1700-year-old ancient tree still felled despite electric fencing; villagers' efforts to protect it are no easy task
Ancient tea trees over a thousand years old are rare anywhere in the world, but some lawbreakers want to take these trees for themselves. Now, to protect these thousand-year-old ancient tea trees, the state has spent huge sums and manpower to protect them. Most of these ancient tea trees grow in remote rural areas, and protecting them is truly difficult. The ancient trees guarded by generations of villagers are still felled by some even with electric fencing installed, which cannot help but make people sigh: it is not easy for this tree to have lived 1700 years!
People's living conditions have improved, and they are always curious about new things. To catch a glimpse of the ancient tree's splendor, some are not afraid to approach despite the danger even with electric fencing installed, cutting off a branch to take home as a keepsake, or carving their own names into the trunk. All kinds of behavior have already become too much for this ancient tree to bear. Now this ancient tea tree king, which is 1700 years old, looks as if it is standing firm, but in fact the inside of its trunk is already hollow, and how many years it can live is still unknown.
Along the way, some trees have already fallen, whether due to human action or natural forces beyond control. Although there are many tea trees over a hundred years old, without hundred-year-old tea trees, where would precious species like the thousand-year-old tea tree king come from?
Some had already withered and decayed no one knows how many years ago, and now only a hollow remnant stump remains, along with a thin branch sprouting from the edge of the stump. Here stands the world-recognized wild-type "ancient tea tree king." But after all, it has endured more than 1700 years of wind and rain, and the tea tree king is already decrepit. The base of its thick main trunk already has a large hollow, and its four thick branches are hollow too. There is much moss on the trunk and branches, as well as quite a few carvings made by people, and the branches and leaves cannot be called luxuriant anymore, which makes people very worried.