In this spring when birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, let's go out of the room and enjoy the beautiful scenery of nature's red flowers and green grass, which is equivalent to taking part in the best health-keeping exercise. "Flower viewing is an elegant thing, which makes people feel happy and prolongs life." Indeed, flower viewing is an activity that is beneficial to your physical and mental health.
When you enjoy the color, fragrance, posture and rhyme of flowers with great interest, you can not only cultivate your sentiment and add interest to life, but also be of great benefit to your physical and mental health. Colorful flowers can adjust people's mood, for example, red can promote people's appetite; Green can play a role in stabilizing mood, eliminating anxiety, eliminating visual pollution and protecting eyes; Purple can make pregnant women feel calm; Light blue has a good sedative effect on patients with fever; Red, orange and yellow can make people feel warm and experience enthusiasm and excitement; Blue, white and blue give people a cool, quiet and solemn feeling. As for the fragrance of flowers, it is even more amazing. Elegant jasmine makes people nervous and calm; The rich tulip has a refreshing effect; The fragrance of mint can make people excited and improve work efficiency; The fragrance of chrysanthemum can stimulate children's wisdom and aura, and develop curiosity and thirst for knowledge; The scent of daffodils and violets can make people feel warm and linger; The scent of carnation, a popular flower in the United States, can awaken old people's good memories of the past; The fragrance of lily of the valley can make people's spirit more concentrated; The smell of perilla can enhance people's memory; The fragrance of geranium can relieve tension; Apple fragrance has the greatest influence on people's psychology, and has obvious effect of eliminating depression.
Why does aroma have such obvious and magical effect and influence on people's emotions? Experts in the scientific field believe that after being absorbed by human respiratory mucosa, fragrance molecules stimulate human olfactory cells, thus affecting the excitement or inhibition of cerebral cortex, regulating systemic metabolism and balancing neurological function. After contacting with olfactory cells in nasal cavity, the smell of aromatic oil will be transmitted to cerebral cortex through olfactory nerve, which will make people feel "refreshed" and make blood vessels harmonious and unobstructed, thus naturally regulating various physiological functions of people.
"If you often walk among flowers, you can live to be 99 years old." When people are full of sadness and step into the world of flowers, the fragrance of flowers is refreshing and the sadness naturally disappears; When people are burning in anger, when they come to the flowers, the aroma will attack people, and it will also make you calm down and have the feeling of "looking at flowers and nourishing your heart". "The disease of seven emotions is also fragrant." Flowers can explain words. The fragrance of flowers is rich, and the flowers are like people. Seeing and smelling them seems to solve people's suffering and happiness. The faint fragrance seems to be telling softly, the strong fragrance seems to be singing happily, the faint fragrance seems to evoke good memories, and the faint fragrance seems to appease the troubled thoughts. The ancients said, "The pen doesn't look good at Yan dance, and the text is irrelevant to enjoy flowers." Yuan Mei, a famous litterateur in Qing Dynasty, also wrote a poem: "After three days of blue smoke, I only feel light and want to get up." These poems all illustrate the close relationship between flower appreciation and health preservation.
It is better to take medicine than to see flowers in spring. The famous writer Lao She wrote in his essay "Raising Flowers": "I always write dozens of words, so I went to the yard to have a look, watered the tree, moved the pot, then went back to the house to write more, then went out, and so on! The combination of mental labor and manual labor is beneficial to the body and mind and is better than taking medicine. " Mr. Lao She's experience in flower cultivation and appreciation is a good inspiration for our work and leisure. Zhang Henshui, a famous modern writer, loves to grow flowers all his life. Besides Four Treasures of the Study, his bookcase is full of flower arrangements. He once wrote: "Wild flowers collected in the countryside are often packed in water bottles for pens and inkstones. If you smile in the green leaves, flowers are sometimes charming. I throw a pen to get a small interest, and I feel embarrassed every time ... This is the most affectionate person in the case. " Caring for red flowers and green leaves will add endless fun to your life.
