Since the beginning of Lanting Yaji, the most important cultural activities and behaviors in China have often occurred in the bamboo forest.
When I read "The Story of the Bamboo Forest" thirty years ago, I didn't think that I would have a cluster of "cute green" bamboo in the future.
Northerners migrate south, and when they see bamboo and plantains, which do not grow in the north, they feel fresh. The "new things that mushroomed" that I saw on the previous annual report suddenly became vivid and concrete.
Bamboo is not expensive, transplanting is easy to live, go to the nursery to buy dozens of trees. Reading agricultural books, planting bamboo has a lot of exquisiteness, what "rain will move, stay more soil" and the like, which can manage so much. Asked the green worker in the community to help, and it was done in half a day.
"It is better to eat no meat than to live without bamboo", this word was spoken by the founder of Dongpo Meat, which shows the importance of bamboo, "no bamboo is vulgar", bamboo seems to be the externalization of the literati spirit. Su Dongpo is indeed a great philosopher, and the matter of spirit and body can be easily explained in ten words.
There have been countless people who have loved bamboo in ancient times, but the reasons are different. There are many editions of Zeng Guofan's books, and those theories that have been used through the ages are boring, but a few are interesting. For example, "Raising fish, raising pigs, planting bamboo, and planting vegetables at home cannot be ignored, one is the home style inherited by the grandfather, and the other is that there is a kind of anger outside the house, and there is a kind of exuberance in the court." In another letter, he was also concerned about whether there were dry bamboo in Futianli, saying that it showed the rise and fall of people.'
In fact, once the bamboo is planted, there is no need to worry, and I have the impression that even the hottest year has not suffered large-scale casualties. Old Master Tang said: "Bamboo does not need dung, it adds one inch a year." "It is said that bamboo is light and fat and heavy soil, after several years of bamboo life, the roots are intertwined, the bamboo whip is creeping, and the soil is added, and the bamboo shoots have a place to stand." In my opinion, these are the empirical statements of "on paper, I finally feel shallow, and I know that I have to do this."
Bamboo in the year, spring is the most enjoyable, bamboo shoots will suddenly grow, three three two two, quickly pull joints, and strive to jump out of the bamboo shoots. But in other seasons, bamboo is not idle, "Phoenix Tail Sensen, Dragon Yin Fine", is Cao Xueqin's divine stroke in "The Red Chamber", unless you observe it carefully, you can't get it. This is like the ink bamboo of Chinese painting, people who do not know the art of painting, it looks like only leaves and branches of different shades, while wind bamboo, rain bamboo, and new baskets, each swaying, the posture is quite different.
Those who have not planted bamboo, bamboo is as good as a thousand, once planted, they will face many troubles. Although bamboo is not like pine plum and the like, it takes time to prune, but its root system is developed and the invasion of the land is increasingly widespread. When the spring rain begins and the pointed shoots emerge from the well-kept lawn, is the gardener's mood happy or alarmed?
In the early years of reading Du's poems, to "the hatred of the new pine is not high, the evil bamboo should be cut down by ten thousand poles" two sentences, quite puzzled, where does this hatred come from? There are good deeds, pick up some old Du Yong bamboo poems, Yun Qiben loves bamboo, and hates bad bamboo. This strong solution also. Gai Lao Du's love of bamboo, far inferior to the love of Weng's plum, even if "but let no shearing, meet the long clouds" such words, is just a lukewarm perfunctory language in singing and middle. In the early years in Chang'an, he went to people's gardens, always praised, but said: "Green hanging wind folded bamboo shoots, red blooming rain fat plums", it seems that the new shoots are broken by the wind seems to be some schadenfreude. I have several important books of Du Shi, and I am ashamed to read them all. But casually flipping through it, I saw: "Countless spring shoots are full of trees, and the firewood door is secretly hidden", which means that the new shoots of the troublemaker block the road. Lao Du's feelings for bamboo are actually very simple, all up to the mood.
The lack of a Du Fu is not terrible. Starting from the Lanting Collection, China's most important cultural activities and behaviors often occur in the bamboo forest, the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest needless to say, Yu Xin's "one inch and two inches of fish, three rods and two rods of bamboo", has become the ancient "figured out" hermit standard, and Wang Wei's "sitting alone in the fence, playing the piano and shouting for a long time" is simply an environmental drama, "taking the blue light to write Chu Ci" Li Changji is not the initiator of "a visit here"?
After the hubei people abolished their names in 1949, they went to Jilin University and lived in the northeast for fifteen years. I have an old colleague who listened to his lectures in the early years and once went to his home, Mr. Yun Feng (formerly known as Feng Wenbing) lived in a small western-style building, and the courtyard was very good. I think there must be no bamboo forest. (Li Tao)