Even the austere poet Du Fu found respite from the heat in the lotus, writing in one poem: "A gentleman makes a cooling beverage, a beautiful lady takes slices of the lotus rootstalk." How happy they must have been!
連「莊重」的杜甫「荷」邊納涼，都說「公子調冰水，佳人切藕絲」，不勝快哉！