The Research Of Bamboo Culture In Chinese Classical Poetry

Bamboo, plays a very important role in the daily life of Chinese people, "bamboo" theme is also one of the important topics in traditional Chinese art, deeply favored by the Chinese literati. Bamboo, in literati’s writings, stands for gentleman’s strongness, braveness and honesty. Bamboo poem, bamboo paintings, bamboo tools and bamboo building constitute together the meaningful bamboo cultural community. This article will pick one of the modules, namely, bamboo poem, from the perspective of bamboo poem, studying the bamboo culture, since Tang and Song dynasty are the most prosperous era of poetry and literature development, therefore this essay is based on bamboo poetry in the poetry of Tang and Song dynasty, researching the development of bamboo culture from the development of bamboo poem.The following is the structure of the essay: the first part is the general situation of the study of bamboo culture in domestic and abroad, mainly involves the Chinese bamboo culture, bamboo culture of Japan and Vietnam; The second part is the development history of bamboo culture, bamboo as a cultural symbol, has experienced the development process from the prototype stage, formation, best stage to the eventually weakened stage;The third part is "bamboo" aesthetic characteristics and cultural connotation, analyses the image beauty of "bamboo" and "morality metaphor" thought in bamboo culture, mainly illustrates the cultural connotation of bamboo: noblility, integrity, modesty, tenacious, on this basis analyzing the influence of the bamboo culture on ancient literati’s personality;The fourth part mainly elaborates the political and economic reasons why bamboo culture in the Tang and Song dynasties reached its peak, as well as how bamboo culture of Tang and Song dynasty combine former and future generations of bamboo culture; The fifth part is mainly about the reason of the decline of contemporary bamboo culture and the enlightenment to contemporary culture.Bamboo stands for modesty, strongness in the classical Chinese poetry, bamboo culture represents the ancient writers are in harmony with nature and the world, in the literature prosperous Tang and Song dynasties, bamboo also can gain the respect of people, so, nowadays, as rapid development of market economy and the rapid expansion of literature consumption, whether people still need such integrity and culture is also meaning of what we discuss in this essay.We should try to find new values of traditional bamboo culture in this multicultural environment, let the noblity and pureness of bamboo can still play a proper spiritual role in this materialistic society.