Observing Bamboo

My mother said that bamboo is one of the four gentlemen in Chinese painting. It is hollow and straight on the outside, showing modesty and upright character. On Sunday, as soon as I finished my homework, I went to fulfill my wish: I went to observe the bamboos in the community with my mother.

Several clusters of bamboo grow in the center of the lawn of the community, looking green and tall. Its main trunk is composed of many bamboo joints, each bamboo joint is thick and white at both ends and thin and green in the middle. Looking from bottom to top, the bamboo joints become more and more slender. I found that a bamboo was broken in the middle, but it grew new knots from both sides of the root. How tenacious the vitality of bamboo is.

The newly grown bamboo leaves are like a needle made of jasper. There are many small dark brown hairs on both sides of the "needle", which is a bit prickly to the touch. Later, these "needles" gradually unfolded and turned into very thin leaves. There are small serrations on the edges of the leaves, which can scratch human skin. The number of bamboo leaves on each branch is very regular: the two-leaf ones resemble the character "人" for "good person", the three-leaf ones resemble the character "人" for "personality", and the four-leaf ones resemble the "ji" character for "Chiang Kai-shek". "The words, of course, are also somewhat strange and unexpected.

I wanted to break off a branch and take it back as a specimen, but halfway through, I found that the leaves had rolled into a thick needle. I ran home quickly and soaked the leaves in water. In less than five minutes, the leaves were fully unfolded. It turns out that bamboo leaves are inseparable from water.

I like bamboo. It would be great if I could have a bamboo plant at home.

Bamboo

We use the two idioms "like a broken bamboo" and "a confident mind" from time to time. So, how much do you know about bamboo? It turns out that bamboo is a perennial woody evergreen plant in the family Gramineae, and is a close relative of rice, wheat, corn, sugar cane, and sorghum. It is known that there are 150 genera and 1,225 species in the world, with an area of ????1.4 million hectares of bamboo forests. It is widely distributed between 46° north latitude and 47° south latitude of the earth. Bamboo can be found in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate zones. Its stem is usually cylindrical and hollow. There is a solid node at every other section on the stem. Opposite the node are slender cylindrical node-like hollow bamboo branches. There are several strips on the branches. Bamboo leaves, these bamboo leaves form the character "jie" or "ge". "Bamboo" is its pictographic character. Various types of bamboo can grow to a height of 6 to 8 meters, and are graceful and graceful.

Every spring, the heel of the old bamboo will sprout. New shoots sprout from the ground and grow into bamboo shoots. The warm and rainy spring and summer are the golden seasons for bamboo to grow rapidly. In autumn, some bamboos will turn yellow and wither. In winter, in cold places, the water in the bamboo freezes and expands, causing some bamboos to burst and crackle.

There are more than 500 varieties of bamboo. Common ones include moso bamboo, light bamboo, sweet bamboo, bitter bamboo, grass bamboo, ruo bamboo, arrow bamboo, square bamboo, etc. Some bamboos do not bloom, some bloom and produce seeds every year, and some only bloom once every 40 years. The bamboos die after blooming. Some bamboo stems resemble square pillars, which are called "square bamboos". Some bamboo stems resemble Buddha's belly with joints, so they are called "Buddha belly bamboo". Some bamboos grow in the mountains, strong and handsome; some bamboos are planted in flower pots, small and exquisite.

Bamboo is full of treasures. Bamboo roots, bamboo shoots, bamboo poles, bamboo branches and bamboo leaves are all good things, with high appreciation value, practical value and edible value.

In the painter's painting, a bamboo forest and several farmhouses at the foot of the mountain and beside the stream are so charming and moving. (Su Shi once lamented: "It is better to eat without meat than live without bamboo; without meat, people will be thin, without bamboo, people will be vulgar.") In the eyes of writers, bamboo, like plums, orchids, and chrysanthemums, is a gentleman. Noble conduct. In the hands of a sculptor, bamboo roots, bamboo poles, and bamboo branches can be transformed into beautiful handicrafts. In the mouths of musicians, the sounds of flute, reed, harp, dongxiao and cucurbit flute are so melodious. In the hands of children, tile kites, crab kites and centipede kites with bamboo strips as skeletons become so elegant and elegant. Under the shaking of the acrobatic girl, the diabolo rotates at high speed and flies up and down, which is breathtaking.

Bamboo is tough and strong, and people use it to build fences, build bamboo bridges, and build bamboo buildings.

Bamboos are hollow, and people connect them as water pipes to bring water from rivers, mountains, and lakes to irrigate farmland. In water towns, people also use bamboos to make bamboo rafts for transportation, fishing, and transporting goods. Bamboo can also be made into bamboo ladders, bamboo chairs, bamboo tables, bamboo beds, bookshelves, woven into bamboo mats, bamboo curtains, dustpans, baskets, cages, coir raincoats, steamers, suitcases, flower baskets, plates, teacups, and whittled into Chopsticks, bamboo poles, poles, etc. In ancient times, people cut bamboo into long and narrow bamboo slices and strung them with ropes and leather strips to form bamboo slips. In addition, bamboo has been used as a material for papermaking since the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Pandas love to eat arrow bamboo, and people also like to eat bamboo. Fresh and tender bamboo shoots are stir-fried with celery, carrots, pine nuts and fresh squid. It is light and refreshing. Bamboo shoots are dried in the sun, soaked in water until soft, and stir-fried with pork belly for a unique flavor. Dictyophora grown from dried bamboo is a high-grade fungus food. The roots, stems, leaves and fruits of bamboo can be used as medicine. For example, bamboo juice has high medical and health value, which can cool down and reduce fever, and nourish the skin. Bamboo is also good fodder.

