The Chinese people have always loved bamboo, and China was the first country in the world to study, cultivate, and utilize bamboo. From the great role of bamboo in the development of traditional Chinese culture and the formation of spiritual culture, the long-standing relationship between bamboo and Chinese poetry, painting, and calligraphy, and the construction of gardens, as well as the close relationship between bamboo and the lives of Chinese working people, it is easy to see that China deserves to be known as the “Land of Bamboo Civilisation”. 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 metaphor. We call the role and influence that bamboo has brought to the material and spiritual civilization of mankind bamboo culture.
Historical Background
The use of bamboo has been reflected in ancient Chinese myths and legends, and the exact records originated from Yangshao culture. 1954 in Xi’an Half-slope Village excavated about 6000 years ago, the Yangshao culture site, which can be identified on the unearthed pottery “bamboo” symbols, which indicates that before this, bamboo has been studied and used by the people, that is to say, the history of the Chinese people’s study and use of bamboo can be traced back to 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. That is to say, the history of the Chinese people’s study and use of bamboo can be traced back to five or six thousand years ago. Chinese characters originated from Yangshao culture, which was the collapse of primitive society, and the primitive symbol of “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, which shows that bamboo and people’s lives had a close relationship in the primitive society period. Because bamboo has been used by people, only for its creation of a written symbol to indicate.
Historical and academic
Research has proved that China’s Shang Dynasty knew a variety of uses for bamboo, one of which is used as bamboo slips, that is, the words written on bamboo (sometimes wood), and then strung together with a rope into a “book”, the Chinese character “book” that is from this. Bamboo slips and wooden slips have preserved for us a large number of precious documents before the Eastern Han Dynasty, such as the Shangshu, the Book of Rites, and the Analects of Confucius, which were all written on bamboo slips and wooden slips. During the Yin and Shang dynasties, the books written on bamboo slips were called “Bamboo Books”, and the letters written on bamboo slips were called “Bamboo Newspapers”. The invention of the bamboo pen is also a pioneering page in cultural history, in the Yin Dynasty cultural relics unearthed on the oracle bones, jade tablets, and pottery can be seen on the writing of the brush Zhu ink handwriting. This is also supported by artifacts from the Zenghouyi Tomb in Hubei and the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Tomb unearthed in Ting-E. Another great achievement in the use of bamboo was paper making. As early as the 9th century, China began to use bamboo paper, about 1000 years earlier than Europe. Of course, the great development of bamboo paper after this. On the use of bamboo to make paper, the Ming Dynasty, “Tian Gong Kaifu” made a detailed record, with a bamboo paper manufacturing map. Bamboo paper marks the great development of ancient Chinese paper-making technology and achievements and promotes the prosperity of Chinese culture. In fact, before the emergence of bamboo paper, paper-making tools are also inseparable from bamboo. From the beginning of bamboo slips to bamboo paper appeared, bamboo in the history of cultural development has always occupied an important position, the preservation of human knowledge, and the formation of the Chinese nation’s long history and glorious history and culture have played a direct and indirect role.
The use of bamboo in ancient China had many aspects, such as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, our ancestors made use of leverage to lift the bamboo tool “orange” and bamboo tubes to lift the water irrigation “high turntable car”. Bamboo also played an important role in the development of weapons, from the primitive bamboo bow and arrow to the Spring and Autumn period of the stone-throwing machine, gunpowder arrows in the Song Dynasty and bamboo muskets are all ancient bamboo weapons.
