固、直、空、貞｜tOUGH, sTRAIGHT, hOLLOW, fAITHFUL
自古，竹子已常常被人們比喻成君子。
Bamboo has always been likened to real man by people since ancient times.
白居易（七七二年至八四六年 ，唐代著名詩人、
文學家及政府官員）－《養竹記》首段：
Bai Juyi (772-846, famous Tang Dynasty poet,
litterateur and government official) – first paragraph of “Story of planting bamboo”:
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竹似賢，何哉？
Bamboo is like sage, why?
阿豺折箭｜Mùróng Āchái: bREAKING aRROWS
上回說到⋯⋯《阿豺折箭》 。
Recap… the Story of “Mùróng Āchái: breaking arrows”.
阿豺有子二十人，緯代，長子也。阿豺又謂曰：「汝等各奉吾一支箭，折之地下。」俄而命母弟慕利延曰：「汝取一支箭折之。」慕利延折之。又曰：「汝取十九支箭折之。」延不能折。阿豺曰：「汝曹知否？單者易折，眾則難摧，戮力一心，然後社稷可固。」
阿豺就是南北朝時吐谷渾國王——「慕容阿柴」，而對於其他相關的注釋，大家可搜尋坊間各處。其道理則十分淺白，「單者易折，眾則難摧」。
The story of “Mùróng Āchái*1 and his 20 sons” version is the most recent used Chinese versions.
一支竹仔｜lITTLE bAMBOO sTICK
香港人有一首歌——《一支竹仔》，是說「團結就是力量」(家和萬事興 的主題曲，1956)：
Hongkongers have a song called “Little bamboo stick” (theme song of the movie “A Peaceful Family will Prosper”, 1956) which is telling about “Unity is strength”, unprofessional translated lyric as below-below:
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