It was early spring, and along the way, the farm turned over the ditch and crossed the hurdles, walked through the jungle, climbed the cliffs, just for the wild orchids in the mountains.

In the mountains, the forests are luxuriant, the birds are singing, and the mountain springs are murmuring. As the Ming Dynasty poet Xue Wang recited affectionately in the poem "Orchid":

"I love the orchid, and I don't make the color of the spring sun.

The west wind and cold dew are deep in the forest, and no one is fragrant. ”

The black soil in this mountain is covered with thick fallen leaves, like a quilt covering a bed of buds. A few wild orchids quietly breathe the fragrance in the mountains and forests, mixed with the deep smell of the trees. Only the mountain wind, forest fog, natural rain and dew, sunshine and earth qi nourishment, will be so handsome, beautiful, fragrant for a long time.

It takes about 20 days from the time the arrow is unearthed to the time it is in full bloom. The wild orchid in front of me, growing luxuriantly, the leaves are much broader, the slender branches hold the yolk flowers, trembling, squirming with the secret words of life, it blooms in the lonely mountain wilderness, there are no regrets, only looking back on the expectation.

After careful observation by Nongtian, there are two kinds of Jingshan bluegrass:

One kind of leaves are relatively short, thick, and only have one flower, faint, not very fragrant, which is what people often call orchid; The other kind of leaves are relatively long, and the leaves are pierced out like a sword, and a bunch of flowers blooms, which are generally called hui.

The fragrance of orchids, and the fragrance of Hui Hua is stronger, more depressed, and more distant, so it is called Hui.

Locals call orchids, also known as grass orchids. Although it is not the best in the orchid family, its flowers are the most fragrant. Especially in the wild, even if you are far away, you can smell the fragrance of orchid flowers.

Nong Tianyi is a caring person, he consulted a large number of ancient books, and finally understood that in ancient times, orchids were often called "Hui", and "Hui" refers to the "Huixin" of Chinese orchids, which means Chinese herbs, which belong to rare species. There is a poem: "The green leaves and light flowers are fragrant, and the deep mountain courtyard is fragrant", no wonder this wild orchid is fragrant all over the world.

In the deep mountains and valleys of Jing Mountain, sunny slopes, or shrubs and jungles, many wild orchids grow. And these places are often accompanied by the growth of tea trees.

Every year in March and April of the solar calendar, it is the season of flowering of Jingshan orchid, and the fragrance of orchids is wafting all over the field, even if only one branch opens, the wind blows, and the mountain can smell its aroma. Whenever the orchid grass blooms, Wu Qing will break off its flower branches and insert them into a bottle filled with water, and the fragrance of the flowers can last for a week.

Although I have seen Junzi orchid and other unknown orchids, their floral fragrance is far from the fragrance of Jingshan orchid flowers.

When he didn't know Junzi Orchid, Nong Tianyi thought that the orchid grass in this barren mountain and wild ridge was Junzi Orchid. Because of curiosity, he went to the ancient books to check the information, and found that the form of Jingshan orchid grass flowers, similar to Chunxiang or Huilan, after careful comparison, I feel that there are subtle differences, this may be the fragrance of Jingshan orchid grass flowers, with a unique regional style and charm.

Since leaving Jingshan to engage in the tea business in Hankou, during this time, Nong Tianyi has not seen bluegrass flowers for a long time. Although the fragrance of orchids is sometimes heard in the city, most of them are emanating from the downtown where you pass by, and it is more rich, less fragrant, and lacks a long-lasting fragrance, and disappears three steps away.

Not long ago, Nong Tianyi and his family went to the mountains to plant greens, and when they saw the bluegrass on the mountain, it was like meeting a long-lost relative and wanting to dig a plant and plant it at home. It seems a little cruel. He found a budding orchid and a few wild tea trees next to it. In order to keep the original living environment of this orchid, I brought some extra soil and planted it in a pot when I returned home.

Nong Tianqin also likes it very much.

His mother said: "The fragrance of orchid tea complements each other." ”

By the time of Qingming, the flower branches were nearly a foot high, and the flower buds had not yet opened. It is estimated that in a few days, it will bloom.

Two days later, as soon as Nong Tian opened the window, sure enough, he smelled the long-lost fragrance of wild orchid flowers. When I looked closer, a bud had bloomed. When he walked out of the bedroom the next morning, a sweet fragrance came in, and the fragrance of flowers involuntarily swam into every cell of his life. Up close, all the buds are scattered, as if they have broken free, and the fragrance has loosened its shackles. There seemed to be a mountain fragrance wind coming, and he took a few deep breaths of this mountain and wild spirit grass, as if he had gained a burst of comfort.

The orchid stands outside the lonely window, like standing in the forest that no one cares about, silently blooming its natural nature. There is a poem that says:

"The palace on the sea never sleeps, and the palace lights shine like the moon.

