On dry land, the plum flower and the orchid compete in beauty, while the peach and the plum contest the springtime. But in wide wilderness lakes and broad rivers, who will dare pit itself against the lotus?
陸地上，梅蘭競妍，桃李爭春；在曠野大湖、寬廣大河的水中世界，誰與荷花爭色？