A completely bamboo made school and residential village from Indonesia 

We always know from the news that the small races are very clever in using the natural materials. In Indonesia, a race use bamboo to build the school, teacher's apartment, guest house and their own village. In the city, of course people can also do the same, the important is in the village, people lack of talents, machines, transportation, tools etc to build them, and finally, the use their own effort with hundred of people to realize it.

Bamboo is hard, fast recycle, and high acceptance of swaying. The building cost is also low and no pollution. Else of the building, the living utilities, home decor, tools are also from bamboo. Such wisdom from the small race can be a good sample for the city people to realize something like outdoor pub, gardening, natural hotel especially in the countryside area. Recently, there are more and more events and functions from the world where needs the temporary stage, the bamboo one is surely perform better and fast building of it as well as saving more cost than using metal.

The iphone model from bamboo

the art of the bamboo decor

In the old China, people use bamboo to make the music instrument and sell as a high class product, some of them are still showing in the museum and using in the orchestra, which is a sort of the application of bamboo. Of course, music instrument is also playing as a home decor now for Chinese family. Just like in the little girl's room, she shows the guiltier, for the decor purpose too.

In 2009, some artist start to use the bamboo for crafting the art product for the home decor in order to bring more China taste element to the user's home. They use the traditional Chinese symbol to craft the outlook and use bamboo to realize it. For such product is started to sell in Japan, Europe and America. The problem is even the China local market are not started to sell it currently.

How to make a house to be home with bamboo

In Japan and China, the bamboo is a very common materials for the building. People use it for the home decor, furniture, gardening, curtain, sofa etc. In Japan and China, people never say "we get closer", since all people live together in a small room around 100 square meters and below. And they are always close enough. Secondly, the furniture design allow all people to stay closer too. As we can see from the tatami where all people can lay down, sit, walk and any within a limited space. And the important is it makes with bamboo. It reflect the life style from Japan and China that people is a part of natural environment, the culture do not encourage to use too much metal, plastic or any inorganic chemical materials.

Such culture is also spreading to Europe and America, people also start to accept bamboo and its meaning behind the materials. People start to sue it as part of their home furniture and home decor. And feeling all people as part of natural environment. Such mind-set allow all people to get more close to each other.

The  Romantic  Bamboopot

Years ago, came to this small town to teach. After graduat for so many years, I have always been single, and it is inevitable that some loneliness along me sometimes. school dormitory was my restroom. Opening the windows ,you would see a not very big playground. But not far away from the window were the rows of green bamboo, like a group of lively children, naughty when the wind Blew away,and demure when the wind was sleeping.

Every day I got up early in the morning, the first thing windows. I put on my glasses and could not wait to search those eidolons and  wizards. Accompanied by morning dew, they are so clear and transparent. On rainy days, they will sway in heavy rain,and jump crazy dance. I like watching them, I said to boyfriend.

The first night of Valentine's Day, I received a short message: beautiful sister, we know you love us, so we decided to send a team to live with you， shall  we ? signed " your loved bamboo"。

Laughing in my beard, I knew that it was my boyfriend's Valentine's Day gift. At that time there was a knock at the door, and I opened the door. My boyfriend stood outside  the doorway, holding a hand of small pot of bamboo. So loving lush , so beautiful. I smiles  a happy smile. He said: I was eager to join the team of bamboo, and I would like to live with you.

Romantic proposal!

After a few years, I had been  a mother. That bamboopot was still on the table of my  home. It grew so flourishedly , as our love. My  daughter’ coming added the luster of our love. I liked to stand with his daughter in front of  the  bamboopot , and  told her her father's love story, and the romance of bamboo, although she did not understand it .

The Skills of Painting Bamboo

There are two traditional methods to Paint Bamboo ,that is , freehand brushwork and double thick. Double thick has a series of strict laws, suitable for stroke; while freehand brushwork complete it by the laws of ink painting directly. Painting just likes the calligraphy. Painting bamboo using freehand brushwork need obsorbing methods of Chinese calligraphy, in order to achieve the verve of painting bamboo.

For example, the ancient people painted bamboo branches usually taking the calligraphy of Lishu; painting the knobs by technique of writing cursive; painting leaves by writing Xingshu. However, nothing is absolute.Zheng Banqiao ,living in Qing Dynasty ,painting bamboo leaves, used the his own originality of "six and a half," ,so that the field of the shape of painting bamboo becomes a new uproar,which fully embodies the truth of "The way is not fixed".

Where does law come from? It is from the practice of life. As long as we learn to master the traditional basic method, at the same time, continue to observe and paint, ones can certainly be able to draw it well. 

The following is four parts of painting bamboo by freehand brushwork: 

Masters of Painting Bamboo

Chinese bamboo painting emerged in the early Han Dynasty  when the carved stone "Monument of Bamboo Leaves" that was the first discovery of a bamboo painting unearthed.Bamboo leaves complete in double thick, the overall shape is very beautiful and vivid,which illustrates the painting bamboo has reached a very high level in the Han Dynasty. Chinese painter, Wentong , known as the "saint of bamboo" in Song Dynasty, observe bamboo and then had a well-thought-out plan to paint them from life. The spirit and shape of bamboo expressed in a wonderful and fine style, openup a civilization of painting bamboo.

