Based on this process, it is the leaves which are most prominent in summer, so some Chinese preferred the term xiahe (lit: summer leaves) to describe the plant, and the word he stuck. But, since as autumn approaches the seeds emerge, others preferred the term qiulian (lit: autumn seeds), and the term lian also became a synonym for the whole plant.
花落蓮成，此時天候不也近秋了？夏荷、秋蓮，兩個名字，都有人愛，也就一路並存。