The cliff cypress bonsai is the only surviving living plant fossil

  From ancient times to the present, people have never stinted in expressing their fondness for pines and cypresses. Bao Zhao of the Northern and Southern Dynasties said in "Preface to the Pine and Cypress Piece": “The pine and cypress alone receive their mandate, through all dynasties ever flourishing.” Su Zhe, one of the Three Su of the Song Dynasty, also wrote in his "Preface to the Rhapsody on Taking Poria": “What neither cold nor heat can move, what neither years nor months can decay - only the pine and cypress are so.”

  Many people are not only fond of cliff cypress bead bracelets, but also long to obtain a cliff cypress bonsai.

  The cliff cypress is a prehistoric plant, originating more than 300 million years ago. It is a relict plant from the Cretaceous period of the dinosaur era, known as the rarest and oldest gymnosperm in the world, and an extremely rare surviving living plant fossil in the world.

  The South Taihang cliff cypress, growing in Danxia geology, has its roots suspended among the high cliffs and cold rocks. With the changes in geology and mountain bodies over hundreds of millions of years, the rocks embracing its roots, after undergoing natural weathering and falling away over several hundred or even several thousand years, only then were the cliff cypress roots revealed.

  Having survived extreme and harsh environments, been tempered by wind, frost, swords and knives, and carved as if by the work of ghosts and gods, it naturally decays into a quality of wondrous form, delicate texture, and abundant cypress oil, firm and condensed, a wood of ten-thousand-year longevity. The Taihang cliff cypress surpasses other cypress plants in form, grain, material, taste and vitality, possessing greater charm and allure.