Going to the suburbs to enjoy flowers in spring can not only appreciate the beauty of nature, but also cure diseases. Isn't this a pleasure?
Roses send friends, lilies tie the knot; A bunch of carnations, deeply grateful to my mother ... Flowers, as daily consumer goods, entered thousands of families who began to get rich.
Flowers are a symbol of beauty and a sign of health and progress. There are many flowers in life, which not only have ornamental value, but also have the effects of beauty beauty, nourishing and prolonging life, treating diseases and strengthening the body. Flowers and people's lives are inextricably linked directly and indirectly.
(1) beautify the environment
Choose all kinds of flowers with certain ornamental value indoors and outdoors, plant and place them according to certain aesthetic principles, so that people can live, live and study in a beautiful and comfortable environment and bring people a happy mood.
(2) regulating climate
Flowers and trees can adjust the temperature and humidity of the air. Where there are flowers, you can form a small environment that is warm in winter and cool in summer. According to the measurement, the temperature can be reduced by 3 ~ 5℃ and the humidity can be increased by 10% ~ 20% in places with trees in summer.
(3) Purify the air
Many flowers have the function of adsorbing and filtering all kinds of dust in the air. According to the measurement, the dust in the place where there are trees and flowers is 56.7% less than that in the open space, which is also 1.5 meters from the ground. Flowers can also provide a lot of oxygen. According to the measurement, it can absorb carbon dioxide 1.5g per square meter of leaf area per hour (equivalent to 3 times of carbon dioxide exhaled by an adult every day) and release 3.8g of oxygen. The huge leaf area can continuously provide oxygen and fresh air through continuous photosynthesis. Indoor, the room with flowers contains 50% less mold and bacteria than the room without flowers. Flowers can absorb toxic gases harmful to human health, such as sulfur dioxide and hydrogen fluoride, but the flowers themselves are not harmed. Flowers and trees transmit the absorbed harmful gases to the roots, and microorganisms parasitic on the roots will decompose them. It has also been found that there are some succulents similar to cactus that grow in tropical arid areas, and their photosynthesis mode is completely different from that of ordinary plants. They only open their stomata at night to absorb carbon dioxide, and completely close their stomata during the day, so that the carbon dioxide produced in the process of breathing at night can be absorbed and digested by themselves, and will not be excreted, thus making the air fresh. According to the measurement, a pot of pineapple can absorb more than100g of carbon dioxide every night. A person emits about 300 grams of carbon dioxide in 8 hours at night. In this way, as long as you put two pots of pineapple in the room of 10 square meter, the indoor air can be completely fresh.
(4) medical care
According to statistics, there are hundreds of kinds of flowers that can emit different scents. The fragrance of flowers can make people feel comfortable, eliminate fatigue and treat diseases at the same time. For example, cloves can relieve pain; Pine and cypress can secrete some fungicides. In addition, many varieties of flowers are traditional precious Chinese herbal medicines. According to statistics, among more than 2,200 kinds of medicinal materials, flower medicinal materials account for 1/3. For example, Ginkgo biloba is an excellent medicinal material for treating cardiovascular diseases, Eucommia ulmoides can tonify liver and kidney, prevent miscarriage and lower blood pressure, and Paeonia lactiflora, Forsythia suspensa and Lonicera japonica Thunb. , safflower, pomegranate and honeysuckle. It plays an important role in protecting people's health and treating diseases.
(5) delicious food
Flowers are an important resource of medicinal diet in China. Many flowers are nutritious vegetables, such as white orchids, osmanthus, cactus, roses, jasmine and so on. Can be used as delicious vegetables and cakes. There are many pollen bodybuilding supplements on the market now, which can prevent aging, stimulate appetite and lose weight. According to the determination, pollen contains 96 kinds of substances, including 22 kinds of amino acids and 4 kinds of vitamins/kloc-0, which contains almost all the vitamins needed for human growth and development. Such as aloe candy, aloe beverage, reed moss bread, aloe cake, etc., are very popular in foreign markets. Flower beauty and skin care products are popular all over the world. Such as cactus facial cleanser, aloe facial cleanser, aloe lipstick, aloe toothpaste, etc. According to the determination, aloe contains a lot of plant protein and vitamins A, B, C, E and mesothelin. These vitamins can reduce the wrinkles of human skin, increase the elasticity of skin, and have a strange effect.
