The Chinese people have always loved bamboo, and China is also the earliest country in the world to research, cultivate and utilize bamboo. From the huge role bamboo has played in the development of Chinese history and culture and the formation of spiritual culture, the long-standing relationship between bamboo and Chinese poetry, calligraphy, painting and garden construction, and the close connection between bamboo and people's lives, it is not difficult to see that China deserves to be known as "Bamboo A civilized country". No other plant can have such a profound impact on human civilization like bamboo. We call the role and influence bamboo brings to human material civilization and spiritual civilization bamboo culture.
1. Bamboo and Chinese History
The use of bamboo has been reflected in the myths and legends of ancient my country, and the exact records originated from Yangshao culture. In 1954, Yangshao cultural sites dating back about 6,000 years were excavated in Banpo Village, Xi'an. The symbol "bamboo" could be recognized on the unearthed pottery, indicating that bamboo had been studied and utilized by people before that, that is, The history of our people's research and utilization of bamboo can be traced back to the New Age of 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. Chinese characters originated from the Yangshao culture when primitive society collapsed, and the original symbol of the word "bamboo" should have appeared before that. Bamboo objects were also found at the Hemudu primitive society site in Yuyao County, Zhejiang 7,000 years ago. It can be seen that bamboo was closely related to people's lives during the primitive society. Because only bamboo has been used by people, it is necessary to create a text symbol to represent it.
Research has proved that the Shang Dynasty in my country already knew the various uses of bamboo. One of them is to use bamboo slips, that is, to write words on bamboo slices (sometimes using wood slices), and then string them on ropes. Together they become "book", from which the Chinese character "book" comes. Bamboo slips and wooden slips have preserved for us a large number of precious documents before the Eastern Han Dynasty, such as "Shangshu", "Book of Rites" and "The Analects of Confucius", etc., which were all written on bamboo slips and wooden slips. In the Yin and Shang Dynasties, books written with bamboo sketches were called "bamboo books" and letters written with bamboo sketches were called "bamboo newspapers." The invention of the bamboo pen also played a pioneering role in cultural history. The ink and ink handwriting written by the brush can be seen on the oracle bones, jade pieces and pottery unearthed from the cultural relics of the Yin Dynasty. There is also evidence from the cultural relics unearthed from the tomb of Zeng Marquis Yi in Hubei and the Spring and Autumn and Warring States tombs in Ting'e. Another great use of bamboo is paper making. As early as the 9th century, my country began to use bamboo to make paper, about 1,000 years earlier than Europe. Of course, the big development of bamboo paper will come later. Regarding the use of bamboo to make paper, detailed records were recorded in the "Tiangong Kaiwu" of the Ming Dynasty, with bamboo paper manufacturing diagrams attached. The use of bamboo to make paper marks the great development and achievements of ancient my country's papermaking technology and promotes the prosperity of Chinese culture. In fact, before the emergence of bamboo paper, papermaking tools were inseparable from bamboo. From the beginning of bamboo slips to the emergence of bamboo paper, bamboo has always played an important role in the history of cultural development, playing a direct and indirect role in preserving human knowledge and forming the long-standing and glorious history and culture of the Sinochem nation.
There are many aspects of the use of bamboo in ancient my country. For example, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, our ancestors had made bamboo tools "Ju" that used levers to lift water, and "high rotating drums" that used bamboo tubes to lift water for irrigation. car". Bamboo also played an important role in the history of weapon development. From the primitive bamboo bow for archery to the trebuchet of the Spring and Autumn Period, the gunpowder arrows and bamboo tube muskets of the Song Dynasty, they are all ancient bamboo weapons.
From the analysis of the bamboo characters in Chinese characters, we can also see the ancient history of bamboo utilization in China. The ancients regarded "neither hard nor soft, neither grass nor wood, small differences, empty and solid, and great harmony." The plant is called bamboo. Starting from the morphological understanding, bamboo was processed and made into items, and the bamboo character was derived from the word "bamboo". As humans' understanding of bamboo continues to improve, bamboo is increasingly used. The number of Bamboo characters will inevitably increase accordingly. The Chinese Cihai (1979 edition) contains a total of 209 Bamboo characters, such as pen, book, book, bamboo slips, articles, chopsticks, cage, flute, sheng, etc. The collection of various dictionaries in the past dynasties is even more impressive. And idioms such as "bamboo brings peace", "fading silk and strong bamboo", "childhood sweethearts", "three poles in the sun" also contain interesting allusions related to bamboo. These bamboo texts and idioms involve all areas of society and life. On the one hand, they reflect the increasing recognition and utilization of bamboo by humans. On the other hand, they reflect the role of bamboo in industrial and agricultural production, culture and art, and daily life over thousands of years of history in China. It plays an important role in many aspects of life.
