Customs of Arbor Day What are the customs of Arbor Day?

1, Arbor Day customs: planting trees, knowledge of trees, publicity and environmental protection. Arbor Day is a day to mobilize the masses to participate in tree-planting activities, through tree-planting activities, to stimulate people to love forests and afforestation enthusiasm, and improve people's awareness of environmental protection.

2, China's Arbor Day by Ling Daoyang and Han An, Pei Yili and other foresters in 1915, initially set the time in the annual Qingming Festival. 1928, the national government to commemorate the third anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen will be changed to March 12 Arbor Day.

3. In ancient China, there was a tradition of planting willows and trees during the Qingming Festival, and the earliest planting of trees on the roadside in history was pioneered by a man named Wei Xiaokuan from Shaanxi more than 1,400 years ago.

4. After Wei Xiaokuan took office, he found that the earth platforms had many shortcomings, and that they were easy to collapse after being exposed to the wind and sun, especially to the rain, and that they needed to be repaired frequently, which not only increased the state's expenses, but also caused the people to suffer from the pains of hard labor, which was time-consuming, laborious, and inconvenient. After investigating and understanding, Wei Xiaokuan resolutely ordered all the official roads in Yongzhou to plant an acacia tree to replace the earth platform.

5, Shaanxi as the history of the earliest in the official road tree planting place, once the national road greening example, and Wei Xiaokuan first planted the acacia tree for thousands of years has been loved by the people, especially the Shaanxi people on the acacia tree is a love, very much love, and widely planted, and now this acacia tree has been as the symbol of the city of Xi'an, was identified as the city tree.