Why is Cymbidium faberi called "Huai guaizi" (the trickster of cymbidiums)?
When a baby is first born, it is called a little fuzzy-head, looking much like a tiny old man, dark and wrinkled. After a few days of nursing, the infant immediately becomes plump and pink. The small flower buds of Cymbidium faberi are very tiny, like grains of rice, and after more than a month of small bud stage and large bud stage, they change enormously. Just like the little fuzzy-head after nursing, the change is the same, the change is enormous...
When a baby is first born, it is called a little fuzzy-head, looking much like a tiny old man, dark and wrinkled.
After a few days of nursing, the infant immediately becomes plump and pink.
The small flower buds of Cymbidium faberi are very tiny, like grains of rice, and after more than a month of small bud stage and large bud stage, they change enormously.
Just like the little fuzzy-head after nursing, the change is the same, the change is enormous.
That is why Cymbidium faberi has the name "Huai guaizi."
Judging from the small flower buds of Cymbidium faberi what the future bloom will be like is extremely difficult, unless you are an expert who can read bones and tell fortunes, someone who has been through countless trials and seen a great deal!
Betting on the bloom quality from the leaf shape of wild-collected Cymbidium faberi has a success rate of one in a hundred million;
Betting on the bloom quality from the flower buds of wild-collected Cymbidium faberi has a success rate of one in ten thousand;
Betting on the bloom quality from the small flower buds at the small bud stage of wild-collected Cymbidium faberi has a success rate of one in a thousand;
Betting on the bloom quality from the individual flowers at the large bud stage of wild-collected Cymbidium faberi has a success rate of one in a hundred.
A single lotus-petal flower is chosen for all time, a single plum-petal flower is judged by all people,
To obtain a classic variety is extremely difficult, a thousand times harder than winning the lottery.
For several hundred years, Cymbidium faberi has had only a few dozen varieties, and some old varieties are not particularly attractive and will gradually be eliminated.
Yet the lottery jackpot can produce several winners every week.
Do not gamble on wild-collected Cymbidium faberi; you basically cannot win.
Huai guaizi, what it tricks you out of is your money!
It deceives you without negotiation!
The common form of Cymbidium faberi has long and soft petals, and an extremely ugly tongue, a furry curled-up tongue with purplish-red speckles on it, like the pockmarks on a person's face, very unattractive. The curled tongue looks like a leech, and it looks very unpleasant!
What is a good flower of Cymbidium faberi? It must make the tongue look clean and neat, or hide the tongue surface, or the exposed tongue surface must be round, neat and brightly red. Therefore, the plain-color flowers of Cymbidium faberi, the small-tongue plum-petal, the immortal with large tongue and red blotches, the lotus-petal with round tongue and red blotches and good form are the good flowers.
What is a good flower? Simply put, it is a flower with good form and a good tongue. Like a person, only with a good figure, a handsome face, fine clothes, deep inner qualities and distinctive features can one become a star.
At Qingming time Cymbidium faberi blooms, smelling the fragrance and admiring the varieties, thinking of Qu Yuan;
The spirit of the great official has inner charm, but vulgar people do not understand and care for flowers haphazardly.