Lu Yen-ping, who has written a paper on the lotus motif, notes that there is a great diversity to Chinese images of lotuses--in contrast to the single way water lilies were depicted in ancient Egypt.
發表過有關佛教蓮花紋飾報告的陸豔冰表示，中國藝術裡的蓮花形式非常多樣，與古埃及較為單一的睡蓮造型有很大不同。