Orchids: seek common ground and recommend the unusual. You are welcome to recommend fun varieties.
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The ancient saying that "obsession with playthings dulls the mind" seems long since drowned out by the roar of the times, yet the phenomenon of orchid-growing causing hurt feelings is indeed often seen. However, just as playthings cannot be banned because some people let them dull their minds, orchids must be grown after all, and grown well, grown without end. Thus, some have proposed seeking the greater common ground while preserving minor differences, to reduce the foul atmosphere in orchid circles, and this author strongly agrees.
Growing orchids cannot be mentioned in the same breath as playing cards; it should include many links such as keeping, researching, communicating, exchanging, evaluating, appreciating, and buying and selling. The vast majority of orchid lovers usually use the term "growing orchids" with a broad conceptual meaning, not a pure word "play." That being so, every link has its own refined pleasure to be found. Yet in real life, every link also easily gives rise to displeasure. A certain city, through everyone's efforts, finally had its own orchid association, which should have delighted everyone, but not long after it was established, gun smoke rose internally, often over trivial matters: A says B is sick, B says A has worms in his brain, each takes a dislike to the other, to the point of not associating with each other. One day, Zhang San and Li Si rubbed each other the wrong way over exchanging varieties; the half-informed Wang Er Mazi told Zhang San that Li Si was not enough of a friend, and told Li Si that Zhang San was too much, and after adding fuel to the fire, the matter that had been settled flared up again. Another day, an "expert" and a "master" met at the orchid market and argued red in the face over the evaluation of the merits of the same variety, parting unhappily, while onlookers mistook it for a martial arts feud. And so on; examples abound. This is not the way things should be in orchid circles, nor the way orchid growers should behave. In a sense, it is a crooked trend, a stench contrary to the orchid itself.
It is normal for orchid growers to have different views and disputes, all the more so given the reality that when the forest is big there are all kinds of birds, and all the more so given that people's temperaments and qualities differ, and their concepts differ as widely as north and south. Precisely because of this, our homeland's orchid affairs, orchid industry, orchid ethos, and orchid culture all require us to seek the greater common ground while preserving minor differences.
"Preserving minor differences" goes without saying; as for "seeking the greater common ground," the author believes at least the following points of consensus are required: First, taking the overall situation into account is essential. For example, every member of an orchid association should at least be able to jointly abide by and uphold that association's charter and rules, and not set up a separate set of rules based on personal feelings, still less damage the association's rules and affect its image. Second, honesty and trustworthiness are fundamental; you cannot cheat me and I cannot swindle you, neither honest with nor trusting nor understanding each other, even attacking each other. Third, mutual benefit and mutual gain are best. In fact, the root of many conflicts lies in fame and profit, that is, the struggle for reputation and interest that people often speak of. Everyone is like being in a common orchid garden, and should vie to water, fertilize, and tend it, not just think of "picking the peaches" for themselves to eat.
In orchid transactions, one should not harbor improper intentions, and still less should one build one's own pleasure on another's loss of love. In this foolish one's view, between exchange and buying and selling, being able to make up for each other's lacks, following the market, and neither swindling nor deceiving makes one a true orchid friend.
There is no love in this world without cause or reason; giving away free and taking for free may not mean true friendship, and even if it is, the friendship will hardly last, and it will be hard to have fun growing orchids and grow orchids well.
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