What are the uses of moso bamboo, one of the bamboos?

Maozhu is a fast-growing, high-yielding, good material with a wide range of uses, and is the bamboo species with the greatest economic value in China. In modern construction projects, moso bamboo is used to build sheds and scaffolding. In coastal fishing and even well drilling in the north, moso bamboo is an essential material. The toughness of moso bamboo, good aphorism, straight texture, hard and smooth, can be processed and split, making a variety of agricultural tools, stationery, furniture, musical instruments, as well as arts and crafts and daily necessities, such as bamboo mats, bamboo hoods, dustpans, tile roofs, fans, bamboo, bamboo weaving, bamboo, bamboo, curtains, bamboo ruler, etc., some of which are China's traditional export commodities. The fiber content of moso bamboo is as high as 30%-35%, and the fiber length is as long as 2000 microns, which is a good raw material for the fiber and paper industry. In addition to bamboo, bamboo whips, roots, pockets, branches, etc. can be processed and utilized. Such as brooms, bamboo root carvings, especially the use of bamboo pocket production of bamboo root carvings, waste into treasure, there are very high economic benefits. Bamboo shoots of bamboo taste delicious, in addition to general consumption, but also can make a variety of dried and canned bamboo shoots. At the same time, moso bamboo also produces whip bamboo shoots, asparagus, delicious flavor, has a high economic value.

The moso bamboo is the most widely used and most valuable economic bamboo species in China, which is widely used in building materials, construction, papermaking, green food, health care, furniture and agricultural tools, daily necessities, tourism handicrafts, sports and cultural equipment, as well as urban and rural landscaping and other fields.

1. Agricultural production

Bamboo is commonly used in agricultural production. For example, when drilling wells in the north, each well requires 30 to 50 pieces of moso bamboo, which requires about 25 million pieces per year, and only about half of them can be supplied at present. Agricultural production in the sowing, plowing, fertilizing, harvesting, playing field, transport, storage are inseparable from bamboo farming tools, such as baskets, sieve, baskets, baskets, stretcher, dustpan, rice beds and so on. Silkworms with silkworm plaque, silkworm frame; raising livestock and poultry used in pigsties, chicken coop; aquaculture used in floating frames, nets, nets, foils, etc. are required to use bamboo.

2. Industrial production

Bamboo fiber is long and thin, the content is also high, is an excellent raw material for paper and rayon. Bamboo pulp can now be used to produce strong, smooth and tight, excellent printing performance of offset paper, tracing paper, typing paper and special industrial paper. About 3 tons of bamboo, can make 1 ton of pulp; 4 tons of bamboo can make 1 ton of rayon pulp. The use of bamboo can also be artificial wool, the production of acetate fiber and nitrocellulose. Bamboo after physical processing or chemical treatment, can be made of javelin, ski poles, huqin pole, single and double bar, badminton racket. Anji County, Zhejiang Province, artificial board factory also use the gabion of moso bamboo, the production of bamboo particle board and bamboo plywood, can be made of railway gaskets and furniture panels. Nanjing College of Forestry Industry has recently developed successful bamboo laminates, can be used to manufacture train cars, high-level residential flooring and decorative panels, bamboo instead of wood to open up a wide range of ways.

Bamboo is also the production of bamboo arts and crafts and bamboo products as long as the raw material. Bamboo smooth and hard, straight texture, beautiful color, the production of bamboo, bamboo carving, bamboo yellow crafts and bamboo furniture, bamboo musical instruments, etc., very popular with the masses. Many moso bamboo products are also exported, such as lacquer baskets in Fujian; bamboo yellow carvings in Hunan; bamboo bottles and fans in Sichuan; bamboo curtains and screens in Jiangxi; and bamboo portraits, animals and landscapes in Shengzhou and Dongyang, Zhejiang, which can fetch a large amount of foreign exchange for the country every year.

3. Construction

China's use of bamboo to build houses has been more than 2,000 years of history, so far, the bamboo area of the masses are still a large number of bamboo tiles, railings, bamboo walls, etc.. The working people also use bamboo tower scaffolding and bamboo handboards, use bamboo to build bridges, or use the buoyancy of bamboo, bamboo into rafts to carry goods.

4. Daily life

Bamboo chopsticks, bamboo rice baskets, rice baskets, steamers, baskets, bamboo chairs, bamboo cabinets, bamboo couches, bamboo mats, bamboo ladders and so on are essential in daily life. In addition, such as sunshine pole, bamboo castor, bamboo ruler are also made of bamboo.