Could there be a better consolation than beautiful refreshing flowers in these scorching summer days?
Our photographers have captured some booming lotus flowers on campus and we hope the sight of these lovely water plants can be like cool breezes that calm your minds in the heat waves.
Lotus is praised by men of literature in ancient China, because it grows out from mud, but stays pure and unstained. Of all essays written by our ancestors, the most famous one is Admiring Lotus by Zhou Dunyi, Neo-Confucian philosopher from the Song Dynasty.
“……出淤泥而不染，濯清涟而不妖，中通外直，不蔓不枝，香远益清，亭亭净植，可远观而不可亵玩焉……”
Zhou appreciates how lotus flowers stand straight, lofty and clean. “The world can only behold them afar, but never tamper them,” he wrote.
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