Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds 1870s. The NGA describes the work: "Lichen covers dead branches; moss drips from trees; and, a blue-gray mist veils the distant jungle. An opulent pink orchid with light-green stems and pods dominates the left foreground." On the right, two green-and-pink Brazilian Amethysts hover about a nest while a red-tailed Sappho Comet perches nearby. 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
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