What does the lotus symbolize?

Lotus (the fairy in the flower):

Beautiful, for whom is the fragrance delivered?

The evening breeze, blowing slowly on the face, brings refreshing bursts in the summer vacation. Full moon, slowly rising and hanging, swinging around the lotus pond; Insects are chirping everywhere, mixed with frogs. Sitting by the pond, legs hanging down. Looking at the moonlight of lemon, sprinkled on the bud tip, pink spread down from the bud and turned white. Green leaves covered the pond once and for all. When the breeze blows, the unique fishy smell of the pond and the lotus smell emitted by the lotus leaves impact the sense of smell in the nerves from time to time. Morning light, shining on the tip of the bud, is welcoming the kiss of the morning light; The blooming lotus gives off bursts of lotus fragrance. Silver beads, floating in the wind, rolled on the waxy lotus leaves. "Xiao He just showed his sharp corner, and a dragonfly had already stood on his head", which led to footsteps behind him. Exactly: die for flowers, die for flowers, and fall into the lotus pond for flowers.

"Lotus is a fairy among flowers, but not stained with mud, tolerant and peaceful." Leaves, shield-shaped, dark green surface, waxy white powder; The back is gray-green, and the whole edge is wavy. Petiole cylindrical, densely barbed. Flowers are solitary at the top of the pedicel and above the water surface, with single petals, double petals, double petals and double terraces. Colors are white, pink, crimson, lavender or intermediate colors; There are many scattered honeycomb holes on the surface of receptacle, which gradually expand after fertilization, called lotus, and a small nut is born in each hole, called lotus seed When the fruit is ripe, every summer, the lotus flowers are in full bloom, graceful and fluttering with the wind, making our life more beautiful. Lotus is slim and graceful. Open side by side. It's beautiful. Lotus is the representative of holiness and the symbol of holiness, purity, loftiness, auspiciousness and peace in Buddhism. The Guanyin Bodhisattva in our country sits on the lotus throne. The non-governmental organization "White Lotus Society" also takes the lotus as a symbol to show that it is blessed by the Bodhisattva and that it is holy. Lotus comes out of the mud without staining, clean and flawless. Therefore, the people of China and most Buddhist believers take the noble quality of lotus as their motto, encouraging themselves to lead a totally clean life. Lotus is the symbol and messenger of friendship. In ancient China, there was a tradition of sending plums in spring and picking lotus in autumn. In order to use the nobility of lotus to render and contrast the human landscape and express admiration, nostalgia, praise and eulogy. According to folklore, June 24th of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the Lotus Fairy, and this day is called Lotus Watching Festival. In this hot summer, it's refreshing to wander around the lotus pond, but seeing the lotus posture, covered with red and green, and fragrant and elegant, just like entering a fairyland in Xu Ling.

In early summer, the West Lake is beautiful again, and the lake and the Liudi set each other off in green. Emperor Qianlong, dressed in casual clothes, shook a folding fan and wandered around the West Lake with a little eunuch. Suddenly, Gan Long's stomach growled. It was noon before I knew it. Qianlong raised his head and looked around with dim eyes, but he didn't see a hotel. With the help of the little eunuch, Ganlong walked through a small forest and wanted to find a place to rest. At this time, a gust of wind blew, and the spirit of Qianlong did it one brace up. It turned out that he smelled a fragrance in the wind and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva. The aroma entered the rhinoplasty one after another. Qianlong looked around, but he couldn't see anyone. I was so hungry when I was in Qianlong. How can I resist this fragrance when I smell it? I pulled the little eunuch and looked for it in the direction of the wind. Finally, behind a bush, I saw a beggar baking a lump of mud, which was giving off bursts of fragrance. After a while, this is called a broken mud ball, and a lotus leaf is wrapped in a mass of things; Tell Hua to peel off the lotus leaf, and it turns out to be a chicken inside, and the smell of the chicken is fragrant. Tell Hua to tear a piece of chicken and eat it in his mouth. Under this, hungry Gan Long, hurriedly asked the little eunuch for a piece. As soon as Qianlong put it in his mouth, wow, the fresh chicken, which had never been eaten in the palace, made Qianlong feel refreshed and personally asked the beggar for all the chickens, regardless of the identity of the emperor. This is called "Hua", and it took a long time to become a chicken. Now someone wants all his chickens, and he can't help looking up. It doesn't matter if you don't look. That look scares the shit out of you. Hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, offering chicken with both hands. Originally, the man named Gan Long saw the yellow robes and casual clothes. Gan Long didn't care so much, so he picked up the chicken and ate it, saying, "Good! All right! Good! " . From then on, every time Gan Long went to Hangzhou, he would eat this kind of chicken called Huazao. After the continuous summary of cooking masters, this beggar chicken was officially named "beggar chicken". This kind of chicken, together with four other famous dishes in Hangzhou (West Lake dike fish, Longjing shrimp, minced turtle soup and Dongpo meat), has become a delicious dish for Zhejiang people to entertain Chinese and foreign VIPs.

