Millennium Bamboo Culture Inherited in China

China's love for bamboo is self-evident. Su Shi, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, once wrote "I would rather eat without meat than live without bamboo". Bamboo is not only a material culture in China, but also a spiritual culture.

Bamboo generally blooms only once in a lifetime, and a few species bloom every year. A large area of bamboo will die after flowering, so the phenomenon of bamboo flowering was considered a bad omen in the past. There is a saying in China that goes, "When a bamboo tree blooms, there is bound to be a catastrophe." In fact, not only in China, but also in India, there is a legend that "bamboo trees bloom and famine occurs". According to research, whenever a disaster occurs, bamboos will bloom on a large scale and then wither. Therefore, it is speculated that bamboo can sense the changes in the soil, and quickly bloom and disperse seeds to move to other places to save itself.

Before the invention of Chinese New Year, people would burn bamboo on fire every New Year's Day, and when the bamboo was roasted at high temperature, it would make a series of huge bursting sounds to drive away the Nian beast, the so-called "Bamboo Explosion for Peace". Letters written in bamboo slips used to be called bamboo newspapers, the so-called "bamboo newspapers for peace". In the Jin Dynasty, music was called "sizhu", and in the Tang Dynasty, the performers who played musical instruments were called "bamboo people". Bamboo is one of the eight tones of ancient Chinese musical instruments. Bamboo is used in people's lives to die, and bamboo can be used in all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation. This is enough to illustrate the importance of bamboo.

In terms of spiritual civilization, because bamboo is tall and straight, it is regarded as self-improvement; bamboo is regarded as indifferent because of its elegance and elegance. Bamboo is modest and restrained, and is regarded as a noble personality and morality.

China is the first country to study bamboo. After thousands of years of development, it is still so charming and fascinating. What bamboo inherits is not only a kind of culture, but also a kind of spiritual symbol of us.