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What are the names of pine, plum and bamboo?

Known as the cold three friends.

Pine, bamboo and plum have always been favored by people and are called "three friends of cold". In other words, the three friends of Lao Han refer to pine, bamboo and plum. Why is it called "Three Friends in Cold Years"? This is because these three plants can still maintain their tenacious vitality in the cold winter, which is a symbol of noble personality in China traditional culture, and now many people also use it as a metaphor for loyal friendship.

The pattern of "Three Friends in the Cold Year" composed of pine, bamboo and plum is a common decorative theme in ancient vessels, costumes and buildings in China. At the same time, Three Friends in the Cold Year is still a common theme in Chinese painting, and paintings are often named after the "Three Friends Map".

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1, three friends of Lao Leng-Song

Pine trees are generally evergreen trees, rarely shrubs, with scaly bark, needle-shaped leaves, unisexual flowers, monoecious, conical, oval or conical, with woody scales, wood and resin. The characteristics of pine trees are what people in China admire most.

2. Three Friends of Hanzhu

Mainly distributed in the south, but also some in the north. There is a Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, where there are many bamboos. At that time, the scene of Young Bao Qingtian starring Li Bingbing and Jason was shot in Zizhuyuan. In fact, there are many bamboos in the famous Peking University campus, and bamboo is indispensable in the leaf garden of Nanjing University of Science and Technology.

Bamboo is an important material, which occupies a place in building houses and making furniture. Bamboo shoots are still delicious on the table. You can also often enter the "homes of ordinary people." Bamboo can be made into flutes and flutes, giving off the "pure sound" of the music of silk and bamboo. So bamboo is more favored by scholars than pine trees. Bamboo is stronger, fresh and beautiful, and not as delicate as famous flowers. Can survive in any environment.

3, three friends of the cold plum

Plum blossom is the first of the top ten famous flowers in China. With orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums, they are listed as four gentlemen, and with pine and bamboo, they are also called "three friends of the old cold". In the traditional culture of China, Mei gives people an incentive to work hard with her noble, strong and modest personality. In the cold, before the flowers bloom, the world is lonely, and spring has come.