April. It’s April again in this world.
This word is used too often, just like chewed gum. But if you enter Tianmu Mountain in April, you will understand that apart from these four words, you can't find any other words at all.
On the way into the mountain, the light suddenly dimmed.
It was dark not because of the sky, but because of the trees. The cedar trees actually swallowed up the sky. Looking up, the light seeps through the gaps in the hundreds-of-year-old leaves and breaks into pieces.
Power tree? Actually, it’s just a tree bump.
When we walked near Wuliting Pavilion, someone pointed at a tree and shouted: "Tree of Power!"
After staring for a long time, I stared at it intently. At the root of the tree, there was a big lump bulging out, like a clenched fist. The uncle standing next to him said that if a man touches it, he will become more powerful, and if a woman touches it, she will become more beautiful.
Nonsense.
But I touched it too. Come all come.
That thing about husband and wife tree
Going further up, two trees grew into a V shape, their roots intertwined.
The poem "Wish to Be a Lianli Branch" from Bai Juyi's poem is hung here, and it no longer looks pretentious in an instant. After more than five hundred years, they have always been entangled with each other. At the top of the tree, a small tree grew, as if it was holding a child.
There was a girl standing under a tree taking pictures and telling her boyfriend to stay away.
"Why are you standing so close?"
"Who is Lian Lizhi with you?"
In April, when the mountain wind blew gently, I suddenly felt that trees are indeed more powerful than people. They cannot speak, but they know better than anyone else how to live their daily lives.
The worst thing is the "out of favor tree"
I heard this story twice.
Mr. Run Run Shaw went to the mountain that year. At the entrance of Kaishan Old Hall, there were two cedar trees of the same size guarding the intersection. He took a photo with one of the cedar trees.
That night, another tree fell.
The villagers said they were so angry. When a celebrity comes, I only take pictures with him. If he doesn’t take pictures with me, I won’t live anymore.
Later, some people made up a joke about the "disfavored tree" complaining that we have been guarding the same place, why should we be treated differently?
In fact, there was a typhoon that night, level 11.
The favored tree is still standing.
The tree that fell out of favor was left with only its stump. After that, Mr. Jin Yong specially took a photo next to the stump and planted a small cedar tree to make amends to the world.
How can a tree understand the things in the human world?
They just stand there. When the typhoon comes, those who can stay standing will stay standing, and those who cannot stay standing will fall down. Why are there so many complicated situations?
The Big Tree King is really dead
The cedar tree that was named the "King of Big Trees" by Qianlong died in the 1930s.
Nearly a hundred years have passed, and its withered body still stands in that place. Its outer bark has been completely eroded away - ordinary people firmly believe that it has the effect of curing diseases, and even the bark of the tree is scrambling to eat it.
Next to it, there is a new big tree king, with a diameter at breast height of 2.31 meters, showing a steady growth pattern, with branches stretching out in all directions. It is different from other trees, that is, those trees that will tilt to one side when the mountain wind blows, resembling a flag.
It doesn't care which way the wind blows.
The Nine Dragon Wall is not made of stone
There is a slope, and the roots of the cryptomeria trees are exposed outside, in a coiled shape, coiling back and forth, and they actually coil up like nine dragons.
Rising Dragon, Subduing Dragon, Zhenglong - Mr. Jin Yong came to see it and was amazed.
The Nine Dragon Wall of the Forbidden City was chiselled by humans, but this one was grown by trees themselves.
Actually they are quite difficult
Signs hung on the dead trees read: damaged by strong winds, split by lightning strikes, eroded by insects, damaged by acid sedimentation, and cedar gall disease.
In the 1990s, smoke emitted from factories in the Yangtze River Delta region, and acid rain fell into the mountains, causing painful gashes to be burned into the bark of trees, allowing germs to get in.
Thirty years have passed, and smoke has decreased in the Yangtze River Delta region. At the same time, acid rain has also shown a decrease. Relevant personnel from the Tianmu Mountain Management Bureau have installed lightning rods on the trees and carried out pesticides and insecticides.
But you still have to rely on yourself
On the dead trees, new trees grow.
This goes on from generation to generation, with the dead turning into standing dead trees, and the new emerging from among the dead trees. You can't tell which one is the grandfather and which one is the grandson.
Open Shanlaodian and start walking up. No matter where you go, there are trees everywhere. There are more than 2,000 large cedar trees with a diameter at breast height of more than half a meter, more than 400 trees with a diameter at breast height of more than one meter, and 16 trees with a diameter at breast height of more than two meters. This is really amazing!
The living and the dead stood.
I met someone when I was going down the mountain
He pointed to the "Tree of Power" and said, "Does this look like a lotus throne?"
I was stunned for a moment. Just now I only saw fists.
It turns out that the tree is still the same specific tree. However, the people looking at the tree are not the same, so what they see is not the same. Some people see power, while some people see clearly lotus flowers. Some people see the deep friendship between husband and wife, while others see that even just a tree can make people angry to the point of indignation.
April day, Tianmu Mountain. A tree is still a tree.
But you are no longer the same person you were when you went up the mountain.
The phone rang. WeChat reminder.
I didn't reply.
Sitting next to the stump of the "out-of-favor tree", I saw that the little cedar tree planted by Jin Yongjun was already taller than a human being.
Sunlight leaked from the cracks in the trees, broken and dazzling.
It's spring.
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