Growing orchids at home has had six profound meanings since ancient times, yet few people know about them
The orchid is one of China's top ten famous flowers, and a flower deeply loved since ancient times by everyone from emperors down to ordinary common people. But since ancient times, people have grown orchids for five profound meanings that remain unchanged to this day, and this is also something few people know.
1. Plum blossom, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum have been four cultivated flowers greatly loved since ancient times, representing a kind of moral integrity. The orchid in particular symbolizes nobility, elegance and unswerving loyalty, and is a symbol of refined taste. This orchid culture has a history of more than 2000 years. 2. Since ancient times, the orchid has carried extremely high feng shui significance, representing the gathering of popularity, the command of power, and the expansion of interpersonal relationships.
3. The fragrance of the orchid is very good at helping with sleep and calming the mind, and it can also eliminate bacteria and purify the air. The orchid is also a very clean plant, and the growing space the orchid needs is exactly the living environment people need. Creating a suitable growing environment for the orchid is equivalent to regulating body and mind for people. 4. Chinese orchids have an elusive wafting fragrance, along with dignified floral looks and an understated, elegant bearing, and are honored as "the finest fragrance under heaven." This is also one of the main reasons people love orchids.
5. The fragrance of the orchid differs from other fragrances: it comes and goes, appears and disappears, is sometimes near and sometimes far, utterly mysterious. Besides the fragrance, the orchid's noble and quiet elegance, its refusal to vie for splendor with peach and plum blossoms, and its character of not changing color because of frost and snow, its leaves staying fresh green all year round, combining strength and softness with a graceful posture, make it a living work of art even when it is not in flower. 6. In ancient times people called the orchid the king of grasses. People love the orchid, love her elegance. What a noble and quietly refined beauty, blooming in silence. The orchid is the outstanding one among the Four Gentlemen; people can see that she does not live for worldly conventions, does not live for riches and splendor, but blooms only for herself.