Twenty women with loads of purple red water chestnuts, green water caltrops and snow-white lotus roots walking in a single file, like willows swaying in the wind, were a wonderful sight!

• 一二十个姑娘媳妇，挑着一担担紫红的荸荠、碧绿的菱角、雪白的连枝藕，走成一长串，风摆柳似的嚓嚓地走过，好看得很。