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.

The Legend of bamboo forecasting safety

We all know that bamboo forecasts safety, and people would often hang bamboo painting to pray for peace. Civil auspiciouspatterns are pictures with Children playing  firecrackers ,which meant safety. Why bamboo reprent the peace ?

   Legend had it that the Mountain West Hill is home to Shan-kui l.Everyone who saw him would ridden all diseases. A man ,Lishan wanted to help people to escape Fukui, everyday making their bamboo into the fire to explode. This burst of noise made the Shan-kui afraid then later on we did not have a persecution by the Shan-kui. Later came the invention of firecrackers. Every New Year's Eve, every household will set off firecrackers in order to drive out demons, to meet safety. This fully demonstrates the health and safety of life is a valuable asset.

       There is another legend.Between Yongle period of the Ming, Zheng He, in his travel to the western,he saw a big muddy brook , the two sides of which were full of ripraps and river dam had collapsed, farmland and crops had been submerged by sand. Villagers built river dam every year, but year after year flood had destroyed them. People suffered a great deal. As a result Zheng He taught a good way to the villages.So the villagers planted a lot of bamboo along the banks of the brook. Year after year, bamboo shoots slowly grew, deep root in soil. Bamboo shoots grew into a large bamboo forest. flood came again, but there were bamboo protecting them, and the crops of farmland are no longer flooded. People and bamboo forged deep feelings,because the bamboo removed the disaster, representing the rich and safe.

Wine and juice made by bamboo

Cellulose, hemicellulose and xylogen are three parts constitute the wood,and the main objects used by bamboo.Bamboo plasm producing papers is a large-scale production. At presant,drinks of bamboo is also an important aspect of studying bamboo food. Xylitol can be used to make up drinks.

Fresh fluid from bamboo contains abundant nutrients and trickles which can be made by screwing. It can be brewed to make bamboo wine with special flavor and functions of stopping cough.In addition, bamboo distilled fungus fluid can make into coke-like drinks and tonics which is onsale now.In recent years,scientists and producers have made a great progress about bamboo wood’s saccharification ,and alcohol fermentation to produce wine, drinks and other serial nutritious health products.These products have not only the special fragrantness of bamboo but also the fuction of promoting blood flow,stopping cough,lowering blood press, detoxifcation and etc.It Is a new kind of green healthy food .

Bamboos grow amid the deep forest and the wild field.They absorb rain and dew,the energy given by the sunlight,and suffering the natural challenge.If you have a taste of it,you will be refreshing and have the feeling of returning nature.

Bamboo’s functinal drinks will be hot in futural drinking markets.Green-culture drinks become fashion.china has built a large prodution basic.Producers will make it a international famous bland.

The Statue of Bamboo Resources

In the world there are more than 80 genera, 1200 specieses, mainly distributing in Asia, Africa, North and South America, Oceania tropical and subtropical regions of the Oceania and islands in corresponding latitude of the Pacific. The Bamboo area of the World is about more than 16,000,000 hectares.

From the distribution, the largest area is in Asia, followed by Africa. Asia accountes for more than 80% of bamboo   resources and areas in the world.China is one of the centers of  bamboo origin and distribution in the world, with bamboo resources ratting the highest in the world and accounting for about 30% of the world's total, known as "the Kingdom of Bamboo." According to statistics, there are altogether 48 bamboo genera and more than 500specieses of bamboo plants all over the country.

The statistics of the Sixth China's forest resources inventory shows that China has 484.26 million hectares of bamboo forest area. Fujian, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang bamboo forest areas account for half of the country, and in the 13 Provinces in the South there are more than 130 cities and counties with more than 150,000 mu bamboo forest area. Combination of returning farmland to forests in central and western provinces and autonomous regions such as forestry key projects established a large number of bamboo cultivation model base.

At the same time, to optimize the structure, a group of fine bamboo species have been developed on a large scale and comprehensively exploited and utilized, formed a new pattern of comprehensive development of the ecological and economic bamboo forests.

Due to the climate, soil, change of the topography and  differences of their own characteristics of species of bamboo, the distribution of bamboo in China has clear zonality and regionality.China's development of bamboo industry makes contribution to improving the ecology, flourishing the economy in mountainous areas, increasing farmers' income and expanding the exports. China's bamboo quality and resources, areas of bamboo and bamboo production and such a number of indicators rank first in the world. 

Asian environmental taxi, save at least 2% of gasoline expenses

The metal car casing consume the extra gasoline, the saving from it is a option. In Philippines touring area, people use the bamboo as the casing for the taxi which provides with different feeling to the tourist. Since none of nay place in the world would have it.

It looks wild and rural, however, it's from the touring area. And the more application is on the village, most of the farmers do not care the deluxe feeling, they care cheap gasoline cost more than comfortable. And the bamboo is a sort of almost unlimited supply resources there. it grow fast and even do not need to care likely the tree.

Next time, when go to Philippines, try to take such local style bamboo taxi.

Excellent application of bamboo

From all of our old articles, there are many bamboo products mainly for serving the home decor, lighting, furniture etc, they are mainly for the home products and gift. In fact, bamboo get more wide applications since 2009. We summarize again the amazing creativity from the people who uses the bamboo to develop their products. which also bring them more income too.

for example, ASUS laptop, where uses bamboo as casing materials for environmental purpose, and also brings the different feeling to the users. since the PC and laptop is no longer established the more new specifications, the creativity are mainly from the outlook likely sony and fujitsu doing. And ASUS use bamboo for making a break thru of using environmental matierials into the hi-tech products.

the second product is the bamboo coffin, it's surely never found from the world before. Only some small racies from Asia would use it for their local ceremony. And such idea get explored from other people from Europe to develop a bamboo coffin.

Bamboo bridge, low cost, environmental, fast building, much more nice outlook than cement. It;s part of the garden furniture or the touring area purpose.

Outdoor shower case, which is a new garden furniture, and bamboo provide a more natural feel, low cost, easy clean and recycle function for it. The price of it an save a lot after using bamboo as wood alternative for it.

Finally, i would like to introduce about Japan Tatame, which is probably one of the most comfortable designs in the world. Most of the Asian middle class are ever tasted of it at leat once in the life. It feels extremely relax. It's not just about the environmental feel relax, it's also the inside furniture provide the natural feeling. Tatame is probably the first Asian bamboo living style get highly accepted in Europe and America.