<p class="ql-block">Ci 爸的老家有一个很出名的荷花基地。近几年来，政府充分利用基地的万亩荷花，发展农业种植、加工、休闲观光、旅游购物为一体的现代农业产业园区，已经是我们市里的乡村旅游示范点单位，连续好几年的“荷花节”都办得有声有色，吸引着周边的大量游客前往观光。我们在市区忙于工作和生活，一直都没抽时间去过。昨天周末，要回老家给新建好的房子搞一下卫生，就趁机带妞回乡下看看荷花世界。</p> <p class="ql-block">（出发前）</p><p class="ql-block">👩cici，today we’ll go to dady's hometown. That's a beautiful<span style="font-size: 18px;"> village.</span></p><p class="ql-block">👧Yeepee!</p><p class="ql-block">👩We have seen some lotus flowers at the park .But today we'll see much more beautiful lotus flowers.We 'll take some beautiful photos and eat some snacks .</p><p class="ql-block">👧 I like snacks.</p><p class="ql-block">👩But you should eat breakfast quickly.👧Ok.Finished!</p><p class="ql-block">👩Go grab some books ,and take your recorder with you.We will leave at 9:30.</p><p class="ql-block">👧Mmmy ,can I go on your electric vehicle?I don't want to sit in daddy's car!</p><p class="ql-block">I (will) feel dizzy.</p><p class="ql-block">👩No,you can't.</p><p class="ql-block">👧Why,mommy?</p><p class="ql-block">👩Because daddy's hometown is far away from here. Daddy's car goes much faster than mommy's <span style="font-size: 18px;">electric vehicle.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Mommy will read some storybooks for you in the car.You will feel good.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size: 18px;">👧Ok.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block">（到达目的地）</p><p class="ql-block">👩Here we are!What can you see?</p><p class="ql-block">👧Wow,so big!</p><p class="ql-block">Many lotus leaves!</p><p class="ql-block">👩Yes.And many beautiful lotus flower s</p><p class="ql-block">👧Mommy!A bridge!</p><p class="ql-block">👩Let's go through the bridge.</p><p class="ql-block">See?The lotus flowers are dancing in the wind.Say hello to the lotus flowers.</p><p class="ql-block">👧Hello lotus flowers.</p><p class="ql-block">👩What color are the lotus flowers?</p><p class="ql-block">👧pink ,white and red.</p><p class="ql-block">👩Yes.They are so pretty.Do you like them?</p><p class="ql-block">👧Yes .Look!A dragonfly!</p><p class="ql-block">👩Yes. The dragonfly is landing on the lotus flower.</p><p class="ql-block">👧小荷才露尖尖角，早有蜻蜓立上头。（变成小诗人😂）</p><p class="ql-block">👨这真是“接天莲叶无穷碧,映日荷花别样红”呀！（理工男ci爸也发出慨 叹😂）</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block">基地旁边有好些个农民摆的小摊档，有新鲜水灵的莲藕，价钱3—7元/市斤，还有大如碗口的翠绿养眼的莲蓬，两元一枝，游客们可以买来自己剥了直接吃。</p><p class="ql-block">👧mommy,what's that?</p><p class="ql-block">👩Lotus seedpod .See?</p><p class="ql-block">So many lotus seeds are sleeping in the seedpod.</p><p class="ql-block">👧Can I eat the lotus seed？</p><p class="ql-block">👩Of course you can.But at first，you should peel off the lotus seeds in the lotus, and then peel off the skin.</p><p class="ql-block">👧It's very hard.Can you help me?</p><p class="ql-block">👩Ok. It's my pleasure.</p> <p class="ql-block">Taste sweet food</p> <p class="ql-block">Buy some native products</p> <p class="ql-block">Meet a little goat.</p><p class="ql-block">👩Ci ci, what's that ?</p><p class="ql-block">👧A little goat </p><p class="ql-block">👩yes, that's a little goat.</p><p class="ql-block"> What is the little goat doing</p><p class="ql-block">👧他说 I'm hungry .</p><p class="ql-block">👩 yes, what are you doing,little goat?👧 What are you doing,little goat? </p><p class="ql-block">👩I am eating grass, I like grass.</p><p class="ql-block">👧 <span style="font-size: 18px;">I am eating grass, I like grass.</span></p><p class="ql-block">👩<span style="font-size: 18px;">Don't eat the lotus roots. Little goat!</span></p><p class="ql-block">👧<span style="font-size: 18px;">Don't eat the lotus roots. Little goat!</span></p><p class="ql-block">👩Don't eat the lotus leaves and flowers.