Recently, the Shandong Platform launched the article "Beautiful Countryside | Yicheng District of Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province: Ancient Trees and Green Sandalwood". Qingtan is rooted in the thin cliffs of barren rocks, growing in barren mountains and wild mountains, lacking the nourishment of fertile land, without the comfort of greenhouses, but can survive and thrive in a harsh environment, as the song praises, it relies on the will to hold on to the green mountains, root and break the rock, tenacious and indomitable, indomitable spirit, although it has experienced severe cold and heat, weathered the wind, frost, snow and rain, and finally integrated with the rocks, together to appreciate.
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"Ode to Qingtan - A Song of Praise for the Virtue of Communists"
The yicheng district of Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, has a warm climate, abundant rainfall, and is geographically located at the junction of Lusu and Suzhou, providing the necessary living conditions for plant growth, thus leaving many "ancient trees and famous trees". These ancient trees have gone through the vicissitudes of time, directly or indirectly recorded the historical information of the evolution of nature such as geography, meteorology, and astronomy, and burned rich and vivid human stories.
In the Guanshi Liuyuan Scenic Area, there are ancient trees growing in green sandalwood. These "green sandalwood ancient trees" are rooted in stone, dry like dragons, crowns like canopy, different shapes, amazing, evocative, and inspiring. According to forestry experts, qingtan is a first-class protected tree species in China, also known as "wing pu", elm family qingtan genus, deciduous trees, up to more than 20 meters high, young tree skin smooth, old tree epidermis dry crack, leaf oval, sex plant, fruit has two wings. Green sandalwood is hard, and in ancient times it was also used to make axles, rulers and so on.
In 2006 and 2011, the forestry department of Yicheng District of Zaozhuang City conducted two surveys of ancient and famous trees. In the beautiful qingtanshan canyon, there are more than 2,000 green sandalwood trees, and there are more than 500 trees that are more than 300 years old, including 38 "thousand-year-old sandalwood", and there are countless young sandalwood. The green sandalwood tree group in the Qingtan Temple Scenic Area of Yicheng District is the largest and oldest "Green Sandalwood Ancient Tree Group" in Jiangbei Region of China. The "Green Sandalwood Ancient Tree" has attracted thousands of tourists. Quietly appreciate the ancient sandalwood, some like "peacock open screen", some like "bosom in the arms", some such as "deer drinking Clear Stream"... They either grow on hillsides, on cliffs, or on mountain rocks. The stone and the root are almost integrated, and some of the roots even break through the mountain rock and wrap the mountain rock, forming a strange landscape of "sandalwood family". This can't help but be reminiscent of Zheng Banqiao's "Firmly holding on to the green mountains and not relaxing, standing root in the broken rock." Thousands of grinding blows are still strong, Ren'er's east, west, south and north winds" verse. No wonder Li Zichao praised Qingtan's "thousand-year-old sandalwood cliffs, trees and strange stones." The intertwined dragon dances, not afraid of turbulence and not afraid of the wind."
"Sandalwood family" landscape
Yicheng District used to be the seat of the prefecture and county, and in the Tang Dynasty, there was an ancient temple named "Yunfeng Temple" in qingtan canyon, which was later renamed "qingtan temple" because the green sandalwood trees covered the sky. Because this temple is built in the Qingtan Gorge, and there is a green sandalwood around the temple, there is a poetic rhyme of the ancient temple in the deep mountains. And because of the picturesque scenery and beautiful mountains and rivers here, many literati and inkers in history have left footprints and poems here. It is said that Yue Fei, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, once raised his eyes here; Jia San, the right attendant of the Ming Dynasty Military Department, once established the "Qingtan Poetry Society" here. The work "Ode to Qingtan - A Song of Praise for the Character of Communists" praises the revolutionary struggle spirit and noble character of communists who take root in the masses, serve the people, and are indomitable and loyal.
The green sandalwood tree has tenacious vitality, lush green and green, and the vicissitudes are magnificent, which has outlined a magnificent picture for people. When you walk into the Qingtan Canyon, look up at the ancient sandalwood green sky, and break out of the stone, how can you not be amazed by it, is this not the spirit of the times that the people of Yicheng have persevered, worked hard, are willing to dedicate, coexist harmoniously, and advance with the times?
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Source: Yicheng Rong Media Center