China’s long-standing culture has an indissoluble bond with bamboo, forming a rich, colorful and unique Chinese bamboo culture. It is a summary of the morphological characteristics of bamboo in the long-term production practice and cultural activities of the working people. It has become a kind of spiritual outlook on life, such as humility, integrity, etc., and its connotation has formed the character, endowment and spiritual symbol of the Central Chinese nation. When people see bamboo, they naturally think of its character of being unafraid of adversity and hardship, straight in the middle and straight in the outside, and willing to be unyielding. This is an inexhaustible spiritual wealth, and it is also the special aesthetic value of bamboo. Bamboo is a tall, fast-growing grass plant with woody stems. It is distributed in tropical, subtropical to warm temperate regions, with the most concentrated distribution and the most species in East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Islands. Bamboo branches are tall and slender, green all year round, and proud of frost and rain. They are loved by the Chinese people. They are known as one of the four gentlemen of "Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum", and one of the three friends of Suihan, "Plum, Pine and Bamboo". There are many ancient and modern Chinese literati who love bamboo and chant it.
China is one of the countries with the richest bamboo resources, the largest bamboo forest area and the earliest development and utilization of bamboo resources in the world. It is known as the "Kingdom of Bamboo". Bamboo is praised by people for its green and tall shape, outstanding appearance, proud of frost and snow, and everlasting growth. People give him the reputation of a "gentleman" with a strong heart, perseverance, and elegant demeanor. In the long history of thousands of years of development, bamboo has been closely related to people's lives. China's long culture has an indissoluble bond with bamboo, forming a colorful and unique Chinese bamboo culture.
The Chinese nation is a nation with a long cultural history of more than 5,000 years. It is a nation that loves life and lives. Therefore, it is also a nation that loves forests and creates forest culture. Forests are the source of human civilization. Civilization is born and develops in forests. Ancient civilizations in history were all born in forests, developed and became glorious in the world. Forests play an indelible role in the development of human culture and civilization, and they are playing an increasingly important role. Our country's forest culture is based on traditional Chinese culture and China's unique customs. The long-standing forest culture is an important part of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and bamboo culture is a unique and important branch of forest culture.
“It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo.” 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 substance, has penetrated into to all aspects of the material and spiritual life of the Chinese nation. Bamboo is an important resource for the construction of material civilization, and it penetrates and condenses into spiritual culture, forming a unique color of Chinese culture, thus forming a unique Chinese bamboo civilization and accumulating into a long-standing Chinese bamboo culture. Joseph Needham, a famous British scholar and an authority on East Asian civilization, pointed out in "History of Science and Technology in China" that East Asia used to be called the "bamboo" civilization, and China was called the "country of bamboo civilization."
The emergence of bamboo symbols in oracle bone inscriptions to the creation and development of bamboo characters reflect the historical evolution of Chinese bamboo civilization from an important aspect. Professor Xiong Wenyu, a well-known bamboo expert, made detailed statistics on oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, bronze inscriptions of the Zhou Dynasty, "Shuowen Jiezi" of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Yupian" of the Liang Dynasty, "Cihui" of the Ming Dynasty, and "Kangxi Dictionary". The number of Bamboo characters in important dictionaries of the Qing Dynasty and other dynasties. Based on unearthed cultural relics and relevant classic records, this paper discusses the close relationship between bamboo and various aspects of industrial and agricultural production, transportation, military weapons, culture and art, music and people's daily life in ancient China. Chinese culture is steeped in the traces of bamboo. Over the past five thousand years, the growth, growth and prosperity of the Chinese nation is also a poem about the reproduction and development of bamboo culture. It can be seen that China is well-deserved to be called the "country of bamboo civilization" .
