The Grandpa Camphor Tree is more than 800 years old, and it started around the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. It was after Zheng Chenggong expelled the Dutch and regained Taiwan, the ancestors of Wu and Peng brought his family here and started the reclamation near this camphor tree. The ancestors of the surname Peng built houses near this old camphor tree, reproduced their descendants, continued to gather and cultivated immigrants, and finally formed a settlement. This old camphor tree is a natural log. When the ancestors of the Peng family settled, the tree circumference was already more than two adults’ arm span.

The Qing court was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the Sino-Japanese Shimonoseki Treaty was signed, which ceded Taiwan to Japan, and Japan sent troops to occupy Taiwan. The Taiwan compatriots were filled with indignation, and anti-Japanese volunteers gathered in the mountainous area near the old camphor tree. Because the area was a important place for north-south travels at that time, the Japanese troops were stationed here. They wanted to resolve the confrontation between the two sides through education and continue to persuade local people to establish School.

At that time, local people saw that the situation was on the decline. In order to ease the fighting between the two sides, the school was formally established in 1899, with Tadasho Koyamada as the first Japanese principal. At the beginning of the establishment of the school, the nearby Matsu Temple was borrowed for class. Later, enthusiastic people donated money and land to build a school building on the current site. The proprietor surnamed Peng was also pleased to donate the adjacent land as the school site. This old camphor tree was owned by the school at this time.

This old camphor tree has beautiful patterns. The tree circumference at one meter above the ground is 5.8 meters, the height of the tree is 22 meters, the diameter is 2.2 meters. Its tree shape is flat and stretched in all directions, with a tall and beautiful appearance. The tree circumference is regularly measured every year, and it is found that the tree is still growing slightly, and the tree is at least 800 years old. The villagers all call it the "millennium camphor tree."

At present, this old camphor tree has been jointly adopted by the International Rotary Club. In order to thank the adopters for their righteous deeds, the former principal Cai Jiajing made a monument. The old camphor tree of Singlong Elementary School is the spiritual symbol of the school and this area. In Singlong Elementary School, which has more than one hundred twenty years of school history, many students have played, grown and withered under the shade of the old camphor tree, generation after generation. There are also many touching stories, intertwined under the old camphor tree, for local people to chant, and they will last forever.

First, at the morning on April 21, 1935 , there was a major earthquake in central Taiwan. The number of victims in Miaoli County reached more than 1,300. Tongluo Township, where Xinglong Elementary School was located, was the worst with a death toll of 227. Back then, this old camphor tree became an emergency medical station at that time. Local famous doctor Liu Zhaofang (born in 1908) personally treated the wounded there. He did not eat or drink from early morning to afternoon. Looking back, he saw a rice cooker. He felt hungry and ate several bowls of brown rice. Under the camphor tree, many villagers' precious lives have been saved.

Second, at the end of World War II, in mid-March 1945, US military aircraft bombed Taiwan. Near Xinglong Elementary School in Tongluo Township, five 100-kilogram bombs were dropped. Three of which were unexploded, and two of which blew up some classrooms in the school. In addition, a few instant bombs exploded over the school, but the old camphor tree was magically unscathed. This story made the old camphor tree a "spiritual fortress" in the hearts of the villagers.

Third, during the Japanese occupation in Taiwan, a newly arrived principal intended to fell this old camphor tree to make a bathtub. A Japanese police officer wanted to use the old camphor tree to make a good bathtub. Some courageous villagers gathered in front of the yamen at night, and warned the Japanese police officer: “Don’t fell the old camphor tree if you don’t want to die.” That was how The old camphor tree survived.

Fourth, In the end of 1930s, “Agricultural Experimental Bureau " went to Singlong Elementary School to collect the seeds of the old camphor tree for several consecutive years. It is said that this old camphor tree is a native camphor tree, and it has also been under the control of "designated seed collection" by the agricultural research unit.

Fifth, in the 1950s, the roads near the school were widened, and the local government had to pay one-third of the matching funds. As the residents were not wealthy at the time, and the wood industry in Sanyi was prospering, some people proposed to bid for this old camphor tree. It is said that someone bid 200,000 yuan at that time. Fortunately, local people of insights strongly opposed and raised another source of money, and the old camphor tree survived again. People sit under the old camphor tree and chat with local elders, they have endless stories. The stories are all about the old camphor tree. The old camphor tree is inseparable from the life of the villagers. The villagers have repeatedly protected the old camphor tree from damage. The old camphor tree has lived up to the expectations of the villagers. Not only does it grow old and grows strong, it also continues to "grow" and become the "spiritual fortress" of the villagers, and the villagers are proud of the old camphor tree!