White Snake's thousand-year journey,
loses to Donghu Yi Metasequoia ?
Some time ago, I saw someone filming a video online, which was very funny.
Why do I retweet this topic? It’s not to be simply funny, but to lead to a variety of precious things in Wuhan.
or start with that funny video, what are they shooting? White Snake - Traveling to East Lake. Is
a little funny? White Snake, a species that has lived in , West Lake for a long time, suddenly came to East Lake. Don’t you feel it is inconsistent?
is indeed a bit inconsistent. Not only do you not adapt, but White Snake is not adaptable either.
Episode 0, because the three-child policy was relaxed, Bai Snake suddenly felt that the West Lake was too crowded and wanted to find a bigger place. Finally, he found out that East Lake is 6 times that of West Lake and the natural scenery was excellent, so he chose this place and prepared to move to East Lake.
video tells the story of Bai Snake's first visit to East Lake for inspection. She was also attracted by the beautiful scenery of East Lake and was in a very happy mood. While you were in a deep mood, you suddenly saw the metasequoia tree on the East Lake Greenway . You were so scared that you were so scared that you screamed in surprise.
Why is this?
If you really understand Metasequoia, you can understand why White Snake is afraid. Because White Snake has only been a few thousand years of practice, how can he compare with Metasequoia trees?
What kind of existence is Metasequoia that scared White Snake to the point of being so beautiful?
You should know that White Snake is not a vegetarian, he has been practicing Taoism for thousands of years.
Let’s not talk about it anymore. Let’s talk about professional data. Metasequoia is a deciduous tree, known as the “living fossil” of the plant world, and is also a rare tree species of Chinese products, .
Listen to this, what is "livery"? It's the only meaning of surviving.
is precisely because it is so precious that it is also the first rare species listed in " National First-Class Protection Plant ". Since it was listed, it has never been downgraded.
It can be said that in the animal world, it is naturally our lovely national treasure giant panda, and in the plant world, it is this Metasequoia.
So, what kind of ability does Metasequoia have to be favored by so many people and receive so many special treatments?
Judging from the unearthed Metasequoia fossils, this is a plant that lived in the Mesozoic White Evil Age period. It was also widely distributed in the northern hemisphere during the Cenozoic period. It is said that there were about 6 types at that time.
So how long does this have? It's been 137 million years!
No wonder, the White Snake, who has been practicing Taoism for thousands of years, is no different from the ordinary people compared to 137 million years. From this point of view, we can really understand White Snake's loss. However, we still have to admire Snake Bai. After all, she could see at a glance that Metasequoia's skills were far superior to herself.
Back to the topic, what else are there animals living on this earth with Metasequoia? That is the famous dinosaur.
We know that all dinosaurs are extinct now. So what happened in the middle? ——That is, the earth has experienced the terrifying and long Quaternary ice age.
The Quaternary Ice Age is a long period that began about 3 million years ago and lasted for more than 2 million years. Some people say that it may have been more than 10,000 years ago that the Quaternary Ice Age , , was truly over.
So how terrifying was the Quaternary New Ice Age? It is speculated that at that time, the land at 50 degrees north latitude and even the 40 degrees north dimension were covered by thick glaciers. We know that Beijing is 39 degrees north latitude. You can imagine the scene at that time. The world is definitely an absolute "Ice and Snow Kingdom".
In such a difficult environment, dinosaurs have become extinct , many plants have become extinct, and most families and relatives of Metasequoia have become extinct.
For a considerable period of time, we certainly thought that Metasequoia must have all become extinct on the earth.
In fact, the above sentence is also a statement of post-planning - because since it has become extinct, we don’t know that there has been such a thing at all. Is it this logic?
Then when did we know that this thing existed on Earth?
Until 1939, a Japanese discovered it.
1939, a Japanese man named Shigeru Miki, for the sake of memory, let's call him the third professor. The third professor was a professor at at the time of at Kyoto University and dug out a plant fossil that looks a bit like a sequoia but has a different kind of difference.
So he wrote a paper in which he called the plant "Metasequoia".
We know that "sequoia" means Sequoia.
What about Meta? Don’t think wrongly, Meta is not what we understand today’s “ meta-universe ”.
In English, meta does not appear alone most of the time, but usually appears as a prefix of a noun, indicating "change" and "exceed".
Professor Lao San added a "Meta" in front of "Sequoia", which means that this thing is a bit different from Sequoia, but it is also very similar. It should be a species with some kinship relationship.
Although the third professor only discovered a "stagnant metasequoia", at least we know that in the early days of our earth, there was a "new plant" that looked like a sequoia but was different from a sequoia.
So, the academic community at that time just believed that it was just a fossil that was discovered, which was similar to the dinosaur fossil we dug out. It was not a particularly amazing discovery, so it did not cause a particularly sensation at that time.
has really brought about changes and made the world look at it with admiration. It will take two years later that we Chinese are in Enshi Moudao Town, and the world is shocked to discover it.