As Su Dongpo said: "Bamboo shoots are used for food, bamboo tiles are used for shelter, bamboo rafts are used for transportation, bamboo fuel is used for cooking, bamboo skin is used for clothing, bamboo paper is used for writing, and bamboo shoes are used for walking. It is really indistinguishable. There is no one like him in the world." Take "Bookman's Bamboo Paper" as an example. From the inscriptions that appeared on bamboo slips during the Yin and Shang Dynasties to the invention of bamboo paper during the Six Dynasties, bamboo has always been a carrier of Chinese cultural dissemination and accumulation in the development of culture. It occupies an important position and plays a direct and indirect role in preserving human knowledge and forming the long-standing and glorious history and culture of the Chinese nation.
“Chinese bamboo culture lasts for five thousand years, and is used for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and bamboo is connected everywhere.” Bamboo is evergreen all year round, has an elegant posture and well-developed whip roots. It not only has high economic value, but also has good ecological, tourism and ornamental value. It plays a unique role in the green environment and plays an important role in economic and social development. . The development of bamboo culture not only meets people's needs on the material level, but also cultivates people's sentiments on the spiritual level and becomes a symbol of character.
The connotation and extension of Chinese bamboo culture. Chinese bamboo culture is the Chinese culture with bamboo as the carrier. In terms of its content, it can be divided into bamboo cultural landscapes and bamboo cultural symbols. Bamboo shoots, bamboo writing tools, handicrafts, musical instruments, dance props, daily utensils, production tools, buildings, vehicles, etc. are the material materials that make up the utensils. The display of cultural connotation is not the bamboo itself but the utensils made of bamboo and its use. Standard, it can show cultural humanized nature, or it is a scene created by the Chinese nation consciously using bamboo for specific practical needs. This is a bamboo cultural landscape.
The "bamboo" itself in religion, literature, painting, and ethical norms directly expresses and symbolizes people's emotions, thinking, concepts, values, ideals and other spiritual worlds. This is a bamboo cultural symbol. Bamboo cultural landscape refers to the Chinese cultural nature displayed by humanized bamboo, or it is a scene created by the Chinese nation consciously using bamboo to meet the needs of life, production, writing, aesthetics, etc. The bamboo cultural landscape not only expresses the psychological tendencies and characteristics of the Chinese nation, but also reflects the degree of cultural evolution of the Chinese nation. In the daily life of Chinese people, bamboo is closely related to people's clothing, food, housing, transportation and use.
Clothes - Bamboo clothing is one of the bamboo cultural landscapes in China. In terms of clothing, during the Qin and Han Dynasties, bamboo was used to make cloth, bamboo crowns, rainproof bamboo shoes, and bamboo buckets, which are still in use today. Bamboo hairpins, bamboo grating dustpans, bamboo hoops, etc. used by ancient people are all decorative vessels made of bamboo. The cultural relics unearthed in Mawangdui, which shocked China and foreign countries, include bamboo hairpins, horn hairpins, and tortoiseshell hairpins inserted into the bun. The pieces reflect their pursuit of beauty.
Food - Bamboo food is the second bamboo cultural landscape in China. From the perspective of diet, according to records in the "Book of Songs", "Yu Gong" and other documents, bamboo shoots have become a delicacy in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and have been used ever since. To this day, bamboo shoots are still a famous dish on the table of the Chinese nation. Bamboo not only satisfies hunger and satisfies the appetite, but it is also endowed with strong cultural connotations and embodies the Chinese nation's special love for plants, which grew up in an agricultural culture.
Living - Bamboo architecture is the third bamboo cultural landscape in China. From the perspective of housing, bamboo is used by the Chinese nation as a building material for all parts of the house, even to the point of "not covering it with tiles, but covering it with bamboo; not using bricks but making walls, but using bamboo walls; not using boards but making doors, but using bamboo doors. The rest are as follows: Rafters, ridges, windows, and walls are all in the same place as bamboo." Chinese bamboo architecture embodies the Chinese nation's life concept of establishing a country based on agriculture, its frugal and simple life style, and its aesthetic ideals of beauty, harmony, and ethereal elegance.
