During the Cultural Revolution, the artist Huang Yongyu was banned from working during the campaign to "criticize black art." Having little else to do, he would just wander down to the lotus pond. As the days and months mounted up, his increasing familiarity with the lotus spurred him to sketch them continuously, ending up with more than 8000 lotus sketches.
無主荷花四處開，文革時期「黑畫批判」運動中被禁止創作的黃永玉，閒來無事，隨便走走就到了荷池，日積月累，對荷花的熟悉感驅使他不斷的速寫了八千多張荷花。