On November 30, China News Service reported that the Jin Ancestral Hall strengthened the protection of ancient and famous trees and rejuvenated the "green antiques" with the title of "Jin Ancestral Hall's thousand-year-old trees are rejuvenated".
Dr. Gushu "How to "check the pulse" of thousand-year-old trees?According to the report, the Jin Ancestral Hall is the largest existing classical garden in China, the oldest and the most well-preserved Tang and Song Dynasty ancestral temples. In addition to preserving a rich number of ancient buildings, colored sculptures, inscriptions, couplet plaques, etc., there are also many precious ancient trees and famous trees preserved here, the number of which reaches 122, including 14 kinds of oriental cypress, juniper, catalpa, pine, ginkgo, Chinese acacia and so on. Among them, there are 29 plants that are more than 1,000 years old. This year, the Jinci Museum has carried out daily maintenance of these 122 ancient trees, recently concentrated on the protection of 42 ancient trees, and is currently rejuvenating the roots of 12 ancient trees.
In accordance with the protection principle of "endangered first, then general", the staff first carried out the protection and rejuvenation of ancient trees in turn, including directional root regeneration and site environment improvement. Secondly, the tree body protection work should be carried out for trees that are hollow rotting, prone to lodging, and easy to break the main branches, such as tree anti-corrosion solidification, tree hole repair, and additional support or pulling devices. Finally, carry out daily protection, maintenance, pest control and other work for all ancient trees.
In recent years, the Jinci Museum has continued to carry out investigation, registration and archiving of ancient and famous trees, so as to fully grasp the current situation of ancient and famous tree resources. Carry out scientific exploration and research on the ancient trees in the museum, and explore a set of new technologies and new measures suitable for the protection of ancient trees. At present, the protection rate of ancient trees in the Jinci Museum has reached 100%, and the rejuvenation rate has reached 85%. Recently, the Jinci Museum was awarded the title of "Shanxi Province Ancient and Famous Trees Protection and Scientific Research Demonstration Base".
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