then lotus-gathering flashed into my mind this was an old custom south of the yangtse which apparently originated very early and was most popular in the period of the six kingdoms as we see from the songs of the time the lotus were picked by girls in small boats who sang haunting songs as they padded they turned out in force we may be sure and there were spectators too for that was a cheerful festival and a romantic one we have a good account of it in a poem by emperor yuan of the liang dynasty called lotus gatherers

然后lotus-gathering名言闪过我心头这是一个古老习俗的长江以南显然起源很早,最受欢迎的六个王国从歌曲的时间我们看到女孩采莲的是少年的小船,唱着艳歌去的,他们的结果在迫使我们可以肯定也有观众,这是一个快乐的节日,一个浪漫的我们有一个很好的账户的一首诗由梁帝元王朝叫做莲花采集者

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