1941, at that time, there was a professor in the Forest Department of National Central University, named Ganduo . When passing by Enshi Moudao Town (I speculated that it might be called Modao Town at that time), an unusual tree was found by a stream called Modao Creek. The locals also knew that it was very special and called it "sacred tree". As for what kind of variety it was, the locals were used to call it " Shuizhu ".
After all, he is a professor in the forest department. Based on his professional sensitivity, Gan Duo felt that this tree should not be a water slab, but because it was winter at that time, he did not obtain leaves as specimens.
Although I remember this in my heart, due to the special war environment at that time, this matter was put aside. Two more years have passed since
. In 1943, at the Central Forestry Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, there was a technician named Wang Zhan who heard about the existence of the "sacred tree", so he took a detour and made a special trip to the Modao Creek. Hard work pays off. This time he finally obtained the leaf specimen.
However, the identification result was shocking. After the experts at that time, it was determined that this thing was not a "sacred tree" at all, but an ordinary Shuisong . The correct specimen for
was brought back, but the conclusion of the identification was wrong - where did you say reason? ! Maybe, the experimental conditions at that time were too difficult!
In this way, the time when the "Metasequoia" sacred tree met the world was put on hold for another two years.
Until 1946, Wang Zhan was still unwilling to give up and handed the specimen to Professor Zheng Wanjun of National Central University for identification. After careful comparison, Zheng Wanjun finally determined that this thing was not water pine, but a brand new species, and together with experts at the time, he named it "Metasequoia".
1 years later, with the efforts of experts from China and Japan, it was finally determined that China's sacred tree is the same variety as the fossils discovered by the third Japanese professor.
However, what Japan discovered was a "dead fossil", while what China has existed is a "living sacred tree".
Just like this, Metasequoia, which has a history of billions of years, survived the Quaternary Ice Age that lasted for millions of years, was finally re-recognized by the world.
The discovery of Metasequoia interprets the plot of "good things are grinding more" and "real gold is not afraid of fire" again, and it is vividly reflected.
"137 million years of living fossils have emerged in China's grace!" This is amazing. Soon, this news became a "hot search" at that time and was reported by the world.
And experts from various countries also came to China, hoping to find some seeds of Metasequoia so that they can be taken back and planted. In this way, Metasequoia in China has also become the "grandfather" of the global genus of the genus Firaceae.
It is said that, in the past, more than 80 countries asked us for the seeds of Metasequoia, and went to Enshi to inspect it to see the charm of the mother tree of the sacred tree.
Since then, Metasequoia has become a giant panda in the plant world. With its important value in studying ancient plants, geography and geology, it has become a veritable national gift.
More than 80 years have passed, and the "descendants" of Metasequoia have spread all over the world and are not scarce. However, Metasequoia from China is still the most special because it is the native mother tree species.
Of course, Metasequoia and Wuhan have a very deep relationship.
We know that today's Donghu Lake, Jiefang Park is already full of metasequoia. Every autumn and winter, the red of metasequoia is very dazzling, becoming a beautiful city landscape. The reason why
is like this is not only because Metasequoia was introduced in Wuhan, but also because Metasequoia is the city tree of Wuhan!
Wuhan did not have any city trees at first, when did it exist? This matter has to start in 1983.
In February of this year, under the auspices of the Wuhan Municipal Garden Bureau at that time, it was decided to select Wuhan's city trees. The specific method was to absolutely follow public opinion - to use mass voting to select.
Which precious trees are there to run for the election? There were 10 kinds of candidates at that time, namely: maple sweetener, magnolia, magnolia, ginkgo, metasequoia, camphor tree , willow tree, pond fir , citrus tree , sycamore tree .
Listen to it, they are all famous trees. How long has the voting time lasted? More than 40 days. What is the final result of
? As a result, the Garden Bureau received a total of 12,750 votes; how many votes are there in the first place? 5817 votes! There is no doubt that this is the number of votes Metasequoia received.
With the support of absolute public opinion, Metasequoia was naturally elected as the "shi tree" of Wuhan City without any suspense.
Why choose Metasequoia? In addition to the fact that Metasequoia was discovered in Hubei for the first time and had profound geographical characteristics, the report at the time said that the citizens who ran for the election also believed that Metasequoia, a legendary survival story, also represents the characteristics of resoluteness, strength and integrity, which is very consistent with Wuhan's urban spirit of "daring to be the first and pursuing excellence".
Wuhan is famous for its "Jiangcheng" and is also " International Wetland City ". "Water" has shaped Wuhan; while Metasequoia is a typical wetland plant , which is inseparable from water and complements the city image of Wuhan.
Do you think this makes sense? Or do you have anything else to say? Welcome to leave a message for discussion!
[This article’s creative team]
Planning: Dahai Feige
Photography: Zequn Laohua Gaofeng
Drawing: Qiuyan Yanan
Review: Qiqi Weiye
Produced by: Qige Zhang Jie Ye Zi
