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, elegant and gentleman, and bamboo is hollow, which symbolizes modesty. Character can be modest and self-sustaining, while bamboo is characterized by bending without breaking and breaking without breaking.

It symbolizes the principle of being soft with rigidity. Lingyun is intentional and strong in the snowstorm, which is a metaphor for high morals. The 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

The bamboo leaves are narrowly lanceolate, the shoot length is 10 to 30 cm, and the number of green nodes in the bamboo is generally between 10 and 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 needs high 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, and has the effects of reducing temperature and fire, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Bamboo symbolizes the way of a gentleman, and it is also called the three friends of old age and cold with Mei and Song. It is often used to describe bamboo. Bamboo requires deep and fertile acidic soil rich in organic matter and mineral elements.