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China's "bamboo civilization" was in the Han Dynasty. Why did the ancients "value" bamboo so much?
The object of bamboo can be said to run through Chinese civilization. Until today, every household still uses bamboo chopsticks. Next, let's go with Bian Xiao to see why the ancients attached so much importance to bamboo!

First of all, many myths in ancient China have reflected that the use of bamboo originated from Yangshao culture. 1954, archaeologists discovered the Yangshao cultural site about 6,000 years ago in banpo village, Xi 'an. Bamboo symbols can be recognized on the unearthed pottery. This discovery also shows that bamboo was used at that time, and this invention also laid the foundation for archaeologists to study the history of bamboo.

Secondly, the study also found that bamboo had various uses in the Shang Dynasty in China, one of the biggest functions was to use bamboo slips, that is, to write on bamboo chips and sometimes wood chips, and then use them again, and string them together to form a document recording literary and historical classics. Books written with bamboo slips in Shang Dynasty are called bamboo books, and newspapers written with bamboo slips are called bamboo newspapers, such as The Book of Rites and The Analects of Confucius. And from the perspective of ancient literature, bamboo is also an important theme.

From where? The Book of Songs? Since the beginning of the era, poets of all ages have used poems and songs to chant poems rich in bamboo and created many literary works. Bamboo has many connections with China's music culture. Bamboo is the main material for making many musical instruments, such as our traditional wind instruments and plucked instruments in China, which are basically made of bamboo. From this, we can see that bamboo has also had an important influence on the origin of China's melody. Finally, bamboo has a great influence on Chinese religious culture. Some ancient ancestors thought totem was the object of their worship and regarded totem as the main sacrificial tool. Taoism and Buddhism take bamboo as their teaching and pursue an environment built with bamboo.

Finally, from the perspective of spiritual civilization, Meiju is called the Four Gentlemen and is often used to describe the noble character of saints. For thousands of years, its elegant quality has been loved by people all over the world Although bamboo is not as rich as peony, magnificent as pine and cypress, and delicate as peaches and plums, it is modest and elegant, and its noble character has always been praised by the world! Moreover, in the long-term practice and cultural activities, the working people have always regarded bamboo as an ideology and sublimated it into a spiritual outlook of being a man. Details such as the needs of the heart have been brought into the moral category, and the connotation endowed by bamboo has become the representative of China's national character and the symbol of aesthetic spirit!