Chinese literati believe that a lotus is a pure world unto itself in which both body and soul are clean. According to the book Jian Nan Shi Gao, when the Song dynasty poet Lu Yu was 78 years old, he once dreamt that an ancient spoke to him: "I am the lotus scholar and responsible for the mirror lake," he said.
中國文人認為蓮花是身心俱潔的清涼世界，根據《劍南詩稿》記載，宋朝詩人陸游七十八歲那年，曾夢一故人對他說：我為蓮華博士，專管鏡湖。