OK - Bamboo transportation is the fourth bamboo cultural landscape in China. From the perspective of transportation, bamboo is an important construction material. People use bamboo to build roads, build bridges, and make boats and cars. The transportation facilities and means of transportation invented and created under the constraints of needs and conditions are passed down from generation to generation in a specific environment and become a prominent cultural quality. Bamboo transportation facilities and means of transportation on the one hand show the perseverance of the Chinese nation's will to live and the imaginative creative spirit; on the other hand, they also express the strict hierarchical concept of traditional Chinese culture and the cultural mentality of pursuing equality.
Usage - Bamboo production of daily utensils is one of the fifth bamboo cultural landscapes in China. Bamboo living utensils. Bamboo is widely used by the Chinese nation to make a variety of daily utensils, such as cooking and drinking utensils, summer cooling utensils, furniture, etc. The production technology, shape, size and usage system of bamboo utensils for daily life constitute a unique picture of the Chinese nation's life customs and Chinese cultural landscape, showing the strong rational characteristics of Chinese culture and embodying the artistic taste of the Chinese nation's life.
Bamboo production tools. Major industries in traditional Chinese society such as agriculture, handicrafts, animal husbandry and fishery all have bamboo production tools. In ancient Chinese production, bamboo was an important material for production tools, whether they were simple tools or complex tools. Bamboo production tools, on the one hand, reflect the slow development of productivity in traditional Chinese society and the imbalance of economic levels between regions; on the other hand, they also show the wisdom, courage and ideals of the Chinese nation in understanding and utilizing nature, showing that China Culture treats nature according to local conditions, despises eternity, and affirms the spirit of reality that has already existed.
Bamboo writing utensils. Chinese writing tools are unique, and writing materials are also unique and creative, among which bamboo plays an indispensable role. Bamboo pens are the earliest writing tools of the Chinese nation. As a tool for creating calligraphy and painting art, they have endured for a long time. The barrels of famous pens such as Xuan pen, Hu pen and Xiang pen are all made of bamboo. As early as the beginning of Chinese culture, in the late Shang Dynasty and the early Zhou Dynasty, bamboo began to become the writing material of the Chinese nation - bamboo slips. By the Spring and Autumn Period, bamboo slips became the main writing material for the Chinese nation. It was not until the Southern Dynasties that the main form of writing of the Chinese nation, which had been popular for about two thousand years, was completely replaced by paper. However, the close connection between bamboo and writing materials has not been interrupted. Bamboo is no longer used as a direct writing material. However, at least in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it was used as a raw material for processing bamboo paper on top of writing materials and became an important factor in writing materials. Bamboo writing tools and writing materials, especially bamboo writing tools, are an important factor in making the writing of Chinese characters artistic and forming the art of calligraphy, as well as the formation of Chinese painting methods. Bamboo writing instruments and writing materials are permeated with the aesthetic taste and cultural concepts of Chinese culture.
Entertainment - Bamboo entertainment products are the sixth bamboo cultural landscape in China. Crafts are the result of utensils moving from practicality to aesthetics and the increase in human spiritual needs. They have both practical and aesthetic functions. They are not only a concentrated expression of material production skills, but also a manifestation of cultural character and aesthetic pursuits. The performance of these two aspects requires the help of changes in the shape, color, and shape of its constituent material materials. Therefore, in understanding and analyzing the cultural character and aesthetic pursuit of handicrafts, we cannot ignore their structural materials. Among the spectacular Chinese artworks, bamboo handicrafts are a distinctive and diverse category, which express the delicate, fresh, elegant, soft and graceful aesthetic taste of the Chinese nation.
Bamboo musical instruments. Bamboo is an important material for making musical instruments in China.
It is listed as one of the "eight tones" of ancient Chinese music classification, and "bamboo" is often used to represent wind music, and "silk bamboo" is used to refer to music. Bamboo musical instruments embody the Chinese nation's attitude toward nature of "harmony between nature and man" or "harmony between nature and man", and also demonstrate the simplicity and flexibility of traditional Chinese music.
