Bright blooms from the muck "Purity, trustworthiness, the Buddha, the virtuous man: these are what the lotus signifies," writes Huang Yung-chuan, assistant director of the National Museum of History, in his book Chinese Flower Arranging.
色雖鮮好，出處不淨荷花：皎潔；信用；佛；君子。歷史博物館副館長黃永川的《中國插花藝術》書上簡潔的寫著。