When the spring breeze spreads through the mountains and forests, or the autumn rain infiltrates the valley, a cluster of orchids quietly stretches their leaves, blooming outside the world with a light and elegant attitude. The ancients' preference for orchids has long been integrated into the thousand-year-old cultural bloodline. It is not as graceful and luxurious as the peony, not as gorgeous and dazzling as the peach and plum, but with its elegant posture and distant fragrance, it has become the spiritual totem of the literati and ink writers, and it has been crownedThe reputation of "the gentleman in flowers". This preference stems from the innate character of orchids, and also carries the unremitting pursuit of noble personality by the ancients.

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The beauty of orchids, the beauty is there"No one is not fragrant" indifference. Born in a deep valley, he does not admire prosperity, even if no one appreciates it, he still blooms alone. This transcendent calmness is just like a gentleman sticking to his inner ethics and not changing his will due to changes in the outside world. Confucius once praised Lan as "Zhilan was born in the deep forest, and it is not fragrant without people", which is the nature of the orchid, which is the realm of cultivating virtue and abiding by the duty of a gentleman. Qu Yuan used orchids as a metaphor in "Lisao", "Hu Jiangli and Pi Zhixi, Su Qiulan is admired", and wearing orchids on his side is not only the pursuit of beautiful quality, but also a silent struggle against secular pollution.

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The rhyme of orchids, the rhyme in the fragrance of Qingfen and the distant fragrance. Its fragrance is not strong and public, but it seems to be nothing, lingering in the heart, just like the virtue of a gentleman, imperceptibly infecting others. The ancients often used orchid incense in poems and paintings, and also integrated it into life. When tasting tea, accompanied by a wisp of orchid incense, and smelling the faint fragrance when reading, this fragrance is not only a gift of nature, but also a symbol of the spiritual realm. It reminds the world that the beauty of a true gentleman lies in the precipitation of inner cultivation, rather than external show-off.

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from"Orchid Zhang" refers to Miaowen, and "Orchid Friendship" refers to close friends, and orchids have long surpassed the plant itself and become a cultural symbol. It represents the character of a gentleman who is upright, noble and humble, and also represents the yearning of the ancients for an ideal personality. Even though the years go by, when we gaze at the shadow of the flowers among the leaves, we can still touch the soul of the gentleman inherited for thousands of years through the orchid, and feel the profound wisdom of the ancients who placed their love on the orchid. This is the eternal reason why orchids have always been favored through time.