Bamboo living environment. From the perspective of human living environment, bamboo also plays its special role. The unique biological and ecological characteristics of bamboo determine that it has a wide range of ecological benefits: conserving water sources, maintaining soil and water, preventing wind and sand, regulating climate, purifying the air, reducing noise, and providing a living environment for other biological resources. It is favored by people in ancient and modern times. They are all used to protect and beautify the human living environment. Cultural symbols refer to things that are used in a certain social environment to more firmly symbolize a specific meaning. Bamboo has been endowed by Chinese culture with the function of symbolizing religious concepts and ideal personality, and expressing aesthetic emotions and ideals. The inner emotions and concepts of the Chinese nation are often symbolized and expressed through bamboo, so bamboo has become an important symbol of Chinese culture.
Bamboo religious symbol is one of the Chinese bamboo cultural symbols. During the Warring States Period, Chinese culture began to sanctify and worship bamboo. Tianshi Tao regards bamboo as a "spiritual grass" with the mysterious power of sending children and extending life. People often worship bamboo to pray for children or for the healthy growth of children, so as to ward off diseases and prolong life. The Yi, Dai, Jingpo and other ethnic minorities regard bamboo as a plant originating from their own nation or as a thing that saved the lives of their ancestors. They worship it as their ancestor and protector, and bamboo becomes a totem. Bamboo religious symbols symbolize the Chinese nation's pious religious emotions, attitude towards reality and enthusiasm for the future.
Bamboo folk symbols are the second symbol of Chinese bamboo culture. Bamboo plays an extremely important role in folk culture. Bamboo culture is connected with oral literature and art, recreational activities and folk customs; community culture such as sacrifices, weddings and funerals, communication, festivals, and court regulations constitute important elements of folk bamboo culture.
The symbol of bamboo poetry is the third symbol of Chinese bamboo culture. As early as ancient times, bamboo was used as a descriptive content in primitive ballads. Later, literary works such as "The Book of Songs", "Chu Song", "Han Yuefu", "Nineteen Ancient Poems", etc. There are a lot of depictions of them, but bamboo or bamboo utensils are only a component of the artistic conception and have not yet become the central image. In the Southern Dynasties, with the emergence of landscape poetry, the bamboo-hymn literature with bamboo as the central image was born, represented by Xie Tiao's "Autumn Bamboo Song" and "Bamboo Ode". Since then, literati of all dynasties have continued to chant bamboo and created a large number of literary works in praise of bamboo. The tall and straight bamboo, the evergreen color, the swaying sound and the clear shadow of the bamboo are all integrated into the poem, and are used to symbolize and express emotions and thoughts such as modesty, nobility, honesty, perseverance, longing, etc., forming emotional attachment. Several types of literary symbols are based on the bamboo image, emotion is focused on the bamboo image, and emotion transcends the bamboo image, showing the aesthetic characteristics of freshness, elegance, quietness and softness.
Bamboo calligraphy and painting symbols are the fourth symbol of Chinese bamboo culture. Chinese painting of bamboo began in the Tang Dynasty. By the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, ink bamboo painting, an important subject of Chinese painting, had come out. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Wentong, Su Shi and others began to paint a large number of bamboos and perfected the art of bamboo painting. Zheng Xie, a painter who devoted his whole life to bamboo, emerged in the Qing Dynasty. He not only left us a large number of bamboo paintings, but also made many innovations and theoretical summaries in the art of bamboo painting. From integrity, nobility, aloofness, perseverance, resistance to straightforwardness, optimism, and concern for the people, painters have used bamboo to symbolize and express it, forming a unique simple and distant painting style.
Bamboo landscaping symbol is the fifth symbol of Chinese bamboo culture. Bamboo is an important plant material in Chinese classical gardens. From Shanglin Garden, Wangchuan Bieye to Shoushan Genyue, there are records of bamboo landscapes. There are many examples of bamboo landscaping in the existing classical gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, such as the "Yizhi Pavilion outside the Bamboo" in the Master of Nets Garden, the "Cui Linglong" in Canglang Pavilion, the "Biwu Qifeng" in Liuyuan, and the "Bamboo Qiying" in Geyuan. Spring Mountain” and so on. Bamboo landscaping can render bamboo culture through artistic techniques such as inscriptions, plaques, couplets, former residences of celebrities, sculptures, and bamboo rhyme stones, so that the natural landscape and the cultural landscape can be perfectly combined to create a poetic garden artistic conception.
