What are the ancient trees in China?

China has preserved a number of ancient trees that have traveled through the ages and still stand tall. One of them is the Han cypress in Daimiao Temple in Taishan, which was planted by Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when he performed his Zen meditation.

The General's Cypress

The General's Cypress, which is famous at home and abroad, is located in Songyang Academy in Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, and is known as the "Original Cypress" because it is the oldest cypress tree in China. It is rumored that when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty traveled to Mt. Songshan during the Yuanfeng years (110 BC), he saw these two tall cypresses, and on the spur of the moment, he named them "generals".

Ancient Sophora

Ancient Sophora, also known as "Hongdong Sophora Tree" because of Hongdong County, which is located in the northwest of Hongdong County, outside the village of Jiaxiu in the west of the Sophora Tree Park, although there is no striking buildings in Hongdong County itself, but no matter how cold and hot summer, there is a steady stream of tourists come to admire the old tree, the old face of the tree, the old man's face, the old man's face, the old man's face, the old man's face. The old face of the ancient tree, some people write poems to express their feelings, some people look up to the ancient locust and long refused to leave. According to ancient records, the Ming Dynasty, Jia Village, west of a lofty temple, the temple is a grand Guangji Temple, the temple is not only a lot of monks, and endless visitors. The temple not only has many monks, but also has a lot of visitors. The reason is that there is an acacia tree next to the temple with a "body of several circumference and a shade of several acres", and the wide shade of the tree covers the whole avenue of cars and horses. Fen River beach birds nesting in the tree, very spectacular. The Ming Dynasty government also set up a bureau in Guangji Temple to centralize the immigrant affairs, and the immigrants at that time liked to gather under the locust tree.

Xuan Yuan cypress, located in Huangling County, Shaanxi Province, north of the Huangdi Temple in Qiaoshan, the tree is nearly 20 meters high, the lower circumference of about 10 meters, is China's largest cypress tree, but it is famous because of the legend about it, legend is that it is the legendary ancestor of the Chinese nation Xuanyuan Huangdi planted his own hands, so it is also known as the "Huangdi planted cypress! "

Phoenix is the first tree in China to be honored by all.

Phoenix Pine

The Phoenix Pine, which is more than 1,400 years old, is located in the Minyuan Park of Jiuhua Mountain in Anhui Province, and is rumored to have been planted by a godly monk named Huaidu. Pine needles have a dense cover the sky, verdant beauty, because its trunk is slightly fan-shaped like a phoenix wings, so it is named. Because of its ancient and known as the "world's first pine".

Welcoming Pine

Welcoming Pine is one of the four best of Mount Huangshan, mainly located in Mount Huangshan, Anhui Province, east of the Yuping Tower of the top of the Manjushu Cave, welcoming the life of the pine is extremely tenacious, because the life of more than a thousand years, most of them are born from breaking the stone, the trunk of the pale and powerful, the form of the elegant and peaceful, the outward extension of the branches as if the guests to the warm greetings of the hand.

Ginkgo King

Ginkgo King, located in Shandong Ying County, west of Mount Fureai on the Dinglin Temple, the tree is 25.4 meters high, dry diameter 15.7 meters, without going to the Ginkgo King tree below people will be its majestic momentum to the shock of the tree to the Huagai for the crown, the shade of the kilometer, the shape of the hill. UNESCO listed it as one of the world's famous trees, because it has a long history of more than 3300 years.

Ancient Plum

The Zhangtai Ancient Plum, located in Zhanghua Temple on Taishiyuan Road in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, is a native plum with a height of about 3 meters and a crown of 6.5 meters. More than 2,550 years ago, according to legend, the king of Chu Ling built Zhanghuatai when planted, despite the weather, but still is the old trunk gnarled, branches and leaves. Throughout the ages, writers and writers have sung its praises, and the Qing Dynasty has left a famous line about plums, which reads: "The fragrance of white snow has been competing for thousands of years, and the shadow of maltreating the remaining branch in Jiangnan".

Alishan God Wood

Alishan God Wood, commonly known as the "Pine of Zhou" is located in Taiwan's Chiayi County, East Alishan, about 53 meters high, the old red juniper looks like a man, has been as high as more than 3,000 years of age. Unfortunately, it has been split open by a lightning strike in recent years.

Tianbahe Ancient Banyan Tree

Tianbahe Ancient Banyan Tree is located in the Tianma River on the outskirts of Xinhui County in Guangdong Province, where this huge ancient banyan tree, with its leafy branches and connected roots, covers an area of up to 10,000 square meters. The great writer Ba Jin once wrote an article "Bird's Paradise", which made this originally little-known ancient tree instantly become a world-famous legend.

Yufeng Temple

Hundreds of years of history of the Yufeng Temple, is located in the north of Lijiang City, the southern foot of the snowy mountains, is one of the five Lama Temple in the outskirts of Lijiang City, the other four temples are Fuguo Temple, Puji Temple, Wenfeng Temple, the temple of the finger cloud. Yufeng Temple was built in the thirty-ninth year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1700), before there are nine courtyards so large, now only the main hall and the upper and lower courtyards remain. The temple is surrounded by pines and cypresses, and the spring water gurgles like a song, making the scenery beautiful and picturesque. Inside and outside the temple, there are camellias, cherry blossoms, hanxiao (ten lilies), mountain magnolia (night acacia) and other valuable flowers and trees, of which "ten thousand camellias" is the most famous.

In addition, there are many famous ancient trees in China, such as Mount Lushan Three Treasure Tree, Mount Tai Five Daffodil Pine, Qingyun Tang Jujube, Zhenjiang Jiao Mountain Song Sophora, Hangzhou Wushan Song Camphor, Beijing Tanzhe Temple Imperial Tree, Lijiang Yufeng Temple camellia, Zhangjiakou Yunquan Temple Ancient Willow, and so on.