What aspects does orchid culture include? A comprehensive overview of its main contents

Orchid culture in the broad sense, that is, all the activities of human beings related to orchids, Dujiangyan City is orchid culture.

Before humans knew orchids, orchids had long lived and multiplied in nature. The beginning of human knowledge of orchids is also the beginning of orchid culture, and the process of human knowledge of orchids was long. How many years it took from first recognition to creating a symbol to record and represent it can no longer be verified. In the West, the ancient Greeks saw that the roots of the local native orchid family plants were mostly in pairs and swollen, shaped like the male reproductive organ of an animal, so they created the word "orchid," "Orchis." The West began to understand orchids from their physical form. When people in ancient China began to know orchids still cannot be inferred. From an analysis of the ancient character "lan," the record symbol used by the Chinese people to know orchids and create the orchid character adopted implied meaning. The character "lan" is a beautiful picture: outside the gate green grass is like a carpet, inside the gate the bright moon shines. Moreover, thousands of years ago the character "lan" was used in poetry, praising a beautiful life and describing love stories. Later, the Chinese people improved the character "lan" into the "lan" of inviting grass into the gate, which proves that when ancient China created the character "lan," it already carried deep implied meaning. People's understanding of orchids and the process of expressing feelings through them are all appreciation. Orchid appreciation in China began at the time the character "lan" was created. From then on, the orchid appreciation activities of the Chinese people have never been interrupted. Moreover, understanding of orchids has continuously deepened, continuously sublimated, and continuously expanded, and its influence has seeped into people's lives, crystallizing into the ideals, morals, and [character] of the Chinese nation. Through the accumulated work of several thousand years, China's orchid culture is broad and profound. Because it has the unique temperament and taste of the Chinese nation, people also accurately call it Chinese orchid culture. In the course of its development, Chinese orchid culture broadly absorbed the strengths of a hundred arts and also enriched various arts, such as painting, calligraphy, music, drama, literature, crafts, horticulture, and so on. Chinese orchid culture has had a very far-reaching influence. It even spread to the neighboring countries of Japan and Korea, nurturing Japanese orchid culture and Korean orchid culture, forming an orchid culture with Eastern characteristics. People call it Eastern orchid culture.

Specifically speaking, it is very difficult to say comprehensively what aspects orchid culture includes, especially because Eastern orchid culture has a long history and deep cultural connotations. It seeps into every aspect of people's lives and is closely combined with people's social practice. Orchids have become the materialized form of personal character and morals, artistic cultivation, ideal pursuit, scientific and technological progress, and so on. Chinese orchid culture has reached the point of being everywhere, and every Chinese son and daughter will more or less always exude some of the subtle fragrance of orchids. This is the charm of Chinese orchids, and it is also the aspect embraced by Chinese orchid culture.