What is the symbolism contained in each of the three great elegance of traditional Chinese culture: bamboo, lotus flower and banana leaf?

Bamboo:

Hollow. Indicates emptiness, modesty, etc.

Outside straight. Indicates uprightness, etc.

Concerted. Being temperate, good at summarizing oneself, etc.

Lotus:

To come out of the mud and not be stained, indicating cleanliness, high moral character, etc.

Banana:

Leaves are big and shade. It indicates a high moral character and a shelter for life.

The fruit is at the same stem, indicating friendship and love.

Bamboo is a tall, fast-growing grassy plant with a woody stem. Distributed in the tropics, subtropical to warm temperate regions, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Islands on the distribution of the most concentrated, the most varieties. Bamboo branches upright, slender, verdant in all seasons, snow and frost, doubly loved by the Chinese people, "Plum, orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemum" one of the Four Gentlemen, "Plum Pine and Bamboo" one of the three cold friends and other beauty. Chinese writers and writers, bamboo lovers and bamboo many

Chinese people have always loved bamboo, China is also the world's research, cultivation and use of bamboo is the earliest country. From the bamboo in the development of traditional Chinese culture and spiritual culture in the formation of a huge role, bamboo and Chinese poetry, painting and calligraphy and garden construction of the long history of the relationship, as well as bamboo and the life of the Chinese people are closely related to it is not difficult to see that China is worthy of being known as "bamboo civilization of the country". There is no other plant that can have such a far-reaching influence on human civilization as bamboo, and many literati have used bamboo as a theme and a metaphor for the role and influence that bamboo has brought to the material and spiritual civilization of mankind, which is called bamboo culture.

The use of bamboo has been reflected in ancient Chinese myths and legends, and the exact record originated from the Yangshao culture. 1954 in Xi'an Half-slope Village excavations of the Yangshao culture site about 6,000 years ago, which unearthed pottery can be recognized on the "bamboo" symbol, indicating that before this time, the bamboo has been studied and used by the people, that is to say, the history of the Chinese people's study and utilization of bamboo. This means that the history of the study and utilization of bamboo by the Chinese people can be traced back to the Neo-Temporal Age, 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. Chinese characters originated from the Yangshao culture of the collapse of primitive society, and the primitive symbol of the word "bamboo" should have appeared before that. In the primitive society site of Hemudu in Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province, 7,000 years ago, bamboo was also found in kind, so it can be seen that in the primitive society period, bamboo and people's lives have a close relationship. Because only bamboo has been used for people, only to create a written symbol to represent it.