Photography by Zhu Danyang
After "Li Qiu", I don't know how many people shouted, a leaf knows autumn.
Speaking of autumn, every day cools down, the leaves will slowly prepare, the fallen leaves, the discoloration of the discoloration.
Looking at it, the maximum temperature in Hangzhou dropped to less than 30 ° C yesterday, so who will be the "first" fallen leaves with coolness?
Chinese parasol tree.
After all, there is an old saying that "when a sycamore leaves fall, the whole world knows autumn".
Wutong Baoqiu has been noble since ancient times
Hundreds of years ago, in Hangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty, the "status" of Wutong was high, and people had "official positions" - the imperial palace was responsible for the autumn!
The ancient book "Mengliang Record" is a famous note that records the sentiments of the Southern Song Dynasty, which says that the sycamore announces autumn, which is quite ritualistic.
On the day of "Li Qiu", the palace was busy early in the morning. The palace people moved the sycamores planted in the pots to the main hall, and when the "Autumn Autumn" hour arrived, the Taishi official loudly played: "Autumn is coming!" ”
With the sound of the upper sonata, one or two of the sycamore leaves on the trees fell in response to the sound, which can tell the world that autumn has arrived!
Seeing this, I often think, if the sycamore does not hold the scene and a leaf does not fall, what can I do, isn't it very embarrassing for the Taishiguan?
In ancient times, we said it was not good, put it in the current weather in Hangzhou, it is estimated that standing under the plane tree shouted for most of the day, a leaf will not take care of you.
However, falling or not falling, spirit and spirit, does not affect the noble status of others, for hundreds of years, it is the spokesperson of "Li Qiu".
Moreover, people used to be more planted in the palace, and the ladies loved to read in the shade of the plane trees, which was a palace scenery.
It is also said that it is "phoenix sounding, Yu Pi Gao Gang." Sycamore is born, and the sun rises in the sky". If you think about it, the phoenix was the "king of the birds" in ancient times, and the two of them put together show that the status of the sycamore in the plant world is similar to that of the phoenix.
It is China Sycamore
Not French sycamore
Hearing this, are you ready to get up and go to Nanshan Road and Beishan Street for a "pilgrimage trip" to Wutong?
Oh, make no mistake.
They are all called sycamores, which were used in ancient times to report autumn, and planted on both sides of Beishan Street, which are not the same. The scientific name of the West Lake is planewood, and everyone used to call it French plane tree. In ancient times, it was a real Chinese sycamore, and the varieties were completely different.
Want to meet such a noble Chinese sycamore in history? Show you the way, Zhonghe South Road.
Afraid of not finding, first find the six-step bridge bus stop, around to the back of the Zhonghe South Road, on both sides of the road is a row of ginkgo biloba and osmanthus flowers, the other row is a neat Chinese sycamore, along the road no more and no less, a total of 172 trees, are some years old trees.
In "Flower Mirror", the Chinese sycamore is introduced: "Also called Qingtong. The skin is as green as green, the leaves are missing like flowers, and the elegance is pure. In April, the flowers are tender and yellow, as small as jujube flowers. May and June knots, the stem is three inches long, the five are synthesized, the seeds are embellished on it, more than five, six, less than two, three, as large as soybeans. ”
At present, this season, looking at it like this, is not easy to recognize. Or Feng Zikai's description is more seasonal -
"Those large leaves grow densely layered. Looking at it without leaving a gap, it looks like a big green mantle, and it seems to be a green mountain in a pattern painting, and among the garden plants I commonly see, the leaves are so large that except for the plantain, I am afraid that there is no more than a plane tree. ...... The pig's ear-like thing hung on top of each other, hanging from the low branches to the top of the tree. There were a few sycamores in front of the window, and I thought there was too much greenery. ”
What an image.
You go to a comparison to know, the Chinese sycamore is a "pig's ear" like the big leaves, the French sycamore is more small, the size of the palm is almost the same.
French plane trees are stout and prone to crookedness. People Chinese sycamores are by no means, like poplars, tall and tall, standing straight on the side of the road, and the bark is also high in self-requirements and not long
Knots, smooth emerald green, the whole tree from the stem to the branch, a lush, "a green jade standing, a thousand leaves green cloud committee", no wonder it was named "Qingtong".
There are many differences between the two kinds of sycamores. The leaves are different, the flowers are different. In April, the Chinese plane tree will bloom tender yellow flowers, as small as jujube flowers, which makes the French plane tree that does not bloom like a flower at all very envious.
And the fruit. The French sycamore knot is a small round ball, which hides in the leaves in a circle. The fruit of the Chinese sycamore resembles small wings, and it is 5 small wings, and when it is ripe, it cracks and resembles a dinghy. Just on the edge of the little wings, there are seeds.
In the Chinese sycamore on the south road of the Middle River, the fruit has jumped to the front of the leaf, and it can be seen at a glance. The seeds on the small wings are solid fruits, very miniature, at most four or five millimeters, with a thin, potholed shell on the outside.
I picked up a few under the tree, and the big sister of the parking toll collector on Zhonghe South Road saw it and immediately leaned over, "The shell is peeled off, and the small beans inside are as delicious as the soybeans." ”
The eldest sister said that now there are fewer people to pick up, in the past, every late autumn, when the Chinese sycamore began to fall leaves, there were many old people, bending over, carefully picking up on the ground, carrying it back, carefully peeling the shell, eating raw, stir-frying and eating more fragrant.
Chinese sycamore
Why is there so little in Hangzhou
Chinese sycamore, don't say that phoenix likes it, Ni Zhan also likes it. Ni Zhan, you know? Painters and poets of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, together with Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen and Wang Meng, were called the "Four Greats of the Yuan Dynasty".
As for him, he is not only famous for his paintings, but also for his cleanliness. He liked sycamores, but even the plane trees of "a green jade standing" he looked dirty, and asked the servants to wash the trees with water every day, washing them too diligently, and washing the sycamores alive. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, I don't know how many painters painted "Yunlin Washing Tong". Yunlin is Ni Zhan.
In other words, Hangzhou during the Southern Song Dynasty, China's Wutong was so treasured, why is it not possible to see it in Hangzhou City hundreds of years later?
Hangzhou Greening Station, in 2010 did a statistic, the entire City of Hangzhou Indus, a total of 259 trees, Zhonghe South Road is the big head, there are 172 trees, the other is scattered, such as 1 Tree of Laodong Road, 2 Trees of General Road, 1 Tree of Wushan Road, 3 Trees of Haichao Road, 1 Tree of Xiaozifang ...
Sounds, how can it be so miserable?
There's a reason for that, too. One is that there are many pests and diseases, and the most troublesome is the green paulownia lice, once caught, slimy, floating around. One is that the world is changing, it has never changed, but its peers are extra hardworking, canopy, tree shape, disease resistance, maintenance, etc., one better than the other, like its "descendant" French plane, has long been mixed into one of the world's four major street trees.
In a word, in the multiplication of the street tree, it was unfortunately eliminated.
The Hangzhou Greening Station said that Hangzhou is ready to plant street trees, and the Chinese plane tree has long been out of the selection list, and it will not be planted in the future.
Therefore, the 259 Chinese sycamore trees in Hangzhou City may be the last big family, and they will only become fewer and fewer in the future.
I don't know, a long time later in Hangzhou, if these 259 trees are gone, will anyone remember "the sycamore leaves fall, the world knows autumn"?
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