(6) Monitoring function
Some flowers will react quickly when they encounter some toxic substances, thus playing a role in forecasting. They can be called guardians of the environment. If pine and fir trees encounter sulfur dioxide, the needles will turn yellow and dry. Dingshan, apricot and walnut are sensitive to automobile exhaust. Rhododendron, peony, tulip, cherry blossom, evergreen, gladiolus, etc. Sensitive to hydrogen nitride, when exposed to toxic gases, purple or dark brown spots will appear on the tips or edges of leaves. This flower is very sensitive to ozone. The universe is sensitive to chlorine. They become alarms about the presence and concentration of toxic gases.
(7) Predicting special disasters
Some flowers and trees changed abnormally before the earthquake. For example, before the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, some willow branches in Tianjin died, bamboo blossomed, and fruit trees blossomed again after bearing fruit. Many apricot trees bloomed for the second time before the February earthquake in Liaoning sea area, 1976. These phenomena can be used as a reference for earthquake prediction.
(8) Shelter in special period
In many earthquake areas, the big trees in the surrounding green space effectively prevented the collapse of adjacent buildings and played a role in fire prevention. Vertical greening effectively prevents people from being hurt by falling debris. They are also temporary habitats for floods. In addition, flowers can effectively prevent soil erosion and protect farmland. It also has the functions of reducing noise pollution, preventing light pollution, reducing wind speed, increasing sunlight illumination and reducing the harm of ultraviolet rays to human body.
(9) The fragrance of flowers can make people feel gratified. The taste of lemon is positive and exciting; The sweetness of osmanthus makes people eliminate physical and mental fatigue; The fragrance of daffodils and lotus flowers can induce warm and romantic feelings; The fragrance of violets and roses is refreshing; Apricot blossom fragrance can arouse people's good memories; The fragrance of cloves and jasmine can make people feel relaxed, and the fragrance of cloves can also alleviate the pain of toothache; Geranium flower has the effects of calming, sleeping and relieving asthma; Jasmine fragrance can also dispel drowsiness.
It can be seen that flowers play an important role in preventing air pollution, purifying the air in residential areas and improving the living and working environment. Flowers are elegant gifts for people's friendly exchanges and mutual gifts, and they are symbols and messengers of civilization.
With the improvement of people's material life and spiritual civilization, people use flowers to cultivate their sentiments, and self-cultivation is becoming more and more common. There used to be many elderly people in the flower and bird market, but now, not only the elderly love to get along with flowers, but also many young people have joined the ranks. Flowers have quietly entered the life of urbanites.
There are many kinds of flowers in the world. They are everywhere. Flowers are inextricably linked with people's lives. It can not only be used as medicine, but also beautify and purify the environment, which is pleasing to the eye and naturally beneficial to people's physical and mental health. Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, eye-catching As early as the Three Kingdoms period, Hua Tuo used clove, vanilla, sandalwood, safflower and chrysanthemum to treat respiratory diseases or injuries, and the effect was satisfactory. This prescription has been handed down to this day. The ancients called pine, bamboo and plum "three friends of the old cold", while plum, bamboo, orchid and chrysanthemum were "four gentlemen". Peony, begonia and magnolia were matched with each other, which meant that Yutang was rich. Scholars of all ages also compiled a "flower calendar" in December. Not only in China, but also in many countries in the world, all kinds of flowers are "anthropomorphic" and have their own flower language. In a word, flowers are closely related to people's lives and have a certain effect on people's health.
In 1970s, Russia and Germany used gardening therapy to treat hypertension, depression and insomnia of the elderly. The method is to arrange elderly patients to engage in street park labor, such as loosening soil and weeding, planting flowers and trees, etc. On the one hand, they open their hearts, enjoy colorful and intoxicating flowers in relaxed physical labor, and the disease disappears unconsciously.
