China's most famous tree is in danger of being 'loved to death'
HUANGSHAN, China — On one of the world’s most beautiful mountains stands one of China’s most famous trees.
A specimen of rugged, flat-crowned evergreen that may be 1,000 years old, the Greeting Pine — or Yingkesong in Mandarin — overlooks a dramatic landscape of granite peaks and mist-shrouded valleys of Huangshan.
The tree is so well-known, it even has a bodyguard — Hu Xiaochun, the 19th Guardian of the Pine.
“My main job is to protect and monitor the Greeting Pine everyday,” Hu told NBC News.
