Lotus is closely bounded up with Chinese people’s life. For the sake of survival, people had to collect wild fruits to allay the hunger in ancient times. Soon they discovered that the fruits, seeds and roots of “lotus” were not only edible, but also sweet, fragrant and delicious. Gradually, “lotus”, a source of food for human survival, was deeply imprinted in the hearts of our ancestors, the primitive humans. It also got the symbolic significance of human survival. With the emergence of farming culture until the Neolithic Age in 5,000 or 6,000 BC, people began to have some further understanding of lotus. For the demand for life water, they generally settled in riverbanks or swamps with natural springs where wild lotuses flock to. From the unearthed cultural relics of house foundation from “Yangshao Culture” in Dahe Village, north of Zhengzhou City in Henan Province, it was found that there were carbonized grain and two lotus seeds which can be traced back to 5,000 years ago. In unceasing daily farm work, people have accumulated rich perceptual knowledge of lotus in terms of its growing habits and living environment, laying a solid foundation for the development of lotus culture in ancient China.
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