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?