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In the morning light of Singapore’s National Day, the red and white national flag and the Vanda Miss Joaquim orchid complement each other, which not only contains the spiritual totem of the country, but also coincides with the profound philosophy of the orchid pen holder on every citizen’s desk. The red of the national flag is the fire of equality that never goes out day and night; the white is the pure ideal that stays in the heart forever; the five stars and the moon illuminate the belief in diverse coexistence. In the glaze of the orchid pen holder, the plain white ceramic holds up the blooming purple orchid petals, just like the ingenuity of condensing the national character into an everyday object. The uneven pen holders in the pen holder are just like the different ethnic groups in Lion City showing their strengths, but achieving harmonious resonance in the tolerance of the barrel wall. This object engraved with the national flower is actually a miniature spiritual totem. When the fingertips touch the warm porcelain surface, you can touch the wisdom of the ancestors that “those who live have their own permanent business” – orchids can bloom in barren rock crevices, just like Singapore rises in resource scarcity. The pen standing upright in the pen holder is a constant reminder: knowledge is a sharp blade that penetrates difficulties, and accumulation is like the ink in the pen holder, which will eventually precipitate the power to change destiny. In this National Day month, every night when I write at my desk, the orchid pen holder is silently telling me: the trajectory of one’s struggle should be like the ink flowing from the tip of the pen, which should stick to the background like the national flag and grow as flexibly as the stem of an orchid. When thousands of such trajectories interweave, they will create the most magnificent scroll of the times under the banner of the stars and the moon.

在新加坡國慶的晨曦中，紅白國旗與卓錦萬代蘭交相輝映，其中蘊含的不僅是國家的精神圖騰，更暗合著每個國民書桌上的蘭花筆筒的深邃哲思。國旗的紅，是平等之火晝夜不熄；白，是純潔理想永駐心間；五顆星月，照亮多元共生的信念。而蘭花筆筒的釉面中，素白陶瓷托起綻放的紫色蘭瓣，恰似用匠心將國家品格凝成日常器物。筆筒中參差的筆桿，正如獅城不同族群各展所長，卻在筒壁的包容中達成和諧共振。這個錕刻有國花的器物，實為微型的精神圖騰。當指尖觸碰溫潤的瓷面，便觸摸到先輩們”居者有其恆業”的智慧－蘭花能在貧瘠岩縫中盛放，正如新加坡在資源匱乏中崛起。筆筒內豎立的筆，時刻提醒著：知識是穿透困境的利刃，而累積如同筒中筆墨，終將沉澱出改變命運的力量。值此國慶月，每個伏案疾書的夜晚，蘭花筆筒都在無聲述說：個人的奮鬥軌跡，當如筆尖流淌的墨跡，既要像國旗般堅守底色，也要如蘭莖般柔韌生長。當萬千這樣的軌跡交織，便繪就了星月旗下最壯闊的時代長卷。