When visiting the Ancient Xiang jujube ruins park in Dongding Village, Guanshan Street, Yanliang, a sign was found, "Millennium Soap Horn Tree".
Let's start with a brief introduction:
Soap horn tree is a tree species endemic to China.
The soap horn tree is hard in material and delicate in flesh, and it is a superior tree for making furniture;
Soap horn canopy is large and shady, long life, very suitable for shade trees and four sides (roads, ditches, canals, houses) greening tree species;
The fruit of the soap horn tree is rich in pancreatic soap, so it can be decocted instead of soap, can wash clothes, and can extract a variety of chemical raw materials for washing and dyeing supplies.
Both saponaria rice and soap horn thorn can be used in medicine.
Soap horn rice is also edible.
In China's Tang Garden, there are dozens of ancient soap horn trees, most of which have to be hugged by three or four people, there are only half of the bark left, there are hollow like a cylinder, and there are large tree holes, but they are full of vitality and grow well. According to reports, the age of the tree is only a few hundred years, not close to a thousand years. Seeing the clear logo "Millennium Soap Horn Tree", I was immediately curious, and I looked for it along the logo, and I couldn't wait.
From the sign to the discovery of the soap horn tree is fifty or sixty meters, a few meters away from the high south earth cliff, there are brick-like walls surrounding the oval flower beds, a bunch of overgrown trees, and some red wishing belts on the branches, and that's it.
The tree has a circumference of more than three meters in diameter, and there is a cluster of four branches that are more than one meter away from the main body. The main body is about 6 or 7 meters high, and there are nearly 30 branches in total. The main trunk is gone, and it seems that so many branches sprout from the bark of the main trunk. These bushes are lush and vibrant. Anyone who has kept soap horn trees knows that soap horn thorns generally grow on new branches or young trees. You see, these branches are covered with soap horn thorns, black pressed, and quite scary. Soap horn thorns are terrible, I was punctured as a child. The soap horn pierced through the thousand-layered bottom of the cloth shoe, and the foot was broken, swollen for a week, and even did not finish school. Later, when I saw the soap horn thorn, I avoided it from a distance, and there was a shadow in my heart.
There is a soap horn tree in front of my old house, up to the diameter of two people hugging. The spring, summer and autumn seasons are densely branched and leaves, and they look like umbrella covers from a distance. It was planted by the old father when he was young, and it was less than forty years old when it was cut down. Serious materials such as tree trunks were made into boards, and 2 meters * 1.5 meters * 0.06 meters (about) were made for a total of 6 pairs, and tables, stools, etc. were made. But the two Xunyi carpenters were embarrassed, the wood was hard and tough, it was all handmade at that time, and the two old boys were tired!
When my family's soap horn tree was not cut down, in the spring, summer and autumn, passers-by rested under the tree. In particular, in the summer, there are many knowers (cicadas) in the trees, and they are noisy enough to make people talk at home, and when the moon is bright at night, they also chirp. Often at night, i lit a fire, and then Threw stone and rubble into the tree, and I was surprised to know that I flew into the fire, and then I grabbed it and roasted it, and I thought it tasted very beautiful. One day it was tragic, and seeing my brothers playing there, I ran barefoot to the fire and stepped on a stunned scorpion. This stabbed the honeycomb, cold and dripping, crying father and mother, the family was busy in the dark.
After the soap horn tree was cut down, the door suddenly lit up. In the first few years, it was still very uncomfortable. Fortunately, two soap horn trees were emitted on the southeast side, as thick and thin as twin brothers, and within a few years the height would catch up with the original old trees.
Soap horn thorn is a traditional Chinese medicine, in traditional Chinese medicine has a very wide application, nowadays, people usually use soap horn thorn to reduce swelling and detoxification, insecticide and itching, improve immunity, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory and even fight tumors and cancer. Soap horn thorn is a good thing for humans, medicine can cure many diseases; for soap horn trees, it is a very powerful self-defense weapon, so that people and some wild animals dare not come close, and the survival of plants is still quite clever.
There are a complete range of amino acids in soap corner rice, including 8 essential amino acids and 9 non-essential amino acids. Soap horn rice is known as plant bird's nest, commonly known as "snow lotus seed", which belongs to low protein, low fat, high dietary fiber, high energy food.
