The lotus flower holds great significance to the Chinese people. It represents a mild person who although is living in a polluted environment keeps themselves clean and healthy. The lotus flower represents creative power and purity amid adverse surroundings. It's also a symbol of the seventh month, (summer). There are many poems In China, that describe the lotus flower, as coming out of muddy water, and yet retaining a pure fresh natural beauty.

An Old Chinese Poem:

The leaves having broke the bandage of the green stem, stretch themselves and form a green pool with untidy edges. Now the flower comes from out of the vast surface of the water, just like a very beautiful woman rising gracefully from her bath.


Chinese poets also use lotus flowers to inspire people to continue striving through difficulties and to show their best part to the outside world, no matter how bad the circumstances may be. This is understood as being just like the lotus flower, bringing beauty and light from the murky darkness that resides at the bottom of a pond

The symbolic characteristic of the lotus flower leads to the observation that the plants stalk is supple and easy to bend in two, but it is very hard to break. The reason is, it has many strong sinuous fibres. Once again poets use this to represent a close and unbreakable relationship between two lovers or the members of a family, showing that no matter how far away they may live, nothing, can separate them in matters of the heart.

In Buddhism the lotus flower symbolizes faithfulness. The golden lotus is mentioned in Buddhist sutras, and has two meanings, one is the symbol for the achievement of enlightenment, and the other points towards a real flower which is beyond human perception.