Folk custom of lotus

Lotus Festival, the Yangcheng Lotus Festival held in August every year, is also a great pleasure for tourists to come to Panyu to watch lotus flowers, taste lotus plant food and watch other comprehensive entertainment activities. Panyu is a water town with a network of rivers, and lotus roots and lotus seeds are produced in ponds and rivers. Lotus, also known as lotus and lotus, is an economic plant. Lotus is graceful and graceful, but it doesn't touch mud. It smells like a hundred-mile lotus pond and has always been praised. Lotus seed is called lotus seed, which is a kind of high-quality food. Its stem is lotus root, which has high nutritional value and edible value and can be used as vegetables, lotus root powder, candied food and so on. The lotus root produced by the newly reclaimed land in Panyu is well known. The land used to be a newly reclaimed oasis, with fertile land, soft silt and deep soil layer, and high yield after planting lotus roots. Later, high-quality lotus seeds such as "Maoertou" and "Shouxing Peach" were cultivated, which were of good quality, rich in starch, fresh and sweet to eat and fragrant in cooked food. Panyu held the Lotus Festival on the basis of abundant local lotus flowers. By holding this type of folk festival, the economy will open the way and the business will establish a stage to promote the development of tourism and economic undertakings.