In winter, when the western wind blows, ponds dry up. The rootstalks, which grow in the mud, store all the nutrients a lotus needs to get through the winter--except when people get to the rootstalk first. Folk wisdom has it: "Where the water is deep, plant water chestnuts.
冬天，當大地吹起西風，水塘漸乾，橫生於池塘淤泥中的藕，原本是多年生的荷花過冬的養份貯藏所，卻遭人類老祖先捷足先登了。