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Bamboo is humanize in Asian culture:
In ancient China some were sentenced to death and impaled on a growing bamboo shoot.
On the opposite it is a symbol of life when used to cut the umbilical cord of a newborn that his family wants to honor.
China wielded bamboo as a symbol of its identity against the Mongol invasions, it is painted straight and proud facing the storm from the north.
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In Japanese mythology the bamboo symbolizes Buddha.
Rules of Mah-Jong, as we know it, probably dates from the early nineteenth century. Some tiles represent bamboo.
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