2. Cinnamomum camphora itself has a kind of fragrance, which can repel insects and keep it for a long time. Even when its branches and leaves fall, even when it has been made into furniture as wood, its fragrance remains unchanged.
In the early morning, I walked through the streets of the city facing the humid morning fog, and all the way on both sides of the street were lined with fragrant camphor trees. Cinnamomum camphora is the city tree, accounting for about 6% of the artificial tree planting in the city.
Cinnamomum camphora is evergreen all the year round, with beautiful tree shape, dense shade and magnificent tree shape, which is a good tree species for urban greening.
Cinnamomum camphora blooms in May every year, with small and fine flowers, and bears fruit from September to November every year, and the mature fruit is dark and round.
In the small town in the south of the Yangtze River where I live, when the surging spring rains are falling, there are often flocks of goose yellow velvet powder on both sides of the street that sticks to the ground, just beside the stagnant water, floating, gathering and flowing in a line. In this spring, the yellow and green are tender, so they fall to the ground with the persistence of spring and calmly die to the East China Sea.
Cinnamomum camphora branches in spring, and the dense Ye Er is full of red, green, old and new. The old leaf, which has been red since last year, is struggling to hold the tree mother in the spring breeze; The new one is a light green bud that has just opened its body, and it is looking up in this spring rain; A gust of wind blew leaves, rustling and folding boats, raising their heads for spring clothes. Cinnamomum camphora in spring is not lonely!
ah! Cinnamomum camphora, you boat-shaped Ye Er with pointed ends, why does it turn red in spring?
ah! Cinnamomum camphora, why are you so realistic and not subtle?
ah! Cinnamomum camphora, you lobular vegetation, why is it so haunting?
camphor trees are not graceful, but they are always full of splendor. Ancient customs, ancient camphor trees, in ancient villages in the south of the Yangtze River, camphor trees accompany the village to grow old together. At the entrance of every village in the hilly area of the south of the Yangtze River, the thick camphor tree is often the warmest playback in the homesickness complex.
There is a local custom that children recognize the ancient camphor tree as their mother. Under the long ancient camphor tree, there will be such a scene. A mother is pulling a child and kneeling down in front of the ancient camphor tree. With great piety and longing, she looks at the mouth of the ancient camphor tree and says something, hoping that the ancient camphor tree can accept the child as a son. Sincere feelings are naturally revealed in the expectant eyes. Take the ancient camphor as the mother, so that children can walk well and pray for their health and prosperity. Whether Guzhang likes it or not, this strange mother-child relationship is established when the red silk with the eight-character children's surnames is hung and tied on the branches of Guzhang. The custom of "recognizing ancient camphor as a mother" has a long history, and its origin can no longer be verified, but this camphor complex can always be accompanied by the hope of many mothers!
Cinnamomum camphora is inseparable from the custom of dragon dancing, and the descendants of the dragon exaggerate the totem of the dragon. In Jiangnan, the lifelike faucet dedicated to it must be carved from camphor wood; In the south of the Yangtze River, in the cheerful sound of suona, the red camphor tree, no matter whose family it belongs to, must be unconditionally dedicated as long as it is met by the leader.
On the fifteenth day of the first month of each year, dragon lanterns are often listed as the most critical and top priority by the family. In fact, the * * * of the dragon dance is just at the end of the night lantern festival, and it is really unforgettable and thrilling to see the scene of dismantling the dragon lantern. In the clamor of gongs and drums, the broken bench dragon chapter will be issued next year to whoever comes first.
among the people, it is said that Cinnamomum camphora also has the effect of exorcising evil spirits and strengthening the body resistance. People like Cinnamomum camphora not only because it is fragrant, evergreen, easy to plant, with few diseases and excellent wood, but also because of its simple and honest character.
I have been paying attention to Cinnamomum camphora for a long time. I like its imposing manner, its faint agarwood, its refined elegance and its tenacity in the harsh environment.