Wentong painted bamboo expressing implying meaning. Bamboo is considered as "an eremite", whose spirit was beyond the earth,whose soul was indifferent into quiet, whose body was solitary in community and independent without fear. "The spirit of bamboo likes me , vice versa.” From bamboo, he melted his own personality and ideal into it.What the artists pursue is that bamboo is straight with hollow center,and the  high-hearted,outstanding talent,transcendental and refined quality.On the cotemporary,LiuYanshi,well-known as painting bamboo, used ink to paint bamboo. He was in the pursuit of the moral spirit of the simple and elegant.
    There were Zhao Meng, Ni Zan, Wu Zhen, Ke Jiu-si, Li Kan and Gu’An inYuan Dynasty. What Ni Zan emphasized is that the use of bamboo express his spirit,and did not pay attention to the shape right and wrong, but stressed the charm of painting bamboo. Li Kan Hua Zhu had learned from many painters.Finally, according to his own experiences and practice,he composed the book of "spectrum of bamboo",which concluded predecessors’ and personal experience and advanced meaning, location, putting pen to paper, avoiding tabu. and many other issues.

He adhered to the principle,so-called "Painting bamboo must first get a bamboo into  one’s chest ", but also stressed the importance of learning entity and was against the opinion of "If you do not think of bamboo in mind , where the ideas of bamboo come from".

There are artists who are good at painting bamboo with ink in the Ming Dynasty ,such as , Song Ke, Wang Fu, Xia Chang.Song Keshan was good at cursive hand.What he drew almostly was fine bamboo,which densely arranged, had misty conception and distant mood. Wang Fu, called "the top of painting bamboo", combines painting and calligraphy, compring calligraphy to painting. He painted landscapes,plants, to entertain and leisure, but he should not bend the power and dignitary, which fully reflected literati attached importance to moral quality, also reflected Chinese artists pursued the integration between quality of painting and character.

Zheng Banqiao is famous painter in painting bamboo having the highest achievements in Qing Dynasty. Zheng Banqiao was one of the famous painters of Yangzhou style , who was the representative of "Yangzhou Baguai" and had the reputation of "poetry, penmanship, painting,"

His paintings of bamboo took on many characteristics of pizazz, beauty, pride aloofness, distinction and power, having a thriving vitality, charm and typicality. His works are the unite of aesthetic personalization and common.What he painted was a natural and elegant bamboo, ,is the personification of Zheng Banqiao unique.And his works were the complete combination between the subject and object.  What he painted was not only the shape but spirit similar to bamboo, and artistic conception was not the same distant, reflecting the different spirit of Zheng Banqiao, enbodied the Zheng Banqiao’s thinking of the character and attitude towards life. Zheng Banqiao's works is rich in content, implies positive social significance.

Throughout history scholars and literary’s rendering of the bamboo is a natural life possesing both shape and spirit. People are fond of bamboo more and more deeply From using bamboo, raising bamboo, praising bamboo to painting bamboo.People like it not only because of its usefulness,but also giving people spiritual support .

The bamboo in my childhood

When I was a little girl,I lived in a small town with my grandmother.The town was surrounded by mountains in which there were large number of bamboo.The forest of bamboo was pretty green and graceful.Seen from far away,the forest was surrounded by different kind of green.When the wind came,the bamboo shaked and fromed the waves with various layers,rolling upward and downward,as sea weaves.

The forest seemed to be quiet when there was no wind.But in fact,deep in it,there was full of energy.Many animals lived there,such as white rabbits,squirrels,wild ducks。They always liked to play in the forest.Besides,there were coloured flowers and sparking sunshine.It like a world of spirit in the tale story.When I was young ,I liked to go into the forest to play with my friend.We picked bamboo shoots and bamboo leaves,then braided the leaves into stuff,such as wreath ,windmill,magic stick.We also liked to run through the forest,and the bamboo was like the grandma’s hand which was protecting us.

When the spring came ,grandma would take me into the forest to pick leaves of bamboo.In the forest which was baptized by the  rain of spring, we picked a full basket of fresh bamboo leaves.Then,at night, I sat beside the overn to see grandma use the leaves to wrap up the rice，then put it to the overn ,and it would float with the good smell of the bamboo leaves and rice.Next day,we had the bamboo rice pies to eat.

Grandma said that bamboo was a plant with spirit.It could understand the sound of humans.It treated well to kids,because the kids were pure.I got it.when I grew up ,I would still touch bamboo with a pure heart .

The bamboo home, the more revenues ways for the interior designers

The following photo is from a interior designer who use bamboo as the main materials for designing a house for a clients. where most of the furniture are hand-made except hte bamboo floor.
 
Currently, many industries are under the winter even the interior design field. The designers are starting to seek for more revenue and jobs for their customer, some of them design the taior-made furniture with the client's own expectation. Some of them also tailor-made the home design with client's prefer materials. In such house, it's the specific case where the designer use client's preference to make a asian style home and its furniture.
 
Else of it, for seeking more revenues, the interior design also involve into designing some daily using utilities, such as the attached Japanese sand shoes. Which is inspired from the Japan hot-spring hotel, people wear it to go to the hot-spring. Before that, the interior designer would not do it, since it's small job and even not withinh their career, and now, some of the interior design understand and accept that the designing of more home use utilities for the clients can bring them to enjoy more of staying home as well as experiencing their design too. Like such bamboo furniture house, if the user waer also such bamboo hot-spring shoes, the feeling is surely better than just wearing a plastic shoes which is commonly supply from the super market.
 
And we have to know that more and more jobs are entered home too, pople request of existing the home office in the home too. Then, people also start to demand that home is not just the dinning, rest, kitchen, bathroom, audio, parking, garden. It needs also entertainment likely the resort hotel feel and also the home office too.