Pick the vanilla and clear the infinite, covering the palace lamps to the fullest. ”

Orchid, its leaves are handsome and elegant, its fragrance is quiet and elegant, since more than 2,000 years ago by Confucius praised as "the king's incense", the reputation has risen, and it is loved and praised by future generations, and is one of the top ten traditional famous flowers.

Tea, young buds and fragrant leaves, fragrant and delicious, is one of the "seven things to open the door" for a long time.

The ancients used to use orchid to make tea, and to use orchid into tea, and the influence was profound.

There are two theories about the origin of the name of orchid tea: one is that the buds and leaves are connected to the branches, shaped like a branch of orchid flowers; The second is that when the orchids are in full bloom in the mountains, the tea absorbs the fragrance of orchids, so it is named.

Orchids and tea are tropical and subtropical plants. In China, the distribution area of orchids is almost equal to that of tea, and orchids have strong reproductive and continuous ability, wide adaptability and many varieties.

There are spring orchids in spring, orchids in early summer, Jianlan in summer and autumn, cold orchids and black orchids in winter and spring, and the fragrance of flowers is endless in all seasons.

The orchid has a stable fragrance, the flowering period is about one month, and the peak fragrance release period is seven to ten days, and the aroma is high and the fragrance is unique.

Some people say that the orchid is a cultural symbol. Then, the combination of orchid and tea will also help promote the development of tea culture.

There is a legend in this mountain.

According to legend, there was a merchant who dealt in tea. Because of his successful management, he has become a well-known local wealthy man for more than ten years.

Because he was born in a poor family, he is very considerate of the poor neighbors, and often helps them, but he is coarse tea and light rice on weekdays, but he still lives a hard life, he has a hobby, that is, Ailan, Cailan, and raising Lan, and often spends a lot of money in order to get a pot of good orchid. His family lives in the cloudy mountains, and in the spring, whenever he has spare time, he goes up the mountain to look for orchids. Although he went up to the mountains every year to look around, he never found a good orchid.

One night in the early spring of one year, he lay alone in bed, thinking that he would go up the mountain to look for orchids tomorrow morning, but when he thought that good flowers were rare, and was struggling to find them, he felt that his mind was foggy and sleepy. In the haze, he suddenly saw a gray-haired old woman, leading a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, standing in front of him, and wanted to entrust the girl to him as a slave.

He looked carefully and saw that the girl was handsome. After talking, she learned that the girl was a helpless orphan, and the old woman was her neighbor, and out of kindness, she wanted to help the girl find a way out. I heard that he had a good heart, so he brought her to join his family. So he immediately nodded and agreed to adopt the girl as a righteous daughter. Then the old woman said goodbye.

In an instant, a spring thunder rumbled, waking him up, and he realized that it was just a spring dream just now.

The next day, he still went up the mountain to pick orchids. He searched mountain after mountain, until the sun set in the west, and he did not come across a good orchid. He had to drag his two tired legs down the mountain slowly. Accidentally, he tripped over a rock and fell on his back.

He sat up slowly, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and in the setting sun, there was a small clump of bluegrass beside him gently shaking in the breeze, and then he looked closely: the semi-curved leaves were rigid and soft, exuding a quiet fragrance, which was indeed different, and there was a flower in the middle. He dug it out carefully, and when he got home, he hurriedly planted it in a pot.

In less than half a month, the orchid is elongated, the flowers are higher than the orchid leaves, the petals are round and the head is sharp, the bangs are tongue, and the fragrance is beautiful, which is indeed a treasure in the orchid.

He is like a treasure, he looks at it in the morning, at noon, and at night under the lamp, and he looks at it carefully, and he is as if he is fascinated and very happy.

Suddenly, his heart flashed, remembering the dream half a month ago, ah, he understood: the flower-shaped leaf shape of this orchid is so beautiful, isn't it the girl he saw in the dream? Now it seems that the old woman is the one who gave the orchid fairy. Since then, he has cultivated this orchid more carefully, and continued to let it multiply, and named it "Chu Xianlan".

In the depths of Jing Mountain, among the lush mountains, the old houses are continuous, lying quietly under the spring sun, revealing a kind of Zen in the ancient: the valley is verdant, the white walls and black tiles, the trees are transparent, and the bamboo is surrounded, or two or three old ginkgo biloba, and the dense branches and leaves hold the boundless spring and autumn years.

On the way back, the spring sun was already slanting. The fragrance of Nalan is long, the fragrance of tea is fragrant, and the traces of Nalan tea are also secluded.

Nonglu sighed: "Orchid tea symbiosis from generation to generation. ”

Nong Tian suddenly realized: "The fragrance of orchid tea is integrated." ”