福建省莆田县城厢镇芙龙街宋家祠堂前庭种植着一棵千年荔枝树——“宋家香”。据宋朝蔡襄在他所著《荔枝谱》中记载:“宋公荔枝,树极高大,实如陈紫而小,甘美无异或云陈紫种出宋氏,世传其树已三百岁,汨属王氏,黄巢兵过,欲斧薪之,王氏媪抱树号泣,求与树偕死,巢怜云不伐。”据推算,这株树应是公元759年 Putian County, Putian County, Fujian Province Fu Long Street Song ancestral temple forecourt planted a millennium litchi tree - “Song Jiaxiang.” According to the Song Dynasty Cai Xiang in his book “lychee spectrum” in the records: “Song Gong lychee, the tree is very tall, like a real purple and small, sweet or purple Cloud Chen purple kind of song, worldly tree has three hundred years old,汨 is a king, Huang Chao-bing too, want to ax salary, Wang 媪 hold tree weeping, seeking and the tree co-killed, nest pity not cut. ”It is estimated that this tree should be the year 759