</p><p class="ql-block">👧<span style="font-size: 18px;">Don't eat the lotus leaves and flowers.</span></p> <p class="ql-block">Know about lotus</p> <p class="ql-block">Lotus of perennial aquatic plants. </p><p class="ql-block">荷花为多年生水生植物。</p> <p class="ql-block">Rhizome (lotus) hypertrophy multi-section, will occur in the water sediment. </p><p class="ql-block">根茎（藕）肥大节，横生于水底泥中。</p> <p class="ql-block">Shield-shaped leaves circular, the surface dark green, were waxy white powder on the back of gray-green, full-margin and were wavy. Petioles cylindrical, dense barb. </p><p class="ql-block">叶盾状圆形，表面深绿色，被蜡质白粉背面灰绿色，全缘并呈波状。叶柄圆柱形，密生倒刺。</p> <p class="ql-block">Hua Shan was born in pedicel to the top, high above the surface of the water care, there is Rosa xanthina, double valve, plena and re-sets and other flowers; </p><p class="ql-block">colored white, pink, dark red, lavender or indirectly, such as changes in color; </p><p class="ql-block">stamen majority; pistil from the Health and buried in mass inverted cone-shaped sponge receptacle, the receptacle surface of a honeycomb-like holes in the majority of scattered,</p><p class="ql-block"> enlarged gradually after fertilization is called Lian Peng, each hole of endogenous small nuts (seeds). </p><p class="ql-block">花单生于花梗顶端、高托水面之上，有单瓣、复瓣、重瓣及重台等花型；</p><p class="ql-block">花色有白、粉、深红、淡紫色或间色等化；雄蕊多数；</p><p class="ql-block">雌蕊离生，埋藏于倒圆锥状海绵质花托内，花托表面具多数散生蜂窝状孔洞，</p><p class="ql-block">受精后逐渐膨大称为莲蓬，每一孔洞内生一小坚果（莲子）。</p> <p class="ql-block">Flowering in June -9 months, </p><p class="ql-block">the daily morning twilight closed to open. </p><p class="ql-block">花期6月－9月，每日晨开暮闭。</p><p class="ql-block">Fruit maturity in September -10 months.</p><p class="ql-block">果熟期9月－10月。</p> <p class="ql-block">Lotus cultivars are many different uses can be divided in accordance with lotus lotus, lotus and Hualien three major sub-systems.</p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size: 18px;">荷花栽培品种很多，依用途不同可分为藕莲、子莲和花莲三大系统。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Lotus originating in China, from Vietnam to Afghanistan are generally located in Central Asia, West Asia, North America, India, China, Japan and other subtropical and temperate regions.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size: 18px;">荷花原产于中国，从越南到阿富汗都有，一般分布在中亚，西亚、北美，印度、中国、日本等亚热带和温带地区。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> China as early as more than 3000 years ago, that is cultivated today in Liaoning and Zhejiang were found carbonized ancient lotus seeds, it shows a long history. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="ql-cursor"></span>中国早在三千多年前即有栽培，现今在辽宁及浙江均发现过碳化的古莲子，可见其历史之悠久。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Some remote areas in Asia so far there are wild lotus, but most of the lotus are planted to serve as a landscape ornamental and food, for example, Lotus has been in China as an economic crop. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">亚洲一些偏僻的地方至今还有野莲，但大多数的莲都是人工种植，以作为风景点缀和食用，例如在中国荷花被作为经济作物种植。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block">Parts of Lotus</p> <p class="ql-block">Lotus seedpod</p> <p class="ql-block">Lotus seed</p> <p class="ql-block">Lotus roots</p> <p class="ql-block">✔️Differences between lotus and water lily</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Lotus and water lily look similar but they belong to different genera. They differ in the color of the flower and type of the seed pod.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> A lotus flower and some of its leaves grow to be a few inches to a few feet above the water,whereas water lilies sit on the water.