LIN HUA'S Chinese Paintings

In Chinese painting bamboo, an evergreen, can represent youth, longevity, suppleness, strength, endurance, modesty, summer, and luck. Many Chinese paintings consist exclusively of bamboo because of its importance in China. Even when bamboo is the focus of the painting, small birds may be seen sitting in the bamboo or flitting about the bamboo. In other Chinese paintings, bamboo is simply used as part of the background.