Author：China culture | 2023-07-24 | Views：4918
Asking the Bamboo
by Wang Yin
O, my lovely lone bamboo:
I must bid you farewell soon.
If to lose each other is our fate
Who yet shall high repute sustain?
Wang Yin, born in Anhui Province, was a poet in the Ming Dynasty. Chinese literati love to compare themselves to bamboo, because in Chinese culture, bamboo is a symbol of upright moral character.
