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This poem is about bamboo. The first two sentences describe the bamboo environment. Although the environment is not very beautiful, it still can't stop the nobility and sublimity of bamboo itself.

In the last two sentences, the bamboo branches stand upright, just like the wind of a gentleman, and there are thousands of villages everywhere, and there is nowhere to trap him. So the lofty self-reliance of bamboo can also be seen everywhere.

The poem "Ting Chu" compares itself with "bamboo", which not only praises the lofty feelings of bamboo, but also implies that the poet himself is as lofty and independent as bamboo and will not change wherever he goes.

Ting Chu by Liu Yuxi, a poet in Tang Dynasty;

Dew wash lead powder, wind shake sapphire branches.

Yiyi is like a gentleman, and there is nothing wrong with her.

Translation:

Dewdrops wash lead joints, and the breeze shakes sapphire branches.

Drift with the wind like a gentleman, everywhere is suitable for growth.

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The Origin of Ancient Scholars and Bamboo

Bamboo is tall and straight, swaying, green and not cold, with an open-minded spirit, symbolizing a tenacious and modest character. To some extent, the love for bamboo is one of the * * * characteristics of ancient literati groups in China. For thousands of years, with the admiration of countless literati, bamboo has changed from an ordinary plant to a symbol and intention of a gentleman, forming a unique bamboo culture in China.

Bamboo is evergreen all the year round, symbolizing exuberant vitality; Bamboo is slim and graceful, which reminds people of the natural and unrestrained demeanor of a gentleman; Bamboo frost is proud of snow, which means perseverance; Bamboo is clean and elegant, showing clean character and broad mind; Bamboo is strong and unyielding, which is the embodiment of integrity that ancient scholars value very much.

In the works of the pre-Qin period, there was a long record that bamboo was personified and compared to a gentleman. There is a poem in The Book of Songs, which can be said to be the first person to use bamboo as a metaphor-Wei Guofeng Fengqiao. With the method of borrowing things to cheer up, every chapter is cheered up with "green bamboo", and the tall, straight, green and dense green bamboo is used to praise the gentleman's high morality and integrity.

This poem sets off a gentleman's graceful and graceful charm with bamboo, which is associated with the gentleman's inner "modesty and restraint" and shows his character and talent. It can be seen that the ancients regarded bamboo as a symbol of a gentleman as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.

In the Han Dynasty, bamboo further endowed people with character.

The Rite and Music Festival compiled by Dai Sheng, a Western Han Dynasty, records: "It is in people, like the charm of bamboo arrows, like the heart of pine and cypress. Both of them are top in the world, so don't change Ke Yeyi from time to time. " That means, for people, the ceremony is just like the green husk outside bamboo arrows and the solidity inside the pine and cypress. Only bamboo arrows and pine and cypress have this festival all over the world, so it is lush all year round and its branches and leaves never fall.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the literati loved bamboo more directly, and it became common for them to compose music for bamboo. Wang Xizhi, Wang Huizhi, Tao Yuanming, Zhang Geng, Zhai Zhuang and Yuan charm all have stories related to bamboo.

However, during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, literati admired nature and indulged in landscapes. Although they occasionally mention the "high virtue" and "faithfulness" of bamboo, they pay more attention to the natural elegance of bamboo. What they gave bamboo was more free and easy style of quiet school in Wei and Jin Dynasties.

In the Tang Dynasty, bamboo, which advocated "modesty", gradually became a "gentleman". After the mid-Tang Dynasty, although bamboo was still widely appreciated for its natural beauty, some of its characteristics, such as modesty, introversion, solid roots and pride in snow, began to be valued and introduced into the category of social ethics, and eventually evolved into the embodiment of virtuous gentlemen and sages in feudal literati thought. This is clearly reflected in the literary works in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

In the Tang dynasty, poetry reached its peak, and the wind of chanting bamboo was more prosperous. Many talented great poets have left many famous sentences chanting bamboo, which are as bright as stars. According to statistics, there are more than 1000 poems related to bamboo in the whole Tang poetry.

Bamboo forest, bamboo wind and bamboo shadow express the literati's seclusion in bamboo forest; Bamboo is hollow and knotted, showing the quality of modesty and integrity; Bamboo Frost is proud of snow and expresses its indomitable spirit ... by going up one flight of stairs, a scholar's love for bamboo.

The environment of Du Fu's thatched cottage in Chengdu is quiet and pleasant, and the most conspicuous thing is bamboo, which is inextricably linked with Du Fu's love for bamboo. Du Fu's Poetic Landscape Paintings According to the records in Sikuquanshu and Mianzhu County Records, when Du Fu's Cottage was just built, Du Fu, who loved bamboo, asked his friend Mianzhu County for bamboo seeds and planted them in the Cottage.

Du Fu once said, "I have Huanhua Bamboo" and directly used bamboo as a synonym for Huanhuaxi Caotang. The amount of bamboo planted by Du Fu is also amazing. Du Fu Cottage planted 100 mu at the most. On another occasion, Du Fu went out for a period of time, still thinking about the bamboo forest in the thatched cottage, thinking that the bamboo in some places in the eastern bamboo forest grew sparsely, and specially wrote a poem to his brother Du Zhan, asking him to help him replant as much as possible. Of course, Du Fu also left many masterpieces of chanting bamboo.

There were many famous artists in the field of "painting bamboo" in Song Dynasty. The real bamboo painters are Song people. Among many famous bamboo painters in the Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo's good friend Wen Tong (Zi and Ke) made great achievements. Wentong is a native of Yanting, Sichuan, and there are many bamboos around his residence. Therefore, he observed the changes of bamboo all the year round and had a thorough understanding of the shape and posture of bamboo branches and leaves in different periods, so the bamboo he painted was vivid and realistic, which was praised by everyone.

It is said that he has a unique skill in painting bamboo, that is, he can draw two bamboos with different shades of ink at the same time with two brushes, and they are lifelike. Later generations recognized him as a master of bamboo painting. Su Shi and Wen Tangke met in Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province, and later became friends because of their common interest in ink bamboo. Dongpo learned from him and inherited Huzhou Bamboo School. The two often talked about painting bamboo, and the teachers and students were very affectionate until Wen Tong died.

During the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were many famous bamboo painters. As long as it is a landscape or flower-and-bird painter, there is no one who does not paint bamboo and begins to emphasize the overall momentum of bamboo. However, among many painters, Zheng Banqiao, one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" in Qing Dynasty, is a must for bamboo painting. Zheng Banqiao loved bamboo all his life, and sang and painted with bamboo as the theme.

Careful observation of Zheng Banqiao's bamboo paintings is the only way for Zheng Banqiao to become a master of bamboo painting. He has been with bamboo all his life and planted many bamboos at his doorstep. "Where I draw bamboo, there is nothing to learn from, but more paper windows, powder walls, sunshine and moon shadows." It means that he draws bamboo without the guidance of a teacher, and most of his inspiration comes from paper windows, walls, sunshine and moon shadows.

In addition to painting bamboo in his life, the poet wrote many poems praising bamboo and enthusiastically praised its indomitable spirit. After Zheng Banqiao abandoned his official position, he settled in Yangzhou in his later years, selling paintings for a living and living in poverty. But he didn't flinch or compromise at all, and he still took bamboo as his poetic ambition.

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