Thus, wherever Zhang Daqian went he would plant lotus flowers. Even living in faroff Brazil, where the lotus is not native, he discovered a person of Japanese ancestry selling lotus stalks in a flower market. Greatly enthused, he took advantage of the local climate (Brazil is warm and wet, like Taiwan) to dig a large lotus pond at the center of his Eight Virtues Garden.
所以大千先生走到哪兒都種荷花，甚至旅居原本不產荷花的巴西，在市場發現日裔移民賣蓮藕後，「花心」大動，當地氣候溫和，和台灣一樣在回歸線上，因此他鑿大塘、建八德園，也圍一片水塘種荷花。