Bamboo is also called winter grass, because ancient people thought bamboo was a kind of grass, which lingered in winter and never withered. "Guofeng Feng Weiqiao" has a star: "Look at him and Qi Ao, the bamboo pine is majestic. There are bandits and gentlemen, such as cutting like begging, such as cutting like grinding. " It can be seen that there were records about bamboo as early as 2000 years ago, and there was a saying in ancient times that "writing bamboo anger and painting orchids", so the poems about bamboo in past dynasties could not be completely handed down.
How did ancient literati chant bamboo in their daily life? Like Tao Yuanming's love for chrysanthemums, Su Shi also loves bamboo, taking "eating without meat is better than living without bamboo" as the poetic standard, and even created a four-character idiom "I have a bamboo in my heart". ("Literati Painting Bamboo": "Today's painters are quick to work, and flowers and leaves are tired. How can there be bamboo? " Therefore, painting bamboo should be a good idea. "It is worth mentioning that Wang Yucheng, a famous expert and scholar in the Song Dynasty, once built a bamboo building and wrote" Bamboo Building ":"It rains heavily in summer, and there is a waterfall sound ... salute and shoot, and the voice is iron; It's all the help of Zhulou. "
Apart from Su Shi, a scholar who was obsessed with bamboo, Zheng Banqiao, a painter in Qing Dynasty, spent two-thirds of his life painting bamboo. She once wrote a poem "Drawing fine bamboo for forty years, writing by day and thinking by night". After returning to Yangzhou in his later years, his family moved to Chikulin Temple in the north and lived with bamboo. In addition, according to historical documents, bamboo has become one of the key themes of painting in the late Tang Dynasty, so a large number of bamboo painters have appeared in the history of painting in China, such as Wen Tong in the Song Dynasty, Ke, Gao and Ni Zan in the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Bi, Xia Fang and Xu Wei in the Ming Dynasty and Shi Tao in the Qing Dynasty.