New Hunan Client, August 23 (Reporter Chen Long) "On the 7th of July, the Hall of Eternal Life, when no one whispered in the middle of the night. "The ancients were far more romantic than we thought.
"In heaven I wish to be a winged bird, and in earth I wish to be a branch." The ancient tree gives this Tanabata another way to open. On August 22, the Qixi Festival, the offline check-in points of characteristic ancient trees in 17 cities across the country, selected by the Office of the National Greening Committee and the Literary and Art Program Center of the Central Radio and Television Corporation (CCTV3 channel), attracted a large number of people to check in and pray and confess their love.
Tongzituo Village, Shuangpai County, Yongzhou City, is one of the offline check-in points of the "Confession Under the Ancient Tree" activity. Taking this as an opportunity, the first "Confession Under the Ancient Tree Qixi Blind Date Festival" in Shuangpai County with the theme of "Crossing the Millennium to Meet You" opened in Tongzituo. At the scene, the reporter met the protagonist - a "husband and wife ginkgo tree" with more than 1600 years old. Its tree-shaped view is hand in hand, it is interdependent, and the close view is intertwined and intertwined. With a diameter of 128 cm at the breast and a height of 31 meters, the tree spreads into two plants from 1.3 meters, and the branches embrace each other, resembling a loving couple.
The years are speechless, and the ancient tree can speak. According to records, Gong Dengke Kangxi (1711) was born in Shuangpai Jingkou (now Tanhua Village, Chalin Town, Shuangpai County) in the 50th year of the Qing Dynasty's imperial examination "Tanhua". In the seventh year of Qianlong (1742), Gong Dengke participated in the trial and was appointed by the Qianlong Emperor as a tanhua.
Gong Dengke's family was poor, and after the age of 20, he took his wife Jiang Shi (a native of Tongzi Pass) to find a place of retreat, and lived in the Dragon Valley of Tongzi Pass, where he devoted himself to study, often scrutinizing poetry under this tree. Chiang was diligent in housework, served her husband carefully, and whenever the silver fruit was ripe, he would pick the fruit and cook it for his husband's body.
In 1739, Gong Dengke was raised in the middle of the ranks, and in 1742, he was awarded the Hanlin Academy after exploring the flowers. He and his wife Jiang Shi supported each other with affection and watched over their lives, which can be called a model of husband and wife. Later, the people of Tongzituo passed on this good story and called the ginkgo tree that grew even branches "husband and wife tree".
In the afternoon, a total of 77 couples or couples were invited to participate in the opening ceremony, and through various forms such as love song duet, letter confession, love poetry recitation and dance performance, everyone expressed their love to their other half on the stage and shared happiness with everyone present.
"From today onwards, we will shoulder the responsibilities and obligations entrusted to us by marriage, filial piety to parents, teaching children, mutual respect and love, mutual trust and encouragement, mutual understanding and mutual accommodation, mutual affection, and love for life. In the future, whether in good times or bad, whether rich or poor, whether healthy or sick, young or old, we will be in the same boat through thick and thin. "The post-90s couple Hu Rui and Chen Yuan just received their marriage certificate at the Civil Affairs Bureau in the morning, from meeting more than a year ago to getting married today, the two walked on the stage hand in hand and took the oath of love. Hu Rui told reporters that because they both like Chinese traditional culture, they chose to collect their certificates on the day of the Qixi Festival and signed up for this confession activity.
"This year is our 47th wedding year, and tomorrow marks our 48th wedding anniversary. In the past, we often came to walk here for a walk in the couple's ginkgo tree, thanks to it, to witness everyone's beautiful emotions, and the romance of Chinese can also experience the erosion of time. When he said this, 75-year-old Liu Tianyou and 70-year-old Gong Jincui looked at each other and laughed, clinging to each other, and this scene under the "husband and wife tree" was moving.
Under the husband and wife tree, the love is determined for life. Couples and couples who came to check in tied wishing cards and wishing tapes to the branches of the husband and wife trees, sent good wishes to the ancient trees and took photos. That night, the event venue was transferred to Shuangpai County, and the popularity was still high. Everyone met on the banks of the Yongshui River, made wishes and prayers by the broken bridge, and the wonderful love song duet and dance performances made the audience express their unfulfilled expectations.
It is reported that in addition to the "husband and wife tree" in Tongzituo in Shuangpai County, there are also three ancient trees in Hunan selected for the "Confession Under the Ancient Tree" online activity, namely Luo Hansong in Xiaohe Township, Liuyang City, "Heart Tree" in Shaoshan Township, Shaoshan City, and Chongyang Wood in Zhijiang Town, Zhijiang County. This offline activity is an extension of the national "confession under the ancient tree" activity, with "husband and wife tree", "confession" and "love" as hot spots, pushing the "confession under the ancient tree" activity to a climax. From the acquaintance and confession under the "husband and wife tree" in Tongzituo, to making wishes and praying on the banks of the Yongshui River, we strive to create a new cultural tourism IP of Tongzituo's thousand-year-old ginkgo "confession under the husband and wife tree", and promote the continuous "heating up" of the cultural tourism market in scenic spots such as Tongzituo through blind dates, making friends, confessions, blessings and other activities.
At the same time, we will widely publicize the knowledge of ancient tree protection and ancient tree culture, take the protection of ancient trees as an opportunity, integrate various ecological cultural tourism resources in the surrounding areas, promote the creation of an ancient tree ecological cultural tourism network red village, attract surrounding tourists to come to "check in", promote the deep integration and organic interaction of forest and tourism, and help rural revitalization.