Solid Bamboo and Cultural Games--(4) Selective Use of Solid Bamboo

Through the first three articles, bamboo lovers understand the new favorite that is the rise of solid bamboo as raw material for recreational purposes, the growth characteristics of solid bamboo, solid bamboo propagation methods. Here focus on the choice of solid bamboo.

As we all know, with the rapid pace of urbanization, the mountain fields are deserted, the original path up the hill to cut firewood is covered with grass, you go up to the mountain to dig bamboo cut bamboo has no way to go, the mountain is full of thorns, four or five meters high, as well as clumps of bamboo hewers, which can make the timid people stop! It is also difficult to go up the mountain and down the slopes to the streams when you drill into the bamboo garden to get a few bamboos and go back. Therefore, you go on a trip to the mountain, as far as possible, do not bring back the raw materials can not be used.

According to my experience, the new bamboo garden, especially the edge of the bamboo garden part, the bamboo has a lot of heteromorphic joints, especially the bamboo with heteromorphic joints in the lower part of the solid. Then there is the lower part of the bamboo pole with dense nodes (multiple nodes), this kind of bamboo solid more.

As long as you go up the mountain and feel for a long time, you will gradually accumulate experience, you can become a connoisseur. "When a connoisseur reaches out, he knows whether there is one or not." When you reach out and shake the bamboo pole, the light and fluffy ones are all hollow, and the ones with diameter more than 3㎝ are mostly hollow. On the contrary, you shake, feel heavy and small diameter bamboo solid possibility is bigger.

When you judge the bamboo as solid, it can only mean that the lower part of the bamboo is solid. At that time, use the saw to try to saw at the upper end of the bamboo node of about 1.5 meters at 2㎝, and see whether the section is solid or not. Or, if you find a small hollow or sand eye in the first saw, you can dig or saw it. There are some bamboos that can only be sawed down section by section until it is solid, and if the remaining length is still useful, then you can saw it off at the ground level.

The solid bamboo whose diameter is more than 2cm at the position of small head "gold bar" is mostly grown independently, or it is very fertile and deep soil. Only the solid bamboo with a diameter of 1.8cm or more at the small end has a value, and the long one can be used to make a walking stick, and the shorter one with a different shape can be used to make a whip and a handle.

In particular, the lower half of the solid, solid bamboo, the upper half of the interior of the solid bamboo fiber core column, long strange shape, or like a snake across the water, or like a dragon into the abyss, do not know whether this core column has medicinal value.

In the bamboo garden, those bamboo poles are still wrapped with Ruo at the base of the bamboo stalks (bamboo shoot shells), which can be judged to be the tender bamboo of the current year or the previous year, and it is not suitable for choosing. Because of the bamboo shoots during the insect pests and external influences only half of the pile of bamboo, because of its low density is also not suitable for selection as raw materials.

It is also important to minimize friction and damage to the skin of the bamboo when cutting or digging solid bamboo and during transportation.

The best time to cut bamboo in the mountains is from mid-autumn to the beginning of winter. During this time, the weeds wither and the temperature is low, there are no snakes, insects, mosquitoes infestation, bamboo is also semi-dormant, nevertheless, on the mountain once or inside the wet, outside a gray. So it's not easy to cut and choose bamboo.