Lin Hao
In Shanghai by the Xupu Bridge straight to the Pudong International Airport, the first to people's eyes is a good big piece of a new village, which is the 20th century of the green housing - Sanlin City. City center passenger plaza side, there is a district, named the ancient Ginkgo Court. According to the compendium of plants, ginkgo. The fruit has a hard shell and a sweet, bitter and astringent flesh, making it a favorite health food for Chinese families. Hawker centers often eat "clear soup", food halls provide "taro puree", and generally home "boiled" "tonic soup
According to a report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, the "White Fruit" has been added to the soup.
According to archaeologists from the study of fossils, found that the white fruit plants as early as two hundred million years ago has survived, is one of the oldest surviving plant species. They have a long lifespan, and some can live for thousands of years!
White fruit belongs to the ginkgo biloba family, also known as Gongsun tree, duck palm tree, the spirit of the eye, Buddha nails and so on. Produced in various provinces of China (Guangxi, Sichuan, Henan and other places especially). General traditional medicine believes that the white fruit taste sweet and bitter with astringent, the nature of flat small poison. The main function is to converge the lung qi, fixed wheezing and coughing, stop the belt turbid, shrink stool.
In fact, the white fruit plant's contribution to mankind is multi-part, such as bark, roots, leaves, nuts have different medical value. Among them, the white fruit leaves (ginkgo biloba) in the western countries of health care use is the top of all herbal medicine. It is known that tens of thousands of prescriptions are written and millions of people take ginkgo biloba every day in countries around the world (especially in France and Germany).
The earliest modern medical study of ginkgo was conducted by Dr. Willmar Schwabe of West Germany. He affirmed the medical value of ginkgo biloba in 1950. At that time, he spent two weeks and went through 27 refining steps to come up with about 1 pound (454 grams) of standardized extract (Ginkgo leaf extract) from 50 pounds (about 22.7 kilograms) of dried Ginkgo biloba. Later, medical scientists identified more than 160 constituents from the extract, including Ginkgolides A, B, C, Kacmpferol, Quercetin, Rutin, Ginkgeting, Flavonol, and more. They also found that Ginkgo biloba plays an important role in the development of the plant. They also found that the effects exerted by Ginkgo biloba are holistic, i.e., the combination of several of its constituents induces a much stronger healing effect than any one constituent alone.
The name Ancient Ginkgo Garden comes from the fact that there are two ginkgo trees here that are 150 and 100 years old. These two trees are listed as old and famous trees by the Municipal Greening Management Bureau to protect, numbered 0357 and 0502. Qing Xuantong two years (1910), the local property owner Joe Jean wood (the word Nan) in the back of the house to open up more than 20 acres of land, the construction of the garden (also known as the Qiao family garden). The east, south and west sides of the garden are surrounded by a river bank, and there is a wooden bridge between the house and the garden. The north side of the outer perimeter bamboo fence, planting berries, as a wall. In the garden, there are asphalt path, glass heated shed, lotus round pool, widely planted magnolia, gardenia and other valuable flowers, as well as osmanthus, waxberry, cypress and other evergreen trees.
The northeast corner of the garden, near the river near the water, the construction of elegant Chengxian Hall. Cool summer weather, push the windows and curtains, cool breeze, refreshing; winter season, the back of the wind and sunrise, wind and sunshine, so that you are intoxicated in the scenery of nature. The local elementary school, once moved into the classroom, and in 1958, the Peace People's Commune five brigades founded the Anle Kindergarten here. Before the construction of Sanlin Castle was the senior citizen's room in Dishan Village, and it was common to see old people drinking tea and chatting under the ginkgo tree.
After the construction of Sanlin City, people named the neighborhood No. 1~12, Lane 742, East Huanlin Road "Ancient Ginkgo Garden", and the words "Ginkgo Garden" were engraved on the entrance of the neighborhood, which was very conspicuous.
May 14, 2004, the new district CPPCC comrade Tang Guoliang about a few colleagues to visit the two ancient ginkgo trees, an unforgettable episode. When people surrounded the two trees to observe them carefully, they found that one of them was dying. The retired old village chief, Mr. Jin Maoxiang, who led the way for everyone, was very distressed. He circled around the two trees and turned his back to look at the surrounding residential buildings, and announced to everyone: "This tree has been moved, it is moved dead." At this statement, everyone was very surprised, all expressed regret. "No, when I built the house here as a doorman, did not see the tree move a step." The old uncle of the doorman rushed out to argue. The old village chief is not convinced, with his own footsteps measure, with the eyes trying to find the reference of the past. This place where he grew up playing was now unfamiliar, a completely foreign world. He recalled bitterly and still asserted, "The location has moved, it must have moved, otherwise why would a good big tree die?"
In 2003, the Pudong region's ancient tree statistical table, the two trees of the "growth status" column are "endangered" conclusion. Right now is in the infusion of salvage, hanging full of nutrient solution glass bottles, tied to grafting inserted ginkgo twigs, a "disability". Afterwards, from the department of landscaping confirmed: the tree is indeed not moved, but the original side of the creek filled in, building house foundation cushion, this place has become a depression. Ginkgo tree is not afraid of running water, most afraid of stagnant water. Roots soaked in water, a long time will rot. Now digging a water well connected to the street flood ditch, water that is flowing, reducing the groundwater.
After more than a year of treatment, the age of a hundred years of the east plant has been out of the "dangerous period", branch green, green leaves, growth tends to thrive. And the age of more than 150 years of the western plant, the disease is difficult to treat, is still struggling on the life and death line. However, as long as there is a glimmer of hope that can be saved, garden masters will always try to rescue, never give up.
Today, there are more than 600 families living here, more than 1,500 people, we all y love their own homes, "Ancient Ginkgo Biloba Court" neighborhood.