This is not a poem, but a jingle adapted by the people according to the stories of Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling. This story is about the French phoenix tree that Chiang Kai-shek's wife, Song Meiling, loves, because it is elegant and romantic.
It was Song Meiling's careless words that Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered people to buy a large number of French phoenix trees, which filled the streets of Nanjing.
This story is just a folklore. Chiang Kai-shek planted plane trees in Nanjing for Sun Yat-sen's funeral.
Buttonwood in Nanjing:
1872, a French missionary planted the first French phoenix tree in Nanjing on Shigu Road, creating the history of planting street trees in Nanjing.
1928, in order to welcome Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Feng 'an ceremony, 20,000 Platanus acerifolia trees were planted in Nanjing along the main roads of the city, such as Zhongshan Avenue. Nanjing people commonly call them "French phoenix trees".
Boulevard, a combination of Chinese and western architecture of the Republic of China, has become the symbol of Nanjing. After liberation, Liu Bocheng, the first mayor of Nanjing, had a special liking for the tall and lush Yunnan pine trees.
In less than three years, these saplings took root and sprouted on the slopes, roadsides, lakesides and watersides of Nanjing, and thrived in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Yuhuatai, Xuanwu Lake, Jiming Temple and Qixia Mountain, becoming another beautiful landscape that adorns the urban landscape of Nanjing.
1953, the Nanjing Municipal People's Government set off a "tree planting craze", when there were about 65,438+10,000 buttonwood trees in Nanjing.
However, since1990s, due to road widening and other projects, the buttonwood trees in Nanjing were either cut down or removed, of which only about 3,000 were left of the 20,000 buttonwood trees planted in the Republic of China.