Guidelines for Sanshui Lotus World
Dear tourists, hello everyone!
I believe you have seen many lotus flowers, so why should you spend 50 yuan on a ticket to enter our "Lotus World" in Sanshui District, Foshan City to see it? What's so special about it? Okay, let me tell you now, it’s because here, there are many world’s best and miracles!
First of all, our Lotus World is currently the largest lotus park in the world, ranking first in terms of quantity and variety.
Many of these varieties are rare treasures. Anyway, just this one item makes everyone feel that it is worth it! Lotus World now has more than 300 varieties, including almost all famous lotus products in the world. Think about it, you don’t have many opportunities to see 300 lotus flowers at a time, right? And we have more than 300 species! What's more, there are also wonderful "Double Lotus" and "Off-Season Lotus". One is a rare thing that can only be seen among hundreds of thousands of lotus flowers, and the other is a lotus that blooms in winter! In addition, we also have two extremely rare lotus varieties, "Space Lotus" and "Thousand-Year-Old Lotus". One comes from the universe, and the other comes from ancient times across the time tunnel. Okay, now please follow me to see this wonderful world of lotus flowers! Now, let me first introduce to you a large lotus flower that is 20 meters high and 60 meters wide! That is the door to the Sanshui Lotus World! It consists of three to six petals on the left and right sides. There are a few strands of filaments in the middle, which means "the lotus root is broken and the silk is connected". How about this design? It's very artistic.
After entering, you pass through the Sculpture Column Corridor, which contains 38 3.8-meter-high hollow carved columns. Why are they all 38? Because the pronunciation 3 in Cantonese means sheng, and the pronunciation 8 means fa. This is the most auspicious number that Cantonese people are accustomed to! This group of pillars selects some famous auspicious patterns related to lotus in my country, such as the picture of mandarin ducks and lotus pods. The mandarin ducks symbolize the happiness of the couple, and the lotus pods symbolize the prosperity of the fruit. In this picture, there is more than one year after another. The lotus is used to symbolize connection and the fish is used to symbolize "surplus". ; And this picture of harmony and beauty. It is composed of lotus and plum blossoms. You see, these are such clever metaphors. They are all the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people in ancient my country. There is also the story of Nezha here, from his birth, apprenticeship, Nezha's troubles in the sea, to the story of Nezha's resurrection after death and the incarnation of a lotus flower. In addition, each pillar is equipped with colored lights. At night, the lights shine through the pillars, adding a lot of atmosphere to the already beautiful lotus garden.
On both sides are two levels of pools of different heights. The first level is a lotus pond, with lotus flowers of various colors blooming in the pool; the second level is a koi pond, where nearly 10,000 koi carps are kept. When tourists walk by, they are surrounded by blooming lotus flowers, groups of colorful carps at their feet, and endless fields of lotus leaves in front of them. It is really beautiful.
There is a wide river here. Visitors can take a boat to enjoy the lotus flowers by water. There are 36 cruise ships in Lotus World that can be used to ride along the river and ripple among the lotus bushes. Another interesting thing. If tourists prefer to travel by land, there is a battery parking lot on the right, with a total of 8 battery cars in the park. Tourists who are older or are short on time can choose to explore the beautiful scenery of Lotus World
on the bus.
After walking through the colonnade, we came to the central square. There is a huge, white and graceful lotus fairy statue here that is very eye-catching. This is where the birthday of the Lotus Fairy is celebrated. Some tourists may ask, does the Lotus Fairy also have a birthday? Yes, among the hundreds of flowers, only the lotus fairy has a birthday. The old folk custom in Jiangnan regards June 24th of the lunar calendar as the birthday of the lotus. Since the Ming Dynasty, on this day, people in the water towns have dressed in red and green, and sailed among the lotus flowers in groups to celebrate their birthdays. Daughters from Jiangnan will use the month of their birth to calculate which flower they belong to. Girls born in June will say that they were born as lotus fairies!
Everyone looks up and sees that this is a large water stage. At first glance, the theater seems to be floating on the water. There are water sprays and lotus flowers in the venue. The performance venue is divided into three floors. Visitors can enjoy it from different angles. to a performance with a strong three-dimensional effect. The repertoire performed here is a large-scale poetic song and dance drama - "Lotus Fairy". According to legend, a long time ago, three rivers flowed here from distant places and met. One river brought lotus roots, another river brought lotus flowers, and another river brought water of love. Where the three waters met, there was a beautiful girl. Beautiful lotus and the beautiful world of lotus.
