In the long history of Chinese literature, the lotus flower renowned as one of the most rare and beautiful flowers. Its rich interpretations are incomparable with other kind of flowers. Choosing this specific kind of flowers with deep cultural connotations and rich symbolic meanings, as the subject, this paper is going to make an analysis and comparison of the meanings of the louts flowers as a literary image in the literature before the Song Dynasty, and tries to find out the source, the emer...