1. Bamboo is widely used, covering all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
2. Bamboo grows very fast, and it is always green and fresh, giving people a sense of freshness.
3. Bamboo is hollow and straight, which makes literati and poets compare to a gentleman with a hollow mind and a refined gentleman with noble integrity.
4. Bamboo can bend and stretch, full of gentlemanly demeanor.
Bamboo sticks are tall and straight, slender, graceful, evergreen all the year round, and stand proudly in the wind and rain. They are deeply loved by people, especially literati, who like to compare themselves to bamboo, symbolizing honest and frank, purity and iron. Bamboo has always enjoyed a high reputation, including "Mei Zhu Lan Ju", one of the four gentlemen, and "Mei Songzhu", one of the three friends, which has been deeply loved by people since ancient times. Some people praise bamboo as "open-minded, bamboo has Qian Qian Festival"; Zheng Banqiao, a great painter, wrote a poem for bamboo, "Insist that the green hills will not relax ...". There are many literati and poets in ancient and modern China who love to chant bamboo. It is said that there is no bamboo to live in here, leaving many bamboo paintings and poems about bamboo. Su Dongpo, a great poet, left a famous saying that "living without bamboo is better than eating without meat".