Day cold cuicui sleeve thin, the evening lean on repair bamboo

December 10, 2018-8th edition of China traditional Chinese medicine news

For thousands of years, bamboo has attracted numerous literati and painters to compose poems and paintings for its tall and straight character. "Better eat meat than live without bamboo. "No meat makes people thin, no bamboo makes people vulgar," song dynasty su shi's poem said the hearts of countless people who love bamboo, known as the "gourmand" of the great literary giant, left dongpo meat, dongpo elbow, and other food, would rather have no meat, but also to live where bamboo accompanied.

Zheng banqiao's famous painting "bamboo stone" in qing dynasty.

Plant bamboo in front of the door, rain outside the window, sit quietly in front of the window, listen to the wind to thin bamboo, rain left sound. Wang wei's ideal life is to sit in the bamboo forest alone and play the lute muffled muffled. The lute sounds long and the color of the lute is pleasant, which is wang wei's ideal life. Du fu's "day cold cuicui sleeve thin, the evening leaning on the bamboo", the weather is cold, sunset dusk, leaning on the bamboo far to see the sunset afterglow, how quiet and peaceful picture.

Bamboo originated in China, there are about 500 species, mainly distributed in the Yangtze river basin, south China, southwest and other places. Xu shen said: "bamboo, winter grass also. So the word from the grass. Dai kai's "bamboo spectrum" cloud: "among plants, there is a bamboo. Not just not soft, not grass, not wood, small different benefits, datong program. Li shizhen recorded in compendium of materia medica that "pictograms of bamboo characters" "are everywhere in the wild. Spring seedlings, a few inches high, thin stem green leaves, yanyanis like bamboo rice fell to the ground from the bamboo stem leaves. It has dozens of whiskers in one nest, and it has to bear seeds, just like the malmentotum, but it is hard and ready to be picked at any time. In August and September, stem is drawn, and small long spike is formed. People pick the root seedlings, pound juice and rice for wine, very strong.

Bamboo is a breath of life, ordinary people before and after the house will always be planted on a clump of bamboo forest, green bamboo forest in the shadow, curl smoke rises, usher in the sunrise and send away the sunset, day by day away, bamboo is more and more robust. In addition to being used as garden decoration, bamboo can be seen everywhere in people's life. Chopsticks for eating, cool beds for sleeping, bamboo harrows and baskets for farming, bamboo hats for shelter from rain, bamboo rafts for traveling and bamboo shoots for eating were used incisively and vividly in ancient times. As dongpo ji said: "protect bamboo tile, carry bamboo raft, book bamboo paper, wear bamboo crown, wear bamboo skin, shoes, eat bamboo shoots, burn bamboo salary, really the so-called day can not do without this gentleman. This shows the importance of bamboo in people's life.

Compendium of materia medica has a more detailed description of bamboo's use. Bamboo has different USES due to its variety and texture: "the width of bamboo is three or four zhangs long, and its thin flesh can be used as a house pillar. Dang bamboo to several wai, its flesh thick, can be Liang Dong. Yongchang han bamboo can be the bucket dendrobium, qian bamboo can be the boat. Yan state yue wang bamboo high stop feet. Chenzhou longsun bamboo is only as thin as a needle, not a foot high, its leaves or small or large. Phoenixtail bamboo leaves fine three points, if the dragon male bamboo leaves plantain, one hundred leaves of bamboo louver louver. Its nature or soft or strong, or slippery or astringent. Acerbic person can wrong armour, slippery person can be mat. The strong can be the sword arrow, the soft can be the rope. Brown bamboo is a famous real bamboo. Its leaves are harvested brown and can be used as poles. Cizhu a name bamboo, from the birth of not scattered, people planted for play. Wide people take bamboo as bamboo cloth, very crisp."

Besides, bamboo has another important use, which is to play music. Flute, xiao, sheng and other instruments were born with only a thin bamboo pole. According to legend, dongxiao comes from qiang. In the han dynasty, it was called "qiang flute". As a poem goes, "why should qiang flute complain about willow trees? Because xiao's timbance is long and far away, graceful and charming, so xiao always has a fairy wind, such as han xiangzi in the eight immortals, holding zijin xiao in his hand, the wind comes and goes with the wind, very uncomfortable. Bamboo flute, the name of the han musical instrument, is one of the most popular wind instruments in China. The music played with bamboo flute is melodious, the ancients called "the sound of cleaning", so the original name of the flute is "cleaning".

