The worship of Sophora japonica is one of Chinese folk beliefs. Does Sophora japonica have special symbolic significance in ancient China?

The trees here represent orthodoxy and the image of the monarch.

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Sophora japonica has these meanings in ancient times:

1, The Spring and Autumn Annals is the essence of virtual stars. What is the essence of virtual stars? The empty stars in the sky-belonging to Ding Huo, defeat the empty stars and help Pojun's evil: "Song of Twenty-eight Nights" has a saying: "Empty stars are the main disaster." Therefore, Sophora japonica is a shady tree, a tree that shelters the dead in one's native land.

Referring to the meaning of "ghost-when a person dies, his body is buried and his soul belongs to the ancestral hall", it means that Sophora japonica is a "soil-guarding tree", which is usually planted at the entrance of a village or in front of a temple, waiting for the fallen leaves to return to their roots and the soul to return home. The voice of "Huai" means that the wanderer misses his hometown. (from Baidu Encyclopedia)

2. "Zhou Li? According to Qiu Guan's records, there were three locust trees planted outside the courtyard of the Zhou Dynasty. When the three courtiers saw the son of heaven, they stood under three locust trees. The trees in the Zhou Dynasty have reverence. Therefore, later generations compared the big pagoda tree to the meaning of prime minister and monarch assisting monarch, so pagoda tree became the national tree.

3. After Yuan and Ming Dynasties, with the passage of time, Sophora japonica has new characteristics. "Sophora japonica in Hongdong, Shanxi" became a symbol of immigrant culture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, forming a new folk connotation. (Excerpted from "Folk Symbol of the Image of Sophora japonica" Ji Yonggui)