People like lotus flowers. First of all, they like beautiful flowers. They are lovely. The second is to love its elegant personality and attract people. Third, loving the whole body is a treasure: flowers are ornamental, lotus roots and lotus seeds are delicious foods with high nutritional value, and flowers, leaves, stems and fruits can be used as medicine, which has various health care and therapeutic effects. Lotus root, whose rhizome is hypertrophy and knobby (lotus root), is born in underwater mud. Lotus root is an aquatic vegetable and a rare summer fruit. Lotus root is cold and sweet, and enters the heart, spleen and stomach.

Raw lotus root: cold in nature, sweet and cool in taste, can dispel blood stasis and cool blood, clear away heat and quench thirst, stimulate appetite, and like to produce fluid and cool blood. Eating fresh lotus root raw can clear away heat, relieve annoyance, quench thirst and stop vomiting. Fresh folk lotus root is washed and sliced, and mixed with sugar, which has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. If fresh lotus root is juiced, the effect of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production is stronger. Drinking fresh lotus root juice has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding for nosebleeds, vomiting blood, blood in sputum and postpartum hemorrhage. Fresh lotus root can not only cool blood and stop bleeding, but also disperse blood stasis, so women should not be cold after delivery, except lotus root.

Cooked lotus root: warm in nature, it has the function of nourishing the stomach and yin, and it supplements the spleen and benefits the blood. Lotus root knot is rich in tannic acid, which can constrict blood vessels, stop bleeding and treat hematemesis, hemoptysis, hematuria, hematochezia and metrorrhagia.

Some people say that the lotus root is cold whether it is raw or cooked. Some people say that the lotus root is hot whether it is raw or cooked. I think so myself, the round part of lotus root is hot-mended; The strip is cold. Lotus leaf buns are very common in lotus dishes in China. Such as steamed pork with lotus leaf powder, lotus leaf meat, lotus leaf chicken, steamed chicken with lotus leaf powder, Xinfeng chicken with lotus leaf, litchi duck with lotus leaf, lotus leaf rice, lotus leaf chicken, lotus hoof, fish bag in Lotus House, lotus root sparerib soup, cooked lotus root, and candied lotus root slices, and other well-known foods in Xian Yi. Snowdrop, osmanthus lotus seeds, grape lotus seeds, lotus soft-shelled turtle, lotus mushroom box, lotus floss meat, lotus root white lotus, lotus root green fish fillets, lotus root cucumber slices, lotus root Beijing duck, etc. , are more like a breeze, giving people a cool feeling, people are full of praise.

Lotus root is the best vegetable and preserved fruit. Lotus leaves, lotus flowers and lotus plums are also popular medicated diets in China. It can be seen that the diet culture of lotus is rich and colorful. Traditional lotus seed porridge, preserved lotus seed, lotus seed powder, lotus root slices with meat, steamed pork with lotus leaves, lotus leaf porridge and so on are numerous. Lotus root powder or candied lotus root slices are tonics for women and children. Lotus seeds have extremely high nutritional value, and Xianglian and Jianlian are the treasures of lotus. In China's flower culture, lotus is the most interesting object of flower-chanting poems and the subject of flower-and-bird painting. It is the most beautiful and colorful dance material; It is also the most commonly used and beautiful pattern and shape in various architectural decoration, sculpture techniques and daily necessities.

Throughout the ages, countless people have loved, praised and painted lotus. Li Shangyin's poem "Giving Lotus" in the Tang Dynasty said: "Flowers and leaves are not in harmony in the world, and flowers are put into golden pots for dust. Only the green lotus and red lotus are strong, and the volume opens and closes. This flower and this leaf often set each other off, and the emerald is reduced in red and wrapped in sorrow. " In the Song Dynasty, Yang Wanli had a poem about lotus: "Lotus leaves are infinitely blue in the sky, and lotus flowers reflect different colors in the sun." Zhou Dunyi, a Neo-Confucianism scholar in the Song Dynasty, praised the lotus flower for "emerging from mud without being stained, clear without being demon". "The fragrance is far and clear, and the vegetation is slender and graceful." Ye Shishi, a philosopher of Yongjia School in Song Dynasty, said, "All trees are citrus reticulata, and without lotus flowers, there is no water.". There is a lotus pond in Susan Temple in Meishan, Sichuan, and there is a pavilion in the pond: Ruilian Pavilion. There is a couplet on the pavilion column, which reads: "The affectionate moon invites you * * *, and the ownerless lotus blooms everywhere."

I love lotus, love her out of the mud but not stained, love her clean and noble fragrance, and love the reality of her sacrifice. I still like the beautiful scenery of the lotus pond at night.