Bamboo proverb
Q: What does this proverb mean?
--The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends.
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anonymous Q: What does this proverb mean? -- The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends. It means little to this American aside from an observation that bamboo is tall, strong, flexible and somewhat heavy.
- anonymous Q: What does this proverb mean?
- -- The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends.
- It means little to this American aside from an observation that bamboo is tall, strong, flexible and somewhat heavy.
- I guess you are supposed to liken the bamboo's situation to some aspect of human life, but nothing in my Western enlightened philosophy seems to connect with it.
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anonymousQ: What does this proverb mean?
--The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends.
It means little to this American aside from an observation that bamboo is tall, strong, flexible and somewhat heavy. I guess you are supposed to liken the bamboo's situation to some aspect of human life, but nothing in my Western enlightened
0anonymous--The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends.
It is a Chinese or Japanese proverb. I have never seen it.
0anonymousQ: What does this proverb mean?
--The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends.
It reminds of the saying "The bigger they are, the harder they fall", but the meaning may be different.
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