中国最被低估的职业？有人靠挖笋一天赚5万，年轻人却不愿干！

中国最被低估的职业？有人靠挖笋一天赚5万，年轻人却不愿干！

In the deep mountains of Yingshan, Sichuan, there is a man named Li Shineng who is creating an incredible myth of wealth. Every morning at 5 o’clock, Li Shineng leads his workers into the bamboo forest to look for a kind of bamboo shoot with a peculiar appearance – the horseshoe bamboo shoot. This bamboo shoot is named because of its shape like a horseshoe, but its value is far more precious than a horseshoe. Li Shineng holds a specially designed bamboo shoot picking artifact. This seemingly inconspicuous tool can increase the output by 30%. In a day, his team can dig out 1,500 horseshoe bamboo shoots from the mountains . Calculated at 18 yuan each, the daily income is more than 50,000 yuan. What is the concept? It is equivalent to two years’ salary of an ordinary white-collar worker , and Li Shineng is creating such an income miracle every day. In a year, he can earn more than 12 million yuan just by digging bamboo shoots. But what secrets are hidden behind this seemingly simple ” digging bamboo shoots” business? Why do some people only make a few hundred yuan a day by digging bamboo shoots , while Li Shineng can make 50,000 yuan a day? Ordinary people have never seen this magical bamboo shoot. What is so special about it? Bamboo has a profound status in Chinese culture. From bamboo writing 3,000 years ago to bamboo chopsticks and bamboo chairs today, bamboo has almost penetrated every corner of Chinese life. The ancients even said “I would rather eat without meat than live without bamboo” , which shows how much they love bamboo . Bamboo shoots are the young shoots of bamboo . In this regard , Chinese people and giant pandas are “fellow travelers”. An adult giant panda eats 40 kilograms of bamboo every day, which is about the amount of food an adult eats for 20 days. Although the Chinese are not as exaggerated as pandas , their love for bamboo shoots is definitely no less than any other vegetable. Data shows that the global bamboo forest area is 2.37 million tons. The bamboo shoots cover an area of ​​over 22 million hectares. Although China accounts for only 1/3 of the total, it consumes 2/3 of the total bamboo shoots. Looking around the world , except for China, almost no country regards eating bamboo shoots as a food culture because not all bamboos are edible. There are more than 1,300 species of bamboo in the world, and China has 500 species , but less than 30 of them are truly edible. Some are too small to be picked, and some have coarse fibers and a strong bitter taste that is difficult to swallow. What’s more, even edible bamboo shoots depend on where they are produced . In places with too strong sunlight, the bamboo shoots are bitter and difficult to swallow. In places with unsuitable climates, the bamboo shoots have no sweetness. Only in places like Jiangnan and the southern mountainous areas of China, where it is rainy and warm in spring, can we eat bamboo shoots? Only places with high humidity and humidity can produce truly fresh, sweet, crisp and tender bamboo shoots. That is why , although there are bamboo forests , only the Chinese have developed eating bamboo shoots into an art. From simple stir-frying to complex braised bamboo shoots with oil and pickled bamboo shoots with pork, the Chinese have developed hundreds of ways to eat bamboo shoots. The four words “bamboo shoots after the rain” perfectly reflect the Chinese people ‘s special love for bamboo shoots. Why is there such a huge difference in the value of different bamboo shoots ? There is a cruel reality in the bamboo shoot digging industry in China . Some people can earn tens of millions of yuan a year while others can only make a living. Li Shineng is definitely a top player in the bamboo shoot digging industry. He is from Yingshan, Sichuan . He leased more than 1,100 mu of bamboo mountains to grow horseshoe bamboo shoots. This kind of bamboo shoot has a characteristic that it grows in summer and autumn, which fills the market gap between spring bamboo shoots and winter bamboo shoots. What ‘s more amazing is that horseshoe bamboo shoots can be eaten raw. Li Shineng often cuts a piece of horseshoe bamboo shoots in front of customers and puts it in his mouth. The sweet, crisp and tender taste is amazing. It is because of this unique quality that horseshoe bamboo shoots can be sold for 168 yuan per serving in high-end restaurants . Li Shineng not only digs bamboo shoots himself , but also drives more than 500 farmers to get rich together. He adopts the model of “unified technology and unified