Sanfeng Liang Qing Temple, which enjoys the same fame as Guangfu Temple in Changshu, is composed of Wumu Peak, Longmu Peak and Zhongfeng Peak in Tsinghua, Shui Mu. The two catalpa trees in front of the temple have a history of more than 200 years. The ancient catalpa bungeana is particularly energetic. The green crown is tall and straight, like a huge jasper, reflecting the light of the sunset and shining.
Although Sanfeng Temple is relatively remote, it is only six or seven miles away from the urban area, but this century-old marriage of Guzi has brought infinite vitality to Sanfeng Temple. In the shadow of catalpa flowers and red lanterns, the temple has a Zen attitude of not eating fireworks. During the blooming of Sorbus benchii, many citizens and tourists stopped to take photos when the ancient Sorbus benchii was in full bloom.
Catalpa bungeana, also known as Platanus acerifolia, has been widely planted in palaces and landscape gardens since ancient times, such as the Forbidden City in Beijing, Beihai, the Summer Palace and Shaolin Temple in Henan, as well as ancient temples and temples. Ancient Catalpa bungeana trees over 100 years old can be seen everywhere.
Old trees bloom in spring, catalpa bungeana has tall and straight trunks, lush foliage and many flowers. The tall branches are full of pale pink flowers, which are layered on top of each other, stretching out a graceful figure, not thick or bright, fresh and elegant.
Trumpet-shaped flowers are dense, layered, clustered and strung, shining like stars, and the fragrance wafts in the wind, conveying sweetness and fragrance to Yucheng below this mountain.
Close to sorbus, it exudes a faint fragrance, and the flowers are faint and faint. There is no butterfly array around the bees, and people will not break a few branches and keep them in vases, so that the flowers will be fragrant in the room.
Looking up, Sorbus pohuashanensis is covered with tree crowns, white and pink. Although it is not enchanting and charming, it is not a stunning woman among flowers, but it is amazing and gentle.
I wandered under two ancient catalpa trees, not knowing what to witness and look for under them. I just feel that I am in a Zen atmosphere, and the long river of history flows around me. I can still vaguely hear the gentle ripples in this long river. When I stood in a daze, I felt that time was frozen here. It stood still in my heart, as if I were in a magical just visiting and returned to the quiet and distant depths of history.
I touched the thick lines on the ancient catalpa tree with my hand, flowing like a hidden river, and suddenly I felt a deep sense of vicissitudes. That old rhizome is more like an old man's face that rose blue when he was angry, struggling in the wind and rain of the years.
The root fork of the ancient catalpa bungeana is firmly rooted in the deep stratum, with its back facing the sky, absorbing the lofty spirit of Gan Kun. For hundreds of years, every branch of the old catalpa bungeana tree has been hung with a string of historical stories. However, the body of the ancient catalpa bungeana is not wobbly, but still connected end to end, propping up a dense green leaf and blooming clusters of beautiful flowers.
From time to time, I touch the hazel relief or sunken dermatoglyphics of the ancient catalpa, and feel that I am touching a heavy history. This period of history is not the cold type of page by page in textbooks, without worldly impetuousness and carving, but deeply contains dignity and far-reaching historical storms.
It is known from the laughing monk population that this kind of catalpa bungeana has high medicinal value, and its roots, bark, flowers and fruits can all be used as medicine. Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica that "the leaves of Catalpa bungeana should be pounded into sores and swollen, and the soup made from the roots and skins of Catalpa bungeana should be used externally to treat alopecia, fistula and all toxic swelling".
I didn't know much about Catalpa bungeana before, and only after consulting relevant materials did I know that Catalpa bungeana is actually a branch of Wang Zhongwang, a thousand-year-old cypress and a thousand-year-old fir tree. Catalpa bungeana is a history book, a poem and a landscape, written in many ancient poems and handed down many gorgeous chapters, thus forming a unique Catalpa bungeana culture in the plant world.
This strong catalpa bungeana is like a high-flying sail of life. No matter how many ups and downs it has experienced, it still stands on Yushan Mountain, never complaining about the late care of spring, and still dedicating its late beauty to people on time. It is this silent savings and early spring show-off that makes Catalpa bungeana a beautiful scenery on this endless land. Han Yu, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem Zishu to express his feelings. "When you were a few years old, you became a big tree, and once you were entangled in a long vine. Who has anything to do with getting rid of it? "
Because the flowers of Catalpa bungeana forget spring, the flowers of Catalpa bungeana have fallen, and the spring breeze is getting old. The flowering period of Catalpa bungeana is short, and the blooming season of Catalpa bungeana is also the end of spring. Su Shi's Poem in a Dream says: "The catalpa trees are high in flowers and warm in the evening, so I am at a loss." I will see you everywhere, and I will be sad for another year. "It not only wrote the beauty of catalpa bungeana flowers, but also wrote the loss of spring.
In order to keep the late spring, the people's nostalgia for the late spring and the moving scenery, Sanfeng Temple does not clean up the fallen flowers, leaving only the beautiful catalpa trees, leaving only the scenery without pollution. At that time, the front of the temple was covered with pink catalpa flowers, such as a "pink red carpet", which was in sharp contrast with the tall catalpa trees in front of the temple.
I looked up at the majestic posture of the ancient catalpa tree and fell into reverie. The clouds in the sky are already very thin and quiet, and time seems to have really solidified. But I got a feeling that I was satisfied in this extreme emptiness.
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