That tree is Wutong City and Nanjing City. The next sentence is the phoenix tree beauty, which is planted all over Nanjing. The full text is that the tree is a buttonwood tree and the city is Nanjing. Beautiful buttonwood trees are planted everywhere in Nanjing. This is not a poem, but a jingle adapted by the people according to the stories of Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling. The story is about the French phoenix tree, which is loved by Song Meiling, the wife of Chiang Kai-shek, because of her noble, elegant and romantic feelings.

It was Song Meiling's careless words that Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered people to buy a large number of French phoenix trees, which filled the streets of Nanjing. This story is just a folklore. Chiang Kai-shek planted stone trees in Nanjing for Sun Yat-sen's funeral.

Platanus Nanjing

First of all, the sycamore trees planted in Nanjing are mainly French sycamore trees and American sycamore trees, as well as British sycamore trees, which are not sycamore trees in essence, but are called Platanus acerifolia. French phoenix tree has nothing to do with France, because this tree was first planted in the French Concession in Shanghai, and its leaves are like phoenix trees, so it is called French phoenix tree, and its real origin is India.

Nanjing French phoenix tree 1872 originated. This tree was brought by Lang Huairen, a French missionary in Shanghai Concession, and he planted it himself. It was first planted in Shigulu Primary School, the earliest new primary school in Nanjing, and later transplanted here.

Platanus acerifolia was widely planted in Nanjing, starting from 1920s. 19 17, Dr. Sun Yat-sen published the General Plan for the Founding of the People's Republic of China, praising Nanjing as a beautiful place with mountains, water and plains. These three kinds of excellence, Yu Zhong, are hard to find in a world metropolis. 1928, in order to welcome Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Feng 'an ceremony, Nanjing planted 20,000 sycamore trees along Zhongshan Avenue and other urban trunk roads, which Nanjing called the French phoenix tree.