Scholars related to bamboo and their works

The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, in which there are a large number of bamboo poems, five of which are directly mentioned and appear seven times. There are dozens of indirect quotations. For example, the poem "Feng Weizhi's Qi 'ao" says, "Looking at Qi 'ao from afar, the bamboo is magnificent." . Historically, there are different views on the above records of bamboo in the Book of Songs, but in fact, it is indisputable to mention bamboo. The Book of Songs was compiled in the Spring and Autumn Period. Since then, bamboo poems and paintings have been recorded in various ancient books of various dynasties.

When describing bamboo poems and paintings, we have to mention several touching stories about loving bamboo. According to Taiping Yulan, Wang Huizhi (Zi You), a great calligrapher in the Jin Dynasty (the son of Wang Xizhi) once "temporarily sent people to live in an empty house and ordered people to plant bamboo. Or ask, why stay? After whispering for a long time, he pointed to bamboo and said, "How can you live without this gentleman for a day?" "He loves bamboo all his life, and bamboo is his good friend. In the Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo also praised bamboo. In the poem Lu Yunxuan, a hermit, he said, "You can eat without meat, but you can't live without bamboo. No meat makes people thin, no bamboo makes people vulgar. People are thin and fat, but laymen are hopeless ... "... Zheng Banqiao was one of the outstanding painters in Qing Dynasty, and he was particularly fond of and good at painting bamboo. There are also hundreds of his bamboo painting poems, which are colorful and unique. He inscribed a poem on the thrush in the picture of Bamboo Stone: "I insist that the green hills are not relaxed, and the roots are in broken rocks. Despite the difficulties, it is still strong, and the wind is strong in the southeast and northwest. It highly praised the nature of bamboo, which is not afraid of adversity and thriving. In the revolutionary history of China, many ancestors wrote poems on bamboo, among which Fang Zhimin martyr was the most typical. He wrote couplets and hung them in his bedroom to encourage himself: "There are three wonderful books in his heart, beautiful mountains and rivers, four things in the garden, pines, bamboos, white orchids", and even his children are named after pines, bamboos, plums and orchids, which shows the position of bamboo in his heart. At the difficult juncture of the revolution, he wrote Changhong's epic: "Snow presses the bamboo head low, and the low one wants to be muddy." A red sun rises and is still in harmony with the sky. "