There are many literati in ancient and modern times who love and praise bamboo. Scholars in China endowed the growth characteristics of bamboo, such as hollowness, straightness and four seasons, with personalized spiritual and cultural symbols, such as elegance, purity, modesty, restraint and honest and frank.
Bamboo has an unusual traditional cultural significance in China. Evergreen seasons symbolize tenacious life and eternal youth, while hollowness represents open-minded character. Its bending and unyielding is based on the principle of being soft, while being born with knots and showing bamboo knots is a symbol of high morality and integrity. Bamboo is free and easy, tall and lofty, handsome and elegant, which is also the personality pursuit of China literati.
The earliest bamboo plot of China people can be traced back to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and then bamboo evolved from a cultural significance to a folk image. For example, "bamboo reports peace" is often used to bless peace and good luck.
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Bamboo is a common plant in South China. Our ancestors began to make all kinds of utensils with bamboo very early, also called bamboo "three-year-old cold friends"
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, people highly praised "celebrities".
That is, people with high literacy in literature and philosophy. At that time, Ruan Ji, Ji Kang and other seven celebrities often gathered in the bamboo forest to drink and write poems, which was called "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest". The "Wei-Jin demeanor" of these celebrities has become a model of elegance, and bamboo has also become the favorite of literati.
Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, once analyzed that bamboo has strong roots, so it can resist wind and rain, symbolizing virtue-oriented. Bamboo grows straight, symbolizing the quality of integrity, so that it can stand upright. The bamboo joints are very obvious, symbolizing chastity and determination to be chaste. Bamboo is hollow, symbolizing the realm of Tao living with an open mind.
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