Pagoda Tree at Hongtong

The Pagoda Tree stands in a park on the west side of Jia village, about two kilometres northwest of the Hongtong county seat; the seat itself is in Dahuaishu town, the town named after the tree. The story places a tall locust tree of the Han period beside the Guangji Temple here, with the north-south post road passing under its shade, and has the government enrolling departing migrants in the temple, issuing papers and travel money. The park is a national 5A scenic area and a protected site of Shanxi province, and it is visited as the remembered starting point of the Ming migrations.