Cheongsam Photography Panjin

the Chen Dynasty

It was another autumn rain, and the pond full of lotus flowers outside the community finally quieted down.

Because, not only the graceful lotus has withered, but also the mature lotus is still thriving in twos and threes, and the big lotus leaves that have been proud since the end of spring have withered and curled, and gradually become thinner. ...

The people watching by the pond dispersed.

The elderly security guard at the entrance of the community said that since the lotus leaves began to grow into big pink lotus flowers in spring, this pond is really lively, and people of all ages are watching it all day long, and now the songs are all finished.

Because of his words, I remembered my summer. For three days, Sun Tzu wandered around the pond, watching the lotus grow a lobule from the water, green and green, until the lotus was in bud and blushed, until the big lotus bloomed in pink and white, clearly revealing the yellowish core inside, and taught him to sing the song "The lotus leaf can be picked in the south of the Yangtze River". The fish played the lotus leaf east, the fish played the lotus leaf west, the fish played the lotus leaf south and the fish played the lotus leaf north.

The child is young, and I told him that this is Jiangnan written in Yuefu folk songs, with lotus flowers and fish, and the scenery is very good. He raised his head. Where is Jiangnan?

I was stunned at once, and I didn't know how to explain vividly to him where Jiangnan was.

This poem was written in Jiangnan, the lotus in Jiangnan, so it has a unique charm. It gives people the impression that there are lotus and fish in the misty rain south of the Yangtze River, which is beautiful. It gives people the impression that lotus is exclusive to the south.

In fact, lotus flowers are planted everywhere in Northeast China and Panjin in summer. Some plants are planted in the pond outside our community, crossing a small stone bridge and connecting a larger lake, with a long ditch between the east and the west. In midsummer, when the lotus is in full bloom, an endless stream of people are taking pictures of the lotus leaves with their mobile phones. Some professional photographers are constantly changing their lenses with long guns and short guns, and some aunts and grandmothers are wearing red and green flowers as lotus leaves. Some came gracefully, dressed in elegant cheongsam, holding a flower umbrella, and put the black tile fence of Huizhou architecture by the lake in the picture frame to find the artistic conception, which was very lively ... Some planted it in the winding lotus pond of Xin' an Garden for hundreds of acres, and some planted it in the larger lotus pond with no end in the Yangwan area, with pavilions and long and short wooden plank roads going deep into the lotus pond. ...

I, on the other hand, prefer to go out of the pond outside my house and walk around the pond with my husband in the dark. I will recite Zhu Ziqing's famous sentence "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond", savor the lotus flowers in such a long month, and remember the sentence in "Xizhou Qu": lotus flowers are picked in the south pool in autumn, and the lotus flowers are over the head. With his head down, he fiddled with the lotus seeds in the water, which were as green as the lake. Hide lotus seeds in your sleeve. Lotus seeds are red and transparent.

Charming!

They also like to walk a few more steps from the fifth district of the ecological park where they live to see the lotus flowers in the pond in front of the seventh district, walk through the stone arch bridge to the easternmost wall, draw lush lotus flowers, clearly write Zhou Dunyi's famous sentence "Love Lotus", and recite the lotus flowers in the pond sentence by sentence to see who has a better memory.

I have never understood why lotus is a lotus.

The explanation that can be found at present is that lotus is lotus.

Just after the National Day in 2020, I went to Nanxun, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, and went to Xiaolianzhuang, the head of the four elephants, to see the lotus flowers in the ten-acre pond. In full bloom, a large area of lotus leaves is still green, and pink lotus flowers are swaying in the breeze. I don't understand, so how can a rich and talented family be called Xiaolianzhuang instead of Xiaohezhuang? Is it more exciting to call Lian?

To tell you the truth, I prefer the water lily lying quietly on the water surface to the graceful lotus flower with white powder. It has white, yellow, pink and red, and it is not conspicuous at all. It grows compact and blooms in early spring. Now, the lotus that once grew as big as a human has withered.

Now, I am standing by the huge pond, imagining the scene of "lotus leaves are infinitely green" in midsummer, and watching the pool full of residual lotus in the autumn wind, I feel infinite. This lotus and other plants in the world, like people who are still alive and kicking, have "small lotus flowers just showing their sharp horns", "lotus flowers reflect different colors in the sun" and big green leaves.

My mother said, you only saw the lotus root, why didn't you see that all the lotus roots under those lotus roots were ripe?

Artistic conception!

Yes, my mother said this lotus is a good thing. Picking a big lotus leaf in summer can make children wear it on their heads for shade, which has a fragrance. You can watch it when it blooms. When lotus grows, you can eat lotus seeds. When autumn withers, you can drink lotus root starch, eat lotus root slices and eat sweet glutinous rice lotus root. What's wrong with autumn? ……

Next spring, Holland, it's time to show sharp corners and green. ...