The bamboo personality symbol is the sixth symbol of Chinese bamboo culture. Bamboo is personified in Chinese culture and has become an important personality symbol symbolizing the personality evaluation, personality ideals and personality goals of the Chinese nation. Confucianism and Taoism, the backbone of traditional Chinese culture, have devised two completely different life paths and personality ideals: building meritorious deeds and retreating to the mountains and forests, being upright and forging ahead, and being indifferent and adaptable. These completely opposite binary personality standards constitute the traditional Chinese ideal personality system. The bamboo personality symbol, with its unique inclusiveness, refers to the entire structure and system of traditional Chinese personality. Bamboo culture refers to the working people's long-term production practice and cultural activities, which summarize the morphological characteristics of bamboo into a spiritual outlook on life, such as humility, integrity, etc., and its connotation has formed the character, endowment and spiritual symbol of the Central Chinese nation. When people see bamboo, they naturally think of its character of being unafraid of adversity and hardship, straight in the middle and straight in the outside, and willing to be unyielding. This is an inexhaustible spiritual wealth, and it is also the special aesthetic value of bamboo. Bamboo is a tall, fast-growing grass plant with woody stems. It is distributed in tropical, subtropical to warm temperate regions, with the most concentrated distribution and the most species in East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Islands. Bamboo branches are tall and slender, green all year round, and proud of frost and rain. It is loved by the Chinese people. It is known as one of the four gentlemen of "Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum", and one of the three friends of Suihan, "Plum, Pine and Bamboo".
The core of Chinese bamboo culture, Bai Juyi summarized the character of bamboo in "Bamboo Raising Notes" as "intrinsic solidity", "straight nature", "empty heart" and "chastity", and compared it to A wise man and a gentleman. Liu Yanfu endowed bamboo with characters such as "hardness", "softness", "loyalty", "righteousness", "modesty", "virtue" and "virtue" in "Bamboo Planting". In life, people tend to personify the characteristics of bamboo. For example, people can easily associate bamboo's resistance to severe cold to people's perseverance and unyielding personality, and associate bamboo's gentle breeze and thin bones to a "detached and refined" life. realm. The harmony between the natural attributes of bamboo and people's personality characteristics is the core of Chinese bamboo culture.
Zheng Xie's poems such as "Stick to the green mountains and never relax, take root in the broken rocks. After countless hardships, you are still strong, let the east, west, north, south wind" and other poems all use bamboo to express his feelings or expressions one's own personality ideal. The tears of Concubine Xiang make bamboo become a portrayal of women's perseverance in love. Wang Wei, who is known as a poet and Buddha, is best at using bamboo to convey his Zen enlightenment experience: "Sitting alone in the secluded place, playing the piano and roaring loudly. People in the deep forest don't know, but the bright moon comes to shine." From the materials of production and life to the natural appreciation From a valuable scenery to an aesthetic carrier that expresses human spiritual pursuits, bamboo has undergone qualitative changes in people's lives, from nature to "humanized nature" to "humanized nature", marking the transition from practicality to aesthetics. It shows people’s ultimate care for nature that is closely related to themselves.
The characteristics of Chinese bamboo culture. Bamboo culture is a part of Chinese national culture. Compared with other types of culture, bamboo culture has strong literature and aesthetics. , religion and folk customs, life and local flavor. It not only has the symbolic meaning of moral personality, but also has the symbolic meaning of ideal love. At the same time, it is the carrier of Zen Zen.
