What was Cao Zhi's description of orchids in the Three Kingdoms?
During the Three Kingdoms period, there was a sentence in Cao Zhi's poem The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, which indicated that orchids had been used to decorate the courtyard and beautify the environment. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the cultivation of orchids was more active. Wang Zhonglan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once "raised strange stones with yellow magnets, and flourished". Yi Yan of Materia Medica, written by Kouzong in Song Dynasty, said: Orchids are evergreen all the year round, with yellow flowers and fine purple spots on their leaves. The one with spring fragrance is Chunlan, which is darker in color; Fang Qiu is Qiu Lan, light color. "[1] accurately describes the morphology of orchids. Zhang Jin Lan Pu written by Zhao Shigeng in Song Dynasty is the earliest orchid monograph in China, which describes 40 orchid varieties, mainly orchids, such as Chen Mengliang, Jinlianbian and Yu () Orchid [2]. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the prosperous period of orchid cultivation, and Fujian Shushu mentioned that the orchid cultivation in Fuxing four counties was particularly prosperous, and orchids were widely circulated among the people. After Qianlong in Qing Dynasty, Jiangsu and Zhejiang gradually became the center of orchid planting, and flower markets prevailed in Shanghai, Suzhou and Jiaxing.