1. The meaning of bamboo includes tenacious vitality, humility and perseverance. Bamboo, plum blossoms and pine trees are also known as the three friends of Suihan. They can grow in severe cold winters and are evergreen all year round. Bamboo also carries the spirit of a gentleman. Ancient and modern literati like to compare a gentleman to bamboo to express his bad self-esteem and noble qualities.
2. Poems about Bamboo
(1) Bamboo and Stone (Zheng Xie, Qing Dynasty)
Stand firmly on the green mountains and never let go, and the roots are still in the broken rocks.
After countless hardships, I am still strong, regardless of the wind from east to west, north or south.
(2) Bamboo (Su Dongpo, Song Dynasty)
It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo;
Without meat, one will be thin, without bamboo, one will be thin. vulgar.
Yong Bamboo (Fu Pangru)
The ground is broken and the clouds are rising higher and higher, and the cold drives away the three nines to lead the coquettish style.
Don’t shed the sentimental tears of mottled bamboo, but be willing to turn the spring mountains into snow waves.