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Extracted from Golden Goat Website


In history, people have created lots of terms related to orchids due the respects and intimations to orchids, in order to express the praises for the beautiful things around them. Enclosed with some for reference: 


Lan Yan (in Chinese): the congenial comment with other persons.

Lan Jiao (in Chinese): people with common goals.



Lan Jin (in Chinese)£ºwith the clothes to metaphor the close friends.  

Jin lan (in Chinese): find each other congenial, and swear to be brothers or sisters.  



Lan Ke(in Chinese): fine and distinguished guests.

Lan Shi(in Chinese): the fine virtues like the fragrant orchids. 



Lan Zhi (in Chinese): the high value of virtues like orchids.

Lan Ai (in Chinese): Lan stands for the beautiful things, while the Ai stands for the ugly ones, which are against to each other, and can¡¯t be mentioned together. 



Lan Zhi (in Chinese)£ºLan stands for orchid, and Zhi stands for Ganoderma lucidum, which are embodiments of fine virtues. 

Lan Zhang (in Chinese): exquisite articles and books.

Lan Zhao (in Chinese): fine words.

Lan Xun (in Chinese)£ºgood books or writings or news.



Lan Gui, Lan Fang (in Chinese): girl¡¯s bedroom.


Lan Tu (in Chinese): a bright future.


Lan Zhao (in Chinese): Woman is going to give birth a baby boy.


Lan Xiu (in Chinese): delicious food.


Lan Ye (in Chinese)£ºthe night on the seventh of July in Chinese lunar month.


Lan Qi (in Chinese)£º the good date for appointment. 

Cai Lan Zeng Yao (in Chinese): literally the youths give each other food as a token of love.



Zhi Lan Zhi Shi (in Chinese): elegance and fragrance, which referring to fine environment


Lan Xin Hui Xing (in Chinese): referring to the graceful and kind woman with good virtues.


Lan Ai Tong Fen (in Chinese)£ºliterally the orchid and Artemisia burned together, which mean the good man and bad man destroyed together.