We found this terrific narrative on bamboo published in a remarkable book back in 1904. It speaks volumes to the amazing uses of bamboo and well, we couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
William Edgar Geil speaks of his journey from Shanghai through the Central Kingdom to Burma in his book A Yankee on The Yangtze published in 1904. It’s a fascinating book boasting over 100 illustrations and worth taking a look at.
“A man can sit in a bamboo house under a bamboo roof, on a bamboo chair at a bamboo table, with a bamboo hat on his head and bamboo sandals on his feet. He can at the same time hold in one hand a bamboo bowl, in the other hand bamboo chopsticks and eat bamboo sprouts. When through with his meal, which has been cooked over a bamboo fire, the table may be washed with a bamboo cloth, and he can fan himself with a bamboo fan, take a siesta on a bamboo bed, lying on a bamboo mat with his head resting on a bamboo pillow. His child might be lying in a bamboo cradle, playing with a bamboo toy. On rising he would smoke a bamboo pipe and taking a bamboo pen, write on a bamboo paper, or carry his articles in bamboo baskets suspended from a bamboo pole, with a bamboo umbrella over his head. He might then take a walk over a bamboo suspension bridge, drink water from a bamboo ladle, and scrape himself with a bamboo scraper (handkerchief)”.
And while you may not have as many options for bamboo living as Geil, you can indulge in sustainable and super-soft bamboo clothes and bamboo bedding at Green Earth Bamboo!
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