Magnolia, also known as white magnolia, magnolia (purple magnolia), Xinyi, Mubi, Yutangchun, etc., is native to central my country and has been loved by people since ancient times.
In the Tang Dynasty, people called magnolia, crabapple, peony and osmanthus together as "Yutang Wealth". They were beautiful trees symbolizing auspiciousness and harmony. They were mostly planted in royal palaces, royal gardens, royal mansions and temples. Wait somewhere.
Our country has a long history of growing magnolia. The poet Qu Yuan has a good line in "Li Sao": "The magnolias are blooming in the morning, and the wilderness is on the island in the evening." The magnolia in the poem is magnolia. It can be seen that magnolia was widely planted in my country 2,500 years ago. The literati of the past dynasties left many poems praising the magnolia, such as: "The jade is graceful with its new makeup, and thousands of plain moths are surrounded by snow"; "Knowing people's good intentions, you can see the white neon clothes clearly through the curtain"; "Where have the famous flowers in the deep valley moved, the dense trees and the beautiful clear ripples" etc.
There are ancient magnolias that are hundreds or even thousands of years old in many places in our country. The most famous ones are the two Tang Dynasty purple magnolias in the "Double Magnolia Hall" of Yulan Village, Ganquan Township, Tianshui City, Gansu Province. Purple Magnolia is also known as "Magnolia". These two purple magnolias are the precious "cinnabar magnolias" and have a history of more than 1,300 years. The two trees are each about 25 meters tall, with trunk circumferences of 6.8 meters and 6 meters respectively.
Mr. Qi Baishi, the late famous Chinese painting master in my country, once painted the magnolia flowers of these two magnolia trees and inscribed a plaque with "Double Magnolia Hall", which added culture to these two precious purple magnolia trees. color.
In addition, there are three Magnolia trees from the Song Dynasty in Yanfu Temple on the outskirts of Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province. One of them, the "Magnolia King", has a trunk circumference of 3.5 meters; The Ming Dynasty white magnolias in the Sutra Cave in Hengshan, Nanyue, and several Ming Dynasty white magnolias in Qixian Temple in Guling, Jiangxi, are all treasures among magnolia trees in my country.