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Nelumbo nucifera, also known as Indian
lotus, sacred lotus, or simply lotus, is an
aquatic plant adapted to grow in the flood plains
of slow-moving rivers and delta areas. Under
favorable circumstances, the seeds of this
aquatic perennial may remain viable for many
years, with the oldest recorded lotus germination
being from seeds 1,300 years old recovered from a
dry lakebed in northeastern China. Therefore, the
plant is regarded as a symbol of longevity. For
Buddhists, the way that water slides off lotus
petals represents the detachment aspect of their
faith, which tells them to let go of lusts,
cravings and desires. This is one of the reasons
why many statues and images show Buddha sitting
on a lotus. Lotus is selected as the national
flower of Vietnam because its an indispensable
part of Vietnamese culture, history and national
heritage
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The Vietnamese has a famous folk poems meaning
that In the pond, nothings more beautiful than
lotus, the flower of the dawn. The elegance of
the lotus is often cited in the Vietnamese folk
songs and poems. To the Vietnamese, lotus is
known as an exquisite flower, symbolizes the
purity, serenity, commitment and optimism of the
future as it is the flower which grows in muddy
water and rises above the surface to bloom with
remarkable beauty
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Lacquer summer lotus
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Lotus is grown everywhere along the S-shaped
strip land of Vietnam. This exquisite flower
symbolizes the purity serenity, commitment and
optimism of the future. In addition, these
blossoms have long been linked to Buddhism in
terms of nobility and pure thoughts. With above
meanings, lotus was voted as the Vietnams
national flower, representing courageous but
friendly and open-hearted Vietnamese people
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The Lotus leaves have self-cleansing
properties. Surface has the ability to make water
bead off completely and wash off contamination,
leaving the leaf clean and dry. Lotus plants have 
super-hydrophobic surfaces. Water drops that fall
onto them bead up and roll off
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These leaves not only stay dry, but the droplets
pick up small particles of dirt as they roll, so
that the lotus leaves are even self-cleaning
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The lotus effect refers to self-cleaning
properties that are a result of
ultrahydrophobicity as exhibited by the leaves of
Nelumbo, the lotus flower. Dirt particles are
picked up by water droplets due to the micro- and
nanoscopic architecture on the surface, which
minimizes the droplet's adhesion to that
surface. Ultrahydrophobicity and self-cleaning
properties are also found in other plants, such
as Tropaeolum (nasturtium), Opuntia (prickly
pear), Alchemilla, cane, and also on the wings of
certain insects
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When night falls on Vietnam, the lotus flower
closes and sinks, hiding its purity for the
night. Then, as the sun rises on a new day, the
lotus re-emerges to show its beauty once again
which is why its also known as the flower of the
dawn
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One interesting research reported that the lotus
has the remarkable ability to regulate the
temperature of its flowers to within a narrow
range just as humans and other warmblooded
animals do
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Early in the morning, elderly ladies push off in
their boats to cut the flowers ready for selling
later that day
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85 of Vietnamese people are Buddhist so when
people go to the temple to pray they bring pink
lotus with them to show a devotion to Buddha
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Later in the day, young lovers and groups of
girls dressed up along to the ponds for both
professional and amateur photo shoots.
Enterprising land or pond owners have put up
bridges jutting out into the ponds and charge for
the privilege of taking photos on the bridge or
out on small boats among the flowers
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Girls in white Ao Dai posing with lotus
flowers in lotus pond
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The children also followed their parents to the
fields to catch fish and play
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Farmers across Vietnam have found lotus a
profitable alternative crop for rice, especially
when their land is unfertilised
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Lotus is an important ingredient in Vietnamese
culture and every part is utilized in both
cuisine and medicine Locals can earn hundreds
of millions VND each season from selling lotus
seeds, 5-7 times higher than selling rice
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Fresh lotus seeds ready to eat
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While the lotus flower is used for tea, the young
lotus stems are used in salads, stamens are dried
and made into an herbal tea, and lotus seeds are
eaten raw, dried or boiled
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Lotus flower tea
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Lotus tea is part of many festivals and
ceremonies in Vietnam. To make it, you enclose
tea in the flower to infuse them with the scent.
An alternative method is to bake the stamens
the part of the flower that makes pollen with
the tea leaves in an oven. This process is
repeated several times to strengthen the flavor
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Boiled, sliced lotus roots
Lotus rhizomes
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Some popular dishes are lotus root snack, lotus
root soup, lotus root salad etc
Lotus root has a wide range of health benefits
owing to its rich nutritional composition. The
benefits include its ability to improve
digestion, reduce cholesterol, lower blood
pressure, boost the immune system, prevent
various forms of cancer, balance mood and
relieve depression, increase the
blood circulation, and maintain proper enzymatic
activity in the body. Knowing that fact,
Vietnamese people consider lotus root is a very
valuable ingredient when they make the dishes out
of it
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The green leaves are used to wrap delicious
dishes like the sticky rice, chicken rice and
green rice Vietnamese also use lotus leaves to
wrap green young rice com which is eaten as a
prized delicate treat in autumn. The leaves
impart a unique scent to the soft moist rice
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Mostly sold in dried, shelled form,
the seeds  contain rich contents of protein, B
vitamins, and dietary minerals
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The seeds are used for making lotus tea,
nutritious healthy foods/deserts and medicine
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After being extracted, lotus mind will be dried
in the sun and then packed in bags according to
orders, with a selling price of 200,000 VND / kg
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According to traditional medicine, the lotus mind
(also known as the death of the mind) is an
outstanding oriental medicine because of its
sedative effect, insomnia treatment, except for
heat stroke, and cooling.
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Lotus Nelumbo nucifera seed head the dried seed
cup is commonly used in flower arrangements
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The seed cup is the part that seems to be
discarded after harvesting all the lotus seeds,
but the lotus seed head still retains its value
as a valuable medicinal herb. It has a bitter,
acrid taste, and is temperate, so the lotus seed
cup has the effect of stopping bleeding, treating
abdominal pain and helping with diuretics.
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Shredded lotus seeds cup, roasted on a small
flame, then mixed with white wine is a remedy to
help eliminate stasis, treat bleeding and
diabetes. The use of this wine will be
proportional to the soaking time, so the longer
the better
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Lotus growing areas
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Vesak Celebrating Buddha's Birthday Candles are
lit on floating lotus flowers and sent out into
rivers around Vietnam
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Vesak Celebrating Buddha's Birthday in Hue
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Sound The flower of impermanence (Trinh
Cong Son) - Hong Nhung
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Vietnam (sometimes written as Viet Nam),
officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is
located at the eastern edge of the Indochinese
Peninsula, and is divided into 58 provinces and
five municipalities, covering 331,699 square
kilometres, with a population of over 96 million
inhabitants, making it the world's sixteenth-most
populous country. Vietnam is a unitary Marxist-Len
inist one-party socialist republic, one of the
two communist states (the other being Laos)
in Southeast Asia
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