2. Bamboo and spiritual culture
In the long cultural history of our country, pine, bamboo and plum are known as the "three friends of winter", while plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum are known as Bamboo is one of the "Four Gentlemen". It can be seen that bamboo occupies an important position in the hearts of our people. This is because of its tall and beautiful stalks, graceful leaves, and various shapes. It is evergreen all year round, has graceful posture, and has a unique charm. , full of fun. When people take a leisurely stroll under the green bamboos, a kind of infinite comfort and reverie will arise spontaneously. No wonder Su Dongpo said, "It is better to eat without meat than live without bamboos." Therefore, in parks and beside villages, clumps of green bamboos not only beautify people's lives, but also cultivate and sublimate people's noble sentiments.
Bamboo is not as gorgeous as peonies, not as majestic as pines and cypresses, and not as delicate as peaches and plums, but it is praised by people for its modest and elegant characteristics and its noble and upright character. It is honest and selfless, unpretentious, does not demand the environment, does not show off itself, and devotes its shade to the earth and its wealth to the people in obscurity.
In the long-term production practice and cultural activities, the working people have summarized and sublimated the biomorphic characteristics of bamboo into a spiritual outlook on life, such as humility, integrity, etc., which are included in the category of personality and moral beauty. The connotation has formed a symbol of the character, endowment and aesthetic spirit of the Chinese nation. Indeed, when people see bamboo, they naturally think of its character of not being afraid of adversity or hardship, being straight in the middle and straight in the outside, and willing to be unyielding. This is an inexhaustible spiritual wealth, and it is also the special aesthetic value of bamboo. .
In terms of spiritual culture, the connotation of bamboo culture is very rich and unique, influencing Chinese people's aesthetics, aesthetic consciousness and ethics, and has great influence on Chinese literature, painting art, arts and crafts, garden art, music culture, The development of religious culture and folk culture plays an extremely important role in promoting.
Bamboo is an important theme in Chinese literature. Since the time of the Book of Songs, there have been excellent poems and essays about bamboo in all dynasties, and countless literary works have been created, forming China’s unique bamboo literature. It is unique and colorful in Chinese literature.
Arts and crafts are a combination of aesthetics and life, a product of science and art. Bamboo is an important material for arts and crafts. For thousands of years, Chinese ancestors have used bamboo to weave and carve various pleasing objects. Arts and crafts works enrich the connotation of bamboo culture. Archaeological data confirms that bamboo weaving began to be used in the early Neolithic Age. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, bamboo weaving art reached a very high level, especially in Chu State, which was the most developed with extremely rich varieties and was famous for its superb skills and unique style. In the world. Sculpture technology has been formed during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Bamboo carving artworks exist in the Han Dynasty, and there are records of bamboo carving artworks in documents from the Six Dynasties period. After the Tang Dynasty, famous bamboo carving artists emerged in large numbers. Zhan Cheng appeared in the Song Dynasty, the Jiading Bamboo Carving School represented by the three generations of Zhu Songlin and his grandson appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and bamboo carving masters such as Li Wenfu appeared in Jinling (now Nanjing). In the mid-Qing Dynasty, the bamboo carvings of the Hunan Shaoyang, Sichuan Jiang'an and Zhejiang Huangyan were formed, and became the mainstream of bamboo carving art. In the early Republic of China, the Northern Style bamboo carving pioneered by Zhang Zhiyu in Beijing appeared. Bamboo is also a theme in arts and crafts. It is a pattern that embodies auspicious contents such as fortune, wealth, longevity, happiness, wealth, prosperity, luck, etc. It has been popular in folk decorative arts for thousands of years and is widely used in carving, weaving and embroidery. , printing and dyeing, ceramics, weaving, paper-cutting and other handicrafts are being created.