The lotus root man and the lotus fairy met, and they swore an oath. The fairies came singing, dancing with their long sleeves, and the lotus steps moved slowly. Suddenly lightning tore the sky, and the devil descended to the world and snatched away the lotus fairy. The witches The use of magic put Ou Lang into trouble, and magic and acrobatics made everything more real and imaginary. At this critical moment, the Antarctic fairy came. The fairy came on a crane and fought against each other on the mountain, spitting flames and ice, and the smoke filled the air. People finally After killing the devil, the clouds and fog dispersed in the sky, and the huge lotus blossomed. The lotus root man picked up the lotus fairy from the lotus, and hundreds of birds were singing and the lotus flowers were blooming. This is the plot of the entire dance drama. The costumes for the performance are also rare and gorgeous. There are also exquisite magic additions. In order to give visitors a brand new sense, Lotus World has invested 500,000 yuan in the first phase of costume modeling!
On the right side of the square, there are three lotus-shaped buildings standing on the water. They respectively represent the three different states of lotus: budding, half-opening and full-blooming. Here is another major group of buildings in Lotus World - the Lotus Cultural Center. The first thing that catches the eye when entering the exhibition hall is Zhou Dunyi's famous poem "The Story of Love and Lotus". I think back then, Zhou Dunyi wrote such a famous article just facing the white lotus in Hengyang West Lake. If he had been facing the vast lotus ponds and hundreds of kinds of beautiful lotus flowers in the current lotus world, I really don’t know what kind of earth-shattering words he would have written. !
The museum displays the origin, development history, varieties, breeding, cultivation and other knowledge of lotus in the form of objects, pictures, texts, etc., as well as lotus and celebrity poems and paintings, lotus and Buddhism, lotus edible, medicinal value and other topics. Wandering in the Lotus Cultural Center, you can gain a lot of knowledge about lotus, and you can also buy specialty small products related to lotus.
In front is the "Variety Viewing Area". Viewed from the air, this is a huge lotus, as large as dozens of acres, and the bamboo paths, bamboo pillars, and bamboo corridors that pass through it look like leaf veins. The veins of the leaves divide this place into different water areas, and lotus flowers of different colors and flower types are planted respectively. If you look carefully, you can see the snow-white "Dongting Fairy"; the colorful "falling clouds reflecting the snow";
The delicate and charming "Apricot Blossom Spring Rain"; the elegant "The sky is high and the clouds are light". Are you dazzled by it? Because the water surface here is divided into 59 grids. 109 varieties of lotus flowers were planted.
Everyone come and take a look at this special lotus. This is the "Tang Zhaoti Temple Lotus" that embodies the friendship between China and Japan. It was successfully bred by scientists using ancient lotus seeds excavated more than 2,000 years ago. Japanese scientists gave 100 seeds to President Guo Moruo of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Finally it took root and blossomed in our Sanshui.
Lotus is the earliest species of angiosperms in the plant kingdom. Long before humans appeared on the earth, lotus grew on the earth 140 million years ago. In addition to China, there are also countries such as Japan, Russia, Iran, India, Myanmar, and Australia. In my country, it stretches from Hainan Island in the south to Heilongjiang Province in the north, from Shanghai to Taiwan Province in the east, and to the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain in the west. Lotus is planted in most areas of the country except the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province. In Chinese history, the earliest poems with lotus as the theme appeared in the Book of Songs. Three thousand years ago, lotus was used as a metaphor for female beauty, and was mentioned together with cattail grass to symbolize the love between men and women.
There are also many varieties of lotus flowers, which can be divided into five types: single petal, compound petal, double petal, thousand petal, and double petal. Compound petals have two layers of inner and outer petals; double petals have dozens to hundreds of petals; thousand petals have 1,000-4,000 petals per flower. Chongtai is a peculiar variety with two layers of petals on top and bottom. In terms of color, there are pink, pure white, double red, lavender, brocade and so on. There is also the "Eighteen Red Sister Gao Jian Niang" with a flower of eighteen petals, which changes color first and then white. Well, people usually think that lotus flowers are pink. Coming to the world of lotus flowers will be an eye-opener.
