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Information about bird paradise

"birds of paradise", also known as "paradise for birds", is a tourist scenic spot with unique bird ecological scenery as its theme, which integrates eco-tourism, cultural tourism, healthy tourism and leisure tourism.

birds of paradise is located on the sandbar of Tianma River in Tianma Village, Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, 1 kilometers away from Guangzhou. It is actually a water banyan tree that grew in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. The branches of the water banyan tree hang down to the ground and dig into the soil to become a new trunk. As time goes by, the big banyan tree grows into a forest, and thousands of birds and trees live in the forest.

In 1933, after visiting here, the writer Ba Jin felt deeply, and wrote a famous essay "Paradise of Birds", and Mr. Ba Jin personally wrote the word "birds of paradise", hence the name of birds of paradise.

Extended information:

According to legend, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a village called "Tianma Village", where the population increased and the water supply was insufficient. One day, a Feng Shui gentleman from Jiangxi came to the village. He said to the villagers: The water flowing from Yinzhou Lake through Jinniu Head is full of gold and silver, but this river is not suitable. The river is eastward, and people are empty. To ensure peace and live a good life, it is necessary to build a "pier" in the center of the river to stop the water.

According to their instructions, the villagers dug and transported mud to build a "mound" in the river. After the mound was completed, a villager inserted a banyan branch on the mound. A few years later, unconsciously, this banyan branch grew into a big banyan tree, which attracted thousands of birds to inhabit and multiply, and finally formed the world-famous "Quedun"-"birds of paradise".

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-birds of paradise.