Bamboo has an important connection with Chinese music culture. Bamboo is an important material for making musical instruments. Traditional Chinese wind instruments and plucked instruments are basically made of bamboo. Bamboo has had an important influence on the origin of Chinese music. Historical documents and archaeological data confirm that since the Zhou Dynasty, bamboo has been used to determine music in all dynasties. Therefore, in the Jin Dynasty, the name of music was "Si Zhu", and "Si Whi" was used. According to the theory of "bamboo", artists who played musical instruments were called "bamboo people" in the Tang Dynasty. It can be seen that bamboo is an irreplaceable material carrier in Chinese music culture.
Bamboo has also had a great impact on Chinese religious culture. The ancient ancestors worshiped bamboo totems, regarded them as totem worship objects, and used bamboo as sacrificial tools and sacrifices. Taoism and Buddhism worship bamboo out of their doctrines and pursue the environment built by bamboo.
Bamboo plays an extremely important role in folk culture. Bamboo culture is connected with oral literature and art, recreational activities, and beliefs and customs; it has entered the human ritual system and constitutes an important element of folk bamboo culture in community cultures such as sacrifices, weddings and funerals, communication, festivals, and court regulations.
3. Bamboo and Chinese Poetry and Painting
The green bamboo has attracted countless literati and poets throughout the ages. They were inspired by bamboo and created thousands of bamboo myths, Poetry, calligraphy and painting form an important part of Chinese bamboo culture.
The Book of Songs is my country's first comprehensive collection of poems. It contains a large number of bamboo poems, with 5 directly mentioned and appearing 7 times, and dozens of indirectly mentioned. For example, "Poetry of Wei Fengqiao" says: "Looking at Qiao, the green bamboo is Yiyi." Historically, there have been different views on the above-mentioned records about bamboo in the Book of Songs, but in fact it is conclusive that it refers to bamboo. The Book of Songs was compiled in the Spring and Autumn Period. Since then, bamboo poems and paintings have been recorded in various classics of various dynasties.
When describing bamboo poetry and painting, we must mention several touching stories of bamboo love. According to "Taiping Yulan", Wang Huizhi (Ziyou) (son of Wang Xi), a great calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty, once "temporarily sent someone to live in an empty house so that he could plant bamboos. Or ask, why do you have to live temporarily?" He chanted for a long time, pointing directly to Bamboo said: "How can I live without this king!" He has loved bamboo all his life and can be regarded as a good friend of Bamboo. Su Dongpo in the Song Dynasty also had a high opinion of bamboo. He said in a poem "Yu Qian Monk Luyunxuan": "You can eat without meat, but you can't live without bamboo. Without meat, you will be thin, and without bamboo, you will be vulgar." A thin person can still gain weight, but a layman cannot cure it...". Zheng Banqiao, one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", an outstanding artist of the Qing Dynasty, was particularly fond of and good at painting bamboo. He also wrote hundreds of poems on bamboo paintings, which are rich and colorful and unique. He wrote a poem on the thrush in the picture "Bamboo and Stone": "Stick to the green mountains and never relax, and take root in the broken rocks. Still standing strong despite all the hardships, regardless of the winds from the east, west, north, and south." He highly praised bamboo's ability to defy adversity and thrive. In the history of the Chinese revolution, many ancestors used bamboo poems and paintings. Among them, the martyr Fang Zhimin was the most typical. He wrote a couplet and hung it in his bedroom to encourage himself: "My heart has three loves: strange books, horses, beautiful mountains and rivers, and four things planted in the garden." "Green pines, green bamboos, white plum orchid", even his children were named after pine, bamboo, plum and orchid, which shows the status of bamboo in his heart.
At the difficult juncture of the revolution, he wrote a powerful epic: "The snow is weighing down the bamboo, and the head is low, and it wants to be covered with mud. A red sun rises, but it is still level with the sky."
my country's traditional painting art has been in existence since ancient times. It is no accident that we attach great importance to painting bamboo. The noble spiritual outlook and special aesthetic value of bamboo not only inspire the artist's creative inspiration, but also become a model respected by the artist.
