Chibi Bamboo

Chibi Bamboo

　　[Bamboo]: Chibi City has over 200,000 mu of Phyllostachys pubescens (Moso bamboo), with water bamboo, arrow bamboo, and others covering the hillsides in the southeast—according to statistics, there are as many as 63 species, earning it the title “Asia’s Bamboo Garden.” Bamboo has been used in military and cultural contexts for thousands of years. During the Jin Dynasty, Tao Kan, serving as the General Who Pacifies the West, once led troops to Puyi (present-day Chibi) to harvest bamboo; during the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai, Du Fu, Du Mu, Cui Tu, and Dai Shulun all visited the bamboo forests of Puyi for inspiration, with Du Fu even writing the poem “Ode to Bamboo.” In the Song Dynasty, the Puyi scholar Liao Zhengyi invited Su Shi and Huang Tingjian to visit Dingmu Mountain and Suiyang Mountain in Puyi to admire the bamboo, leaving behind poems and calligraphy. Today, a large quantity of bamboo handicrafts from Chibi are sold both domestically and abroad.