Bamboo & The functions of bamboo
Bamboo is a tall tropical plant that is a member of the grass family and has hard hollow stems that are used for making furniture, poles, etc. It’s slim and straight, and all the year round, it always wears a striking dark green gown. Most of our Chinese like bamboo, and there are many bamboos in China.
General speaking, bamboo likes to live in acidic soil and damp weather, especially the southern area with a lot of mist in our country. Therefore, Sichuan is a good place for bamboo planting.It is the only place where pandas choose to live. Most of bamboos grow in shady and cool, but there are still many prefer to the sunny place. It just depends on what kind it is.
Every spring,bamboo shoots come up from underground, and then grow into new bamboos.
We may not know which part it comes up. It is not its root but its underground culm. It will become taller and taller instead of thicker and thicker when it reaches a certain height. The blossom of bamboo is a common phenomenon.Bamboo is a plant which blossoms out only once for many years,and during its lifetime it just blossoms once and has a certain period,about 40 or 80 years.After blossoming out, its leaves turn yellow and flys away,then dies out.
As one of the best sustainable resources in the world, bamboo is the wonderful refill of wood. It keeps the fastest speed in the world record of plants. Every day it can grow about one meter. In fact, bamboo is a grass rather than a tree,because when we cut down a bamboo,it can still continue to develop new root and grow again.So bamboo is a new choice for us in order to prevent from cutting the natural forest. What’s more,bamboo doesn’t need any fertilizer and pesticide. It is good for our environment. If we build a bamboo grove, we’ll have not only a limitless storage of construction material but also a wonderful environment.
In the ancient, people have made full use of bamboos. Nowadays, with the development of the age and the advances in technology, bamboos have more and more functions. As early as more than 1000 years ago, ancestors used Bamboo Charcoal as the fuel for cooking and keeping warm, while in recent decades Bamboo Charcoal has not only been used as the fuel, but also been magically used in many anther areas of people’s life.
Bamboo Charcoal has been found to have the magical function in environmental protection and health care. When Bamboo Charcoal encounters the air, it can absorb the harmful gases, and make the indoor air purified; when Bamboo Charcoal encounters water, it can absorb harmful substances and change the ordinary water to be qualified for drinking. It can also generate negative ions and far infrared which can protect people from some illness and build up the physique and become a guardian of human’s health.
Many businessmen have found the business opportunities in the Bamboo Charcoal, so the industry of bamboo charcoal decorations has developed greatly in recent years, especially in some of the bamboo-rich areas in the South. Such as Zhe Jiang province, there are more than 50 bamboo charcoal enterprises with annual output value of more than 400,000,000 Yuan, more than 100 kinds of bamboo products for export. What’s more, 70% of the charcoal comes from here.
People use bamboo charcoal to make all kinds of arts and crafts, mainly including the mobile phone chain, jewelries such as necklaces, toys and so on. These mobile phone chains which made from bamboo charcoal have fashionable styles. And the material adds the fashion element to them. More importantly, the bamboo charcoal has a powerful shield, blocking function which can eliminate the mobile phone electromagnetic waves which is harm to human body. Bamboo charcoal jewelry is outstanding for its unique materials. In recent years bamboo crafts jewelry industry has become a major trend and fashion. Charcoal toys have become the first choice for children.
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