recycling” to ensure that farmers have a stable income until 202 In 2000, his annual sales reached more than 12 million yuan. In Fenghua, Zhejiang, there is a farmer named Yu Rukun. His story of getting rich is more like an unexpected discovery. In the 1990s, Yu Rukun had been growing lei bamboo shoots for more than ten years. He had always followed the traditional method and dug bamboo shoots in spring with a meager income. At that time, Fenghua’s lei bamboo shoots were squeezed by the market in Jiangxi, Hubei and other places. They could only be sold for 0.3 yuan per catty and he could not make any money at all. Until one day, Yu Rukun heard that someone in the mountains had dug up fresh lei bamboo shoots in February. This shocked him because lei bamboo shoots have always been available after March 20th. How could they be available more than one month in advance? A month ago, Yu Rukun went to the site to check and found that there was a thick pile of rice husks at the foot of the bamboo forest. It turned out that the rice processing factory at the foot of the mountain had dumped the discarded rice husks here. Yu Rukun keenly realized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If he could get the lei chan on the market earlier , he could seize the market gap and the price would naturally rise. He immediately discussed with the owner of the rice processing factory and bought some rice husks to go home for experiments. He used the leftovers of edible fungi as fermented fertilizer and spread them on the bottom , then covered them with 20 cm thick rice husks to keep them warm. Sure enough , after more than 20 days, the lei chan emerged. By 2005, Yu Rukun’s “Longkang Bamboo Shoots” were first produced from The harvest can be started in early November, which is four months ahead of schedule. More importantly, this covering technology not only allows bamboo shoots to be put on the market earlier , but also greatly improves the quality. The shell of the Longkang bamboo shoots is beautiful red, the flesh is tender and can even be eaten raw, and it is as sweet as fruit. Yu Rukun’s technology allows Lei bamboo shoots to be put on the market four months earlier, and the wholesale price reaches 60 yuan per catty , which is 30 times the normal price. The income per mu of land has doubled from 2,000 yuan to 30,000 yuan. The local planting area has expanded from 1,000 mu to 40,000 mu in 20 years , but the investment per mu is as high as 10,000 to 20,000 yuan. However, not all bamboo shoot diggers can live such a good life. Mianzhu City, Sichuan Uncle Zheng from Jinhua Town represents the real situation of most bamboo shoot diggers. Every year from Qingming Festival to mid-May, he and the villagers go up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots. This is an important source of income for the collective. Uncle Zheng said that when the market is good, he can earn 40,000 to 50,000 yuan a season , but it is not easy to make this money. Digging bamboo shoots is a purely physical job. Uncle Zheng and his team have to get up before dawn, carrying bamboo baskets and dry food for lunch and walking more than 10 kilometers of steep mountain roads into the mountains. Each person has to carry more than 100 kilograms of bamboo shoots down the mountain every day, which is equivalent to carrying an adult on the mountain road. What’s more terrible is that bamboo shoots easily become old when exposed to wind, and the dug bamboo shoots must be processed on the same day. The villagers had no time to eat, so they quickly boiled the bamboo shoots in boiling water and then cooled them with mountain spring water to keep their beautiful color. At the end of the day, Uncle Zheng and his team were so tired that their backs ached, but their income was very limited. The purchase price of spring bamboo shoots was only 2-3 yuan per catty, and they could dig up to 300-400 catties a day. After deducting various costs, the actual income was only 300-400 yuan. Even harder than Uncle Zheng and his team were the Yi bamboo shoot picking team from Jinfo Mountain in Chongqing. This group of Yi compatriots from the “Xiaoliang Mountain” in Sichuan came to Jinfo Mountain thousands of miles away with their families to get rid of poverty and pick square bamboo shoots. The square bamboo shoots of Jinfo Mountain grow on cliffs at an altitude of 1,600-2,200 meters. The bamboo shoot pickers have to climb a hundred-meter-high ladder to reach the bamboo shoot picking spot . The married couple Ajie and his wife lived in a simple shack built with bamboo and branches for more