The flower language and symbolic meaning of the French plane tree are brilliant.

The symbolic meaning of the phoenix tree:

1. Noble character

The phoenix tree symbolizes noble and beautiful character in ancient poetry. For example: "The phoenix is ??singing, and it is on the high hill. The phoenix tree is growing, and it is rising in the sun ("The Book of Songs·Daya·Juan")." The poet uses the phoenix to sing in harmony here, and the song is flying over the hill; the phoenix tree is growing wildly, and the body is covered with The bright rising sun symbolizes the purity and beauty of character. In ancient times, there was a saying of "planting tung trees to attract phoenixes".

2. Loyal love

In ancient legend, Wutong is male and Tong is female. Wutong grows and grows old together, lives and dies together. Moreover, the sycamore tree has tall and straight branches, deep roots and luxuriant leaves. In the poet's writing, it has become a symbol of loyal love.

3. Loneliness and sorrow

The wind blows the fallen leaves and the raindrops drop on the sycamore trees, creating a desolate scene. The sycamore trees have become the image of loneliness and sorrow in the literati's works. For example, "Speechlessly I went up to the west tower alone, the moon was like a hook. The lonely phoenix tree locked the autumn in the deep courtyard" (Li Yu's "Happy Meeting"), which vividly describes the story of this subjugated king living in seclusion in a lonely deep courtyard. Down and out.

4. Emotions of separation

In the poetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties, Wutong has the most images and meanings of separation and hatred.

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French plane tree culture:

The origin of the alias

The leaves of the three-ball sycamore resemble a sycamore, which is mistaken for a sycamore. And the "French plane tree" is not produced in France. In the 17th century, in Oxford, England, people used the one-ball sycamore (also called the American sycamore) and the three-ball sycamore (also called the French plane tree) as parents, and hybridized them into a two-ball sycamore, named "English sycamore".

Because it is a hybrid, it has no origin. After being widely cultivated in Europe, the French brought it to Shanghai and planted it on Xiafei Road (today's Huaihai Middle Road area as a street tree). People call it "French plane tree" and follow others' opinions and regard it as a plane tree.

Introduced to China

In 401 AD, the Indian monk Kumarajiva went to China to spread Buddhism. He brought three balls of sycamore trees and planted them in front of the ancient temple in Hu County near Xi'an. It is still there today. Four people are required to hold the tree trunk together. This is the earliest sycamore tree introduced in China.

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