The art of painting bamboo plays a considerable role in traditional Chinese painting art. During the Mid-Tang Dynasty, bamboo had formed a special painting theme; Wentong in the Northern Song Dynasty founded the "Huzhou Bamboo School", which was respected by later generations as the ink painter. The originators of bamboo painting; Ke Jiusi, Gao Kegong, and Ni Zan in the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Fu, Xia Chang, and Xu Wei in the Ming Dynasty, and Shi Tao, Zheng Banqiao, Pu Hua, and Wu Changshuo in the Qing Dynasty. They are all the founders of a new style of bamboo painting. It promoted the development of bamboo painting art and made important contributions to the development and improvement of bamboo painting techniques and theories. To this day, China's bamboo painting art still maintains its ever-growing momentum and is considered a unique cultural phenomenon in China.
Bamboo painting was already popular in the Tang Dynasty, and the ink bamboo in Chinese painting was originated in the Tang Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, bamboo painting became more successful. There are many famous bamboo painters. The great poet Su Dongpo is a master of bamboo painting. His second son Su Guo is a famous bamboo painter. His best friend Wen Yuke is also a master of bamboo painting and has superb skills in bamboo painting. Su Dongpo's painting theory of "being confident" has been favored by ink bamboo painters throughout the ages and followed in traditional painting creations. His "Ink Bamboo Picture", which is known as a wonder, can achieve "a rich and unrestrained posture, which is full of sandalwood" Luan Zhixiu has a graceful and graceful appearance that can be moved by the wind and can be formed without bamboo shoots. His famous article "Wen Yuke Painting Appreciating the Bamboo in the Flute Valley" is a masterpiece that has been passed down through the ages. The article says: "To draw bamboo, you must first have the bamboo in your heart."
Famous bamboo painters in each dynasty had their own characteristics and formed various schools in their painting practice. Their bamboo paintings are very expressive and lifelike, so Bai Juyi once praised them in "Brush Song", "When you raise your head, it doesn't look like a painting, but when you lower your ears, you can hear sounds."
Bamboo painting also flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and the sudden rise of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" created an unprecedented situation for bamboo painting. The traditional requirement of Chinese painting is to truly reflect the objective form of natural scenery. Zheng Banqiao's bamboo paintings not only express the natural characteristics of the objective object, but also express the author's personality, thoughts and attitude towards society. He not only left many wonderful bamboo paintings, but also left behind "Sixty-nine Inscriptions on Bamboo", in which he praised "The Bamboo Gentleman, the Stone Master, the Thousand-year-old Friend, and the Four Seasons of Spring".
4. Bamboo and Chinese Gardens
Bamboo is an indispensable part of my country’s classical style gardens. The history of gardening in my country starts from the 11th century BC when King Wen of Zhou Dynasty “built a spiritual platform and a spiritual garden.” It can be said that it is the earliest royal garden starting from "Marg and Lingnan". According to "Shang Shu Yu Gong" "The Beauty of Southeast Kuaiji Bamboo Arrow", it shows that the ancients knew how to appreciate the beautiful bamboo forest scenery earlier. After Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he carried out a large-scale construction project and introduced bamboo from Yungang, Shanxi to Xianyang to build the "Shanglin Garden" (see "The First Emperor set up Xumingtai, exhausted the treasures from all directions, and obtained Yungang plain bamboo"). This is It is the earliest record of bamboo being used in gardening. At that time, planting bamboo and building bamboo gardens were mostly limited to building hunting grounds and strategic material bases, and bamboo gardening was still in its infancy.
In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Chinese gardens entered the development stage from their infancy. Influenced by the political turmoil and religious thoughts on life, the literati and scholar-officials at that time advocated mystery and attached great importance to landscapes. It became a temporary fashion to visit famous mountains and rivers. Poems and essays praising natural scenery and pastoral scenery and the budding landscape paintings stimulated gardens. A "natural landscape garden" that was different from the royal palace was produced, and bamboo was immediately integrated into the garden. At that time, bamboo landscaping in royal forests and private gardens of officials also developed accordingly. "Shui Jing Zhu" introduces the famous royal garden "Hualin Garden" in the Northern Wei Dynasty, saying: "Bamboos and cypresses are shaded by layers of stones, and thin embroidery clusters are clustered on the side of the spring." "Luoyang Jialan Ji" records that the private gardens of Luoyang officials and nobles "all have peach and plum green, bamboo and cypress holly" ".
