Bamboo culture is deeply rooted in the daily life of the Chinese. We can see many Chinese arts and crafts are related to bamboo or made of the bamboo,like bamboo basket, bamboo chopsticks, bamboo chair, bamboo funiture, bamboo carvings, bamboo paintings and bamboo paintbrush.
Why bamboo and bamboo crafts are so popular with the Chinese? The reason come from the Chinese traditional custom and literature origin.
Bamboo is one of the four favorite plants along with Chinese plum, orchid and chrysanthemum, the so-called Four Men of Honor (Si4 Jun1 Zi3) by the Chinese. The characters of the four plants are highly admired by the Chinese people so they want to be just like the four plants. In turn, the plants have possessed some human nature. This is an example of the harmony between nature and human being (Tian Ren He Yi).
Many important example of this culture to take as follows.