than a month. The places where they picked bamboo shoots were all primitive bamboo forests that local people were reluctant to go to. The mountains were high and the forests were dense. Many times they could only crawl into the bamboo forest to pick bamboo shoots. No matter it was windy or rainy, they had to carry the picked bamboo shoots back to the bamboo shoot shop for baking, otherwise the bamboo shoots would be old and could not be sold at a good price. The daily wages of this group of Yi bamboo shoot pickers were calculated according to the weight of bamboo shoots . Each person could pick 200-300 kilograms a day , with a daily income of about 300-400 yuan. Although the income was not high , it was already a good income for them who came from poor mountainous areas. Why is there such a huge difference in income for the same bamboo shoots ? First of all, the types of bamboo shoots . Shineng’s horseshoe bamboo shoots are rare and precious, and the market price is high. Yu Rukun’s dragon kang bamboo shoots have taken the lead in the market through technological innovation. The supply of ordinary spring and winter bamboo shoots is large and the price is relatively low. The second is sales channels. Li Shineng directly connects with high-end restaurants. Yang Lefeng opens up sales through online marketing . Yu Rukun seizes the off-season market , while ordinary villagers can only rely on buyers and have no initiative in price. The most important thing is the position in the industrial chain. These successful people have mastered the complete links of planting, processing and sales, while Uncle Zheng and his people are just at the bottom of the industrial chain and can only sell their physical labor to earn a meager income. This is the cruel reality of bamboo shoot digging . A few people get rich quickly, while the majority have enough food and clothing. So what are the differences between bamboo shoots in different regions ? Why do bamboo shoot diggers face so many dangers and challenges? China is a vast country with rich resources. Bamboo shoots in different regions are like the four seasons carefully arranged by nature. From south to north and from spring to winter, various bamboo shoots appear in turn. Each type has its own unique growing environment and difficulty in digging. The winter bamboo shoots in Zhejiang are known as the “king of bamboo shoots “. They grow in hilly areas below 500 meters above sea level. The most important thing for bamboo shoot diggers here is not physical strength but eyesight and experience. The winter bamboo shoots are completely hidden underground . No traces can be seen on the surface. They are located by the skills of “looking at the bamboo tips, finding cracks, and chasing bamboo whips”. Experienced bamboo shoot diggers can judge which bamboo has bamboo shoots under the color of the bamboo leaves. The dark green bamboo leaves with yellow spots must be breeding fat winter bamboo shoots underground . We also have to observe the tiny cracks and earth bags on the ground , which are the signals that the winter bamboo shoots have broken through the ground. The most technical content of digging winter bamboo shoots is to dig accurately along the direction of the bamboo shoots without damaging the bamboo shoots or the bamboo shoots. This requires more than ten years of experience. The situation is completely different in Wawu Mountain in Hongya, Sichuan . The cold bamboo shoots here grow in the high mountain uninhabited area with an altitude of 1,400 to 2,500 meters. Every August to December is the harvest season. The bamboo shoot diggers in Wawu Mountain have to face a life-and-death test. They have to build bamboo sheds on the mountain and live there for more than a month. They have to get up before dawn to dig bamboo shoots, and return to the shed at night to bake the dried bamboo shoots on a stone kang. Mao Jianping from Fuxing Village said that I will lose 10 grams in more than a month. Jin works 16 hours a day, and eats and lives on the top of a mountain at an altitude of 2,000 meters. What’s more dangerous is that wild boars and black bears often appear in the mountains. Bamboo shoot diggers may face life threats at any time. In 2023, a villager from other places lost contact in the mountains for 14 days. When he was finally found, he was already dead. The last call before the accident said that he was lost, his mobile phone was low on power, and he was too weak to walk. This tragedy once again reminds people that digging bamboo shoots in the mountains may seem simple , but in fact it is full of