What is bamboo culture, the cultural connotation and significance of bamboo

The focus of bamboo culture refers to the spiritual culture of "bamboo", from the "three friends of the year" of pine and bamboo chrysanthemum to the "four gentlemen" of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum, bamboo is among them, it is tall and beautiful, chic and colorful. It is evergreen all year round, with a beautiful posture, unique charm and full of interest. When people have the leisure to stroll under the verdant bamboo, a kind of infinite comfort and reverie will arise spontaneously, no wonder Su Dongpo said"It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo"。

Therefore, in the park, next to the village, the clumps of green bamboos not only beautify people's lives, but also cultivate and sublimate people's noble sentiments. Bamboo does not have the richness of peony, the majesty of pine and cypress, and the beauty of peach and plum, but it is humble and elegant, and the character of high wind and bright festival is praised by people. It is honest and selfless, unpretentious, does not demand the environment, does not show off itself, and silently dedicates the green shade to the earth and returns wealth to the people.

In the long-term production practice and cultural activities, the working people have summarized and sublimated the biomorphological characteristics of bamboo into a kind of spiritual outlook of life, such as modesty, integrity, etc., which have been included in the category of personality and moral beauty, and its connotation has formed a symbol of the character, endowment and aesthetic spirit of the Chinese nation. Indeed, when seeing bamboo, people naturally think of its unafraid of adversity, not afraid of hardships, straight from the outside, and unyielding character, which is an inexhaustible spiritual wealth, and it is also the special aesthetic value of bamboo.

The cultural connotation and significance of bamboo are as follows:

1. Bamboo culture is the long-term production practice and cultural activities of Chinese working people, the bamboo morphological characteristics have been summarized into a kind of spiritual outlook of life, such as modesty, integrity, etc., and its connotation has formed the character, endowment and spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation.

2. Seeing bamboo, people naturally think of its unafraid of adversity, not afraid of hardships, straight from the outside, and unyielding character, which is an inexhaustible spiritual wealth and the special aesthetic value of bamboo.

3. Bamboo symbolizes a gentleman with a clean character and noble temperament. Ancient and modern literati and writers love bamboo and chant bamboo, and China's literati and writers give the growth characteristics of bamboo such as hollow, straight, and green in all seasons to personified spiritual and cultural symbols such as elegance, purity, modesty, moderation, and uprightness.

4. Bamboo has an unusual meaning of traditional Chinese culture, the four seasons of evergreen symbolize the tenacious life, youth forever, hollow on behalf of the character of humility, its branches are bent and not broken is the principle of softness and rigidity, born with knots, bamboo will be exposed is a symbol of high wind and bright festival, and the bamboo is upright and free, upright and high, delicate and handsome is also the personality pursuit of Chinese literati.

5. The earliest bamboo plots of the Chinese can be traced back to the Wei and Jin dynasties, after which bamboo evolved from a cultural meaning to a folk image, such as "bamboo newspaper peace" is often used to wish peace and auspiciousness.

Ancient literati liked bamboo, because it was hollow, so it contained the meaning of humility; It also has a knot, which represents the most important character and integrity of the literati. The literati compared bamboo, chrysanthemum, plum, and orchid to the "four gentlemen of flowers", and also listed pine, bamboo, and plum as the "three friends of the cold year". Bamboo has the gentleman's indifferent and demure, detached from the world, does not compete with the flowers for spring, does not compete with the colors of the temperament, and the bamboo has the personality and realm pursued by the literati who do not like things and do not take their own sorrows.

Bamboo culture can be viewed from that aspect, one is spiritual sustenance. Because of the thinness, elegance of the natural form, the right time for movement and quietness, coupled with the quality of the externalization of the spirit of the poets, the literati loved bamboo, liked bamboo, painted bamboo, and planted bamboo, thus forming a rich and profound bamboo culture, which has always been sung by literati and copied by painters.

Since the beginning of the "Book of Songs", there has been a praise for bamboo: Zhan Bi Qiao, green bamboo. There are bandit gentlemen, such as cutting and learning.

This is where the origin of the bamboo symbol of the gentleman lies. And the poets of later generations like to use bamboo as a metaphor, and like to sigh about bamboo: insist that the green mountains are not relaxed, the roots are in the broken rocks, and the thousands of blows are still strong, and the wind is from east to west, north and south.

Bamboo symbolizes the poet's self, when the poet needs a kind of strength to inspire, needs a spirit to improve himself, just when bamboo appeared, bringing infinite strength and inspiration to the poet. Even like Su Dongpo, who likes bamboo to a place where it is indispensable, he said: But food has no meat, and you can't live without bamboo.

It can be seen that for the humanities, these bamboo, orchid and plum can not only set off the elegant environment, but also show the unique inner pursuit of the literati, and bamboo is also the companion of the poet, a kind of sustenance of the spirit and soul. Cultivating bamboo, sparse curtains, thinking about it is not bad, in the spiritual heritage of the literati of the past dynasties, there is no lack of such a thin and slender jade pipe (bamboo alias).

In addition, the literati like bamboo, I am afraid that there is another reason. Because bamboo was made into bamboo slips by the ancients, that is, the original form of the book, and later, because of the inscription on the bamboo slips, people called the history "sweat green", because the bamboo has moisture, as if sweating, and it has to be taken out to dry if there is nothing to do. This is also part of a long and profound bamboo culture.

Because the ancients believed that bamboo was chic and elegant, indifferent and a humble gentleman, bamboo became one of the objects that ancient literati particularly liked; In the hearts of the literati, bamboo symbolizes tenacious vitality and full of vitality, and the upright growth of bamboo also symbolizes being upright and straight.

I think the main reason is that the ancient literati believed that plants like bamboo represented a very special character and a person's will; In the minds of the literati, the literal meaning of the literati is that the gentleman should be as strong as bamboo, without any stain, and have a strong spirit.

Because the ancient literati felt that bamboo was tenacious, in the hearts of the literati, bamboo represented elegance and represented a beautiful quality.