The Symbol and Significance of Lotus in China Culture

1. Literary significance and symbol

Lotus in China Literature and Folklore

The deepest relationship between lotus and culture is China, who is honored as a gentleman in China. Since ancient times, people in China have loved this kind of plant, thinking that it is a symbol of the noble character of leading an honest and clean life, so the poet praised it as "lotus born in mud, which is out of tune with mud". In China literature, there are countless poems and songs related to lotus flowers.

"Qunfangpu" said, "Everything comes first, then it is true, and only this China can live together. A hundred knots are sparse, exquisite, graceful and gorgeous, and the mud is not stained, and the gentleman in the flower is also. " Later, there was Zhou Dunyi's Love Lotus, which linked Lotus with various types of characters. "Chrysanthemum is a hermit in flowers; Peony, blooming with wealth; Lotus, the gentleman of flowers. " , far-reaching. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "The husband is honest and dirty; The south is soft with rigidity, and the bottom is introverted. Fine holes, implicit yarn, born in tender and weak, hair for stem and leaf flowers; Revive the bud and continue the pulse of life. It is edible at four o'clock, which makes people feel happy. It can be said that it is a spiritual root! "

2. Buddhism

After the emergence of Buddhism, Buddhists also adopted lotus as the main symbol of Buddhism. It is said that after the birth of Prince Siddhartha, who later became a Buddha, he immediately took seven steps to the ground and gave birth to lotus seeds step by step. So the lotus became the symbol of his birth. Since the first century AD, Buddha statues have often sat on the lotus platform. His sitting posture, either lotus or auspicious, has become a typical sitting posture of Buddhist monks in meditation. According to the explanation of the Great Sun Sutra, "the left foot is the upper right first, and the right foot is the upper left, which is called lotus sitting; One foot on the right is called auspicious sitting. "Buddhists believe that lotus can reflect the level of practice, and that a monk sincerely recites Buddha, then a lotus will be born in the Qibaochi in the west. If he is diligent, his flowers will grow bigger and bigger; if he is lazy, his flowers will wither. I also believe: "People in the heavens, even those who fly and climb, and who go to live in the Amitabha Buddhist Temple, were born in the middle of Qibao Chilian. "

Lotus has spread to every corner of Asia with Buddhism. Pictures of lotus flowers can be seen in the Brahmaputra Buddhist altar in Java, Burj ancient city in Myanmar, temples in Sukhothai and Angkor Wat in Thailand, bell tower in Sri Lanka, Burial Blue in Bali and symbol of Tibet. In the famous six-character mantra of Tibetan Buddhism Lamaism, "Hey, it's beautiful."

Lotus has a profound cultural origin in China. After Buddhism was established as the state religion in the Tang Dynasty, lotus was deeply loved by people. The hometown of Buddha Sakyamuni is rich in lotus, so Buddhism often refers to the lotus itself. "Compendium of Materia Medica" states: "The use of application is cited as an example, and all the wonderful principles exist." Buddhism also refers to the place where lotus flowers live. Also known as "Lotus World". Buddhist scriptures are called "Lotus Sutra", Buddhists are called "Lotus Platform" or "Lotus Platform", Buddhist temples are called "Lotus Room", temples are called "Lotus Clothes" and so on. Lotus design has also become a symbol of Buddhism. Buddhist buildings, decorations and utensils also have lotus patterns.

3. 1。 Internal cause is the basis of the development of things, and it is internal cause that plays a decisive role.

2。 The quality of study depends on your own efforts.

3。 Domestic demand is also a necessary condition for economic development; Self-reliance principle

You can retort like this:

1。 External factors play an important role in accelerating or delaying the development of things, and there is no difference between external factors and internal factors.

2。 Give your own example (learning environment)

3。 After joining the WTO, China should actively respond to international competition and expand external demand; Requirements of world economic integration

Opposing views can only be established if people have subjective initiative, so if people don't have or lack subjective initiative, they are easily influenced by the outside world. For example, children who are growing up are not mature enough, and external forces can easily have a good or bad influence on them. As far as parenting styles are concerned, democratic and enlightened parenting styles can promote the development of children's healthy personality, while rude and doting parenting styles can easily lead to the imperfection of children's personality. Such research proves that psychology. This is the meaning of education. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to be close to Zhu Zhechi.

"Those who are close to Zhu are not necessarily red, and those who are close to ink are not necessarily black."

"All people close to Zhu Zhechi are black" is just an extreme statement. Although there are such examples, not all of them are like this. Whether it is "black near ink, black near ink" depends on people's own ability. If you are "close" to Zhu and don't study, you are not "red"; If he "approaches" Mo instead of getting rid of his bad habits, then both of them will become "red".

In fact, reading too much "near Zhu Zhechi, near Mexico, black" will make you feel unreasonable. A bad guy and a good guy are together, so will both of them become good guys or bad guys? If it is the former, wouldn't the whole world become a good person? If it is the latter, wouldn't it be that the whole world has become a bad person?

For example, if the police deal with thieves every day, will every policeman become a thief? Except for petty theft, I deal with the police every day. Can every thief be a good man like a policeman?

It is self-contradictory that "those who approach Mexico are black, and those who approach Zhu Zhechi are black". Nothing is absolute, and the confirmed facts may be distorted. Let's say "near Zhu Zhechi, near Mexico is black"!