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The moral of bamboo

Bamboo is evergreen all the year round, symbolizing tenacious life and eternal youth. Bamboo void represents the empty character of the mind.

Its branches are bent and unyielding, which is the principle of being both rigid and flexible. Born with bamboo joints, bamboo joints will be exposed, which is a symbol of noble and clean wind. Bamboo is tall and straight, free and easy, tall and straight, handsome and elegant, which is also the personality pursuit of literati.

Bamboo is the material carrier of virtue, and there is a gentleman's wind of "knot before unearthed, inferiority in lingyun" Scholars in ancient and modern times praised bamboo and left a lot of poems and paintings about bamboo, which were deeply loved by countless people with lofty ideals.