unpredictable dangers. The difficulty of harvesting square bamboo shoots in Chongqing Jinfo Mountain has reached the limit. This kind of bamboo shoot grows on cliffs at an altitude of 1,600 to 2,200 meters. It is known as the “crown of bamboo shoots”. Yi bamboo shoot pickers have to climb hundreds of meters high. Only by climbing a ladder can you reach the bamboo shoot picking site. If you are not careful, you will fall into the deep valley . During the picking period, they live in a simple shack made of bamboo branches. The newlyweds Ajie said that although it is dangerous , they can pick more than 200 kilograms of bamboo shoots a day and earn 300 to 400 yuan. They thin out the trees according to the principle of “picking small and leaving big” to ensure both production and ecology . The harvesting of bamboo shoots in Zhaotong, Yunnan is also full of dangers. The bamboo forests here are densely covered and black bears often appear. Bamboo shoot pickers have to guard against wild beasts, leeches, and poisonous snakes. But despite the dangers , hundreds of people go into the mountains to pick bamboo shoots every year, because when the weather is good, they can earn 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a month. The growth cycle of different bamboo shoot species also determines the difficulty of the work of bamboo shoot diggers. Winter bamboo shoots grow slowly. Once the best harvest period is missed, they will become old, but they are in The underground is relatively stable, giving bamboo shoot diggers ample time to search. Spring bamboo shoots grow very fast and can grow more than one meter a day. Bamboo shoot diggers must harvest them before they become woody. The harvesting time window is only 10 days. Although summer and autumn bamboo shoots like horseshoe bamboo shoots have a longer growth period , they have extremely high requirements for freshness . The process from harvesting to selling must be completed within 5 hours, otherwise they will lose their fresh and tender taste. The most troublesome thing for bamboo shoot diggers is the weather factor. The continuous spring rain is conducive to the growth of bamboo shoots, but if there is too much rain, the bamboo shoots may drown because the roots and stems cannot breathe. The dry weather will make the bamboo shoots grow slowly and small, affecting the price. The sudden late spring cold is even more of a nightmare for bamboo shoot diggers, which can cause the loss of most of the harvest overnight, said Li Shineng from Yingshan, Sichuan. The bamboo shoot business really depends on the weather. When the weather is good, 1,500 bamboo shoots can be dug a day, earning more than 50,000 yuan. When the weather is bad, the whole day may be wasted. Physical exertion is also a huge challenge for bamboo shoot diggers. Ordinary bamboo shoot digging consumes 3,000 to 4,000 calories a day, which is equivalent to running a marathon. In high-altitude areas, the thin oxygen exacerbates physical exertion. Bamboo shoot diggers over 50 years old are basically unable to do it. This is why this industry is facing a serious aging problem. What is more dangerous are accidental injuries. Sharp bamboo shoot knives often cut fingers. The rugged mountain roads are easy to fall and poisonous insect bites are commonplace. Experienced bamboo shoot diggers will carry snake medicine and hemostatic drugs with them , but in the deep mountains and old forests. Once a serious injury occurs , rescue is often too late. However , in such a difficult and dangerous environment, people persist in digging bamboo shoots year after year because they know that these bamboo shoots hidden in the mountains are the most precious wealth given to them by nature. However, with the development of the times, this ancient profession is facing unprecedented impact. In the bamboo forest of Huamen Village in Fengshan, Zhejiang, a scene like the movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” is being staged. 