Speaking of the name of Lotus World, it is also related to a famous ancient person. He is a famous person who chants lotus. I believe everyone can recite his famous poem "The lotus leaves touching the sky are infinitely green, and the lotus flowers reflecting the sun are uniquely red." Do you remember who the author is? By the way, it’s Yang Wanli. The name of our "Lotus World" is taken from the line "Lotus World in Yangliu Township" in another of his poems about lotuses, "Passing Linping Lotus". The ancient Chinese loved the lotus so much. Can you remember any of the famous poems about the lotus? For example, Cao Zhi's "Fu Rong Fu", Su Che's "Han Pian (hàn dàn) Xuan", and Zhou Dunyi's "Ai Lian Shuo". They are all precious and will be passed down for thousands of years.
In our lotus viewing area, there is another famous product not to be missed - Space Lotus! Why is it called Space Lotus? Because it went into space with Chinese scientists' experimental satellites, was exposed to space rays, mutated, and was then selected and cultivated by scientists as a new variety. They bloom early, have a long flowering period, have many lotus pods, and have large seeds. More than 8,000 flowers can bloom in one acre. It is truly an unprecedented spectacle.
We also have another treasure of the Three Waters here - Bingdilian. Bingtilian is not a specialized species, but a phenomenon of "bundling heads" that appears accidentally in Lianhu Lake. Just like humans giving birth to twins. But in humans, twins appear every 89 pregnancies, and on average, a twin lotus appears only once in 100,000 lotus flowers. But in our world of Sanshui lotus, it appears several times almost every year. Now we have an activity of "Discovering Bingtilian" here. Tourists who discover Bingtilian will be rewarded and a signboard will be erected immediately where they are found. If the flower is still in bud, a message will be published in the newspaper to inform the public of the estimated flowering time. At that time, a large number of photographers, painters and citizens will flock to watch it. Every time we have to send special guards on duty day and night! Please pay attention when you are wandering in the sea of ??flowers later, maybe you can be the lucky one!
Going through a trail in the variety viewing area, you will come to the second largest viewing area - Wulian area and carved lotus area. Look at this huge leaf lying flat on the water, with a curled edge on the edge. The entire leaf is about 1.5 meters in diameter. This is the leaf of Wulian. Each blade can support a child. According to information, its maximum load-bearing capacity is 40 kilograms, which means it can support a slightly lighter woman.
Look carefully, we have built a special stone pier in Wulian Lake that allows tourists to walk in, so that tourists can go deep into the depths of Lianhu Lake and have close contact with Wulian. Have I arrived? By the way, they are all shaped like Wulian leaves and are so big, so they are difficult to find among the leaves of Wulian Lake. Daring tourists can try Bibi, which leads all the way to the other side of the lake. But be careful not to step on the real five lotus leaves. If you weigh more than 40 kilograms, you will have to swim in the water.
Have you ever smelled the strong fragrance of flowers while standing by Wulian Lake? By the way, this is the fragrance of five lotus flowers. Some Wulian flowers are extremely fragrant. This is better than ordinary lotus flowers. Look at the five lotus flowers. They are extremely large. The flower diameter can reach 25 centimeters, which is several times larger than the lotus. Wulian is different from our common lotus. It blooms in the evening, and it takes half an hour from bud to full bloom. When the flowers bloom, they are as white as jade, but when the morning sun shines, they become light red like clouds, and in the afternoon they turn deep red and purple. A poet described it as "three colors in three days of flowering, first light and then heavy."
Beside Wulian Lake is the water lily area. It should be said that the water lily area is the most beautiful place in the lotus world. Why? Because they are so colorful. It is simply a colorful world. It comes in yellow, blue, orange, white, all shades of light and elegant. The water lily area covers more than 20 acres, with a bamboo corridor more than 200 meters long. The varieties of carved lotuses in each of the 26 swimming pools are different. From a distance, they look like colorful clouds falling to the ground. It is the most visited place for tourists.
