Bamboo is common in many areas. Basically, every household in the southern rural areas will plant clumps of bamboo in front of and behind their houses. Because it is a consumable in rural areas, it is used to compile daily utensils.
In people's impression, bamboo is evergreen all the year round, but it seldom blooms. Indeed, bamboo often does not bloom.
As we all know, plants blossom, bear fruit and reproduce. It is said that only flowers can bear fruit.
But bamboo can reproduce asexually, and a bamboo whip can turn the underground into a bamboo grove. So it's normal for bamboo not to bloom often, but it's abnormal to see it bloom.
Generally speaking, the final outcome of flowering bamboo will be decline and death.
The old people in the village think that bamboo blossoms are unlucky. If someone's bamboo blooms, it may lead to family breakdown.
This concept may be due to the limitations of past understanding. When they encounter unexplained phenomena, they are given the color of superstitious ghosts and gods in order to gain everyone's unanimous approval.
Although bamboo flowering is not common, it is often rare for decades, but it does not mean that bamboo will not bloom.
So, when will bamboo blossom? At present, there are two views:
1, reincarnation theory
Botanists believe that bamboo blossoms have a certain periodicity, and each cycle will bloom.
Generally speaking, Phyllostachys pubescens blooms once every 60 years, and Indocalamus 100 years. But after flowering, bamboo will gradually die.
How bamboo blooms (Figure)
2. Environmental theory
In many areas, due to high temperature and little rain, the nutrient supply for bamboo growth is less, which indirectly causes the imbalance between bamboo vegetative growth and reproductive growth. Inhibit vegetative growth, strengthen reproductive growth and promote bamboo flowering.
Generally speaking, regardless of those views, it is agreed that bamboo will gradually die after flowering.
Old people associate the unusual phenomenon of bamboo flowering with human birth, aging, illness and death, and think that bamboo flowering is unlucky and may cause family failure.
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Generally speaking, regardless of those views, it is agreed that bamboo will gradually die after flowering. Old people associate the unusual phenomenon of bamboo flowering with human birth, aging, illness and death, and think that bamboo flowering is unlucky and may cause family failure.
However, according to Bian Xiao, everything has a beginning and an end. Flowers bloom and fall are natural laws, and life and death are natural laws. Although the flowering of bamboo indicates that its life is coming to an end, it will not lead to species extinction.
If your bamboo forest is blooming now, it doesn't mean that your family will fall, but you need to treat it with a normal heart to avoid affecting your health because of depression.