The flower language and historical origin of Ginkgo

Ginkgo has a tough body. Even in winter, when the golden leaves are fluttering, another bleak autumn is brewing in hope, and the ginkgo leaves exude some ancient and mysterious charm. The fragrance permeates the whole word, and it has this different representative meaning. So, in the language of plant flowers, what is the flower language of ginkgo? Below I have compiled the flower language and introduction of ginkgo for everyone. I hope you will like it.

The flower language and introduction of Ginkgo

The flower language

The flower language and symbolic meaning of Ginkgo: tenacity and calmness, pure love.

Introduction

Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba L.) is a deciduous tree of the Ginkgo family and genus Ginkgo. Ginkgo appeared hundreds of millions of years ago and is the oldest relict plant among the gymnosperms left over after the Quaternary glacial movement. The surviving ginkgos are now rare and scattered, and hundreds of years old trees are rare. All other plants in this class are extinct, so Ginkgo is also known as a living fossil. There are 26 varieties and varieties: yellow-leaf ginkgo, tower-shaped ginkgo, split-leaf ginkgo, weeping ginkgo, and variegated-leaf ginkgo.

The fruit of the ginkgo tree is commonly known as ginkgo, so ginkgo is also called the ginkgo tree. The ginkgo tree grows slowly and has an extremely long lifespan. Under natural conditions, it takes more than twenty years from planting to the time it bears ginkgo fruits, and it takes forty years before it can bear a large number of fruits. Therefore, some people call it the "Gongsun tree". The meaning of Sun Deshi? is the old longevity star in the tree, which has ornamental, economic and medicinal value.

The origin of the name Ginkgo

This plant was called "Ginkgo" in ancient Chinese, and now it is often called "Ginkgo" or "Ginkgo". The name "Ginkgo" is directly borrowed from Vietnamese, and is pronounced as "b?ch qu" according to the Chinese-Vietnamese pronunciation; the name "Ginkgo" is borrowed from Korean and Japanese, and is pronounced as (eunhaeng) and respectively according to the Korean pronunciation. ?ぎんなん?(ginnan).

The scientific name "Ginkgo" comes from Japanese folk. Chinese characters often have multiple pronunciations in Japanese, and "Ginkgo" can also be pronounced as "ぎんきょう" (ginkyō). In 1690, the German botanist Engelbert Kaempfer became the first Westerner to discover this species, recording it in his book Amoenitates Exoticae (1712). The pronunciation of the species; the ?y? he wrote was mispronounced as ?g?, and this mispronunciation is still used today.

In addition, the shape of the ginkgo leaf has also become a symbol of Tokyo, Japan.

The historical origin of Ginkgo

Its related plants were produced 270 million years ago and belong to the Ginkgo phylum. In the late Jurassic period about 100 million years ago, ginkgo species were widely distributed on the earth. The current Ginkgo biloba is the only member of this phylum that has survived to this day, so it is also called a "living fossil (relict plant)".

The Chinese have a long history of planting ginkgo. It is said that the trees in some temples are 1,500 years old. Because Buddhism considers ginkgo to be a sacred tree, monks have planted it in temples and maintained it for thousands of years. Europeans first saw ginkgo planted in a Japanese Buddhist temple garden in 1691. Because ginkgo is famous in Confucianism and Buddhism, many people in Japan and Korea plant ginkgo. In 1712, a German doctor introduced it to Europe. Although ginkgo is found everywhere, it was only in modern times that wild ginkgo was discovered in Zhejiang Province, China. However, some people in the West believe that these ginkgo trees may not be wild, but were planted by monks more than a thousand years ago.

Ginkgo trees generally have a long lifespan and are known as "Millennium Ginkgo". Trees can grow very tall. There is a tree in Lijiawan, Guizhou, which is 40 meters high, and there is another tree in Gansu, which is 60 meters high. There is a ginkgo tree in Xincun Township, Tancheng County. It is said to be 3,000 years old. The male tree is known locally as the "Old Sacred Tree". At the foot of Fulai Mountain in Ju County, Shandong Province, there is a ginkgo tree that is more than 3,000 years old. Legend has it that this ginkgo tree was planted by Duke Zhou during his eastern expedition in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. According to historical records, Zhou Gong's Eastern Expedition once passed through Guimeng, so it is somewhat credible to set foot on Fulai Mountain. This ginkgo tree has great vitality and its branches and leaves are still lush. Contemporary calligrapher Mr. Wang Binglong wrote the inscription "The No. 1 Ginkgo Tree in the World" for it. Trees are magical, and the stories caused by trees are also very interesting.

According to legend, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a scholar from Dongyi County in Ju County went to Beijing to take the exam. When it rained on the way, he took shelter under this huge ginkgo tree. Suddenly he became interested and wanted to see how big the tree was. Thick, use the form of hugging to measure the girth of the tree. The scholar actually hugged her seven times before he even reached the starting point. Just when he was about to hug him for the eighth time, the scholar was frightened by the situation in front of him. There was a young woman standing at the starting point of the tree. It turns out that the young woman also came to take shelter from the rain under the big ginkgo tree. Because the tree was so big, neither of them saw the other. What should he do? The scholar wanted to ask the young woman to give way, but he was embarrassed to speak, but he did not want to give up his measurement, so he had to use his hands instead and quietly walked towards the young woman. When he counted to eighth, He happened to be next to the young woman, but the young woman didn't even notice. But how to measure the position occupied by the young woman's body? The scholar couldn't think of any other way, so he had to include the width of the young woman's body as part of the measurement. So the perimeter of the ginkgo tree became "seven arms, eight arms and one daughter-in-law".

Hundreds of years have passed, and the ginkgo tree has long exceeded the girth of "seven arms, eight arms, and one daughter-in-law". However, the anecdote of "seven arms, eight arms, and one daughter-in-law" has been passed down from generation to generation in the surrounding villages. . Here Liu Xie wrote the world's first masterpiece of literary criticism, "Wen Xin Diao Long". Guo Moruo once came to this mountain to pay homage and personally inscribed "Wenxin Pavilion" and "School Scripture Tower". "Zuo Zhuan" records: In the eighth year of Duke Yin of Lu, in the ninth month of Xinmao (715 BC), Duke Yin and the Ju people formed an alliance in Fulai. It can be seen that the tree had already formed a dense shade at that time and became a famous tree. According to expert research, this tree is at least 3,500 years old. The tree is now 26.3 meters high, its crown covers more than 20 acres of land, and its trunk is 15.7 meters in circumference. Eight people need to stretch their arms to encircle it. This ancient tree is a tree species left over from the Ice Age and is known as a "living fossil". It has been identified by experts from the Ministry of Forestry as the “No. 1 Ginkgo Tree in the World”. This ancient ginkgo has gone through many vicissitudes of life. There is a poem that says: Suddenly I saw the towering ginkgo tree. After reading all the vicissitudes of life, I can’t count the years. The cypresses of the Qin Dynasty, the pine trees of the Han Dynasty, are all descendants of the ancient Buddha.

During the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Guoguo, the prefect of Juzhou, erected a stone tablet and wrote a poem:

The big tree and dragons meet the Marquis of Lu, and the smoke and clouds are like cages and floating hills. The shape is divided into petals like a lotus seat, and the quality is higher than the layers of spiral buns. It is recorded in history that in the 20th generation of the emperor, there were many human scriptures and immortal interpretations. It seems that everything in the past and present has become an illusion, and the only son lives forever and travels with tourists. , a male tree, known locally as the "Old Sacred Tree".