The king of Chinese fir

The king of Chinese fir

The king, the monarch, is the highest rank. Chinese fir is an evergreen tree. Its crown is tower shaped, its leaves are long lanceolate, its flowers are unisexual, its fruit is spherical, its wood color is white, its quality is light, and it has fragrance. The Chinese fir king is the highest ranking fir tree in China.

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This is a huge fir tree. Its trunk is thick and straight. It seems that six or seven people can't surround its thick trunk hand in hand. There are many thick branches on each layer of the trunk, many twigs on the thick branches, and many twigs on the twigs The branches and leaves are crisscross and the sun is covered with thick shade. It looks like a huge green tower.

Next to the big fir tree is a stone tablet set up by the people's Government of Xishui County, on which there are four very striking characters: "Chinese fir king". Under the four characters, there is also a passage as follows: "it is said that in the spring of the sixth year of shaoding in Song Dynasty, yuan SHIMENG was ordered to broadcast here. In order to quell the dispute of national land cutting, a tree was inserted upside down with the arrow landing as the boundary. After nearly 800 years of snow, rain, wind and frost, vicissitudes of life, and great changes in mountains and rivers, but this tree was pulled up from the ground, deep-rooted, lush and lush. It is also a God tree! From generation to generation, villagers have been burning incense and holding candles to worship in order to protect the long-term stability of the Chinese fir king. The tree is 44.8m high, 2.23m DBH, 22.7m crown width and 84m3 trunk volume. Through the research of many senior forestry experts in China, it is a rare treasure in the world. It is the most famous in China and is known as the king of Chinese fir. Tourists from all over the world and guests from all over the world are all impressed by the majestic posture of the king of fir, and they are lucky to see the elegant demeanour of the sacred tree. "

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Taiping Township is a place surrounded by mountains, dense forests and beautiful natural environment. In particular, there are many Chinese fir trees everywhere, so it is called the hometown of Chinese fir trees. The king of Cunninghamia lanceolata is a long-lived tree among the Cunninghamia lanceolata trees. According to the records of the stone tablet, this Cunninghamia lanceolata tree was planted by yuan SHIMENG in the spring of the sixth year of shaoding, Song Dynasty. That year was 1228 ad, and it is 783 years ago! At that time, Li Tianguan, the leader of local power in northern Guizhou, was in power in this area. In order to expand his power, he openly declared himself Emperor and opposed the imperial court. Therefore, the Song Dynasty sent yuan SHIMENG, a general, to Guizhou to fight against Li Tianguan. After yuan SHIMENG defeated Li Tianguan, he didn't kill him. Instead, he told him to give him a stone's throw and be a good man. Yuan SHIMENG climbed to the top of the hill, took his bow and arrow and shot it into the distance. He asked the sergeant to find the place where the arrow landed. There he planted a fir tree, with the top of the mountain where he arched as the center of the circle, with the fir tree as the boundary, making a circular arc as the domain, leaving it for Li Tianguan to live on. Since then, this big fir tree has assumed the responsibility of boundary marker and warned future generations that people of all ethnic groups living here should live in harmony and develop together. The reason why this Chinese fir king lived long is that the natural environment where it lived is suitable for its growth. There, a hill and two streams form a triangular plot. The fir trees are located at the foot of the hill in the north, and the two long-term flowing streams meet more than 30 meters south of the tree. It can be said that the soil is rich and the water is beautiful. After hundreds of years of wind, frost, snow, rain and vicissitudes, the fir trees are still deep rooted, leafy and towering. What's more impressive is that this Chinese fir king once sheltered the Red Army soldiers passing here from the sun and rain, and also had a strange affinity with the great men Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. Ye Xiaolin told me that in the book red ribbon of the earth, the old Red Army recalled that when the red army passed by, Comrade Mao Zedong came to Dashan tree twice. For the first time, when Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai discussed the direction of the Red Army's March while walking, Zhou Enlai had a sharp eye. Seeing that a huge fir tree was covered with a pleasant shade, he invited Mao Zedong to take shelter from the sun under the tree and spread out a map there to choose the way forward. Looking at the towering tree, Mao Zedong exclaimed with some surprise: "I've never seen such a big fir tree before. It's bigger than the big camphor tree at the entrance of our Soviet in Shazhouba!" Zhou Enlai also said with a smile: "I think it can be called the king of fir trees!" Local people say that although it was only after experts' research a few years ago that it was identified as the king of Chinese fir, Comrade Zhou Enlai gave it the title of king of Chinese fir as early as 70 years ago. This king of Chinese fir was named after his beloved Comrade Zhou Enlai. Comrade Mao Zedong came to dashanshu for the second time after the Red Army crossed Chishui and before returning to northern Guizhou to attack Loushanguan. Because of his "association" with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, two of China's greatest figures, King Shan of China is even more legendary. After the confluence of the two streams beside the king of Chinese fir, they rush eastward. Not far away, go south through the stream, on the hillside there is a Buddhist temple, tall brick and Wood Hall, from a distance, but the most prominent building nearby. The Buddha, Bodhisattva and arhat worshipped in the main hall and the auxiliary hall are all new sculptures. Because of the high skill of color sculpture, the statues are of different shapes and look. Interestingly, the name of this Buddhist temple is not known by many people, but when asked about Shanwang temple, local people would point to it and say, "that's Shanwang temple." The temple is also famous for the Chinese fir king. Really, it's a pity not to visit the king of Chinese fir in Xishui!

Address: Yueshan village, Qingyuan County, Lishui City

Longitude: 119.17977142334

Latitude: 27.491901397705

Chinese PinYin : Shan Shu Wang