also learn their spiritual quality in practice, so as to achieve the role of self-cultivation.
2. Noble and clean
Orchids have always had a noble meaning. Its painted face is dignified and elegant, representing noble personality quality. Appeared many times in Qu Yuan's poems. Qu Yuan compared it to a gentleman, so later generations understood orchids as a symbol of noble and virtuous gentlemen.
Introduction of orchids
Orchids are monocotyledonous plants, orchids and orchids. Epiphytic or terrestrial herbs, with several or at most leaves, usually born at the base or lower nodes of pseudobulb, two rows, banded or rarely oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, with broad sheaths and nodes at the base around pseudobulb.
There are several flowers in the raceme, and the colors are white, pure white, white green, yellow-green, yellow-yellow, yellow-brown, yellow, red, cyan and purple.
Orchids among the traditional famous flowers in China only refer to some terrestrial orchids distributed in China, such as Cymbidium hybridum, Cymbidium hybridum, Cymbidium hybridum, commonly known as "China Orchids".
This orchid is very different from tropical orchids, with large flowers and bright colors. They have no conspicuous brilliance and huge flowers and leaves, but they have a simple, quiet, elegant and noble temperament, which conforms to the aesthetic standards of orientals. It has been cultivated in China for more than 1000 years.
China people have always regarded orchids as a symbol of nobility and elegance, and they are called "Four Gentlemen" together with "Plum, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum". Usually, "Zhang Lan" is used to describe the beauty of poetry, and "Lan Jiao" is used to describe the truth of friendship. Some people also use orchids to express pure love, such as "the spirit remains unchanged as orchid, the heart remains unchanged as orchid" and "finding a bosom friend and giving a dream to Xiaoxiang".
65438+May 0985 Orchids were rated as four of the top ten famous flowers in China.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Orchid.