Orchidaceae tubers after detecting the plants underground by scent. Orchids have been used in traditional medicine in an effort to treat many diseases and ailments. They have been used as a source of herbal remedies in China since 2800 BC. "Gastrodia elata" is one of the three orchids listed in the earliest known Chinese Materia Medica ("Shennon bencaojing") (c. 100 AD). Theophrastus mentions orchids in his "Enquiry into Plants" (372–286 BC). Orchids have many associations with symbolic values. For example, the orchid is the City Flower of Shaoxing, China. "Cattleya mossiae" is the national Venezuelan flower, while "Cattleya trianae" is 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