During the Three Kingdoms period, Nie You, the general of Wu Dong, saw a deer by the Ganjiang River in Gan Yang town, but he hit a bleeding camphor tree with an arrow!
Since then, there has been a place called "Zhangshu" in Zhang Yu County (Jiangxi Province), and the locals also call it "Lujiang". Later, in order to commemorate him, people here built a "Nie Gong Temple" by the Ganjiang River (No.2 Pier of Zhangshu).
The prosperity here has begun!
Eastern Han Dynasty: Ge Xuan, Daoxian County, came here from Qilu Shandong, and chose Gezao Mountain, a mountain in the southeast, to start collecting herbs and refining alchemy, which laid the foundation for the future "Medicine Capital". Today, Ge Xianweng's "Medicine Washing Pool" still bears witness!
Wang Anshi, a native of Linchuan in the Song Dynasty, was born in this riverside, which made him shine again!
Since the Western Han Dynasty (203 BC), camphor trees have been heavily stationed here to seize and control the south. In August (938), the second year of Southern Tang Dynasty, Qingjiang County was established to govern Tanxiao Town (now Linjiang Town). Later, the Linjiang Army was established in this Song Dynasty, and it was changed to Linjiang Road in Yuan Dynasty. In Ming Dynasty, it was named Linjiang House (the county and the county were in the same place, facing each other across the corner), which lasted until the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Zhangshu (formerly Qingjiang)
Cinnamomum camphora, also known as camphor tree and camphor tree, is one of the four famous trees in the south of the Yangtze River.
Cinnamomum camphora is a subtropical tree species, mainly distributed in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is an evergreen tall tree of Catalpa in Lauraceae. Flowers in early summer, yellow-green, panicle, broad crown, lush foliage, shady everywhere, magnificent momentum, is an excellent street tree and shade tree. Cinnamomum camphora has the characteristics of temperature resistance, corrosion resistance and insect repellent because of its special aroma and volatile oil. It is an ideal material for making expensive furniture, high-grade buildings, shipbuilding and sculpture. Camphor for daily use is a white crystal extracted from the roots, stems, branches and leaves of camphor tree. It is colorless and transparent, and has a cool fragrance. Used for moth prevention, and also widely used in medicine and chemical industry.
In the folk, people often regard Cinnamomum camphora as a landscape tree and a geomantic tree, which means avoiding evil spirits, longevity and good luck. Cinnamomum camphora is favored by the majority of urban and rural residents, and it has been selected as a "city tree" in cities such as Hangzhou, Yiwu and Maanshan.
Cinnamomum camphora is very distinctive, its bark is rough, but its texture is very uniform, and there has never been mottled poplar or tumor of willow. The branch is divided into two and two into four. They won't cut corners or gild the lily. The crown is spherical in shape, drawing a beautiful curve in the sky. Zhangshu is the calligraphy of Dongpo, Su Like. Round and continuous, handsome and elegant, but quite satisfactory. If it is a hillside full of camphor trees, it is simply a peerless monument of Su Dongpo. Therefore, people who study art like to use camphor tree as the object of sketch. What is even more rare is that camphor tree has a special fragrance, which can repel insects, and gardeners hardly need to spray pesticides. These two days in Jiangxi, which is famous for its camphor trees, I feasted my eyes, which greatly satisfied my special hobby of lack of human nature. Cinnamomum camphora is everywhere in Jiangxi, and there are many ancient trees over 500 to 600 years old, scattered in villages, rivers and hilltops.