I have always loved the sound of the bamboo grove when the wind brushes through the leaves, creating this unique tune that I find incredibly soothing.
I would often go to the nearby botanical park to see the bamboo plants and listen to their magical whisper.
Bamboo has been highly valued by various cultures for cultural, practial and religious purposes. It is especially popular in most Asian countries.
Appreciated for its strength, lightness and durability it serves as excellent construction material used to manufacture furniture, bridges, scaffoldings or houses.
Many Asian cultures believe that humanity first emerged from a bamboo stem. A popular gift in China, it is believed to bring good fortune and is also a symbol for longevity.
While I type this little encylopedic information, I am looking at the miniture bamboo in front of me. It is not in any way related to the bamboo species that yield scaffoldings or bridges and unfortunately, it does not produce the soothing sound of leaves brushing against each other. It was given to me for good fortune and has flourished ever since.
I too have given a "lucky bamboo" to someone recently. I am not sure if it will bring good fortune to the bearer and recipient, but it seemed a very special plant at the time. It still makes me smile when I think back and remember how I bought it. It was a spontaneous gift, I had not planned on giving it and it just sort of came to me when I saw it in the store. I asked the lucky recipient, who was with me at the time to choose one of the bamboo plants in front of him, but he told me to select the fortune bringer instead.
Unknowingly, I ended up choosing the very same bamboo that he had picked out of maybe 30 other plants just moments before without me observing it.
It may be just coincidence… or still good fortune after all?
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