The "Wangchuan Villa" planned by Wang Wei, a scholar of the Tang Dynasty, includes bamboo landscapes such as "Jinzhuling" and "Zhuli Pavilion"; "Shoushan Gen Prison" was personally participated by Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty. The planning can be seen from the "Gen Yu Ji" written by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. It is a typical example of bamboo landscaping in the landscape palace gardens of the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou was designated as the capital and renamed Lin'an. Nobles, bureaucrats, and wealthy businessmen gathered in the south of the Yangtze River. The prosperity of royal palaces, gardens, and private gardens was self-evident, which played a role in promoting the later development of gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. Bamboo was widely used in the Tang and Song dynasties. "Luoyang Famous Gardens" written by Li Gefei in the Northern Song Dynasty reviewed 19 private gardens, and made special bamboo landscapes for 10 of them, including Quiren Garden, Dong's West Garden, Fuzheng Park, and Miao Shuai Garden. describe. From Zhou Mi's "Wuxing Garden Notes" of the Southern Song Dynasty, we can also learn that Wuxing's residence garden "has bamboos in the garden." Bamboo gardening has entered a heyday.
The gardens of the Ming and Qing Dynasties inherited the traditions of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and gradually formed local styles. Among them, the Jiangnan gardens represented by residential gardens were a peak in the development of gardens in the late feudal society of China. The combination of bamboo with water bodies, rocks, garden wall buildings and bamboo forest landscape is one of the biggest features of Jiangnan gardens and Lingnan gardens. The six famous gardens in Suzhou, including Canglang Pavilion and Lion Grove Garden, as well as Yangzhou Ge Garden and Huizhou Xiaoyaotang, have been very successful in using bamboo in gardening. Many gardening techniques are still used in today's gardens.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were many volumes of theoretical books on gardening techniques published, including Wang Xiangjin's "Qunfang Pu", Tu Long's "Shan Zhai Qing Lei Xian Jian", Li Yu's "Xian Qing Ou Ji·Living Room", etc. The most influential ones were Ji Cheng. "Yuan Ye" and Wen Zhenheng's "Changwu Zhi" both gave detailed and insightful discussions on bamboo gardening, which were highly praised and imitated by later generations. The development of gardens in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially bamboo gardens, entered a mature stage.
With the development of poetry, calligraphy, painting and gardening art and technology, people are no longer satisfied with courtyard landscaping. Therefore, miniatures of natural scenery that can be appreciated and played at any time in the house have been produced. --Bonsai. According to research, the emergence of Chinese bonsai was in the Tang Dynasty. Bonsai made of bamboo can be seen in many celebrity paintings in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the "Three Friends of Sui Han" type bonsai was widely circulated. "Kao Pan Yu Lu" and "Qun Fang Pu" etc. all introduce the production and appreciation of bamboo bonsai. The Forbidden City Museum in Beijing also houses a bamboo bonsai made of jade, which was a treasure contributed by the officials on the 80th birthday of Emperor Qianlong Hongli. Bamboo bonsai has developed to this day and many fine products have appeared, such as "Seven Sages in the Bamboo Forest" and "Bamboo Interesting Pictures" by Mr. Zhou Shoujuan, as well as Yangzhou's "Xiaoxiang Flowing Water", "Cuiye Picture", "Bamboo Forest Escape", "Eastern Bamboo Forest", etc. There are a large number of bamboo bonsai masterpieces such as "Po Yi Feng".
Chinese bonsai has always been called "silent poetry, three-dimensional painting" and is loved by people in both the East and the West.
5. Bamboo and people’s lives
Bamboo grows quickly, has strong adaptability, and has a wide range of uses. Bamboo is closely related to people's lives. The use of bamboo involves all aspects of clothing, food, housing, transportation, and use. Bamboo has been used in construction for a long time. In ancient times, when humans evolved from nest dwellings and cave dwellings to ground dwellings, bamboo was played an important role. Bamboo was found at the Cao Xie Mountain site in the late Neolithic Age in Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. Bamboo was used as a building material. The Bamboo Palace of Ganquan Palace in the Han Dynasty and the Huanggang Bamboo Tower in the Song Dynasty were all built with bamboo and enjoyed great reputations.
