Spiritual Tree | Essay Ma Shuhua

Since I was a child, I have loved to plant trees, and experience has taught me that no matter what kind of trees are planted, as long as they can be shallow and not deep, they will do more with less.

That spring, I went back to the countryside to visit my cousin, whom I had not seen for many years, who was planting poplar trees in the responsibility field, and the pit he had dug was big and deep. I told him that the pit should be big and not deep. My cousin said that the neighbors dug deeper, and the saplings I bought were shallow, and wouldn't they be more ruined? I explain: the roots of the tree are afraid of deep stuffiness, the deep layer is raw soil, hard, no nutrients, the shallow soil layer is activated soil, more nutrients, high temperature, strong photosynthesis, good breathability. Roots have spirituality, and where there is nourishment, they will be rooted wherever they are. My cousin followed my advice and planted only one piercing (20 centimeters) deep. I also reminded him that poplar trees are not afraid of water, and more water can keep germination. After ten days and a half months, dig 3-4 pits around the root to apply some fertilizer, and when the branches spit out the leaves, the new roots and shoots underground can absorb the nutrients. Spring and summer are the seasons when trees grow wildly. After the autumn, the nutrients stored under the roots are gradually exhausted, and it is time to replenish them in time. This is a reserve grain for autumn and winter. Don't think that when trees are dormant in winter, they don't need supplies.

According to his cousin later, his two-row tree was the worst when it was planted, one head taller than his neighbors in the autumn of that year, and three years later, he was far ahead and became a "big brother". Five years later, "Big Brother" became a veritable "tree king". As the saying goes, "Man is not under man's eyes, the tree is not under the tree" The tree king is high above his tree, the wind gets the sun, and the little brother under him wants the wind and no wind, the rain and no rain, and it is still the same for a few years. Moreover, the thick and incomparable roots of the "Tree King" are simply overbearing underground, regardless of boundaries, without talking about territory, invading everywhere, and eating all over the neighbors.

The "tree king" has fertilizer and water to supply, and it is full of food throughout the year, it sprouts first in spring, and leaves fall at the latest in autumn. Neighbors around them said that his cousin's tree had been planted on the feng shui treasure land, and asked him where he bought the "divine seedlings". My cousin said humorously, I am lazy and lazy, I did not take planting trees seriously, only dug a deep, buried the saplings in the soil and finished. Obviously, the cousin is a natural machine that does not leak.

Some people do not understand the personality of the tree, saying that the tree initiates a temper and can "die of anger". In fact, this is caused by the destruction of its growing conditions.

In 1999, more than 30 tung trees died on Su Causeway Road, southeast of Yong'an Square in Xuzhou City. No one burned, no one knifed, why did the trees that had been more than twenty years old wither? Five large vegetable houses were built on the east side of the building, pressing the soil from the foundation around the trees. The trunk was buried a man deep. People do not know that the trunk and roots need ventilation and temperature, and when these growth conditions are destroyed, the roots of the tree do not provide enough nutrients for the branches, and the branches are "starved", resulting in the death of some branches or the whole tree. This truth, like a weightlifter, the barbell is too heavy to move, and it has to end in failure.

In the early spring of 2001, Yunlong Park drained the pond water in the garden for the autumn provincial garden expo, and thickly covered the black pond mud around the poplar trees and cultivated it into a mound. Some people say that black silt is fertilizer, which is equivalent to fertilizing poplar trees. In fact, this is destroying trees. Trees are most afraid of roots. As a result, more than a dozen green-skinned poplar trees died that year.

Trees are human. Summer is more likely to manifest. The trees are cleaned, and the people are cooling and entertaining under the trees, and the trees that like popularity are growing more and more oily. As the saying goes, man is the guts of the house; the house can not live empty. Tree cultivation is like a house, and when it is popular, the tree will flourish. The trees on Su Causeway Road, the trees in Yunlong Park, because of the construction sealed the soil, broke the popularity, and finally lost their lives.

Trees are spiritual. It knows heat and cold, drought and flood, love and hate. If you can understand its spirituality, it will grow happily and repay your care. Otherwise, if you frustrate its spirituality, it will not be angry for long, or it will simply protest by committing suicide.