No plant has been more central to Chinese civilization than bamboo. For five millennia, bamboo has been a calendar, a musical instrument, a literary symbol, a construction material, a food, and a phil
No plant has been more central to Chinese civilization than bamboo. For five millennia, bamboo has been a calendar, a musical instrument, a literary symbol, a construction material, a food, and a phil
Chinese brush painting, or Shuimo Huania, uses brush, ink, and water on rice paper to capture the spirit of subjects from mountain landscapes to bamboo, operating on the principle that art captures qi