From the stone "Imperial Monk Lu": "Eating without meat is better than living without bamboo. Without meat, people are thin, without bamboo, people are fat, and scholars cannot be cured. " Bamboo, with its fairy state, is natural, elegant and quiet, which is fascinating; The character of "vanity but sparseness, no admiration for splendor, no struggle for beauty, no flattery and no flattery" is consistent with the sentiment of ancient Tessa that "a gentleman should be virtuous" and with the aesthetic taste and ethical consciousness of the Chinese nation, which is naturally introduced into the category of social ethics and has a far-reaching impact on the development of traditional culture in China. It is a portrayal of the excellent character and sentiment of the Chinese nation, and it is also the reason why China culture is deeply soaked with bamboo marks. Bamboo's elegant demeanor and quality of "the virtue of a gentleman is applicable everywhere" have become the embodiment and model of noble personality. "Sacrifice" said: "... this is also described by people, such as bamboo arrows. If pine and cypress have a heart, both of them are at the top of the world, and Ke Yeyi will not be changed in the four seasons. " Bamboo is personified and introduced into the category of social ethics. "The Book of Songs Feng Weiqi is proud" says: "Looking at the Olympics, green bamboo is stubborn, and there are bandits and gentlemen, such as sharpening. "Bamboo has been endowed with human spirit, morality and sentiment. Confucius and Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty. It is one of the six pleasures of Zhuxi ... Literati and literati are immersed in the vast bamboo forest, bathed in the charm of bamboo cultivation every morning and evening, flourishing and elegant. The upright, honest and upright integrity and characteristics make romantic celebrities crazy and addicted to it. Giving bamboo, chanting bamboo, praising bamboo and composing music for bamboo have become the fashion of literati. Wang Huizhi can't live without this gentleman for a day. Wang Xizhi of the Jin Dynasty repaired bamboo in Lanting, saying that "there are mountains here and bamboo in Maolin"; Tao Yuanming described the beautiful scenery of "fertile fields and beautiful ponds, in which mulberry and bamboo belong" in Peach Blossom Garden. Dai Kaizhi loves bamboo and wrote a Bamboo Spectrum, which describes more than 70 kinds of bamboo characters. This is the earliest botanical monograph written in four-character poems in China and even in the world. Bamboo characters are hieroglyphics, and Shuo Wen Jie Zi has "bamboo, winter grass pictographs, drooping bodhisattvas. "Bodhisattva is a bamboo leaf. Bamboo is composed of two characters. " Zhu (Zhu) Jun and Zhu (Zhu) Fu "give people a beautiful, happy and auspicious eulogy. Bamboo has made an extremely important contribution to people's daily life in China, showing the elegant demeanor of bamboo culture. Therefore, the relationship between bamboo and people's life, as Su Dongpo said: "People eat bamboo shoots, live in bamboo tiles, carry bamboo rafts, cook bamboo, and make clothes and bamboo skins. "Bamboo slips are the carrier of culture and the recorder of history. In the future, as a cultural carrier, most of the paper is recycled bamboo. Since ancient times, countless poets and writers have forged an indissoluble bond with bamboo. When you turn over the poems, you can read Yu Shinan's Knowing the Nature of Ridge East, Knowing the Old People's Chilling, Listening in Your Yamen, Doubting that it is the Voice of People's Suffering, and Dong's Bamboo Leaves Are Green but Not Yellow. You can see Su Dongpo's Bamboo, Sword Bamboo in Qing Dynasty, Wind Bamboo by Qi Baishi and Rain Bamboo by Huang. Bamboo can be recognized and recognized by most intellectuals. It is undoubtedly a symbol of intellectuals. Scholars of all ages were obsessed with bamboo forests not only to escape from the real society, but also to find a spiritual sustenance. Indulge in nature is a way to make up for their psychological defects, and they can get a temporary psychological balance. Green bamboo forests and quiet and elegant environment have become an ideal place to go. Wang Wei, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, experienced the "An Shi Rebellion" and lived in seclusion in the Lantian countryside. He built a bamboo pavilion, devoted himself to practice, mastered Buddhism, meditated quietly, and made his mood indifferent. I leaned alone among the dense bamboos, playing the pipa and humming a song, and the voice was too low for anyone to hear except my partner Mingyue. "How free, happy and detached the poet is at this time! Bai Juyi, a great poet, lived in seclusion in Luoyang after many twists and turns in his career In his hometown of "ten acres in a house, five acres in a garden, one pool and one water, and a thousand bamboo poles", he meditated while reading Buddhist books. "I love walking deep bamboo at night and taking photos of small bridges on the moon." The poet practiced in the embrace of bamboo, which was calm and experienced more self. Highly praised the bamboo's "solid, straight, virtual, frugal" character and sentiment. The branches and leaves are soft, the phoenix tail is dense, the dragon pattern is delicate, the bamboo cultivation is beautiful, exquisite and graceful. How many painters of Danqing splashed ink on it? Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, famous bamboo painters have come forth in large numbers, and every bamboo painting shines with fairy spirit. Xiao Rui, a famous bamboo painter in Tang Dynasty, made Xiao Lang's works unique and realistic. He was the first person since Danqing. People paint bamboo as fat and bloated, while Xiao paints thin and sparse stems. Born without roots, born without bamboo shoots, made of pen. " Su Dongpo, who is fond of bamboo, praised Wen and Ke's painting theory of "having a plan", saying: "If you can draw bamboo, you will not see people; Don't see people alone, but leave your body; In China's aesthetics, "lightness" is a very high realm. "Writing poetry is out of date, plain and difficult. Zheng Banqiao, one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" in Qing Dynasty, was the first person to reach this level. He made great contributions to the development and perfection of bamboo painting techniques and theories. It breeds bamboo civilization, gives people infection and strength, and makes people taste people and have an epiphany. To love, chant and draw bamboo is to love, chant and draw people. Su Dongpo's "bleak and snowy days, can't be humiliated"; Zheng Banqiao's "black veil is not an official, and the sleeves are cold; Take a delicate bamboo and make a fishing rod on the autumn wind river. "Expressing ambition with poetry and expressing indifferent personality and sentiment with the image of bamboo. Su Dongpo is a talented writer who can write poems, write lyrics, draw pictures, eat and drink, keep in good health, and especially eat bamboo shoots. He was imprisoned for his crimes in those years and was pardoned and demoted by the emperor. Immediately sang: "The Yangtze River knows the beauty of fish around the country, and good bamboo makes the mountains feel bamboo shoots." Later, he wrote the sentence "No bamboo makes people vulgar, no meat makes people thin". If you want to be vulgar but not thin, you can eat bamboo shoots in Cooking Meat. "It can be seen that eating bamboo shoots is indispensable for three meals. This guy likes bamboo shoots, too. His good friend Huang Luzhi once ridiculed him for this: "Men are like bitter bamboo shoots, and they are like bitter bamboo shoots. "Su Dongpo doesn't even have to be an official. Famous expert on Chu Ci: In our country, there is a way to express the tradition of classical literature, that is, to express feelings by borrowing things. Then, it is necessary to combine this fancy character with the truth, goodness and beauty pursued by the world, and then express it. This bamboo occupies a high position in the poetry of our Chinese nation. It has no fragrance. If we smell it (that is, there is no fragrance to smell), bamboo adds a noble character to it in the ideal world of China literati. From the Book of Songs, we know that Feng Wei has a poem praising it, that is, the Seven Aos, so he is praising a hero, Wei Wugong, who defended the Zhou Dynasty. He used bamboo to cheer him up. Explain the whole process of a great personality with the whole growth process of bamboo. There were seven great writers in Jin Dynasty, which were called "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest", because these seven sages lived in bamboo forest, and their characters were reflected in bamboo forest, and their literary talents were attached to bamboo, so that humanity and nature complemented each other. Chen Ziang sang "Chunmu", a bamboo song, with great enthusiasm. Woody things will wither and flourish, but one thing is different: "there is no withering in this festival", and bamboo joints have no concept of withering; The first wish and the stone, what would I like to do? This festival is with stones, which will not deform, and this festival will not deform. This poem was written by a poet in Chen Ziang. Mr. Mei Lanfang, a horse, was born in the year of the Sino-Japanese War. When the Japanese occupied Shanghai, he refused to sing and grew a beard. He saw a picture on his wall, painted with bamboo, and wrote two sentences: "Dancing proudly in the wind." It is Mr. Mei Lanfang who wants to learn the character of bamboo. In the old society, the late master Jiang, a great painter, entrusted some of his pain, depression and resentment with a satirical painting. This picture is: a blind man is holding a bamboo in his hand, and the blind man is walking with it. After painting, he wrote a meaningful poem, "Don't laugh at me." Because I still have a bamboo to walk with me, there is a pun in it, one is that the blind man comes out with a bamboo; The other explains the path that the bamboo pursued by the painter took him. The path taken by bamboo is a noble one, that is, the lines are straight and restrained, and it is a path of holding bamboo modestly. Painting bamboo bears the imprint of the painter's own spirit in every era, and his spirit is also the imprint of the times. For example, Zheng Banqiao, a famous painter in Qing Dynasty, painted bamboo. He was an honest official and was very sympathetic to the people. Therefore, when he painted bamboo, he also expressed the idea that there are only two or three bamboo leaves in a painting, and the poem above just gave the best explanation to these two or three bamboo leaves: "I am a deaf person, and I suspect it is a folk complaint." Some small officials in Caozhou County always care about their feelings. " I was resting in the yamen and heard the rustling of bamboo outside the window, as if the people were complaining to me. But even so, their little sufferings are attached to my heart. "A leaf always cares about feelings" is a great sentence. As an honest official with people-oriented thought like Zheng Banqiao, it is worth going down in history to experience people's sufferings by painting bamboo.

To sum up, a painter once told a foreign friend that bamboo is a plant that grows in the blood of China people. Then, Su Dongpo's poem: "It is better to eat without meat, not to live without bamboo, not to be thin and not to be vulgar" should be well understood.