Chinese bamboo culture has outstanding characteristics. Ethical characteristics. Bamboo culture is a knot of Chinese culture, reflecting the overall brilliance of Chinese culture. The ethical characteristics of bamboo culture are the reflection of the ethics of Chinese culture and the reason why bamboo culture penetrates so widely and condenses. The reason why the national spirit is so profound is that some of the characteristics of bamboo are "heterogeneous and isomorphic" with traditional Chinese philosophical thoughts. Bamboo culture eclectically integrates the thoughts of various ancient Chinese schools. The strong ethical spirit of traditional Chinese culture puts forward bamboo. It meets the needs of culture and gives it rich connotations. The analogy of "harmony between man and nature" combines bamboo with people and culture.
Bamboo culture is an important symbol that distinguishes Chinese culture from other cultures. . Whether it is the construction materials, shape characteristics of bamboo culture or the cultural atmosphere it embodies, whether it is the signifier of bamboo culture or the meaning it symbolizes and expresses, it can very clearly and prominently display the characteristics of Chinese culture. , revealing the profound Chinese connotation: a pair of bamboo chopsticks, a bamboo building, a bamboo bridge, a bamboo flute, a bamboo silk fan, a bamboo tube brush, a bamboo poem, and an ink bamboo painting. The life motto "No bamboo makes people vulgar"... is filled with the strong flavor of Chinese culture that is very different from European culture, African culture, and Latin American culture: Bamboo chopsticks are the symbol that distinguishes Chinese food from Western food, and the bamboo cart is unique to ancient Chinese people. A means of transportation, the bamboo silk fan is a masterpiece of Chinese skilled craftsmen, the bamboo tube brush is a symbol of ancient Chinese culture, the bamboo flute is a unique musical instrument in China, bamboo poems are a type of Chinese poems about objects, and ink bamboo paintings represent Chinese paintings. The use of bamboo as a metaphor for personality was only expressed by Chinese philosophers... There is no need for interpretation or labeling, people will naturally think about people when they see things, and feel emotions when they see the scenery. It is through bamboo and other cultural phenomena that the basic characteristics of Chinese culture are revealed, thus interacting with other people. The culture is completely different. Five Poems on Bamboo
Author of Ming Dynasty;
Hanshan Deshen
Five Poems on Bamboo [Five-Character Quatrains
The first one
The cold jade is flying thousands of feet, and the clear frost is scattered in the forest. Even if the heart is heavy, it will be forgotten
The second one
It's so cool. The wind and the dragon roar in the night.
Third, the frost is as cold as jade, and the wind branches ring like a harp. It rained all night in Xiaoxiang, and the raindrops broke the guest center.
Fourth
The leaves are falling and the roots are solid, and the heart is empty and the knot is higher. The cold wind blows in the forest, and the clear night is accompanied by pine waves.
Fifth one
The spring clouds in Qi'ao are green, and the night in Xiaoxiang is rainy and cold. People in the empty window listen quietly, and the Langgan rustles. The Origin of Chinese Bamboo Culture
In the 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation, bamboo has been closely related to people's lives. The formation of bamboo culture is a historical necessity and is reflected in many aspects of material civilization and spiritual civilization. Archaeological and historical documents confirm that the distribution of bamboo forests in China in the primitive period started from the Qilian Mountains of Gansu Province in the west, to the northern part of the Yellow River Basin in the north, to Taiwan in the east, and to Hainan Island in the south. The two major centers of the origin of Chinese culture, the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin, are located within the bamboo forest ecological area. The glorious history and culture created by our ancestors originated and evolved in this bamboo ecological environment. Bamboo has profoundly influenced China's writing, production, literature, art, religion, customs and daily life. The depth and breadth of its influence is no less than that of stone tools and metals, and has accumulated into a long-standing and rich and colorful Chinese bamboo culture.
The exact records of the use of bamboo originate from the Yangshao culture. In 1954, the Yangshao Culture ruins about 6,000 years ago were excavated in Banpo Village, Xi'an. The symbol "bamboo" could be recognized on the unearthed pottery, indicating that bamboo had been studied and utilized by people before that. That is to say, the history of our people's research and utilization of bamboo can be traced back to the New Age of 5,000 to 6,000 years ago.