68-year-old Mao Kangda is preparing for his “flying show” today. Unlike the martial arts masters in the movies, this old man, known as the “Flying Man in the Bamboo Sea” , can climb up a 15-meter-high bamboo with his bare hands without any wires or special effects, and then use the elasticity of the bamboo to jump lightly between the bamboo tips . This is not a movie , but a real traditional skill. Mao Kangda has been cutting bamboos for a living since he was 18 years old. He has been doing this for 50 years. Before climbing bamboos, he has to observe carefully. Bamboos under two years old are too tender . There are green bamboos outside, which will make you slip if you climb up. Seed bamboos must be left to grow into mature materials and cannot be cut. The oldest bamboos have lost their elasticity and cannot be cut . After selecting the bamboos, Mao Kangda tied a bamboo basket around his waist, which contained his two most important tools: a machete made by himself and a rope that he could put his feet in so that he could climb up. At most, Mao Kangda could cut 1,500 bamboos a day. Now that he is older, he can cut more than 500 trees a day. In order to save energy and time, he would put the bamboo basket on his waist at noon. He tied the tops of several bamboos together to make a big bird’s nest , where he eats and rests. In the past 50 years, he has never fallen from the bamboos. This is all thanks to his rich experience and keen eyesight. However, this exquisite skill is facing the embarrassment of no successors. Mao Kangda has no apprentices because no young people are willing to learn this dangerous craft. Nowadays, there are only six or seven elderly people in Shimen Village who still master this skill. Most young people are unwilling to learn this skill. The crisis of inheritance is common among bamboo shoots diggers across the country. The average age of practitioners has reached 57 years old, and the youth loss rate exceeds 60%. Why does this happen ? First of all, there is a serious mismatch between income and risk. Although Mao Kangda, a bamboo sea flyer, Although they have superb skills , bamboo chopping is no longer a necessity of life. It is more like a performance. Young people have calculated it clearly. Risking their lives to climb 15-meter-high bamboos , they can only earn a few hundred yuan a day , which is not as good as working in the city for a month. Qi Mama, a 60-year-old bamboo shoot digger in Anji, Zhejiang, is a witness to this change. She has learned to dig bamboo shoots from her parents since she was a child. In the past 50 years, she has mastered the skill of finding bamboo shoots. She can find bamboo shoots by the direction of dew dripping from the bamboo tips. She knows that bamboo shoots should be left at intervals on a bamboo shoot whip . She can even judge where there are bamboo shoots by the color of the bamboo leaves and the powdery feel of the bamboo poles. But she also admits that bamboo shoots are now dug more for enjoying the fresh air in the mountains rather than for a living. She said that young people nowadays would rather work in the city and earn an easy monthly income of six to ten thousand yuan. Seven thousand people naturally don’t want to endure the hardship of living in the mountains anymore. The situation in Sichuan Wawu Mountain is more typical. To harvest the cold bamboo shoots here, one needs to live on a mountain with an altitude of 2,000 meters for more than a month . The villagers of Fuxing Village have to go through such a test every year. Take a middle-aged bamboo shoot digger in Fuxing Village as an example . He goes up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots from August to December every year. He works 16 hours a day and loses 10 kilograms in a season. Although he can earn 40,000 to 50,000 yuan a season , this high-intensity physical labor discourages many young people. His own son went to work in the city after graduating from university and never thought of inheriting his father’s business. The difficulty of learning the skills themselves is also a major obstacle. Digging winter bamboo shoots requires judging the location of the bamboo shoots by the yellow leaves, soil bulges and bamboo whips. This requires It takes more than ten years of experience to accumulate. The hand-peeling bamboo shoots in Zhejiang is even listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage. The fingertip technique of “three twists and nine turns” cannot be learned without a few years of practice. Finding bamboo shoots requires eyesight, and digging bamboo shoots requires hand feeling. These are not things that can be learned overnight. Today’s young people do not have patience and cannot bear the hardship. What’s more, the traditional master-apprentice inheritance model has been broken. In the past , the bamboo shoot digging skills were passed down from father to son, and the master slowly taught the apprentice in practice. But now most young people receive education in cities and have little interest in rural life and traditional skills. Mao Kangda’s son works in the city and has never thought of learning his father’s skills. Environmental changes have also exacerbated