First, cymbals generally refer to lotus flowers.
Lotus, belonging to the family Nelumbo, is the general name of two species "Lotus" and "Huang Lian" in the genus Nelumbo and many artificially cultivated varieties. It is a perennial aquatic herb flower. Underground stems are long and thick, with long nodes and round leaves. Flowering from June to September, it is solitary at the top of the pedicel. There are many petals embedded in the receptacle hole, which are red, pink, white and purple, or have colored lines and edges.
There are many kinds of lotus flowers, which are divided into ornamental and edible categories. China is native to tropical and temperate Asia and was planted as early as the Zhou Dynasty. Lotus is precious all over the body, lotus root and lotus seed are edible, and the germ of lotus seed, rhizome, lotus node, lotus leaf, flower and seed can be used as medicine. Its character of emerging from the mud without staining has always been praised by the world. "
Second, naming
Lotus, hibiscus, Fantuo pear, Shuizhi, Yunshui, Shui Mu, Zezhi, Huashui and Handan were called Handan by the ancients, namely bud, hydrangea, Shuifurong, Yuhuan, June Spring, China Lotus, June Flower God and lotus root.
During the Yin and Zhou Dynasties more than 900 years ago BC, people called the lotus as a latent medicine, and its name came from the state-owned "Jingtian system". Cao Zhi, a writer in the Three Kingdoms period, wrote in Fu on the Lotus that "there is no unique spirit of letting a hundred flowers blossom" and compared the lotus to Ganoderma lucidum in water.
Third, Shuoyuan
Lotus is called "living fossil" and is one of the earliest plants in angiosperms. Before humans appeared, about 104500 years ago, most of the earth was covered by oceans, lakes and swamps. At that time, the climate was bad, disasters were frequent, there were no animals, most plants were eliminated, and only a few wild plants with strong vitality grew on this barren land.
Among them, there is an aquatic plant called "Lotus" by China people, which has withstood the test of nature and tenaciously survived in Heilongjiang, Yellow River and Yangtze River basins in China and swamps and lakes in the northern hemisphere.