Bamboo sticks are tall and straight, slender, graceful, green all the year round and proud of the rain, which are deeply loved by our people. It has the reputation of one of the four gentlemen of Mei Lan, Zhu Ju and Mei Songzhu. Su Dongpo famously said, "Living without bamboo is better than eating without meat".

Trimmed bamboo: slender bamboo. No matter what kind of bamboo it is, it is slender and straight, so it is called xiuzhu. Originated from Wang Jinxi's Preface to Lanting Collection: "There are mountains here and bamboo in Maolin."

To praise bamboo is to praise bamboo. I don't know who wrote this poem, but it lacks skill and is not top grade. When folk artists do it, they interpret it according to the meaning of the poem: when a woman misses her lover with a bamboo-like character outside the Great Wall.