Ginkgo Tree of Boreumdo Island, Ganghwa

The Ginkgo Tree of Boreumdo Island, Ganghwa is estimated to be around 800 years old, standing 21.0 m tall with a girth at breast height of 9.0 m. Growing on a hillside in the village, it serves as a shade tree at the village's traditional gathering spot and is regarded as a sacred tree that watches over and protects the village. It is said to have been planted 800 years ago from a tree that had drifted in on a flood, and legend holds that if its branches are burned the spirit within grows angry and brings disaster, so no one damages them. Until the 1950s, villagers gathered every year on the last day of the first lunar month to hold a rite praying for the village's peace and a good catch, but this is no longer performed. The Ginkgo Tree of Boreumdo Island, Ganghwa has lived on for a long time under the care and attention of past generations, and is valuable as folkloric and biological material, and so has been designated and protected as a natural monument.

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Where it is

Region

Ganghwa, Incheon

Designation

Natural Monument · 천연기념물