2. Loyal love. According to the ancient legend, Wu Weixiong is a tree, Tung is a female tree, and she lives and grows together with the old, living and dying together, with tall and straight branches and deep roots, which has become a symbol of loyal love in the poet's works.
3. Loneliness and sadness, wind blowing leaves, raindrops and phoenix tree, a sad scene, phoenix tree has become the image of loneliness and sadness in literati's works. Such as "lonely west wing, bright moon like a hook."
4. Farewell. In Tang and Song poetry, the phoenix tree has the most images and meanings as parting. For example, in Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow, "Peach and plum blossom, the spring breeze blows, the autumn rain falls, and the willow blossoms bloom", the poet compares the past grand occasion with the present desolation, and depicts the desolate scene after Tang Gaozong lost Yang Guifei because of the Anshi Rebellion.
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Wu Tong is known as Qingtong, Wu Bi, Sapphire and Wu Ting. It is one of the earliest famous tree species recorded in China's state-owned poems. The description of the phoenix tree can be found in the pre-Qin literature "The Book of Songs", while "Elegance Makes People Live, Volume I" has "Feng Huangming Yi, Yu Gaogang. The phrase "Wu Tong was born in the morning sun" became the earliest source of the legend of attracting phoenix in Wu Tong.
It shows that at the end of Shang Dynasty and the beginning of Zhou Dynasty, buttonwood was paid attention to by people at that time. Later pre-Qin documents, such as Shangshu, Zhuangzi and Lv Chunqiu, all mentioned buttonwood. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Fu Cha, King of Wu, built a Wu Tong Garden and planted paulownia trees in it. Fang Shuo Wen Jie Zi says: "Wu Tong Garden is in martial arts, Fu Cha, the old king of Wu, and Qinchuan.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Indus (Malvaceae)