A thousand-year-old ginkgo tree in the central courtyard of a thousand-year-old Buddhist temple in Shaanxi Province. Ginkgo is a unique Chinese plant and can be found all over China. The temple built in year 628 during the Tang Dynasty is situated in Mt Zhongnan, the top attraction to Daoist and Buddhist cultivators. #china #tree #temple

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