The choreographer of this dance is Yu Lijuan and Luo Haoquan, premiering in 1986, starring Xiang Weiping, Pan Yuching, and Yin Aiyuan
The dance is about a young girl in a peasant family who is happy after she has picked two baskets of fresh lotus roots. The choreographer has cleverly personified the two baskets of lotus roots, with two actors wearing lotus-root-shaped tube skirts to play the role of the lotus roots, and the dance unfolds on the way of the rural girl carrying the lotus roots. The dance unfolds on the way of the rural girl carrying the fresh lotus roots. The joyful music runs through the whole piece, and the movement adopts the folk dance material of Jiangsu Province and changes and develops it, with a jumping rhythm, light dance steps, and flexible waist and hips. Due to the successful creation of the dance image of the fresh lotus root, the work is full of humor and fun, refreshing and delightful. Performers are amateur dancers, performances natural, vivid, beautiful and generous movements, after the performance was widely praised, is considered to be a creative new folk dance.
The dance won the first prize in the 1986 National Folk Music and Dance Competition.