The tutorial for origami lotus is as follows:

1. First prepare a square piece of paper. It is recommended to use colored paper, which will have better folding effect.

2. Fold the square paper in half along the four corners.

3. Fold the four corners toward the center and do not unfold it after folding.

4. After folding according to the previous step, do not turn the paper over and continue folding the four corners toward the center.

5. After folding twice, turn the paper over, unfold it slightly, and fold the eight sides with creases.

6. Then turn the paper over and arrange it slightly to make it three-dimensional.

7. Then turn the folded shape over and unfold the four sides from the center.

8. After unfolding, turn the shape over and sort it out a little. A lotus-shaped hand-made origami is completed.

Lotus:

The lotus is the flower bud of Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. Widely distributed in the north and south. It tastes bitter, sweet, and has a neutral nature. Guixin, liver meridian. It has the effects of dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, dispelling dampness and eliminating wind. It is often used for injuries such as vomiting blood, bloody stranguria, metrorrhagia, eczema, scabies and itching.

Lotus is a perennial aquatic herb. The rhizome is transverse, thick, with enlarged internodes, many longitudinal ventilation holes, and exogenous whisker-like adventitious roots. Leaves grow at the nodes and are exposed above the water; the petiole is located in the center of the back of the leaf, thick, cylindrical, and spiny; the blade is round, 25-90cm in diameter, entire or slightly wavy, pink-green above, with veins shooting out from the center below. There are 1-2 forked branches.