The story between Ginkgo and Qianlong

Emperor Qianlong wrote a poem for "Dragon Seed"

Ginkgo is a precious tree species unique to my country, left over from the glacial movement of the fourth century

The oldest gymnosperm, known as a living fossil, and all other plants of its order are extinct. But now

There are not many ginkgo trees that are more than a thousand years old. I know that in Houjiazhai Township, Zunhua City, Hebei Province, 150 kilometers southeast of Beijing, there is a five-year-old ginkgo tree. Fengshan, there is a Zen Forest Temple in the mountain. In the temple, there are twelve male, twelve female and thirteen thousand-year-old ginkgo trees. One of the male trees is the tallest, with a height of 25 meters and a circumference of 8.50 meters. It can take several people to embrace it, so it is called the "dragon species". During the ten years of Qianlong's reign, when Emperor Qianlong was looking for the "Feng Shui treasure land" for the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty, he stayed at the Chanlin Temple for a few days.

When he saw that the ancient ginkgo planted in the Zenlin Temple was more beautiful than the "imperial ginkgo" in the Tanzhe Temple in Beijing. "The tree" is still a little taller, with a giant crown reaching into the sky.

The courtyard is covered with shade. Emperor Qianlong was very popular in poetry. He once wrote a poem for its majestic appearance: "Coca leaves are luxuriant no matter how many people surround it." /p>

The branches and trees are green and shady. The vicissitudes of the world are like an illusion, and the memory of the founding of the mountain is vague. ”