"Lotus on four sides and willow on three sides, one city with mountains and half a city with lakes" comes from the couplet of Tiegong Temple in Daming Lake, Jinan, Shandong Province (the Ming Dynasty sacrificed to Tie Xuan). In the summer of the 9th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (1804), Liu, a political scholar and historian from Shandong, and a great calligrapher and governor from Shandong once gave a banquet in Tiexiao Canglang, and they were in high spirits. Liu improvised a couplet: "Lotus flowers on four sides and willow on three sides, a city with mountains and a half city with lakes." Tie Bao's impromptu book Dancing. This couplet stone carving has been embedded on both sides of the entrance of the west gallery wall of the garden so far, which has become a famous couplet sentence describing the style of Jinan ancient city.
Small globe, a few flies hit the wall. Hum, a few screams, a few sobs. It is not easy for an ant to exaggerate the country and shake a tree. The west wind leaves Chang 'an and the cymbals fly. How many things are never in a hurry. Heaven and earth turn, and time waits for no one. Lotus on four sides and willow on three sides, one city has mountains, and half the city has lakes. The four seas are turbulent and angry, and the five continents are shocked. All pests will be swept away and invincible.
The author of "Lotus on four sides and willow on three sides, a city with mountains and lakes in half a city" is Liu.
This couplet was written by Liu for Xiao Canglang Pavilion in Daming Lake, Jinan when he was studying in Shandong. Couplets skillfully use numbers and images to outline the picturesque spring city of Jinan in a clear and lively style. The first part of Ten Thousand Styles of Daming Lake only cuts out the images of lotus and willow, and the second part only cuts out the images of mountain and lake in the grand view of Jinan City, saying in an understatement that China has created a fresh realm of "painting in poetry and poetry in painting", which is the victory of the whole city, just like at present.
"Mountaineering is affectionate, watching the sea is affectionate", and there is a strong sense of substitution. Liu E, a writer in the late Qing Dynasty, praised the couplets for "painting the stunning scenery of Daming Lake" in Travel Notes of Lao Can.