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Ancient trees refer to old trees that have been growing for more than a hundred years; Famous trees refer to trees that have social influence and are famous in the world, and the age of trees is often more than a hundred years.
The trunk diameter thickens very slowly, giving people a sense of weather-beaten and vigorous Gu Zhuo. Most of the long-lived trees in the world are conifers, oaks, firs, banyans, ginkgo, Sophora japonica, Gleditsia sinensis, mulberry and so on.
The cypress planted by Emperor Xuanyuan of Huangdi Mausoleum in Shaanxi Province is the pride of the Chinese nation at the age of 5, years.
Famous trees are famous for their peculiar posture and high ornamental value, such as the "welcoming pine" in Huangshan Mountain, China; Or it is famous for historical events, such as the Han cypress in Dai Temple in Taishan Mountain, which was planted by Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, during his meditation. Or it is famous for its legendary stories. For example, the "Yellow Emperor planted cypress by hand" in Xuanyuan Temple in Huangling, Shaanxi Province, with a height of nearly 2 meters and a circumference of 1 meters, is the largest cypress tree in China, and is said to have been planted by the legendary ancestor of the Chinese nation, Xuanyuan Huangdi. For example, the "Hundred Riders Chestnut Tree" on Mount Etna in Sicily, Mediterranean, it is said that its huge and dense shade once sheltered an ancient king, queen and their hundred riders. The ginkgo tree (called "Imperial Tree") in Tanzhe Temple in Beijing is said to have been planted in Liao Dynasty, with a height of more than 3 meters and a diameter of 4 meters.
1. Ancient and famous trees are the witness of history. Many ancient and famous trees have experienced the change of dynasties, the joys and sorrows of the people and the vicissitudes of the world, which can be used to write explanations and popularize historical knowledge. For example, the general cypress of Songyang Academy in Dengfeng, Henan Province, and the general cypress when Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, visited Songshan Mountain. The pagoda tree in Hongdong, Shanxi Province, and almost half of China people say that they moved out from under the pagoda tree. In order to write our genealogy, I visited Hongtong County three times to find the roots. I have too much affection for the big locust tree. The ancient pagoda tree in East Qili, Sanmenxia, has too much affection for the people in western Henan. In the war-torn era, especially when the Japanese invaded the Central Plains, Henan people fled to the west and begged for food. When passing by this big pagoda tree, they had to kowtow and make a wish for a safe journey. There is also Baiguoshu in Wangxiang, the north of Linzhou City. If you leave for more than ten miles, you have to see the Baiguoshu in your hometown. People have deep feelings for the ancient trees in front of their hometown.
2. Ancient and famous trees add luster to culture and art, and they are the themes of poems and paintings by literati in past dynasties, often accompanied by beautiful legends and wonderful stories. Writers and poets are apt to be passionate and generous when they see a huge ancient tree.
An emperor of the Qing Dynasty described Ginkgo biloba as follows: "Coca does not count people, but the leaves are luxuriant and the grandchildren are green and fat. ... "
Ginkgo biloba in Juxian County, Shandong Province is known as" the first ginkgo tree in the world ". The ancient ginkgo tree has experienced many vicissitudes, and there is a poem saying:
Look at the ginkgo tree towering into the sky, and read all the vicissitudes regardless of years.
Qin Baihansong was a descendant, and the ancient Buddha Genpan was not alive.
3. Ancient and famous trees are also beautiful places of interest, such as "Wolong Pine" in Beijing Jietai Temple. If the hardcore branches take off in black dragon, they will give people beautiful enjoyment. For example, a literary writer of Qili Ancient Sophora japonica in Sanmenxia described: A vigorous and solemn ancient Sophora japonica has experienced many vicissitudes, and its spots are numerous. Although its branches are withered and old, it is surrounded by new branches that are flourishing at half waist, which makes it seem to have inexhaustible vitality. For thousands of years, nature, like a master artist, carved the dead branches at the top beautifully, and the upper branches were like a dragon with an upturned tail, waving its claws and glaring, showing an inaccessible fierce posture; The next branch is like a tiger lying on the hill, waiting for a try. The wonderful ecology of the upper and lower branches is just like that of enter the dragon. ......
4. Most famous trees are precious relics and magical legends left by the ancients. For example, cypress trees planted around the Huangdi Mausoleum in Shaanxi are usually more than 3, years old. A huge cypress in Xuanyuan Temple is said to have been planted by Emperor Xuanyuan, with a history of more than 5, years. It can be called the "king of cypress" in China and even the world. What is touching is that overseas Chinese came to the Mausoleum of Huangdi to worship their ancestors, and they came to Xuanyuan Huangdi to plant trees by hand and picked up a few seeds. They took away the treasures and planted them, chasing their ancestors and seeking their roots, which will last forever.