Chinese characters originated from the Yangshao culture when primitive society collapsed, and the original symbol of the word "bamboo" should have appeared before that. Research shows that the various uses of bamboo have been known since the Shang Dynasty in my country. One of them is to use bamboo slips, that is, writing words on bamboo slips and stringing them together with ropes to form a "book". The Chinese character "book" That's where it comes from. Bamboo slips have preserved for us a large number of precious documents from before the Eastern Han Dynasty, such as "Shangshu", "Book of Rites" and "The Analects of Confucius", etc., which were all written on bamboo slips and wooden slips. In the Yin and Shang Dynasties, books written with bamboo sketches were called "bamboo books" and letters written with bamboo sketches were called "bamboo newspapers." The invention of the bamboo pen also played a pioneering role in cultural history. The ink and ink handwriting written by the brush can be seen on the oracle bones, jade pieces and pottery unearthed from the cultural relics of the Yin Dynasty. There is also evidence from the cultural relics unearthed from the tomb of Zeng Marquis Yi in Hubei and the Spring and Autumn and Warring States tombs in Ting'e.
As early as the ninth century, my country began to use bamboo to make paper, about a thousand years earlier than Europe. Regarding the use of bamboo to make paper, detailed records were recorded in the "Tiangong Kaiwu" of the Ming Dynasty, with bamboo paper manufacturing diagrams attached. The use of bamboo to make paper marks the great development and achievements of ancient my country's papermaking technology and promotes the prosperity of Chinese culture. With the development of the times, bamboo has shown its talents in life and its connection with people has become closer.
The development status of Chinese bamboo culture
China is the country with the richest bamboo resources in the world. The rich bamboo resources provided the basis for the emergence and development of ancient bamboo-using and bamboo-growing culture in my country. It has rich material resources and is the material basis for the emergence of Chinese bamboo culture. China has cultivated and utilized bamboo for more than 6,000 years. With the strengthening of human environmental awareness, the excellent characteristics and development value of bamboo have been re-recognized, and it has gradually been pushed onto the historical stage of ecological environment construction and mountainous area economic construction.
Bamboo has multiple characteristics and advantages that other ordinary trees cannot match. The development of bamboo resources and bamboo industry can organically combine ecological construction and industrial development, and promote industrial construction and economic viability while promoting ecological construction. Continuous development.
Typical bamboo parks include Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, Wanzhu Garden in Shanghai, Juhuatai Park in Nanjing, Wangjianglou Park in Chengdu and Xiaogang Park in Guangzhou; the “garden within a garden” is dominated by bamboo scenery. The main ones include the "Jixiu Garden" in the Beijing Botanical Garden, the "Fangzhu Garden" in the Yuanyuan Folk Garden in Huanglongdong, Hangzhou, and the "Wanzhuwu" in Caishiji Park, Ma'anshan. The China Bamboo Museum, located in the Bamboo Garden of Anji County, is the bamboo-themed museum with the largest exhibition area, the richest exhibits, and the most advanced facilities in my country.
The grand ceremony of China's bamboo industry - the successful holding of the China Bamboo Culture Festival held every two years since 1997 and the selection of the first top ten "Chinese Bamboo Hometowns" have added another dimension to my country's bamboo culture. A strong stroke. In November 1997, the official establishment of the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization, the first intergovernmental international organization headquartered in Beijing, was a major event in the world's bamboo industry.
Organizational institutions, scientific research results, and monographs and papers that conduct research on bamboo culture are also springing up and developing vigorously.
The long-established, colorful, magical and simple Chinese bamboo culture has gone through thousands of years of historical development and left a profound historical projection in the spiritual history of the Chinese nation. With its tenacious vitality, it is realizing the synthesis with modern culture along with the practice of cultural tradition in production and life, so as to form the cultural consciousness and character of the Chinese nation that keeps pace with the times.