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Trees and branches spread and climbed up to the top of the beams, dense purple flowers bloomed in front of the ancient tile cornices, attracting all kinds of birds to roost and singing songs, and the spring flowers of the early spring Jade Hall dotd the entire Chen Clan Ancestral Hall... What the Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter saw today (24th) in the courtyard of the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall in Guangzhou was a bonsai-like plant Yutang Spring with a tree body of nearly 7 meters. Walking into the details, the whole tree has few leaves, dense purple flowers are full of vitality, and the ancient tile cornices of the more than 100-year-old Chen Clan Ancestral Hall compete for spring, coupled with the bright gray sculptures around the surroundings, forming an exquisite early spring map of the Lingnan Courtyard.
Yutang Spring is the "Primrose" of Chen Clan Ancestral Hall
The reporter learned that in the 1970s, most of the large trees in the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall were cut down, leaving only two plane trees that were more than 100 years old and the same age as the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall. Most of the trees in the ancestral hall were replanted in the 1980s when the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall reopened to the public, and many large trees, including Yutang Chun, were selected and transplanted from the Guangzhou Flower and Wood Company.
"After nearly 40 years of care, Yutang Spring has now become a 'primrose' in the ancestral hall courtyard, and every year after the Lunar New Year, the Yutang Spring of the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall is the first to open, followed by the various colors of Yingshan red and beige osmanthus flowers in March, the white lotus magnolia in April and May, and finally the magnolia in May and June." Retired old curator Li Zhuoqi told reporters.
The reporter learned that the previous two Yutang Spring trees are now only one left. Next to her, a small yutang spring was replanted, but there was no flowering. And this nearly 7-meter-high old tree bends the exquisite body, which is also related to the previous grafting treatment. At nearly half a meter high at the lower end of the tree, a clear junction of cross-sections can still be seen.
Wang Wei's WoodWood Rong Flower is Yutang Spring
"The hibiscus flowers are ended in the wood, the calyxes in the mountains are red, and the streams are lonely, and they are opening and falling." Li Zhuoqi told reporters that the great poet Wang Wei's Wooden Wood Ronghua refers to Yutang Chun. Brilliant in the early spring branches of the Yutang spring is also known as the purple magnolia, also known as Xinyi flower, Yutang spring flower color has purple and white two kinds, every year around the Spring Festival blooms. According to plant history records, the Yutang Spring, which symbolizes wealth and auspiciousness, is native to central China and has been cultivated for 2500 years, once planted in the court of Jiangnan, China.
The Spring Flower Scene of the Jade Hall of the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall is also one of the four major Yutang Spring Attractions in Guangdong, and the qinghui Garden in Shunde, Foshan, the Yunquan Xianguan in Xiqiao Mountain in Foshan, and the Baoding Garden in Zhaoqing constitute four spring color maps of the Yutang in Guangdong. Historical records also record that the Yutang Chun of the Yunquan Immortal Hall on Xiqiao Mountain was given by the Daoguang Emperor. In the autumn of 1839, Lin Zexu, who had made a contribution to smoking smoking, returned to Beijing to restore the emperor's order, and then returned to Guangdong to sell cigarettes. Before leaving, the Daoguang Emperor gave him a white jade hall, hoping that he would be as beautiful and white as the white jade hall. Lin Zexu's first stop in Guangdong was in the Baiyun Cave of Xiqiao Mountain, and the white jade hall given by the emperor was planted in the Baiyun Cave.
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The relevant information does not have the flower name "Yutang Spring", and people say that yutang spring originally called this flower "Purple Magnolia". The purple-red flowers are magnolias, and the white flowers are magnolias. It is the genus Magnolia of the Magnoliaceae family, the scientific name is "Magnolia liliflora Desr.", alias Magnolia, Xinyi, and Wooden Pen. The English name is Lily Magnolia. The leaves are small and medium-sized trees, up to 3 to 5 meters tall, often clustered. The buds have fine gray-brown hairs; the twigs are purple-brown. The leaves are inverted ovate or oval-shaped, 10–18 cm long and 4–10 cm wide, sharply pointed or tapering at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, and soft hairs along the dorsal veins. The flowers are open or rarely open at the same time as the leaves, large, bell-shaped; calyxes 3, lanceolate, light purple-brown, 2-3 cm long; petals 6, oblong inverted ovate, 8 to 10 cm long, purple or purple on the outside, white on the inside; filaments and carpels purple red; flower dwelling 1, apex pointed, slightly curved. The fruit is oblong, 7–10 cm long, light brown. Flowering period is from April to May.
Text, picture, video: Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Huang Dantong Guangzhou Daily all-media editor Zhang Ying