There is an ancient and vigorous male ginkgo tree next to Zongsheng Palace in Loushan Guantai, zhouzhi county, Shaanxi Province. There is an inscription next to the ancient tree. It is said that this ginkgo tree was planted by Lao Zi himself after going to Louguan. The tree is 26 years old.
in the southeast suburb of Xi' an, Shaanxi province, there is an ancient male ginkgo tree in Baijiaping Village, Wangchuan Township, Lantian County. According to legend, it was planted by the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei when he built the "Wenxing Pavilion" in Wangchuan that year, and Wang Wei praised it with a poem: "Wenxing is cut into beams, and citronella is beautiful. I don't know the clouds in the building, as the rain on earth. " Wang Wei has planted ginkgo trees by hand for more than 13 years.
Zhang Qian planted ginkgo trees by hand in the Western Han Dynasty. There is a temple called Taoyuan Palace in Ximalan Village, Chengguan Town, Ruyang County. There is a huge ancient ginkgo tree in the temple. When Zhang Qian saw this object on his way back from the trip to the Western Regions, he broke off two branches of this branch to make whip sticks, and then took them to Yiyang, Luonan, and inserted them into Taoyuan Palace. As a result, the two ginkgo sticks survived surprisingly. It has been passed down from generation to generation in the local area.
5. Ancient trees are important materials for studying natural history, and their complex ring structure contains the changing history of paleohydrology, paleogeography and paleovegetation.
The year of drought and favorable weather can be inferred from the tree rings, and the main wind direction can be determined from the tree rings.
6. Ancient trees are of special significance to the study of tree physiology. People can't study the physiological process of long-lived trees from birth to death by tracking, but ancient trees of different ages can coexist, which can show the order of tree growth and development in time as a spatial arrangement, which is beneficial to scientific research. For example, different tree species have the best age for growth and development, and growth curves can be drawn, and the growth laws of different tree species and different environments can be drawn.
7. Ancient trees have great reference value for tree species planning. Its geographical location and growth are our good planning basis.
8. Ancient trees have left deep feelings among local people, which is a living history told by generations. As important as the Chinese nation defending the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the mother river and the mother tree are sacred and inviolable.
The ginkgo tree planted by Laozi, the ancestor of Taoism, is 2,5 years old (a famous tree). It is the best ginkgo tree in the world on Fulai Mountain in Juxian County, Shandong Province.
The ancient ginkgo tree in Fuquan, Guizhou Province won the Guinness World Record in Shanghai. The world's largest diameter of ginkgo biloba is 5.26 meters (protected by famous trees)
The second and third generation trees of Hongdong pagoda tree, a replica of Hongdong pagoda tree site
The significance of protecting ancient trees
Ancient and famous trees are living cultural relics, the witness of history, with high ecological/scientific/historical and ornamental values, and are valuable wealth of the country.
ancient and famous trees are the precious wealth of the country, which has both biological value and living historical and cultural value. The protection of ancient and famous trees is related to the dual significance of the protection of biological resources and historical heritage in China.
Ancient and famous trees are the witness of history. They have read all about the world and experienced great changes. They embody the long history of the Chinese nation with their unique charm and show the splendid culture of the ancient capital with their rich connotations.
Ancient trees are the "living cultural relics" and "green cultural relics" of the city. As the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, Beijing has a history of 6, years of civilization. The ancient trees in Beijing are famous all over the world for their long history, majestic grace and magnificent shape. As a living cultural relic, ancient trees skillfully integrate natural landscape and human landscape, conveying ancient flavor with tenacious life.
Ancient and famous trees are the precious wealth of the country, which has both biological value and historical and cultural value of living cultural relics. The protection of ancient and famous trees is related to the dual significance of the protection of biological resources and historical and cultural heritage in China.
ancient and famous trees have many values.
1. historical value: trees that are more than 1 years old, rare/precious, and have important commemorative significance should be strictly protected.
2. Cultural relic value: As a living cultural relic, ancient trees skillfully integrate natural landscape and human landscape, convey ancient information with tenacious life, record the history of civilization development, urban construction and political rise and fall of the ancient capital, and provide a living basis for inheriting and carrying forward the style of the ancient capital.
3. Biological value: The ancient and famous trees that have survived numerous times of looting are the process of constantly exchanging materials with the surrounding environment and building themselves. They can be called "world champions" among the existing biological individuals on the earth, and they have incomparable resistance, and their genes are the best among biological species.
4. Ecological value: The ancient tree is the bridge and basis for people to explore the mysteries of nature. Its exquisite/vivid ring structure, like a mirror of history, shows people the changes of climate/hydrology/geology/geography/biology/ecology and the historical facts of human activities that it has experienced in those long years.
5. Ornamental value: Ancient trees in various forms not only add luster to many places of interest, but also form their own unique landscape with the characteristics of ancient/strange/strange/handsome. Ancient and famous trees are living paintings/solidified poems. Its vigorous trunk and swaying branches and leaves always make people feel its tenacity/tenacity/indomitable spirit.