Ode to Bamboo
“Bamboo staff in hand,
Straw sandals
Better than a horse.
What’s to fear?
Mist and rain,
One straw rain cape enough for a lifetime.
”
These sentences are the famous rhesis in Su Dongpo’s poem-Claiming the
Waves.
From this we can see that...
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Ode to Bamboo
“Bamboo staff in hand,
Straw sandals
Better than a horse.
What’s to fear?
Mist and rain,
One straw rain cape enough for a lifetime.
”
These sentences are the famous rhesis in Su Dongpo’s poem-Claiming the
Waves.
From this we can see that bamboo was closely connected with the
daily lives of people in ancient China and people could not live without
bamboo.
Throughout the centuries, bamboo has inspired the imagination of
artists, while men of letters have written poetry and prose to express their
admiration for the purity and elegance of bamboo.
They compared the
qualities of bamboo to those of man, and Su Dongpo attributed his literary
inspiration to bamboo.
Bamboo was also a favorite subject of noted Chinese
painters of past dynasties.
Bamboo, a material for arts and crafts and a symbol
of integrity, has enriched the traditional Chinese culture, and become an
everlasting subject for scholars and artists.
According to the Chinese
philosophy of geomancy (feng shui), b
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