In the height of the summer heat, the vast lotus ponds in Wangjiangjing town stretch out in an endless sea of green.

Amid the rippling emerald waters, delicate pink blossoms quietly unfurl. A stroll along the water’s ridges offers air filled with the sweet frangrance of lotus as streams of visitors weave through the scene to snap photos, with some rolling up their pants to wade into the pond to pick fresh seedpods.

This mass lotus field in the Liansidang scenic area in Xiuzhou district, Jiaxing, of East China’s Zhejiang province, has been carefully cultivated by Sun Wenyue from the Zhongbao agricultural products cooperative.