In southern mainland China, where yews are fairly abundant and were logged for export, the felled yew trees which littered the ground in logging regions have been described as "rivers of blood."
大陸紅豆杉較集中的南方地區，由於出口紅豆杉木，伐木區四散紅豆杉倒木，一度被形容為「血流成河」。