Introduction to the variety characteristics of Cymbidium faberi 'Feifeng Chaoyang'

    10 years ago I used to go to the mountains or to the stalls at orchid shows to hunt for treasures, and there were plenty of opportunities back then. In recent years, the resources of wild-collected orchids have become fewer and fewer, and I had almost given up any hope of finding another treasure, let alone any hope of finding one online. Every spring I am very busy and rarely go online. One day in mid-April this year, I happened to go online and open the forum, and saw a post titled "Bringing Home a Beauty" that was about to sink to page 2. Curiosity made me click on it without thinking, and the feeling at that moment was truly "if you don't look you don't know, but one look gives you a shock." Every year at large and small orchid shows and in the trading areas, the new wild-collected Cymbidium faberi flowers I have seen and handled can be said to number in the thousands upon thousands, countless, but a floating-type plum-petal flower as beautiful, elegant, nimble and dynamic as this is truly rare. At that moment I seemed to see a lovely little bird flying toward me and pouring out its heart to me: "I am a fine bird from the deep mountains, they say I am a hybrid orchid. If you also do not understand me, I will soon die of anger. I want to fly to Shanghai and become a treasure in your garden." I read the 11-page post twice in one go. Based on my more than ten years of experience collecting wild-collected orchids, this was a peerless specimen rarely seen in a thousand years. I immediately called an orchid friend in Hubei and asked him to go to the flower owner's home to see what was going on. After a day of waiting, my friend bought the flower and sent me a text message late at night: the flower was in hand. I was so excited that I asked him to buy a high-speed rail ticket first thing in the morning and rush to Shanghai. My friend's words, "even if a person suffers, the flower must not suffer," have moved me to this day. He wanted to drive the flower to Shanghai himself to protect it. This made me so happy that I stayed awake all night. Since he was driving over, I also asked him to bring along the 'Yufeng Qiao' that had won the gold award at the Huangyan Orchid Show. More than 10 days had passed since the Huangyan Orchid Show, and I really wanted to see how the flower had held up. To be honest with my friend, I could not afford to buy 'Yufeng Qiao', I just wanted to look at it!

    On April 22, my friend Yang Song and his son escorted 2 pots of new wild-collected flowers to Shanghai. Spring in the third month was no longer cold. This flower guardian actually "turned on the air conditioning and wore a cotton-padded jacket, all just to protect the flowers well." When the flowers were taken from the car and placed on the table in the orchid garden, heavens! That moment cannot be expressed in words: "one glance can topple a city, a second glance can topple a nation."