The September sunshine is still a bit hot.
However, once one foot stepped into Tianmu Mountain, the noisy world suddenly turned off the volume adjustment button. It's not static silence, but the kind of calm atmosphere that is wrapped in moisture and is extremely green and difficult to break away. This atmosphere wraps your whole body in it.
Look up, there is no sky.
There were trees everywhere, and they were cedar trees, that huge cedar tree, which actually tore the sky into pieces of fine blue light. At that moment, you suddenly understood what it means to "smell the sky with big trees and canopies".
Who the hell cares about data? I just want to hug it
According to rumors on the Internet, there are more than 500 cedar trees that are over 500 years old here, and there are more than 2,000 cedar trees with a diameter at breast height of more than 50 centimeters.
But numbers are useless.
As you slowly get closer, you realize that the lines on the tree bark are deeper than the wrinkles on grandpa's face. Moss has climbed up half the tree, ferns have made a home in the tree hole, and the tree is like a suspended forest. You stretched out your hand to hug it, but found that even five people holding hands could not get around it. At that moment, you are not hugging a tree, you are hugging a piece of time that has survived for a thousand years.
That old man Qianlong also did this
Speaking of this, we can't avoid the "big tree king".
According to legend, Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, held a jade belt to show how thick the tree was, and then measured it, but failed to encircle it. He couldn't help but get angry and decided to cut down the tree. Because the tree was afraid of the emperor, it shrank in a circle on its own in a moment, just enough to surround him.
Laughing to death.
At this moment, the tree named "Big Tree King" has been withered for decades, leaving only a huge empty shell standing there, dead but not falling. What's even more amazing is that a brand new small cryptomeria tree later grew out of its dead trunk.
The dead king and the new king
Not far from the old tree king, another cryptomeria tree was quietly approaching its record.
The diameter at breast height is two meters and thirty-one meters, just two centimeters short. There was no grand ceremony to confer a title, it just grew quietly and without any noise. No one paid attention to whether it was a brand new king. The sun was pouring down, and it took over everything it should take over.
It was like the "out-of-favor tree" that Qianlong made "angry to death" in the past. There is such a rumor that it fell down in anger because it had never been hugged by a celebrity. Later, Jin Yong came, specially took a photo next to the tree stump, and planted a seedling with his own hands.
I don’t know if trees have spirituality.
But people need to give spirituality to trees. This is the way we talk to nature.
Going further up, Ginkgo "Five generations live under one roof"
Next to Kaishan Old Hall, at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, stands an ancient ginkgo tree.
More than fifteen centuries have passed since its foundation. More than 20 descendant tree trunks, large and small, emerged from it, and the older ones and the younger ones crowded closely together. Just like a huge ethnic group that has been crouching and panting on the top of the mountain for more than ten hundred years.
This is one of the oldest tree species on earth, sharing the same table with dinosaurs.
It stands in front of you, the wind blows over you, and the golden fan blades above your head make a roaring sound. At that moment, you suddenly want to cry. This is not pretentious, but it is the first time you deeply feel that your trivial things are really insignificant in the face of time!
Someone gave the tree some intravenous drip. It's true.
Don't laugh.
Located in Tianmu Mountain, it is the place where the people from the administration work. They will actually hang nutrient solution on the ancient cedar trees. The situation is like caring for the elderly in the hospital. I would install lightning rods for fear that the cedar trees would be struck by lightning. Pest removal operations are also carried out regularly, just like giving a physical examination to the cedar trees. Moreover, each cedar tree has its own file, with an identification like an "ID card", and even a "tree leader" who is specifically responsible for management.
Last October, Hangzhou formulated a "Regulations" specifically for this mountain. The "Regulations" are part of the first "one area, one law" for national nature reserves.
The monks in ancient times even set up a stele: Anyone who destroys a tree will be fined three meters and three stones.
You see, from meter penalties to legislation, from hanging drips to all-weather monitoring with infrared cameras, our relationship with these trees has not changed after thousands of years. While we protect them, we are actually protecting the reverence for nature deep in our hearts.
In Moon Bridge Village at the foot of the mountain, people are busy counting money
This is not a joke.
In the past, it was called "Bamboo Bamboo Shoot Village". Taking advantage of its backing, it made money by cutting down trees and selling them. Now it has been renamed "Moon Village" and the old station has been transformed into a B&B called "Moon Workshop". Tourists come to hug the trees, breathe fresh air, and make celestial lamps. Revenue from eco-tourism alone reached 180 million yuan last year.
The villagers said that there is no need to cut down the tree, just standing there will make money.
This is a rough statement, but it is not rough to reason.
Going down the mountain in the evening, I looked back
The setting sun turns those huge tree crowns into gold.
I suddenly recalled Xu Beihong. In the autumn of 1934, he also visited this place for sketching and drew "Scroll of Ancient Cedars in Laodian". What did he say after completing the painting?
It seems to be: the wonderful brushstrokes come from the third eye, but the charm is difficult to enter into the painting.
right. Can't draw it.
There are some things that you need to come to in person, stand there, and be hit by such a strong silence before you can understand them.
Even if it's just for a few seconds.
That is also the same time and space that you and a thousand-year-old tree have shared.
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