After the founding of New China, in memory of this revolutionary forerunner, Sun Yat-sen died on March 12, which was Arbor Day.
The Chinese nation has a glorious tradition of planting trees since ancient times. Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, was a local official. Wherever he goes, he plants flowers and trees, which is also reflected in his poem: "Plant two pine trees with your own hands and talk about them as guests"; "White-headed plants and pine laurels will see the forest sooner or later." When Su Shi was appointed as the secretariat of Hangzhou, he built the West Lake and planted trees on the lake embankment, leaving a famous landscape of "Xiao Chun, Su Causeway". Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Liuzhou, but he still did not forget to plant trees: "Liuzhou secretariat, planting willow river"; "200 citrus trees were planted by hand, and new leaves spread all over the city in spring." At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zuo led the counter-insurgency movement in Xinjiang and planted willows along the way, which was called Zuo in history. His assistant, Yang Changjun, sang in the poem: "Newly planted willows are three thousand miles away, leading the spring breeze through Yumen Pass."
In our country, almost all places of interest have the shadow left by their ancestors. In the Mausoleum of Huangdi, it is said that the cypress trees planted by Huangdi himself (called "Huangdi cypress") are lush and nostalgic; In the ancient city of Qufu, there is Confucius' "hand-planted cypress". There is also a "cypress planting by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty" in Dai Temple on Mount Tai. These thousand-year-old trees have now become key protected cultural relics. "There are many people reading trees in the atrium", and the descendants of the Chinese people will naturally have reverence for "the predecessors planted trees and the descendants enjoyed the cool".
The ancients not only attached importance to planting trees, but also attached great importance to protecting trees. As early as the Xia Dynasty, China had administrative regulations to protect forests. "Yizhoushu" records: "Danger is forbidden, and there is no axe in spring and March, so it will become a plant." During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Guan Zhong once said: "It is a crime to cut mulberry dates for wage earners without protecting their forests, not being the king of the world ..." Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin stipulated: "It is a crime for people to cut mulberry dates for wage earners." When Yongzheng ascended the throne in the Qing Dynasty, he demanded strict protection of the mountain forest: "It is forbidden to trample on cattle and sheep and steal gangsters."
Feng Yuxiang, a famous patriotic general in modern times, also loves trees very much. When he led the troops to fight, he stipulated that the officers and men of the garrison should plant trees in the station, and even when marching to fight, they were not allowed to trample on trees. When he was stationed in Xuzhou, he wrote a forest protection poem specifically for strict discipline: "Lao Feng was stationed in Xuzhou, and the trees were green. Whoever cuts down my tree, I will cut off his head. "
Among the people, there are also many stories about protecting trees. Legend has it that there is a Gu Song in Jingci Temple, West Lake, and the new magistrate ordered an expedition to build a yamen. The abbot is at the end of his wit. Fortunately, a Buddhist monk in Jidian wrote a poem for the prefect. The poem reads: "The court is a hundred feet high and has been friends with monks for a long time. It is said that the leaves are flourishing for thousands of years, and knives and axes are thrown together. There is no shadow of dragons and snakes in front of the court, and there is no wind and rain on the side of the house. The hardest thing is to fly cranes in the morning and not see the old nest at night. " The satrap read the poem, weighed the interests and finally took it back.