I have gone through a lot of villages in southern China.
Almost all of the villages, without exception pro-one or a few centuries or a millennium or more trees of the ancient ginkgo. According to the information that Ginkgo biloba in China Great Wall and the river north and south of the 27 provinces and autonomous regions have distributed hundreds of years and the first millennium there are still a considerable amount of Ginkgo biloba. This strange commonality, is there a particular historical and cultural background, then I Wucongkaozheng.
I was born in the village, there is such a great adults to 56 trees can be fenced off. The villagers call it "white tree." In the spring, it is the school of green. One to the height of summer, it was a huge open crown and dense foliage, has become a good place that we enjoy the cool air play. By the autumn season, the fan-shaped leaves that become a quaint yellow and orange around the eternal evergreen tree into the green form a contrast-hui. At that time, here is the village one of the most beautiful scenery. We will always pick some of the best looking leaves, caught in the textbooks, when the bookmark.
At that time did not dare eat the food ginkgo. Because the big people say, ginkgo can only eat a 1-year-old, two years of age eat two, eat to be drunk, we should Zuisi's. And I've always wanted to understand it, and that grandparents seventy to eighty years old, you can eat seventy to eighty stars do, they do not Zuisi do? But we always have dared to eat, so they had not tasted the intoxicating taste of ginkgo. The reason is afraid of death, afraid that they are at a tender age so dead, the parents how big people will do?
It is also a growth of ginkgo tree is an ancient village, but an ordinary tree only. Until one day, Mr. Guo Moruo read essays extolling the ginkgo, call it "Oriental saints" and "China humane living monument" and "With years of ancient Chinese culture Ju witness." Guolao to praise affectionately said: "You are the only China have Yeah, you really should be called China's national tree Yeah, I like you, I particularly like you." Then I noticed a child tree memory of most trees, the tree was such a great tree. I read the Code turned nationality, understand this has been called the "Oriental saints" of the ginkgo tree.
"Ginkgo is a large deciduous tree usually up to 20-30 meters high, the highest of up to 50 meters. Ginkgo is dioecious in gymnosperms, only the female plants can be the result. Ginkgo fruit was ripe apricot, foreign species skin hypertrophy meat, sour smell; in the kinds of leather wrapped part of the term 'Ginkgo'; within the kinds of endometrial quality, light red-brown. eat mainly seeds, endosperm, sweet and slightly bitter. "This is to teach botany the book on the elaboration of Ginkgo biloba. Ginkgo biloba is today the oldest on the planet there is a kind of higher plants, the "living fossil plant," said. In the Mesozoic geological era Triassic, Jurassic, which are located in large areas of the planet. However, Quaternary glaciers, the ginkgo is almost extinct. Only a few areas in China and other survivors, as ancient and famous and exotic species. Ginkgo biloba is a second-class key protected plants.
Ginkgo biloba has strong vitality, it is not afraid of cold, resistant to dust, but also a strong anti-radiation. World War II, the atomic bombings in Hiroshima, Japan, on the ruins of a long birth to the first one is the ginkgo Xinmiao. This is a historical on the recorded.
Civil society, in some places call it "maidenhair tree" is a fruit because it is late, the general fact of ginkgo fruit will have to pass two or three decades, the so-called "public tree planting and the Sun were actually" and named. But more was Joking, "maidenhair tree." That in the past a family granddaughters, widowed daughter in law do not abide by the Women and human fornication, was after the father and son and saw by the responsibility, actually very angry and will Gongsun two out of the house. Widowed daughter-father pleaded repeatedly, leaving her son. Wife pretended to consent, but with the adulterer conspiracy, taking advantage of his son to the well to fetch water when he was pushed into the wells. After the father learned to come to rescue, anti-adultery by this right into the wells. Well suddenly a loud crash, grow a tree, lush foliage, fruits. See two ginkgo trees, delicious, greedy a lot, both the results of two poisoned. Has been called the "maidenhair tree."
Not long ago, met Jiangsu Province, one is called "China's first rural Ginkgo" in Chen Zhenchang. He said that because now using a local or remote manual pollen spray technology, as well as high in the female plant male plant grafting and other new technologies, been able to achieve the result of three years, five years into the middle of the gratifying results, is no longer a "public tree planting The Sun was actually "the maidenhair tree has. Moreover, because the special medicinal value of Ginkgo biloba tree, which was made into a variety of health care products and specific drugs, sold five oceans on four continents. Now, in the world, there are dozens of countries, either directly or indirectly from the Chinese ginkgo tree planted introduction, and a variety of good reputation in foreign countries: "Golden Apricot" (Japan), "1000 Fan" (United States), "Peacock Tree "(United Kingdom)," 40 silver tree "(France). Many places in China, the ginkgo regarded as a "flower", "county flower." He also had presented in this exquisitely printed copies of ginkgo album.
When I arrived in Hangzhou Shangougou this, but also saw the village in 1200 of the ancient ginkgo tree, not help but think I have gone through many of the villages of the South saw ginkgo tree, not help but think of my hometown Gingko tree. It seems to be a banner of China's villages for thousands of years has been the land in rural China to continuously flying.
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