Please explore what kind of characteristics the lotus flower has as a literary character in traditional Chinese culture.

If you want to talk about traditional Chinese culture, you can't help but talk about Buddhism, and the lotus flower is one of the things of Buddhism, which has two meanings:

1, the table out of the Dharma realm: the lotus flower comes out of the silt, and out of the water, and blossoms above the surface of the water. The silt refers to the six paths, and the clear water refers to the four holy dharma realms, while the Buddha does not live in the six paths nor the four holy dharma realms, and the Buddha's fruition of attaining supreme and equal enlightenment is to be out of the ten dharma realms.

2, for the Buddhist Pure Land Dharma, the lotus flower has another layer of significance: the lotus flower blossoms at the same time as the lotus seed, on behalf of the cause and effect at the same time, this is the Pure Land of the Buddha's Nembutsu Dharma in the table of the Buddha's Amitabha Buddha's name as a cause of the Buddha Nembutsu Buddha's rebirth in the Western Blissful World, because of the fruit of the sea, the fruit of the karmic cause, cause and effect at the same time of the incredible convenience of the Dharma.