Dad’s favourite joke (and its not very good) is “What’s brown and sticky? A stick!” but in China there’s a very special stick that’s very useful – bamboo. So here’s my list of all the uses of bamboo that we’ve seen:
Rafts
Scaffolding
Chopsticks
Cutting down fruit from trees
Baskets
Ladders
Fishing Nets
Fences
String
Stopping caterpillar tracks marking the road
Bannisters
Furniture
Cooking pots
As food
A drink
Paper
Firewood
Charcoal
Holding up buildings
Play swords
Fans
Animal cages
Waterwheels
Hats
Walking sticks
Oars
Sails
Pipes- plumbing
Roofs
Shelters
Umbrellas
Models
Garden ornaments
Panda food
Cricket listening tubes
Curtain rails
Washing lines
Winnowing baskets
Buckets
Decorations
Safety barrier
Instruments
Keyring
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