Why do you say "plant a plane tree and attract a phoenix"? Does Phoenix like buttonwood? Is there any allusion to this?

Generally, it is a political expression, such as attracting investment. It means that when the plane tree is planted, it will settle down here! By extension, when a region creates conditions for economic development, large customers will naturally come to invest and negotiate to create greater economic benefits!

Second, the relationship with Phoenix.

In the folk and ancient Chinese in northern China, the word buttonwood generally refers to paulownia tree. Paulownia trees are easily infected with shrub virus. After infection, it will grow very dense small branches and leaves, much like bird's nest when the leaves fall off in winter. For this naturally formed thing, the ancients were full of worship and thought it was a "phoenix nest". Therefore, people think that buttonwood can grow a phoenix's nest and attract the phoenix to live.

Third, allusions.

Keiko served as prime minister in Liang, and Zhuangzi visited him. Someone said to Keiko, "Zhuangzi came to Liang to replace you as prime minister." So Keiko panicked and found Zhuangzi in Beijing for three days and three nights.

Zhuangzi visited Keiko and said, "There is a kind of bird in the south. Its name is Gui. Do you know that?/You know what? Do you know that?/You know what? Starting from the South China Sea and flying to the North Sea, it will not stop, unless it is a buttonwood tree, it will not eat, unless it is a bamboo fruit, it will not drink, unless it is a sweet spring. Just then, an eagle found a rotten mouse, and the stork just flew through the air. The eagle looked up at the stork and made an angry voice: "Fear!" " Now you're trying to scare me with your Guo Liang.

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It can be seen in the pre-Qin literature "The Book of Songs" and "The Scholars, People's Life Volume": Easy lies. The phoenix tree was born in the morning. Phoenix sings for good luck and stops on the high mountain over there. Platanus acerifolia grows on the Gorkon, facing the east to welcome the sunrise. )

It shows that at the end of Shang Dynasty and the beginning of Zhou Dynasty, buttonwood was paid attention to by people at that time. Later pre-Qin documents, such as Shangshu, Zhuangzi and Lv Chunqiu, all mentioned buttonwood. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Fu Cha, King of Wu, built a Wu Tong Garden and planted paulownia trees in it. Liang Renfang's "Different Notes" contains: "Wu Tong Garden is in martial arts, and Wu Wang Fu Cha Old Garden belongs to Qinchuan."