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block">Lotus flowers</p> <p class="ql-block">Water lily</p> <p class="ql-block">✔️The food culture of lotus</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> Since ancient times, the Chinese people as the lotus as a precious food, now is still the senior nourishing nutrition.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> Lotus root is the best vegetablesand candied fruit.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> Lotus leaves. lotus flowers are also the medicated food which Chinese people loved.</p><p class="ql-block">自古中国人民就视莲子为珍贵食品,如今仍然是高级滋补营养品,众多地方专营莲子生产。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">莲藕是最好的蔬菜和蜜饯果品。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">荷叶、荷花等也都是中国人民喜爱的药膳食品。</p><p class="ql-block"> Traditional lotus porridge, </p><p class="ql-block">candied lotus,lotus root starch,</p><p class="ql-block"> lotus root with meat, </p><p class="ql-block">lotus leaf porridge,etc, are too numerous to mention one by one.</p><p class="ql-block">传统的莲子粥、莲房脯、莲子粉、藕片夹肉，荷叶粥等不胜举。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block">Lotus root starch </p><p class="ql-block">[ˈləʊtəs ruːt stɑːtʃ]<span style="font-size: 18px;">藕粉</span></p> <p class="ql-block">如何制作藕粉羹</p> <p class="ql-block">Step1: Ready to just boiled water, a spoon and a small bowl.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> Step2: Add lotus root starch small</p><p class="ql-block"> package into the bowl, add cold water a few to make.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> Step3: Add boiling water, stir and add</p><p class="ql-block"> water</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> Step4: Complete. If there is a microwave oven, can put charging in half a minute after the fourth step is better(also can add sugar osmanthus, cooked chestnut is better)</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> Effect: Lotus root starch with fluid,</p><p class="ql-block"> the effect such as clear heat, runfei,</p><p class="ql-block"> nourish Yin, is very suitable for infants, the elderly,patients of tonic. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">It in addition to containing starch, glucose, protein, also contains calcium, iron, phosphorus, and vitamins.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block">✔️The traditional culture of lotus</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Lotus also known as "Flower Fairy", the flower language of lotus is innocent, faithful and pure. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">In the traditional culture of China lotus symbolizes good luck, and we often as a lotus as a symbol ofpeaceful, cooperation and union.</p><p class="ql-block">荷花又称“花中仙子”,荷花的花语是清白、坚贞纯洁。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">在中国传统文化中荷花代表吉祥如意的寓意，我们经常以荷花作为和平、合作和联合的象征。</p><p class="ql-block"> </p> <p class="ql-block">✔️The imagery of literature about lotus</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> In the literature, the lotus is a symbol of pure love,is a noble and unsullied ambition of gentleman, is a sign of good fortune to come.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> From "The Book of Songs began, lotus imagery has been firmly linked to the image of the woman. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">In the"The Songs Of Chu", Qu Yuan Compared the lotus with the poet on the basis of their predecessors.</p><p class="ql-block">在文学作品里,荷花是纯洁爱情的象征,是君子的高洁之志,是征兆祥瑞的来临。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">自《诗经》开始,荷花的意象已与女子的形象牢牢联系在一起。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">而在《楚辞》中,屈原在前人的基础上,将荷花与文人墨客相类比。</p>