bamboo

In celebration of the winter solstice 2015, here are some wise idioms and sayings from traditional Chinese culture that will warm your heart.

A delicacy in many cuisines across the globe and a harbinger of spring, bamboo shoots certainly don’t get a fair shake in western kitchens. Commonly and erroneously considered woody, bland, or worse yet, bitter, these traits apply only to the canned variety, which is the only sort that most people have ever tasted in this part of the world.

Would you like to see a tiny bee build himself an apartment? There are hundreds of different bee species, many of which live alone and don’t sting.

Scientists in China have aligned fragments of calligraphied bamboo to recreate a decimal multiplication table used 2,300 years ago.

BANDUNG, JAVA, INDONESIA - JUNE 19: Phyllostachys aurea bamboo, used as material in the construction of bamboo bikes is laid out in the Haur Bike workshop on June 19, 2013 in Bandung, Java, Indonesia. Two friends, Abah and Gun Gun Gunawan converted Abah’s small guest room into a workshop in the Neglasari district in order to make bamboo bikes with sustainable phyllostachys aurea bamboo using DIY tools. They have named their product ‘Haur Bike’.