The water lily is named for its interesting flowering pattern. They bloom from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and go to sleep. It bloomed again the next morning and closed again in the afternoon. It can be repeated many times, so it is called water lily. Even the water lilies I bought home and put in a vase still maintained this habit. As a result, people who bought it for the first time saw that the flowers closed after only one day of planting, thinking that the flowers had withered, and were disappointed. But the next morning, the water lilies followed the rising sun and gave her an unexpected surprise!
Across the water from the Water Lily District is the Lotus World, a large dining and entertainment venue - Hehua Village. The unique Lotus Hall in the village can accommodate 800 people for dining, and has a unique lotus banquet. Various delicacies made with lotus root and lotus as the main ingredients. For example, "The Water Lotus Banquet". Its dishes include "Three Lotuses Increase the Glory", "Lotus Years Are More", "Buddha Shines on the Lotus Garden", "Lotus Roots Are Broken and Silk" and so on. Every tribe here shows the Dutch culture. Curtains, ashtrays, and various artistic lamps are all shaped like lotus flowers. Even the box holding the chopstick holder is a small lotus root!
This lotus world is not only a world for appreciating lotus flowers, but also a scientific research base for lotus roots. Speaking of this, I have to mention a legendary "lotus couple".
Why do we have so many lotus varieties here, including almost all the best ones in the world
? This is all contributed by the "lotus couple" - professors Wang Qichao and Zhang Xingyan. They were classmates at Huazhong Agricultural College in the late 1950s. They had gone through more than 40 years of life together, traveling together in the sea of ??flowers and raising lotuses together. 330 lotus varieties have been collected and cultivated. China has become the country with the most varieties of lotus flowers in the world. From the time when they were in their prime to the frost on their temples, they have always wanted to make their research benefit the people. Finally, when they were over 70 years old, they were able to realize their long-cherished wish in Sanshui.
The two professors have numerous lotus scientific research achievements, such as the unique "Wanlian" which is one of them. It is a unique product that can germinate, grow and bloom just by storing water in a bowl. China has records as early as the Ming Dynasty that in order to pass on this ancient breed, they used the genetic mutations that emerged from hybridization. After continuous selection and repeated elimination, the "little angel" variety with smaller, more flowers, earlier flowers and more colorful flowers than the mother was finally bred. Lotus World is now available for purchase, and interested friends can buy it back to experience this wonder.
Another scientific research result of these two couples is "Lotus Flowers Blooming in Winter." Everyone remembers when Macau returned to the motherland. By the way, it was December 1999! December is winter, but because Macau used to be called Lotus Island, lotus is its regional flower. It would be more beautiful if there were lotus flowers at the return ceremony. The last problem was solved by two lotus strangers. After repeated trials, they finally succeeded in planting. The lotus flowers that bloomed in December were sent to Macao in time for the return. This snow-white lotus variety is named "Lijiang Moon".
The couple also developed early-flowering varieties. It opens in May and continues until October. They also take advantage of the weather in Sanshui to cultivate cold-resistant water lilies. This allows visitors to enjoy lotus flowers in the open air even in winter. Our Sanshui Lotus World can now have lotus flowers in all seasons. In order to make the lotus bloom in spring, summer, autumn and winter. After repeated trials, the "Lotus off-season flowering period control technology" has been successfully developed! Completely changing the history of my country's "winter sky lotus". In addition, they also have an important research result, which is the fact that they found lotus fossils that were 1 million years old in China. Overturning the history of lotus cultivation in ancient China, Wang Qichao and his wife traveled to most of China in several years, collected more than 300 varieties, and wrote monographs such as "Chinese Lotus Varieties". In the field of flower and gardening, they are regarded as authorities on lotus. Now they have personally written introductions to lotus varieties and a hundred questions and answers on lotus cultivation for our lotus world. The content is lively and interesting. And the lotus flowers in the country are strictly scientifically classified, arranged and labeled. The entire lotus world is a true reproduction of their monograph here, which is unique in the world.
Okay, that’s it for our introduction. The rest of the time is left for everyone to enjoy viewing and taking photos in the park. Everyone looks at the beautiful red dragonfly still sitting on the new lotus leaf. Isn't this exactly the line from the famous poem "The little lotus has just revealed its sharp corners, and a dragonfly has already stood on its head"! I believe every photo you take is exceptionally beautiful!