the inheritance crisis. With the development of mechanization and modernization, many traditional digging bamboo shoots have been lost. The bamboo shoot method is being eliminated. Work such as cutting bamboo shoots is now more for tourist performances rather than actual needs. In order to protect the ecological environment, some places have also restricted the scope and quantity of bamboo shoot digging, further compressing the living space of bamboo shoot diggers . The change of industrial structure is also a key factor. Traditional bamboo shoot diggers can only rely on buyers and have no initiative in price. Now successful bamboo shoot growers are those who have mastered the entire industrial chain. Young people see clearly that simple physical labor has no future. They are more willing to learn modern planting techniques and marketing methods. What makes the older generation of bamboo shoot diggers most sad is that some precious skills are being lost . The hand-peeling bamboo shoots skill of Dengxianqiao in Zhejiang was once the pride of the local area, but now it faces the embarrassment of having no successors. Although there are young inheritors of the bamboo shoot making technique in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian , such as Yang Lefeng , there are too few people like him. Mao Kangda looked at the empty bamboo forest with helplessness in his heart. In the past, the village was full of the sound of bamboo cutting. Now he is the only old man left. When this generation is gone, these skills may really be lost. However, just when the traditional skills are facing the crisis of being lost, some young people are continuing the story of bamboo shoot diggers in a brand new way. They may not be able to climb bamboos or use traditional methods to find bamboo shoots , but they have mastered another “weapon” – the Internet. These new-age bamboo shoot diggers are using the power of technology to inject new vitality into this ancient industry. Just when the traditional bamboo shoot digging skills are facing the crisis of being lost, a group of young people However, they have brought vitality to this ancient industry in a brand-new way. The weapons in their hands are not hoes and bamboo shoots knives , but mobile phones and the Internet. Yu Bojie, a post-90s online shop owner in Fenghua, Zhejiang, started to try selling bamboo shoots online at the invitation of his uncle Yu Rukun , and decided to promote this traditional skill through short videos . Every time Mao Kangda climbed bamboo and cut bamboo shoots, Yu Bojie followed him to do live broadcasts and record videos. This rare traditional skill has caused a huge response on the Internet. The live broadcast of just one hour can reach more than 1,800 views. A short video of digging bamboo shoots shot by Yu Bojie has been viewed more than 1.15 million times . Before the Spring Festival in 2021, Yu Bojie’s number of fans exceeded 10,000. The first live broadcast to sell bamboo shoots was very popular and the price was very high. The price is 80 yuan per catty , which is several times the market price. Yang Lefeng from Wuyi Mountain in Fujian is also a typical representative of bamboo shoot diggers in the new era. This intangible cultural heritage inheritor born in the 1980s opened a Douyin account and now has more than 70,000 fans. Through “cloud sales”, a new sales channel has been opened. Technological innovation is also changing the traditional way of digging bamboo shoots. Heat pump drying technology shortens the traditional drying process that takes 7 to 10 days to 24 hours. Experts are working on the development of bamboo shoot locators in the hope of solving the pain point of “blind digging based on experience”. Some local governments provide shared live broadcast rooms to support villagers’ e-commerce sales. Industrial upgrading has also brought new opportunities for bamboo shoot diggers. Through deep processing, products such as dried bamboo shoots, instant bamboo shoots, and canned bamboo shoots can be developed, which not only extend the shelf life but also greatly expand the market. The sales market, such as the bag of crispy sour bamboo shoots in the snail rice noodle , is a representative product of deep processing of bamboo shoots. It has become the most familiar “bamboo shoot memory” for young people . Yang Lefeng adopts the “company + base + farmer” model and signs a guaranteed purchase agreement with bamboo farmers , which greatly mobilizes the enthusiasm of bamboo farmers. However, while technology brings new opportunities to the bamboo shoot