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The lotus, the Chinese goddess of flowers in June, is showing off her peerless beauty in the scorching summer sun. “It is light and graceful, and it is a pity to decorate the garden.”: “Four of the Humble Administrator’s Garden” "Lotus on the wall and willows on three sides", the fragrance is dark in the art garden pool, the green and fragrant red dancing in the Yiyuan Garden are supported by three thousand lotus flowers, and the cold fragrance flies up to the poem in the garden of retreat... On a sunny day, it is like a green cover on the water, covering the But the red makeup is blooming with colorful lotuses. After the rain, you can look at the pond, with crystals on the jasper plate... The ancients said: "There is no beauty in the Spring Terrace, and no flowers bloom in the hibiscus." This is true.

Lotus, also known as lotus, hibiscus, water fungus, water hibiscus, lotus, etc., is a perennial aquatic plant. The rhizome (lotus root) is fat and multi-nodal, growing horizontally in the mud at the bottom of the water. There are many varieties of flower colors, including red, white, green, purple and variegated flowers. There are varieties of double-peduncle lotus with one stem and two flowers, four-faced lotus with one stem and four flowers, and even the "Ten-faced Guanyin" with ten flowers, as well as small-flowered lotus. Lotus bowls like jujubes, in various shapes and forms.

Lotus, in Chinese culture, is also an object of appreciation among the three religions. "Qun Fang Pu - Lotus" says: "Peanuts are the most beautiful in the pond. All things are blooming first and then solid. This is the only one where all the flowers and solids grow together. Hundreds of knots are smooth, and all the orifices are exquisite. Pavilions and pavilions emerge from the mud but are not stained. In the flowers A gentleman." Become a representative of beauty, purity and steadfastness. "The Book of Songs" has "scorching hibiscus", which is beautiful for its shape. Qu Yuan "made hibiscus for clothes, and gathered hibiscus for clothes", which is clean.

The elegance and purity of the lotus flower has become a symbol of conveying love. There is an ancient tradition of picking lotus flowers in autumn to cherish loved ones. The famous love poem "Xizhou Song" from the Southern Dynasties uses "lotus root" as a pun on "even" and "lotus" as a pun on "pity". The sentiment is meaningful and expresses the deep affection for the lover. .

The delicacy of lotus is as mentioned above, but Chinese literati also ate it elegantly when using lotus in their dishes. During the Three Kingdoms period, some people used lotus leaves to make wine cups, so that "the wine tastes mixed with lotus spirit". Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty used morning dew on lotus leaves to make tea, which was called Lotus Dew Qingming. The wife of Shen Fu, a native of Suzhou, held the lotus in the evening and bloomed in the morning when the lotus flowers first bloomed in the summer. She used a small gauze bag to pick up a few tea leaves and placed them in the center of the flower. This is the elegance of drinking, the aesthetic of "turning the mundane into the extraordinary". Shen Fu also interestingly described the process of cultivating bowl lotus: "Tear the two ends of old lotus seeds thinly, put them into eggshells to make chicken wings, take them out when they are young, add two-tenths of Asparagus asparagus with old bird's nest mud, Mash it and mix well, plant it in a small vessel, fill it with river water, and expose it to the morning sun; the flowers will be as big as a wine glass, and the leaves will be as small as the mouth of a bowl, and they will be graceful and cute." ("Six Chapters of a Floating Life") The profoundness of aesthetic philosophy and intellectuals. The spirit of spiritual elegance in spiritual life is naturally revealed in this eloquent narrative.

The lotus "has the essence of five grains, but does not have its name; it has the strengths of hundreds of flowers, but eliminates its shortcomings" (Li Yu's "Xian Qing Ou Ji"), it is not publicity, it is honest, respectable and lovely . June 24th of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Lotus, let us celebrate it beautifully.