What is the symbolic meaning and significance of the Chinese parasol tree?

I. Noble character

In ancient poetry, the Chinese parasol tree has long carried the meaning of symbolizing a noble and beautiful character. In the Book of Songs, the ancients used phoenixes singing in harmony, their song drifting over the hills; and the Chinese parasol tree growing rampantly, draped in brilliant morning sun, to symbolize nobility and beauty of character.

II. Faithful love

In ancient times, legend said the wu is the male tree and the tong is the female tree; the Chinese parasol tree grows together and ages together, lives together and dies together, and its trunk and branches are very upright with dense foliage, so in the writings of poets it became a symbol of faithful love.

III. Loneliness and sorrow

Wind blowing fallen leaves, rain dripping on the Chinese parasol tree, a bleak and desolate scene; the Chinese parasol tree thus also became a symbol of loneliness and sorrow in the writings of literati. For example, in the poem "Xiang Jian Huan" by Li Yu, the last ruler of Southern Tang, it vividly and graphically depicts the down-and-out state of this ruler of a fallen kingdom living in seclusion in a lonely deep courtyard.