Discovering the Culture of Bashu Bamboo: Bashu Culture Enters Thousands of Homes Series - Volume 3

Author: Qu Xiaoqiang
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: China is a "land of bamboo." Everywhere you look, you see the elegant and towering posture of bamboo groves, and everywhere you find traces of bamboo culture. As one of the densest and native regions for bamboo, the Bashu area has even more concentrated, vivid, profound, and colorful traces of this culture. It can be said that bamboo has been inseparably linked with the ancestors of Bashu since the earliest times. As history developed and progressed, it almost covered every aspect and level of the material and spiritual lives of the people in Bashu, forming the magnificent landscape of Bashu bamboo culture. If the activities of Bashu literati stem from a strong bamboo culture mindset, then the roots of this mindset are deeply embedded in the enthusiastic bamboo totem activities and the profound bamboo worship consciousness among the people of Bashu. A vast number of ancient texts from the Han and Jin dynasties down to the Qing dynasty prove that during this period, numerous bamboo king temples with varying names were worshipped in various parts of Bashu, and many beautiful and moving legends about the Bamboo King, the Bamboo Ancestor Spirit, and the Bamboo Mother Goddess were passed down. These legends embody the great wisdom, diligence, capability, and the spirit of pursuing freedom, happiness, enlightenment, resilience, and relentless forward progress that the people of Bashu have achieved over thousands of years in their historical activities.