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for staves, the smaller ones for tobacco-pipes. The shoots of this species are prized above all other bamboo-shoots as an esculent.
The Pei hu lu' has the following notice on staves of the square
bamboo: " 6ou Ai (in Kwan-si) produces the square bamboo.
Its trunk is as sharp as a knife, and is very strong. It can be made into staves which will never break. These are the staves from the bamboo of Kiun i, mentioned by Can Kien. Such are produced also in Yun cous: )'!i,2 the largest of these reaching several tens of feet in height.
According to the Cen §en tsi l , there are in the southern ter-
ritory square bamboo staves on which the white cicadas chirp, and
which C'en Cen-tsie {t has extolled. Moreover, Hai-yen i43
produces rushes (lu 21, Phragmites communis) capable of being made into staves for support. Pan cou i 'Ai' produces thousand-years ferns T.- a and walking-sticks which are small and resemble the palmyra
palm ft (Borassus Sabellif ormis) . There is, further, the su-tsie
bamboo a W, from which staves are abundantly made for the Buddhist and Taoist clergy,— all singular objects. According to the Hui tsui R, the t`un bamboo from the Cen River A 311 is straight, without knots in its upper parts, and hollow."
The Ko ku yao luny states that the square bamboo is produced in western Se-è'wan, and also grows on the mountain Fei-lai-fun
on the West Lake in Ce-kian; the knots of this bamboo are prickly, hence it is styled in Se-6`wan tse cu *ii W ("prickly bamboo ") .
According to the Min siao ki E,6 written by Cou Lian-kun
J I in the latter part of the seventeenth century, square bamboo and staves made from it are produced in the district of Yun-tin ,?c
in the prefecture of T`in-6ou and in the district of T`ai-nin in the
prefecture of Sao-wu, both in Fu-kien Province.?
1 Ch. 3, p. io b (ed. of Lu Sin-yuan); see above, p. 268.
2 In the prefecture of Liu-6ou, Kwan-si.
3 Explained in the commentary as the name of a locality, but its situation is not indicated and is unknown to me.
4 The present Mou-min hien, forming the prefectural city of Kao-6ou fu, Kwan-tun. 6 Ch. 8, p. 9 (ed. of Si yin hüan ts'un Su). 6 Ed. of gwo /in, p. 17.
' The .3`an hai kin mentions the "narrow bamboo (hia cu J) growing in
abundance on the Tortoise Mountain"; and Kwo P'o (A.D. 276-324), in his commentary to this work, identifies with it the bamboo of Kiwi. According to the Kwan 6i, the Kiun bamboo occurred in the districts of Nan-kwan raj X (at present
Nan-k`i f j ) and Kiun-tu in Se-6'wan. The Memoirs of Mount Lo-fou (Lo-fou
an ki) in Kwan-tun state that the Kiun bamboo was originally produced on Mount Kiwi, being identical with that noticed by Zan K'ien in Ta-hia, and that village-elders use it as a staff. A treatise on bamboo therefore calls it the "bamboo support-
ing the old "C W. These texts are cited in the T'ai p'in yü lan (Ch. 963, p. 3).
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