The poem comes from Li Shangyin's Gift to the Lotus in the Tang Dynasty.
This poem, titled "Giving Lotus", does not start from lotus, but from a common phenomenon of other flowers in the world: "Flowers fall into golden pots, but leaves turn to dust".
"Flowers" and "leaves" are born from the same root, and both have pleasing colors, but their fate is quite different: flowers are often favored by people, transplanted into golden pots, cared for and appreciated by people in every way, and their life is infinite.
Green leaves are a dispensable part. As a foil, they were ignored until they fell into the mire and turned to dust, and no one wanted to sigh for them. So the two are "irrelevant".
However, lotus and lotus leaves are not like this. Flowers and leaves are almost equally important. Before the lotus blooms, the lotus leaf has floated on the water, clean and round, and gradually unfolded into an umbrella cover.
At this time, the lotus slowly woke up, like a shy beauty, hiding between the lotus leaves. Lotus leaves and lotus flowers set each other off, "opening and closing is naive." Even at the end of life, lotus leaves and lotus flowers still depend on each other, wither together, wither together and never give up.