Bamboo also has great potential for everyday applications. Bamboo branches, leaves, roots, stems, bamboo shoots can be processed and used. Bamboo shoots, for example, can be eaten; The strongest and thickest poles can be made into floors and furniture; The upper thin rod can be made of bamboo knitting, chopsticks, toothpicks; Bamboo branches can be broomsticks; Bamboo leaves can be extracted from bamboo leaf flavonoids; The remaining bamboo roots and processing waste can be burned into bamboo charcoal. According to some statistics, bamboo has more than 10,000 uses in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Today, bamboo is known as "plant steel bar", after technical processing, bamboo products have been able to replace wood and other high-energy raw materials in many fields. For example, in 2009, the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization and Professor Xiao Yan's research group of Hunan University built a bamboo villa in Beijing Zizhuyuan Park, where the columns, beams and walls are all made of bamboo. In 2003, the third terminal of Madrid International Airport in Spain all used bamboo ceilings, with a total area of 230,000 square meters, and the fire rating reached the EU M1 fire protection standard (M1 refractory material level). But Fu Jinhe says, in general, we don't use bamboo widely enough.
