In Paihe Township in Tainan County, which is famous for its lotus seeds and rootstalks (thanks to the idea of "one village, one specialty" promoted in agricultural areas in Taiwan), the type of lotus planted is the same as that of hundreds of years ago.
台灣農村推行「一鄉一特產」，以蓮子、蓮藕為鄉土特色的台南縣白河鎮上，農民種植的還是這千百年前就有的品系。