Soap horn rice can adjust the role of the body's internal organs, with the role of nourishing the gods, clearing the liver and treating the stomach, strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing the kidneys, dissolving phlegm, dredging the intestines and facilitating urination, clearing the eyes and benefiting the kidneys, skin care and beauty, awakening the spirit to replenish the qi and blood, dredging the five viscera, etc., very suitable for diabetics can take the most.
The roots of the soap horn tree are golden in color; the leaves are green and black, with a layer of wax; the soap horn tree is respected by people, not easy to be injured, nor easy to get sick and insect pests.
There are many soap horn trees in our village, and the other soap horn trees have dense fruit, hanging with knife-shaped pods, starting to be light green, the color is getting darker and darker, and the last tree is purple-brown.
My family's soap horn tree is very large, there is no such big soap horn tree in the village, not even half of it. The strange thing is that my family soap horn tree rarely bears fruit, there are at most a dozen pods per year, but the pods are much larger than other trees, and the soap horn rice is also much larger.
This soaphorn tree has a lot of pods, most of which have fallen to the ground under the tree. Pick up a few, shake it, clang, soap horn rice is generally very good, otherwise it will be mothed by insects. I picked up a lot, not many of them can make a loud sound, most of them are already broken. The soap horn thorns are strong, and even more powerful are the bugs, which burrow into the heart of the soap horn tree and hide in the soap horn pod, "the backyard is on fire", the center is flowering, and the "fortress collapses from the inside", which is invincible.
The soap pods produced by the soap horn tree are shaped like machetes, so the ancients called it the "general tree", adding a sense of mystery to the soap horn tree. Long soap pods swing in the wind, like wind chimes swaying among the green leaves, which is very beautiful. We locals call the soap horn tree black fire god, the bark leaves are darker in color, dark green; the soap horn thorn soap horn is dark brown, the black fire god is worthy of the name, and the special appearance has created the extraordinary mission of the soap horn tree - with the function of warding off evil spirits in the town house!
It seems that there are many soap horn trees around the temple, and it is said that the soap horn tree is also a kind of Buddha tree.
Soap horn pods are collected by locals and mashed when washing hair and laundry, instead of soap or washing powder. At that time, soap and washing powder were scarce, and soap pods were cheap and green. Later, there was a beer soap horn shampoo that worked well.
Soap horn rice we call it soap horn cow, peel out the larger one, instead of glass balls, play a game of marbles. Another way to play is "grab the child", which matches the posture of the hand and grabs the child thrown in the air and spilled on the ground. If you can't catch them all, you lose. Later, in the restaurant, I found that soap corner rice is still a delicacy, sticky, tendony, delicious.
Look at the road signs, there is a bodhisattva temple next to the ancient jujube garden. Walking in, the door was locked.
This is a large temple that was only rebuilt on the same site in recent years, and the original one disappeared after the Cultural Revolution. I heard that only the headless stone statue of the bodhisattva was left, which was really a "headless public case", and the deeds could not be examined.
There is a good passage in the saying: "I have no Buddha in my heart, the Buddha knelt three thousand years ago, I did not see my Buddha's heart pity, Mo Dao dust covered the Buddha's eyes, it turned out that I did not invest incense money!" Buddha, not greedy for money? Why accept the world's offerings? Buddha, not evil? Why can't the world be disrespectful to him? The Buddha said that all beings are equal, so why are there bodhisattvas, bhikkhus, protectors, three, six, nine, and so on? We offered our respects, offered incense, and asked for calamities from the Buddha, but we said that the world has many lives, destiny is destined, and Providence cannot be violated! You ask your Buddha, you can remember the flying flowers, you ask your Buddha, the ninth floor of purgatory can be visited, you ask the Buddha, what is carved on the three stones, you ask your Buddha, can overcome suffering, why not cross me. ”
On the gate of the Bodhisattva Temple, there is a very wonderful message, which is written on the fence doorpost with an earthen ram: "The gate is locked and there is no reason to enter a thousand floors, so it is convenient to open the door into my heart without Buddha", and the banner "Kowtows and Ten".
I asked the farmers who were working in the fields on the side, saying that the temple watchers might go home to eat, and they would come around two o'clock.
The tower bells on the eaves of the large temple sway with the wind, and the crisp bells echo between the original rivers.
Ta Ling translates into Buddhist language.
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