At present, the effect of flower color on human body can't be described by numerical value and language, but its effect can be reflected in practice. If you put a pot of blooming blue flowers beside the bed of a fever patient, it will be enough to calm the patient down. If workers who use their eyes and brains for a long time often face clusters of green bonsai, they will be fresh and refreshing, and will immediately eliminate physical and mental fatigue. In addition, white flowers make people feel sacred and pure, quiet and cool. Red, orange and yellow make people feel excited and relaxed. If people have the opportunity to watch mountains and rivers, gardens or courtyards often, it will be very interesting and beneficial to see all kinds of flowers with green background indoors.
All kinds of fragrant flowers can reach the brain center directly through the olfactory nerve of nasal passage, which can improve brain function and stimulate euphoria, and have certain effects on disease rehabilitation and prevention. Modern science has proved that floral molecular particles not only have bactericidal effect, but also purify the environment. Different floral scents can have therapeutic effects on different diseases. For example, clove contains eugenol, and its fragrance can relieve pain and calm down; Osmanthus fragrans has the fragrance of relieving depression and avoiding filth, which is helpful to treat manic psychosis; The fragrance of lavender is effective in treating tachycardia; The fragrance of jasmine and orchid can repel mosquitoes, prevent diseases and so on. Modern scientists have uncovered the mystery of fragrant flowers, which makes people intoxicated and happy. It turns out that there are a lot of fragrant oil cells on stamens and petals. But also continuously releases aromatic oil, which is caused by air diffusion.
Flowers can be used as health food for banquets and family dining tables, or as medicine, or extracted from pollen nectar to keep fit and prolong life.
Planting flowers helps to improve people's abilities in all aspects.
Raising flowers can improve cognitive ability. If you plant two different plants, you should first judge their types, attributes and preferences, and then cultivate them according to your own cognitive level. Observe its growth in the process of training, confirm your understanding and constantly improve. This is the cultivation of breeder's cognition. Although there is no effect in a short time, long-term training will often make the improvement of ability slow and steady.
Raising flowers can improve your concentration. When people grow flowers, they will carefully observe the growth characteristics of flowers, stems, leaves and fruits and observe their living habits. Some flowers are very delicate and need meticulous care and concentration; Even if some flowers are easy to grow, if the owner ignores the problems of tight soil and water shortage for a long time, they will still die. Attention is also an indispensable factor in flower cultivation.
Growing flowers can develop people's imagination. In ancient times, many literati had deep thoughts on flowers, and in their works, we can feel their rich imagination. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, He imagined Liu Shu as a woman with a small green family, with outstanding image and unpretentious. Some people even imagine daffodils as "Lingbo fairies" and maple leaves as "the brilliance of life". Loving flowers broadens the knowledge, enriches the representation reserve, stimulates the creative motivation and makes people think actively. This is very beneficial to the cultivation of imagination.
Raising flowers can cultivate the will and the ability to act. To cultivate a plant, of course, it is necessary to take good care of it if it grows well, so as to clarify its purpose and enhance its sense of responsibility, which is the first step to cultivate its will and ability to act. The second step, in the process of cultivation, if you encounter difficulties such as pests and illness, you need to find a way independently and don't stop until you are cured. This kind of practical activity will enable everyone to learn perseverance and the ability to solve problems independently after enriching their lives.
Flowers have the ability to regulate emotions. Visiting relatives and friends, visiting patients might as well send flowers, which not only has ornamental value, but also can give people proper emotional adjustment and bring positive to others.
Flowers can also regulate and control emotions. Because flowers are dumb creatures, growers must always care and pay attention to them, which can cultivate a certain sense of obligation and responsibility. Get along with flowers, people should keep a calm mood. In this way, we can feel the "breathing" and real life of these seemingly static creatures with our hearts. This can make people calm and rational.
