Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds (1871) is an oil on mahogany panel picture by Martin Johnson Heade acquired by the National Gallery of Art in 1982. Inspired perhaps by the works of Charles Darwin and Frederic Edwin Church, Heade planned to produce a deluxe book in the 1860s depicting Brazilian hummingbirds in tropical settings, and, to that end, created a series of 40 small pictures called "The Gems of Brazil". The project was abandoned, but Heade retained his interest in hummingbirds and continued to paint them in combination with orchids and jungle backgrounds through the
The Torment of a Flower children's songs. In 1934, Chou Tien-wang () was working in a record company Taiwan Columbia (古倫美亞唱片), once he went to a nightclub and heard a sad story about a girl worked there. Chou was touched, he decide to rewrite the lyrics of "Spring", wrote the story into Teng's music, that is "The Torment of a Flower". It's the first work of Teng and Chou with each other. Especially, there was usually three part lyrics in a Taiwanese Hokkien songs then, but there was four parts in The Torment of a Flower. The first part of the lyrics means: "Blossom in