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There is an old saying in China that "living without bamboo is better than eating without meat". Why is bamboo so popular?
A famous saying by Su Dongpo, a famous writer in the Song Dynasty, reveals a special phenomenon in the history of Chinese civilization: bamboo, as a special plastid, has penetrated into all aspects of the material and spiritual life of the Chinese nation. Bamboo is an important resource for the construction of material civilization. It permeates and condenses into spiritual culture, which constitutes the unique color of Chinese culture, thus forming a unique bamboo civilization in China and accumulating into a long-standing bamboo culture in China and even the East.

1. The ancients Dai Kaizhi said: "Among plants, there is something called bamboo, which is neither rigid nor soft, neither grass nor wood."

2. Taxonomically, bamboo is a perennial one-time flowering plant with hollow nodes and long lanceolate leaves, belonging to Gramineae; In use, bamboo is superior to wood in many mechanical properties and physical and chemical properties. Bamboo, like grass and wood, is a special group of plants.

3. Bamboo is the fastest growing plant in the world, which is 20~30cm high every day and night when it is slow, and 150~200cm high every day and night when it is fast. Phyllostachys pubescens can grow in 30~40 days 15~ 18m, Dendrocalamus giganteus 100~ 120 days.

4. Bamboo has strong adaptability and wide distribution range; Easy to breed, plant, process and utilize; Small input and large output; Less pests and diseases; There are many kinds of products, wide uses, large market capacity and low investment risk. Bamboo is compatible with ecological, economic and social benefits, and the three benefits are remarkable.

Bamboo can be planted and survive stably in one year, and bamboo shoots can be cut down and utilized after three years of careful management. After five years of scientific management, the annual output per mu is generally 1000 ~ 3000 yuan, and intensive management can reach more than 5000 yuan, which can benefit more than 60 years.