Flowers are beautiful things. As we all know, they cultivate people's sense of beauty. It is suggested that people insert one or two pots of flowers in their spare time. The combination of shape and color between flowers is the highest level of aesthetics.
Finally, the cultivation of flower's personality ability. Throughout the ages, people have endowed all kinds of flowers with individuality. Such as: bamboo, leafy, is a symbol of perseverance and integrity. Su Dongpo likes peonies and is a representative of friendship and peace. Cultivate the flowers you like to appreciate, flowers will cultivate people and cultivate people. Some people like to grow cacti and cacti. These plants are drought-resistant and heat-resistant, and are relatively strong. Some people like to raise daffodils, which bloom in cold winter and grow stronger. To love flowers means to love the personality connotation of flowers, and to love flowers means to imitate flowers, whether consciously or unconsciously. But in short, it has a chilling effect on his personality shaping.
Flowers have gradually occupied people's life and spiritual world. The beauty and connotation of flowers have been deeply rooted in people's hearts. I hope people can decorate their spiritual world and their environment with flowers.
In the autumn season, all kinds of chrysanthemums are in full bloom in Ao Shuang, adding charming charm to nature. Chrysanthemum not only has ornamental value, but also has excellent dual-purpose of medicine and food, and has good health care value.
Chrysanthemum wine: It is brewed with chrysanthemum as raw material, glutinous rice and distiller's yeast. It was called "longevity wine" in ancient times. Its taste is cool and sweet, and it has the effects of nourishing liver and improving eyesight, strengthening brain and delaying aging.
Chrysanthemum porridge: use chrysanthemum and japonica rice to cook porridge, which is waxy and refreshing, can clear the heart and remove troubles, and is pleasing to the eye and dry.
Chrysanthemum tea: Tea made of chrysanthemum, with fragrant smell, can relieve summer heat, promote fluid production, dispel wind, moisten throat, nourish eyes and relieve hangover.
Chrysanthemum cake: mix chrysanthemums into rice pulp and steam them to make cakes, or make cakes with mung bean powder and chrysanthemums, which has the therapeutic effect of cooling and removing fire.
Chrysanthemum: "Chrysanthemum Sliced Meat" is fried with chrysanthemum and pork and snake meat or cooked with fish and chicken. Excellent meat quality, nourishing but not greasy, refreshing, and can be used to treat dizziness and wind-heat disorder.
Chrysanthemum soup: use tremella or lotus seeds to cook or steam chrysanthemum into soup, and add a little rock sugar to clear away heat and benefit the five internal organs and treat dizziness.
Chrysanthemum paste: fresh chrysanthemum is boiled in water, filtered and concentrated, mixed with refined honey and made into paste, which has the effects of dispelling wind, clearing heat and improving eyesight.
Chrysanthemum pillow: Put chrysanthemum petals into the pillow after drying in the shade, which has a good effect on hypertension, dizziness, insomnia and red eyes.
Chrysanthemum kneepad: Chrysanthemum and Folium Artemisiae Argyi are mashed into coarse powder and packed into gauze bags to make kneepad, which can dispel wind and remove dampness, reduce swelling and relieve pain, and treat arthritis such as crane knee wind.
Chrysanthemum fragrance: it has the effect of dispersing wind and calming the liver. Smelling it has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on colds and headaches.
The reason why flowers and plants make people feel the same is that they have their own moving features. Some are called Xiancao, which reminds people of the classic charm. Like the vanilla in Li Sao, people feel that most of them belong to extraordinary people. The beautyberry in A Dream of Red Mansions is a typical example of empathy of flowers and plants.
