A 1,500-year-old lychee tree in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, one of the oldest lychee trees with available records worldwide, can still bear nearly a thousand grams of fruit in the harvest season. Photo: Guancha News

A 1,500-year-old lychee tree in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, one of the oldest lychee trees with available records worldwide, can still bear nearly a thousand grams of fruit in the harvest season.

The oldest recorded lychee tree is more than 13 meters tall, and it is surprising that such an old tree can still bear a lot of fruits. The season of lychee ripening is also the happiest time of the year for the local people in the village.

All the villagers and even the children who have just returned from school come back to help pick lychee and taste the sweetness of the fruit of the old tree. Meanwhile, villagers have also used the technology of using light to repel insects to protect lychee from pests at night.