This is why someone may devote his whole life to studying bamboo without ever seeing a flowering, and why our understanding of bamboo is not as good as that of other plants.
因此，許多人窮畢生精力研究，卻也見不到竹子的生老病死；這也是至今人類對竹子的瞭解，仍比許多植物少得多的原因。同氣連枝，遙相呼應老蚌會生珠，老竹開開花，本來也沒什麼好大驚小怪的；只是竹子家族「血脈相連」的團結性格，叫人受不了。