Beijing's Yuanmingyuan, also known as the Old Summer Palace, has greeted the blossoms of ancient lotuses for the second year. /CFP

This year, the lotuses have a bigger family, delighting visitors to the park. /CFP

The ancient lotuses had grown from lotus seeds that had been dormant underground for over a hundred years. The seeds were discovered at a pond in Yuanmingyuan during an archaeological excavation in 2017. /CFP