The bamboo is employed in the construction of all kinds of educational, domestic, and agricultural implements. Joints of sufficient size form water buckets; smaller ones are used as bowls and bottles. In interior places in China they used as cooking vessels aking salt stone. From the light and slender stalks which grow the southwest of China writing pens are made. A joint forms a holder for pens. Arrows are als" obtained from such light and slender shafts. Bows are made of the bigger stem by the union of two pieces with many bands. By splitting the stem into small and long pieces chopsticks are made, rubbing it with paper which is made of fine crystals of glass and sand, and smoothing it with Man Gib Tsou, a kind of grass. Nails, forks, knives, paste sticks, needles, and hair pins are made in the same way chopsticks. Bamboo forms photo rames and Chinese copy-books. It can also be made into needle cases, pillows, thread boards, beds, and hat frames. Most of the latter are carved with pictures of Chinese characters, and sometimes the pictures and the characters are coloured with green and blue. ammonia is sprayed and the clay washed off.
Most frames of fans are made of bamboo. Sume of them are formed with a single piece of bamboo, an end of which is left out as a holder, and the body is split into very slender strips; some of them being very long, thin and nar row. Strips of bamboo are also set neatly side by side with strings, and become a sheet which is bordered with cloth bands. It is used
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