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The Moral and Symbolic Significance of Bamboo

The symbolic meaning of bamboo has the elasticity of life, longevity, happiness and spiritual truth.

Bamboo, beautiful and charming, slender and soft, evergreen and unbeaten, symbolizes eternal youth and youth. In spring, bamboo is natural and unrestrained, beautiful and elegant, graceful and gentle, and bamboo is hollow, which symbolizes modesty. Personality can be modest and self-sustaining, and the characteristics of bamboo are bent without breaking, broken without breaking.

It symbolizes the principle of being a man with softness and rigidity. Lingyun is intentional and strong in the snow, which is a metaphor for a virtuous character. Perennial Gramineae Bambusoideae, whose stems are mostly woody and herbaceous, are most concentrated in the tropics, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean and Pacific islands, with a wide variety, some as low as grass and some as high as trees, and grow rapidly.

Growth habit

Bamboo leaves are narrowly lanceolate, the shoot length is 10 ~ 30cm, and the number of green nodes in the bamboo is generally between 10 ~ 15. Bamboo flowers are like ears of rice. The stems and leaves of bamboo turn yellow after flowering. Bamboo is distributed in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions. Bamboo has high requirements for hydrothermal conditions, and likes a soil environment rich in organic matter and sufficient water.

Bamboo is not only used in textile industry and handicraft industry, but also has medicinal value, which has the effects of reducing fire, relieving cough and eliminating phlegm. Bamboo symbolizes the way of a gentleman, and it is also called the three friends of old age with Mei and Song. It is often used to describe bamboo. Bamboo requires deep and fertile acid soil rich in organic matter and mineral elements.