The Fate of Taiwan Sandalwood
Now all camphor trees that are over a hundred years old have been wiped out by others, it is a pity, that is incredible in Taiwan. The Japanese built a large forestry experiment forest in a district of Kenting in the south. The most valuable one is in Kenting. The Japanese set all the latitudes and know that Kenting’s latitude belongs to the tropics. To Chiayi, it is between the subtropical and tropical areas. Cooperated with the United Kingdom and purchased sandalwood from the East India Company and planted forty trees. Forty trees were planted in Japan until 1963 (Republic of China 52).
Professor Gan Weisong served as a professor of medicinal plants at the Chinese Academy of Medicine. This professor was not recognized by the Ministry of Education. The professor of medicinal plants was approved by the Ministry of Education in 1992 (Republic of China). Professor Gan Weisong had retired when he took up this professorship.
I am with Professor Gan Weisong, because he was a professor of medicinal plants at the Chinese Academy of Medicine at the time. In fact, he was a technician of the Forest Service Bureau. The technician is also a short-term position. With the qualifications of a short-term position, he is between the levels of an assistant professor and an associate professor. At that time, I was just a technician. He told me that Chen Yikui’s most precious items in Kenting were the 40 sandalwood trees that were over 60 years old and were worth NT million. I said if it’s possible, should we not publish it in the future? Let Taiwanese know that these forty trees will definitely be gone. He said the Forest Service is so strict it should be fine. I said that Taiwanese can get through the copper and iron walls. The brains of the Taiwanese are those of Hans. They are so good that all the graves of the past dynasties have been robbed, using the power of the country and made into a copper wall and iron walls still been stolen, then you, the Forest Service Bureau, did not fence with barbed wire or send guards. There will be none in the end. In 1960, the second year of my marriage, Professor Gan Weisong called me, Chen Yikui, I invited you to eat garlic bacon with chili and black bean dung. I said yes, because his office is in the botanical garden. I went to him, what news? I say. He said that the news came that forty sandalwood plants are all gone, none of the roots left. I told him on the spot that both the Han and the Chinese would make others extinct, and as long as anything considered is good, they would all dry it up. So why should our tombs be buried so well? Because according to Li Shizhen’s Compendium of Materia Medica, skulls are effective for epilepsy. The hair is called Xueshu, skulls, and lings. After I taught that, more than a hundred skulls were stolen. In the end, I stopped teaching. I just taught plants. I stopped teaching animals. It was very bad. Tiger whip is very good. Tiger and dogs are all extinct. In the end, all of our black dogs are imported. Taiwanese native dogs and black dogs are extinct. Why? Black dog whip. Taiwan's sika deer are also extinct because of the antler and male deer whip. After the male is killed, will the female give birth? Finally extinct. How did it breed later? One male was introduced from Tokyo Zoo in Japan, and three females slowly reproduced like this. Now there are many sika deer.
