The Tang poet Bai Juyi had a lotus pond in front of his home in Lushan where he cultivated white lotus for the pleasure of it. When he left Hangzhou to take up a post in the north, he brought the rootstalks with him.
唐代詩人白居易曾在廬山住所前鑿池，種白荷自娛，他從杭州赴北方任職，就將種藕南籍北移。