Painting: Lotus

The lotus flower is often white, pink and red but sometimes yellow; the leaf is big and round; the root has several sections per root, and can be eaten as fruit and vegetable; the seedpod of the lotus is green, can be eaten after being peeled off. The core of seed tastes bitter. Its quality is cool. When eaten, it refreshes the heart and brightens the eyes. It can be made into tea or Chinese medicine.

Not only is its flower beautiful, its leaf fragrant, its seed, root and core of seed edible - the most admirable quality of the lotus is its noble character- not contaminated in dirty mud. Therefore, poets and painters of the past dynasties in China admired lotus.