Though the water lily is also native to China, people have generally ignored it, and painters have only depicted the lotus. It seems like they don't care a bit about water lilies, a theme that a great Western painter spent half a lifetime working on.
中國也產睡蓮，但不僅人們只賞荷花，畫家也只畫荷花，好似不怎麼「欣賞」可以讓西方畫家終其後半生創作的主題﹘ ﹘睡蓮。