Accompanied by bamboo, people feel that there are no laymen. Orchids in the room and chrysanthemums by the fence are all elegant things. High stones can be used to send feelings, ordinary people can beautify the environment and cultivate their temperament, and flowers and plants are of great benefit to people. Tao Qian loves chrysanthemums, Lin Bu's wife Mei, and Zhou Dunyi loves lotus flowers without dyeing, all of which are typical anthomaniac. People and flowers have the same feelings, flowers and plants have the same feelings, and flowers and people come down in one continuous line. Li Yu, a great genius in Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially loved daffodils. He said: "When daffodils are in full bloom, they are given life. There are four lives, one for each department, daffodil orchid spring, lotus summer, begonia autumn and wintersweet. Without these four flowers, there would be no life. A festival without a flower is a season's life. " Comparing flowers to "life" shows the depth of love. A person can go to the wedding, but it can't be said that the elegant people are full, but there are flowers and plants around, so it can be said that the elegant people are full. People like flowers and plants because their beauty makes people feel the same. Then there is its elegance, not vulgar. The greatest advantage of flowers and plants is to get rid of customs. Gorgeous bedroom, decorated with several pots of flowers and plants, can add elegance; Just put a few pots of flowers and plants in my humble room to look good. This "emotional thing" of flowers and plants makes people feel amazing!
For example, when the seasons change, what can stimulate people's mood most? Spring came, a daffodil bloomed, a peach blossom came out of the wall, and the atmosphere immediately became thick. Sometimes the feeling of summer is almost replaced by lotus flowers. If you are in an ordinary and unconscious life, suddenly one day, your family bought a pot of chrysanthemums from the street and put them on the windowsill, which will surprise you: autumn is coming! As for wintersweet, it is simply a wisp of soul in the severe winter.
Spring has arrived, and the alleys and wild vegetables are blooming together and thriving. If the spring breeze fills the lane, thousands of trees bloom together, which makes people feel that the peak season of life, one withered and one glorious, can not help but make people feel deeply touched.
Thoughts on flower cultivation
Flowers are a gift from nature to human beings. I have an indissoluble bond with flowers since I was a child.
I was born in a small mountain village in the northeast of Jiangxi. Surrounded by green hills, birds are singing and flowers are fragrant. In spring, peach blossoms and willows are green, and clusters of azaleas are particularly enchanting in the sun. In summer, the lotus is full of pool, graceful and beautiful. In autumn, the mountains are covered with black mortar and maple leaves. Early winter is covered with snow, and plum blossoms are in full bloom in spring. In this ubiquitous environment, I naturally have a special love for flower cultivation since I was a child.
Later, when I joined the work, my interest in flowers remained undiminished. Every time I go to the street, I always visit the flower market. Although some flowers are expensive, I should try to buy one or two and handle them carefully. Working in the countryside, you will never miss the opportunity to find exotic flowers and plants. Over time, there are now 100 pots of flowers and trees planted in two small gardens in front of and behind my house, and there are often bloom all year round.
In his later years, he had a persistent pursuit and understanding of the way to raise flowers. First, growing flowers can exercise. Throughout the year, it is good for physical and mental health to participate in labor such as planting flowers, weeding, pest control, disease prevention, watering and fertilization. Move hundreds of pots of flowers and trees to the shade in summer and take good care of them. I feel refreshed and sweaty every day. Before the storm, mobilize the whole family to move some precious flowers and trees indoors to avoid wind and rain attacks; After the rain stopped, the flowers and trees were sent outside. This kind of back and forth, repeated labor, for me, is a useful exercise. Second, raising flowers can cultivate temperament and enlighten the mind. Bloom's falling flowers often give me a visual impact, arouse the inspiration of creation, express my ambition by holding things, and express my feelings in the landscape. One day in May, 1998, I came back from Jinggangshan photography activities, and the lotus flowers on the windowsill were particularly enchanting and eye-catching. His wife shouted, "Grandpa, come and see, how energetic the lotus is." I walked away and got a sidelight for it. This photographic work was soon published in the supplement of Guanghua Times. Last autumn, the chrysanthemums in front of the window opened for the second time and stood proudly in the wind. Seeing this grand