What type of bamboo did the ancients often refer to? Is it a general or specific reference? Also, "I would rather eat without meat than live without bamboo". What kind of bamboo does it refer to?

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What kind of bamboo did the ancients often refer to? Bamboo is produced in China. There are many kinds. According to statistics, there are about 1,200 kinds. Some are as short as grass, with stems on the ground 10-15 cm long, and some are as tall as grass. Straight and straight, it can be more than 40 meters high. The bamboo described by the ancients should have both.

After all, dwarf bamboos can decorate courtyards and rockeries, and are evergreen all year round, leaving no trace of beauty behind.

What the ancients wrote more about is the bamboo of success that is straight, empty in the center, and jointed, and is "resilient despite all the hardships,

regardless of the winds from the southeast and northwest."

Due to the hard quality of bamboo, the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project, the world’s first water conservancy project built by Li Bing in Sichuan, used bamboo trunks to divert water, the farmhouse bamboo buildings in the southwest, and the imitation bamboo masterpiece "Bank of China Building" in Hong Kong. More than 70 stories high, it is now standing tall to resist the typhoon.

The four gentlemen in the wind "bamboo, plum, orchid, and chrysanthemum" and the three friends of Suihan "bamboo, pine, and plum" all embody the tenacity and unyielding quality and integrity symbolized by bamboo.

Idioms about bamboo can also be found everywhere. The bamboo stick and awn in the poem "Ding Fengbo" written by the Song Dynasty poet Su Shi: "The bamboo stick and awning shoes are lighter than the horse? Who is afraid! A raincoat and a misty rain can lead a lifetime." Shoes, there are too many bamboos to write about, holding chickens and raising bamboos, having a confident mind, stringing bamboo strings and strings, etc., all of which show that bamboo continues to play an important role in people's lives.

Another poem by Su Shi:

"In the Green Junxuan of Qian Monk"

It is better to eat without meat than live without bamboo.

No meat makes you thin, and no bamboo makes you vulgar.

Those who are thin can still gain weight, but scholars and common people cannot cure it.

Others laugh at this statement, as if it is high and foolish.

If you still chew on this, are there any Yangzhou cranes in the world?

The bamboo among them should be straight, unworldly, and tough with joints.