Bamboo species is numerous, varieties of medicine have recorded since ancient times, tao hongjing... yue: "bamboo, bamboo very much, medicine with 蓳 with pale, bitter bamboo. Another kind of thin shell, the name ganzhu, leaves the best. You have bamboos in bulk, lon-bamboos in bulk. And bamboo shoots as the best, useless in medicine. Bamboo whole body is treasure, can enter medicine, if Chinese traditional medicine weak bamboo leaf is the leaf of weak bamboo of gramineae plant, before summer end draws flower ear to collect cut, bask in dry cut paragraph, unripe use, have clear heat to divide vexation, diuretic effect. Its roll and did not put the young leaves called bamboo leaf roll heart, can be picked at any time, it is appropriate to use fresh products. Bamboo shavings for gramineous plants light bamboo stem after the removal of the outer skin of the middle layer scraped off, all year round can be harvested, spread dry, with raw, stir-fried or ginger juice broiling can be used, with heat, phlegm, in addition to the work of boring and retching. Bamboo lek comes from the same source as bamboo shavings. It is a light yellow clear liquid that comes from fresh bamboo and green bamboo. The effect of clearing heat and phlegm is especially good. Day zhu huang is bamboo of bamboo of green skin of gramineae plant or hua siluo the block after fluid of secretion inside the bar such as bamboo, autumn and winter 2 seasons are collected, cut open bamboo pole, take birth to use, have clear heat to change phlegm, clear heart sets jing gong.

In the book of mountains and seas, it is recorded: "in sixty years of bamboo, a root will change, and the root will give birth to flowers, flowers will give birth to fruit, and the fruit will wither and die, and the fruit will fall and come back to life. Compendium of materia medica also has a record about the flowering of bamboo: "sixty years a flower, the flower is strong, its bamboo is dry. Bamboo blight 箹, bamboo real Bian, small yue Diao, big yue 簜." I have never seen bamboo blossom or bear fruit. In fact, bamboo is a flowering plant. When it grows to a certain number of years, it will blossom and bear fruit. Some will bloom in a few years, while some will bloom in a few decades. But most species bloom and seed only after 12 to 120 years of growth, and bamboo blooms and seeds only once in its lifetime. When bamboo blossoms, white floccus appears, which is the flower spike of bamboo. When bamboo blooms, it dies in large areas because it does not have enough nutrients to continue growing. Exhausted the strength of life to open a flower, a fruit, as the end of life, more solemn and stirring beauty.

Childhood memories will always flash a bamboo forest, grandpa with a big pot of tobacco, sitting in front of the bamboo forest, long smoke dense rise, and green bamboo leaves, together in my mind. Grandfather is a craftsman, in front of the door is a large bamboo forest, that is the economic source of the family to survive. Those cut down bamboo, into thin as silk bamboo sticks, in grandpa's hand, as if it is smart elves, bit by bit woven and saved, half a day, a delicate basket came out, the basket, chopsticks, washing basin, cool bed, and so on from grandpa's clever hands. Grandpa with this skill to feed a large family, ten miles eight villages do not know him. Bamboo forest is also our childhood playground, and small partners in the bamboo forest hide-and-seek, or from a strong bamboo and then swing to another top. Bamboo forest often can see the shadow of small squirrels, we play in the bamboo forest, squirrels in the height of the jump to jump, for a long time, but also not afraid of people.

Later, my grandfather was as thin as a bamboo pole, and his shoulders were stooping, like branches and leaves bent by rain and snow, which were teetering in the wind. As usual, he moved a bench and sat in front of the bamboo forest, waving his hand to let me pass. The setting sun shone on his face, the thick smell of smoke and wrinkles of his face, like the wind and frost of the bamboo, deeply engraved in my mind. Later, grandpa left, and none of his uncles wanted to learn from him, nor did his skills stay. When building a new house, the adults all thought that a piece of bamboo occupied the place, also did not use, finally cut down the bamboo forest, that piece of bamboo also went with my grandfather.