Nostalgia, a strong feeling of home and country, is deeply related to every Chinese son and daughter. It is a spiritual bond that maintains the wanderer and the motherland. Home is the home, hometown is the hometown, country is the country, and the world is the world. The pagoda tree in Hongdong has been passed down since ancient times as a bond of feelings of home and country, which holds up the sky in the lower reaches of Kyushu. There is an ancient pagoda tree that knows acacia

"Hongtong ancient pagoda tree is wonderful in the world, and its numerous leaves are magnificent."

hongdong pagoda tree cultural scenic spot is a national 5A-level scenic spot, a national intangible cultural heritage and a national key cultural protection unit. It is located in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, where there is a strong culture of "seeking roots" and "ancestor worship". There are endless generations of big locust trees here, and these big locust trees have a long history.

about the history of hongdong pagoda tree: after the establishment of the Ming dynasty, the central plains, which had just experienced the baptism of war, was desolate. The barren land leads to food shortage, the displacement of the people leads to the shortage of labor force, and the government's fiscal revenue is also insufficient. The newly established government is seriously unstable.

In order to maintain the feudal rule of the Ming Dynasty, the rulers adopted the immigration policy of imperial academy at that time, overhauled economic construction, and vigorously opened up the Central Plains. A vast and large-scale immigration movement that lasted for 5 years began.

After the large-scale immigration, the fiscal revenue slowly recovered, but the "Jingnan Campaign" happened again. The disaster brought by the war destroyed the previous economic construction, and made the Central Plains more desolate and depressed.

But at this time, Shanxi is a different scene. Shanxi, a land of geomantic omen, is disaster-free. It has not been affected by the chaos in the Central Plains, but the social order is relatively stable. The people's lives are also smooth and the economic income is basically stable, so a large number of refugees from neighboring provinces have moved to Shanxi Province to live and work in peace and contentment here. According to records, the total population of Shanxi at that time was more than twice that of Hebei and Henan, and the labor force in Shanxi surged and the economic construction was more prosperous.

It was the largest migration, the most extensive communication and the most organized migration in the history of China. During this period, there were as many as 123 surnames of people who went wave after wave, with about 1.4 million residents. In the past 5 years, Sophora japonica has traveled back and forth to 18 provinces and cities, more than 5 counties and cities, and moved at least 18 times on a large scale. The main places along the way are Henan, Shandong, Beijing and Jiangsu. This laid the mass foundation of Sophora japonica as a symbol of homeland. Large-scale migration will inevitably lead to many residents leaving their homes, and it takes great courage for people to leave the land where they grew up. Everyone wants to find a marked thing as the mark of their homesickness, which can arouse everyone's sense of belonging to their hometown. Looking back, I happened to see the tall pagoda tree at the entrance of Guangji Temple, so I defined it as the "root" of my hometown.

Since then, the pagoda tree in Hongtong has been defined as a symbol of homesickness.

Many large-scale migrations have gradually formed the brand of homesickness in Chinese hearts. Today, hundreds of years later, wherever there are Chinese in the world, there will be descendants of immigrants from Sophora japonica. Over the past 6 years, Sophora japonica has been constantly thriving, being called "home" by Chinese people, regarded as "ancestor" and condensed in "root". "The trees are surrounded by trees, and the shade covers several acres."

From ancient times to now, the pagoda tree in Hongdong has long been a place for Chinese people to seek roots and worship their ancestors, and has become the soil for Chinese culture to take root.

the roots of leaves are thick and the culture of roots and ancestors has been spread for a long time.

The Millennium Sophora root here existed in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and it has a history of at least 1, years. Hundreds of years ago, its height reached 6.2 meters, and its unique shape was imaginative and extremely rare.

The first generation of Sophora japonica is a new plastic Sophora japonica which is re-polished according to the ancient Sophora japonica recorded in relevant historical materials. It is surrounded by a "seven-year-old daughter-in-law", and it takes almost seven men and one woman to hold hands together. One foot is 5 feet. If calculated according to the height of men and women, this new plastic pagoda tree is nearly 4 feet in circumference and 13 feet in diameter, which is quite elegant and graceful as the first generation pagoda tree of that year.

At that time, when the immigrants bid farewell to their homeland, they always used the ancient locust tree to express their homesickness, as if as long as the locust tree stood, the affection for their homeland would last forever.

According to historical records, when officers and men forced the people to go on the road, the people clung to the big pagoda tree in the courtyard. Those ruthless officers and men cut off the Sophora japonica branch with their swords to separate the immigrants from the big Sophora japonica tree, but the immigrants clung to it even if only the Sophora japonica branch was left in their hands. After arriving at the new immigrant land, this locust branch was poured into all the thoughts of hometown and relatives by the immigrants.

Immigrants will also deliberately bury the cut branches of this ancient pagoda tree in the courtyard of their new immigrants, carefully cultivate and irrigate it until it grows into a new big pagoda tree, so as to express their feelings of not forgetting their homeland.

Up to now, the festival of seeking roots and offering sacrifices to ancestors has been derived, which is similar to the unprecedented activity of seeking roots and offering sacrifices to ancestors based on the great pagoda tree in Hongdong in response to the wave of reform. Chinese descendants all over the world have responded positively, remembering their homesickness, and it has gradually become a trend for overseas wanderers to return home to worship their ancestors and pray for blessings.

For this reason, the county government of Hongdong actively responded to everyone's call, followed the trend of the times, and followed everyone's feelings of seeking roots and offering sacrifices to ancestors, specially launched the activity of "building a stage for culture and singing opera economically", and held the first Hongdong pagoda tree festival of seeking roots and offering sacrifices to ancestors in 1994. Since then, it has become a custom of mourning and has been preserved.

There are more and more festival activities around the theme of Sophora japonica in Hongdong, and the historical value of Sophora japonica in Hongdong is also increasing day by day ...

"When you come to Sophora japonica, you should feel away from your country; "The water source is woody, and I still miss my hometown today." For hundreds of years, Chinese descendants nurtured by Sophora japonica have spread all over the world, which has comforted the deep homesickness of generations of homeless people.

Nowadays, there are a steady stream of descendants of Sophora japonica who come from overseas Wan Li to seek their roots and worship their ancestors. As long as the tree of Sophora japonica in Hongdong still stands, this feeling of home and country will never be broken. The whole 45 surnames on the "Table of Surnames of Descendants of Ancient Huai" are the deep affection that has been given up from ancient times to the present, the cultural support that the Chinese nation can stand in the east of the world, and the historical imprint of thinking about the past and cherishing the present ...