digging industry , some deep-seated social problems are also emerging . The frequent “stealing of bamboo shoots” by urban hikers exposes a huge gap in urban and rural cognition. These tourists wearing professional outdoor equipment mistakenly believe that the bamboo shoots in the mountains are “wild resources”, but they don’t know that every bamboo forest has an owner and every bamboo has a number. They excitedly dig up the bamboo shoots carefully cultivated by farmers, but they don’t know that this is their important annual This cognitive gap in income sources reflects a deeper problem: urban residents’ ignorance of rural production and life , and their disregard for the value of manual laborers. In their eyes, bamboo shoot digging seems to be just a game of “experiencing nature” rather than a profession that farmers rely on for survival. When bamboo shoot digging is packaged as a cultural tourism project and traditional skills become a tool for network traffic, how many people really pay attention to the real living conditions and labor dignity of bamboo shoot diggers ? What is more worrying is that the living space of traditional professions in modern society is being sharply compressed . Although bamboo sea flyers like Mao Kangda are listed as intangible cultural heritage , they have actually become performance projects. Young people would rather work in factories than learn these “hard, tiring and dangerous” traditional skills . The last batch of old artists have passed away, and these skills carrying thousands of years of wisdom will disappear completely. The difference in values ​​between generations is also exacerbating this rift. The older generation of bamboo shoot diggers adheres to the simple concept of “living off the mountain”, believing that hardworking hands are the greatest wealth, while the younger generation yearns for modern urban life and believes that physical labor is a symbol of backwardness. Behind this conflict of ideas is the profound opposition between traditional agricultural civilization and modern urban civilization. In this era of rapid change, how to achieve industrial upgrading while protecting traditional culture? How to maintain the dignity of workers while pursuing efficiency ? How to protect the interests of farmers while developing tourism? These are all practical problems that need to be solved urgently. The story of bamboo shoot diggers is actually the transformation of the entire rural area of ​​China. The epitome of bamboo is worth everyone’s deep thought. The spring breeze blows again, and the bamboo sea is still as green as before . Mao Kangda, 68, still climbs up the bamboo branches. Mother Qi, 60, still looks for bamboo shoots in the mountains. Villagers in Sichuan carry bamboo baskets into the mountains as usual. But the wheel of time rolls forward. Those who have been dealing with bamboo all their lives know that they may be the last generation of traditional bamboo shoot diggers. Mother Qi in Anji, Zhejiang has transformed into a “mountain artist”. She paints bamboo shoots on porcelain plates and uses wild flowers and fruits to decorate her son’s homestay. Her hands covered with bamboo dew are now creating another kind of beauty. She said that she had dug bamboo shoots for 30 years before she understood the temper of the mountains. The bamboo shoots she draws now are more moving than the real ones. Perhaps this is the best way to pass on the tradition , not to rigidly retain every action , but to pass on the love for oneself. The reverence for nature, the respect for labor, and the love for life are all passed on. Li Shineng’s business legend, Yang Lefeng’s online communication, and Yu Bojie’s live streaming are all inheritances of the new era. What really needs to be passed on is never the skills themselves , but the unyielding heart. Just like the bamboo shoots that break through the ground , no matter how the environment changes, there are always people who find hope in adversity , making life rise like bamboo. Do you think the traditional bamboo shoot digging skills should be preserved intact or innovated in a modern way? What other skills are disappearing in your hometown? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area. The above is all the content of this video. From picking bamboo shoots on the cliff to the legend of earning tens of millions a year, the story of each bamboo shoot digger is moving . It is not easy to make a long video. If you like it , please like, subscribe and forward it. See you next time

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