In the fairy crossing, there is a lush bamboo forest, lush and lovely. In almost every martial arts world, we can see the existence of bamboo, and in the pen of literati and ink writers, bamboo is often the object of singing. Bamboo has an important position and symbolism in traditional Chinese culture, it is beautiful, practical, and almost perfect.
Cultivating bamboo has gas, eternal and evergreen].
In the Neolithic period, the Chinese people had a connection with bamboo, and during the Yin Shang period, bamboo became a writing instrument. The characters with "bamboo" as the radical alone include "pen", "jian", "chopsticks", "sheng", etc., and it can be said that bamboo has left indelible traces in the history and culture of the Chinese nation. We can also often think of allusions related to bamboo, such as "Meilan Bamboo Chrysanthemum" Four Gentlemen, "Mei Songzhu" Sui Han Three Friends, or "Bamboo in the Chest" and "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest".
If you want to know why bamboo is so preferred, you need to understand its habits. The bamboo is not stout, but it has always stood upright, regardless of the wind and snow, and regardless of the heat and cold. Just imagine, life is unsatisfactory, and the tribulations are like winter snowstorms. And bamboo is in this environment day after day, year after year, but it still prefers to give in. The bamboo heart is hollow, but it is humble and empty. It is this kind of integrity and generosity that makes Bamboo considered a humble gentleman.
When you think of "gentleman", you can think of Confucian culture, which has a great influence. The so-called "gentleman" has both ability and political integrity, and is courteous in culture, and is the ideal personality pursued by the Chinese for more than 2,000 years. If you are good, you will help the world, and if you are poor, you will be good alone. Bamboo is used in various public facilities (such as water conservancy facilities such as high-drum vehicles in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period), and is also used for clothing, food, housing and transportation (hats, bamboo shoots, bamboo buildings, bamboo rafts, etc.), or to record writing and inherit culture, which perfectly meets the requirements of "helping the world at the same time". The performance of bamboo in the cold winter wax moon is just like Yan Hui's life of "one spoon of food and one scoop of drink", and it meets the requirements of "being good alone".
The most important thing is the noble spirit of bamboo, and the behavior should be in line with the right path, benefit the country and the people, and a large part of the court in the feudal period was deeply influenced by Confucian culture. There are also many people who are often praised who are honest and do not flatter the world. It's a pity that there are too many "hypocrites" and "villains" in the world, and the "true gentlemen" like bamboo are a minority after all.
Maozhu has knots, forge ahead and excel].
The so-called "integrity" refers to ambition and discipline, which cannot be separated. Ambition is a positive determination, just like the "(dark) studious, ranger, and reckless integrity" in "Historical Records: The Biography of Ji Zheng Lie"; Discipline is the standard of life, just as Mencius said, "the rich and the rich cannot be lewd, the poor and the lowly cannot be moved, and the mighty cannot be bent".
If the "clear qi" of bamboo is closer to the festival, then its "festival" is closer to the ambition. Bamboo grows to a high place section by section, never stopping, this is the endeavor, the longer and higher, it is transcendent. While bamboo is detached, it often appears in groups, which is "a group of gentlemen but not a party". "Endeavor" can be "reached", and then "help the world", and "Zhuoer" can be "good to itself", which is "poor and strong, not falling into the clouds".
The bamboo sea is verdant, and the heart is calm and natural].
The above are all "gentlemen's bamboo", which is the thing sung by literati and writers, in addition to the "bamboo of martial arts", which is closely related to the spirit of "chivalry". When I was a child, the famous martial arts cartoon "The Legend of the Seven Heroes of the Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit" had the battle of the bamboo forest, and the bamboo sea in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was even more fascinating. Han Zi said: "Confucianism uses literature to mess with the law, and chivalry uses martial arts to violate the ban." However, "Confucianism" has a relatively high status in later generations, and "chivalry" is still ridiculed. Both love the integrity of bamboo, as well as its energetic spirit, but in addition, perhaps "Confucianism" yearns for strong bamboo and bamboo forests, while "chivalry" yearns for the sea of bamboo.
"Chivalry" is unwilling to be bound by social rules, they pursue freedom; "Confucianism" is the person who makes the rules, and they want to make their behavior conform to the rules, and this is the difference between the two. The freedom of the bamboo sea lies in the fact that it can sway with the wind, that it is unfettered, and that no matter how it bends, it will quickly return to its original upright state. And the tranquility of the bamboo sea, far away from the hustle and bustle of the world, is exactly what "Xia" is pursuing.
Conclusion] The most basic cultural connotation of bamboo is integrity and progress, and its "integrity" is worthy of continuous praise by future generations. The bamboo in front of the door, the bamboo in the painting, the bamboo in the garden, and the bamboo in nature are different. Whether it is self-cultivation or self-encouragement, bamboo is a role model, the so-called "rather eat no meat, not make no bamboo." No meat makes people thin, and no bamboo makes people vulgar. A thin man can still be fat, but a layman cannot be cured". Bamboo represents the noble spirit, whether it is "Confucianism" or "chivalry", their most important thing is "integrity", only on this basis, in order to have many pursuits in the future.