莲者,荷也。爱莲者赏莲、品莲、种莲,有的人还画莲。10多年前,我就曾在故乡的院中挖一方莲池,池阔仅两三米,也足以怡然自得,欣然忘怀。一个夏天,我仿佛从周敦颐的《爱莲说》到朱自清的《菏塘月色》,走过了900多年。当时,我在池内种下几颗莲子,净水漫过寸许,八九天后,点点绿芽就破土而出,淡淡的,湿湿的,展开后,如铜钱,书上叫钱叶——小小的,弱弱的。几天后又长出浮叶——圆圆的,嫩嫩的。我每天都往池中加点清水,水越来越多,又过些天,长出了立叶——尖尖 Lotus, Dutch also. Love lotus lotus, lotus, seed lotus, some people also draw lotus. Ten years ago, I once dug up a lotus pond in the hometown’s home, and the pond was only two or three meters wide enough to comfortably forget myself. A summer, I seem from Zhou Dunyi’s “love lotus” to Zhu Ziqing’s “Moonlight”, gone 900 years. At that time, I planted a few lotus seeds in the pool, the water over the flood, after 89 days, a little green shoots on the ground out, light, wet, expand, such as coins, the book called money leaves - Little, weak. A few days later grow floating leaves - round, tender. Every day I add some water to the pool, more and more water, and after a few days, grow a vertical leaf - sharp