There is an essay "Jinggang Green Bamboo" that said that during the revolutionary war years, the Red Army in Jinggang Mountains used bamboos to make spears and nail formations, and used bamboo poles to cook tubes of rice and carry salt. The people of Jinggang used bamboo poles as troops. Carrying grain and carrying the wounded: Bamboo has made outstanding contributions. It is also said that after burning the bamboo leaves, there are still bamboo branches; after breaking the bamboo branches, there are still bamboo poles; after cutting the bamboo poles, there are still bamboo roots buried deep in the ground, which symbolizes Jinggang people.

Zheng Xie of the Qing Dynasty praised bamboo in "Bamboo and Stone": "It sticks to the green mountains and does not relax, and its roots are still in the broken rocks. It has been strong despite being beaten by the east, west, north and south." Bamboo stands tall and tall. , open-minded, generous, upright, selfless, tenacious and unyielding, worthy of praise.

Narrative of Bamboo

With the muffled sound of spring thunder and the moistening of spring rain, I stretched out my little head from the silent underground. Ah! The outside world is so wonderful! Everywhere is vibrant and everything is so beautiful! I shouted excitedly. My wonderful life began at this time...

You know, I went through unimaginable hardships before I finally woke up from a long sleep and got out. ground level. At that time, I was working hard to drill upward, and suddenly a hard rock blocked my path to a happy life. No matter how hard I tried, I could not break through the obstacle of the rock. "Since God created my life and I have experienced a long and silent sleep, why did it give me so much suffering?" Just when I was feeling low and complaining about the unfair fate, Aunt Chunyu said: "Since this is the way to go. It doesn't make sense, why don't you think about the problem from another angle? Isn't it often said that 'when God closes all the doors, he will definitely leave a window for you'? And 'there must be a road for a car to reach the mountain, and for a boat to reach the bridge' It's natural. So, kid, don't be discouraged and pursue your dreams bravely! Don't be afraid of difficulties and don't be discouraged. Auntie Chunyu is sure that you can do it. "Auntie Chunyu is so right. It's really a word that wakes up the dreamer. "Yeah! Then I turned a corner from the side of the rock, and I got out of the ground easily.

Hey! It seems that it is really important for each of us to think about problems from another perspective!

Haha! This young and fragile bamboo shoot of mine finally has its head. Day. Time passed day by day, and I worked hard to absorb the sun, rain and dew. Finally, I grew into a tall and green bamboo. I just want to say that it is the baptism of wind and rain that makes me stronger, and it is the difficult years that make me greener and taller. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that I, plum and pine trees, were later called the "Three Friends of Suihan"; that Zheng Banqiao's "Bamboo and Stone" later gave a glorious portrayal of my tenacious spirit; and that there were so many literati. A hymn to me.

Friends, although the outside world is wonderful, there are also times when you are helpless. Don't give up on your dreams and stop moving forward because of hardships. Be brave and pursue your dreams! Let us shout loudly together: Let the storm come more violently!

As long as you believe firmly, the bamboo shoots will eventually grow into bamboos one day.

If it is gold, it will shine one day!

The Bamboo of My Sight

A very common plant.

Its appearance is very smooth, and its branches look like sugar cane, but are slightly thicker than sugar cane. The branches jumped up one by one, gradually becoming as thin as sugar cane, and then they grew small branches. Its twigs grow a bit dull, but very regular, one section after another, but never a straight line. The twig is no thicker than a child's little finger, but it is difficult to split it in half. What's unique is that the twigs can continue to branch.

On the tops of these nodes, two or three thin and long leaves grow. Most are dark green and thin. But there are many brown dead leaves mixed in with the green. The leaves sway in the air with the breeze; when there is no wind, the branches and leaves hang downwards or stand upside down; if the wind is strong, they "sing" a bleak song with the wind.

One branch after another is intertwined with one green leaf after another, making it look very lush, with almost no gaps left. The fallen leaves all over the ground are also a beautiful scenery. Its young shoots are edible and are covered with layers of brown or green coating. I heard that its roots are very widely distributed underground, covering several square kilometers, but it's a pity that I can't see it with my own eyes. There are almost no other plants growing two or three meters around the branches. Even the most vigorous grass is difficult to find. Maybe the nutrients in the soil are absorbed by its roots buried deep underground. It's over.

Looking down, it is a vast expanse of emerald green; looking down, it is so lush that there is almost no gap; looking up, you can find dead leaves mixed in with the green. This weather-beaten bamboo has spent fourteen springs, autumns, winters and summers...