occasion, I wrote a four-line poem: "When I pushed the window, I suddenly saw leaning against the window branch, and Huang Ju bowed his head thoughtfully. Why don't you be afraid that the autumn wind won't blow, the fallen leaves will add cold, and you will write poems. " This poem was selected in China Songs. The third is to cultivate flowers to purify the environment and embellish life. All kinds of flowers and trees are planted in front of and behind my house and on the terrace of my yard to keep out dust and adjust temperature and humidity. On holidays, interior decoration depends entirely on flowers. During the Chinese New Year, I put Daphne, Poinsettia and Narcissus on the low cabinet in the living room. Daphne odora in Phnom Penh is rich in fragrance, fresh and lovely; Poinsettia, bright red, full of room brightness; Narcissus is elegant and fragrant. These flowers add a festive atmosphere to the festival. Fourth, raising flowers can cure diseases and strengthen the body. Many flowers and trees can be used as medicine. Li Shizhen in Ming Dynasty wrote in Compendium of Materia Medica: "The root and leaves of Jasmine are hot and poisonous. Grind them with wine for an inch, wake up in a coma for one day, two inches for two days and three inches for three days. If you use this, anyone who dislocates their joints due to falling will not feel pain. " Jasmine fragrance also has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on dizziness and headache. Some flowers can be used as vegetables and wine. Su Dongpo once recited a poem about peony flowers brewing peony wine in the Song Dynasty: "Changchun is like a child, swaying lightly." Mao wine makes beauty, and HongLing rolls clothes. "
I lived a full life in my later years. I really want to thank the flowers and trees. They created a warm and cultured little world for me.
Raise your eyes and your heart and say, raise flowers.
I like growing flowers, especially orchids, which is good for my health.
Orchid, once praised by the ancients as "the king's fragrance", is not as elegant as peony, nor as charming and moving as rose, but its leaves are soft and long, with elegant colors and elegant posture, especially its pure and distant fragrance, which is always indoors and full of fragrance, making people intoxicated. In the past, Zhu De, Dong, Chen Yi and other revolutionaries of the older generation did not forget to raise orchids and enjoy them when they were busy. General Zhang Xueliang is a hundred years old, but he still insists on raising orchids for his own entertainment, so as to adjust his later life and express his magnanimity. Therefore, Guolan, which originated in China for thousands of years, is regarded as a symbol of "noble and elegant, determined to be strong". In addition, in the past, many scholar-officials were influenced by the Confucian thought of "cultivating oneself, keeping the family in order, governing the country and calming the world", and gradually formed an orchid culture. So far, more and more people have a soft spot for orchids, which shows that this is not an accidental phenomenon.
At the beginning of my retirement, I changed from a "busy man" to a "idle man". Moreover, the home has changed from "crowded" to "sparsely populated", and it was a little lost and lonely at first. Later, I remembered the famous sentence of Han Yu, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, "Magpies talk endlessly on sunny days, and flowers smell cold after rain." In my opinion, people should be indifferent to their aspirations, be quiet and far-reaching, bid farewell to all kinds of impetuous phenomena of "cross-flow of material desires and cross-flow of power desires", let the tides rise and fall, bloom flowers fall, cold wind and hot rain, and strive to eliminate troubles and strive for the true meaning of health preservation. So I raised twenty or thirty pots of orchids at home. What I raise is not those rare treasures with priceless value, but cymbidium with Lingnan characteristics, such as "Golden Mouth", "Silver Edge", "Enterprise Black" and "Enterprise Sword Bai Mo" (referred to as gold, silver, black and white for short). These varieties have moderate price, simple cultivation and high ornamental value. I often drench it with water, fertilize it, kill insects and prevent diseases. I can not only exercise in light labor, but also enjoy art visually by appreciating orchids every day. I am over 70 years old, suffering from hypertension, cerebral arteriosclerosis and other diseases. Sometimes I feel dizzy and short of breath. Besides taking medicine, I also went to the balcony to enjoy orchids, which relaxed my mood and eased my illness. This made me realize that if you want to keep in good health, you must first raise your eyes and your heart. Starting from being close to nature, you can make your spirit more cheerful, your ideas more open-minded, and you can be more free and easy with the world. Moreover, orchids can beautify life, stay in spring, help future generations develop the virtue of caring for flowers and plants, and add harmony and warmth to the family.