In the middle of summer, the number of people who go to the Huaihe Theme Park to admire the lotus is increasing, and for a time it has become a popular tourist attraction that tourists flock to. People may walk along the boardwalk to overlook the beautiful colors of the "endless blue of the lotus leaves", or wander the shore to enjoy the delicate appearance of "the lotus flowers are different from the sun".
What surprised me was that an old friend even went out of his way to drag me to Huaihe Park to enjoy the lotus. The old friend is a colleague who met a few years ago, erudite and wise, humorous and humble, and often has a unique opinion and opinion on people and things, but I did not expect that this time was not exempt from vulgarity.
It was an afternoon of heavy rain, and although the sky was not completely clear, the heat was fading, and there was a hint of coolness in the air.
My old friend and I walked down the sidewalk into a contiguous wetland park. Looking around, the boundless pond biye field, the turquoise middle or dotted with a few pink, a few snow white, a few goose yellow, the breeze blows, the red lotus like Tingting maiden dancing, Miao Man Wanna, beautiful. The green and round lotus leaf with the handle, Tingting Yuli gently rolled with the wind, sending wisps of fragrance and refreshing the spleen. The turquoise lotus leaves are remnants of the "pearls" condensed by the rain, and the "pearls" will roll with the wind on the lotus leaves. People can't help but think of Li Bai's poem "Climbing the lotus and making its pearls, the ripples are not round". After the rain, the lotus pond is a paradise for animals: dragonflies stand on the sharp horns of small lotuses, frogs sing in the water, and foraging kingfishers jump into the water from time to time...
I was soaking up the beauty when my old friend suddenly asked me which one I preferred among lotus flowers and lotus leaves. Before I could answer, he asked himself: Most of the people appreciate the lotus, most of them love the lotus flowers, and appreciate the lotus flowers' noble feelings of "coming out of the mud without staining, and purifying the water without demonizing". But I don't know, although the lotus leaf is not in contention, just green and elegant, but it is more full of the tension of life. People only know that the lotus leaf is green and round, but they do not know that the surface of the lotus leaf is rough, full of short blunt thorns, and there is a layer of waxy white powder between the thorns, so it can make the rain or lake water condense into water droplets, and when the lotus leaves are touched, the water droplets will roll, so "the ripples are not round". This shows that lotus leaves have a strong self-purifying function. At the same time, the lotus leaves absorb the essence of nature such as sunshine and rain dew through photosynthesis, so as to nourish the beauty of the lotus flower, so that the lotus root trapped in the mud is sweet and juicy. So I prefer lotus leaves, and I hope that you can make a lotus leaf that is not indisputably beautiful and willing to dedicate.
Sending away my old friend, I turned back to the Ten Mile Lotus Pond and walked alone in the Biye field. The breeze sent a burst of lotus leaves to make me suddenly understand: the deep meaning of the old friend who has always been a maverick has come from afar to appreciate the lotus, and it turned out that not long ago I had the idea of "jumping ship" in the call, and he was both a metaphor for the netherlands and a warning for the lotus.
Looking at the handle that gently shakes with the wind, I suddenly thought that as a people's teacher, we are not like the ordinary lotus leaf of this handle, we do not seek luxury, do not compete for glory, but are silent and willing to dedicate, and transform the truth of being a person and the sweet spring of knowledge into sunshine and rain to nourish the young students into social pillars. This is not only the "original intention" of our initial entry, but also the "mission" that we should undertake.