From the perspective of clothing, bamboo plays an important role in the origin and development of Chinese clothing. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, bamboo was used to make cloth, bamboo was used to make crowns, and bamboo was used as rainproof products such as bamboo shoes, bamboo hats, and bamboo umbrellas, which are still in use today. Bamboo cloth was one of the important tributes from some states and counties in the Lingnan region during the Tang Dynasty. Bamboo was also a decorative material for ancient people, which illustrates its contribution to human clothing culture.
From an edible perspective, bamboo shoots and bamboo fungus are popular delicacies, and bamboo has been an important crop raw material for famine relief in the past. Pre-Qin literature records that bamboo shoots more than 3,000 years ago were a delicacy on the banquet. Bamboo shoots can be eaten in a variety of ways and can be used to cook thousands of delicious dishes. Bamboo also has special medical value. In the earliest medical books in China, there are historical records of using bamboo to treat diseases. The whole body of bamboo is a treasure. Bamboo ruts and bamboo extracts made from leaves, fruits, roots and stems are medicinal materials with remarkable curative effects. Bamboo huang and bamboo fungus are also good medicines for curing diseases.
The emergence and development of transportation tools and facilities is one of the symbols of Chinese civilization. Bamboo has played an important role in transportation. The origin and development of ancient transportation tools and facilities are closely related to bamboo. The ancient people took bamboo to make bamboo carts, bamboo rafts, boats and bridge projects, creating many firsts in the history of world transportation and making great contributions to the development of transportation and facilities in the world.
Archaeological data proves that ancient ancestors began to use bamboo to make bamboo utensils in the late Paleolithic Age and the early Neolithic Age. The pottery excavated at the Banpo site in Xi'an, which belongs to the Yangshao culture, has imprints of bamboo weaving on the bottom. A large number of imprinted pottery with bamboo patterns were unearthed at the Liangzhu cultural site in the south. More than 200 actual bamboo wares were excavated at the Qianshanyang site in Wuxing, Zhejiang. With the continuous development and progress of society and culture, the types of bambooware are also increasing. By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, bamboo ware production had become an important production sector of society at that time - the bamboo handicraft industry. Bamboo ware products had become an indispensable item in the lives of the general public at that time to "preserve health and protect one's life". There were more than 60 kinds of bamboo daily necessities in the Han Dynasty, more than 100 kinds in the Jin Dynasty, nearly 200 kinds in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and more than 250 kinds in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. For example, cooking utensils such as bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, bowls, chopsticks, spoons, plates, baskets, steamers, etc., baskets, baskets, bamboo baskets, and boxes for storing items, and furniture such as beds, couches, mats, chairs, pillows, tables, screens, Tables, cupboards, cabinets, calculation tools include abacus and abacus, measurement tools include bamboo rulers and bamboo tubes, lighting tools include lanterns and candles, sanitary tools include brooms and smoke cages, decorative tools include curtains and vases, and play equipment include fans and walking sticks. There are poker chips for gambling and bamboo coffins for burials, both of which are made of bamboo.
From the perspective of human living environment, bamboo also plays a special role. Ancient ancestors discovered the special protective role of bamboo very early, and focused on the role of bamboo as a barrier to protect the safety of cities and homes. In the past dynasties, bamboos were used as fences and walls to defend against bandits and protect the safety of cities and homes. Bamboo forests are favored by people for their functions of regulating climate, conserving water sources, preserving soil and water, reducing noise, purifying the air, and preventing wind damage. People have not used them to protect and beautify the human living environment in ancient and modern times.
As can be seen from the above, bamboo has made extremely important contributions in the daily life of Chinese people, demonstrating the style of bamboo civilization. Therefore, the relationship between bamboo and human life is just as Su Dongpo said: "Bamboo shoots are used to eat, bamboo tiles are used to live, bamboo rafts are carried, bamboo fuel is used for cooking, bamboo skin is used for clothing, bamboo paper is used for writing, and bamboo shoes are used for walking. It can be said that You cannot live without this king for a day.
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