lotus
The hot summer is coming. It's cool and breezy today, so I went out for a walk.
Walking into the garden, an elegant fragrance came to the nose. We came to the pond to see the lotus. Lotus is white and pink, and it doesn't bloom much. There are many lotus leaves in the water, like green jasper plates, floating on the water, and there are some crystal drops on the leaves. Next to the lotus leaf, the stems like green pillars stand up from the water, and lotus flowers like hibiscus emerge from the top of the head. Under the breeze, the branches sway slightly, just like people nodding and bending over.
However, in this big lotus picture, the beautiful lotus is the protagonist. Each lotus flower, supported by a stem, "drills" out of the gap of the lotus leaf and bathes in the sunshine to show its beauty. Some flowers are pure white, simple white; Some flowers are pink, elegant and beautiful. If the lotus pond, green lotus leaf and all kinds of lotus flowers are connected, wouldn't it be a vivid and beautiful picture? Even Ouyang Xiu, one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, wrote the poem "Picking Mulberry Seeds" when he visited the West Lake to see lotus flowers. The lotus flower opens its petals to reveal the yellow lotus flower. The petals are layer by layer, some are a little curly, and some tips are outward, as if watching the scenery outside the pond. There are so many lotus flowers, but their postures are different: some are straight and some are curved. No matter which posture, it looks beautiful. The frog in the pond seems to be opening a "karaoke room" and keeps making "croaking" calls; Dragonflies fly around on the water, splashing from time to time and rippling on the water. Lotus was born in the blue waves and bloomed in the heat, but it was also so beautiful and fragrant.
There are many varieties of lotus! There are at least 300 kinds! Do you know the Lotus Festival? June 24th of the lunar calendar is the annual Lotus Festival!
Lotus, an aquatic herb, is a treasure. Lotus seeds can be used as medicine and lotus roots can be eaten. Lotus is one of the famous flowers in China. Zhou Dunyi, a Neo-Confucianism scholar in the Song Dynasty, played up the holy and elegant character of lotus, leaving famous sentences handed down from generation to generation, which were widely praised.