There are 65 genera and 1250 species of bamboo in the world, and China is the richest country in bamboo resources, known as the "Bamboo Kingdom", there are more than 500 kinds of bamboo, with an area of 7.2 million hectares of bamboo forests, which rank among the world's top in terms of bamboo species, area and volume.

Categorized by growth pattern: clumping bamboo: new bamboo grows out of the side shoots of the culms and rhizomes of old bamboos, so it looks like they are all clustered together in a clump. Hemp bamboo, green bamboo, prickly bamboo, long-branch bamboo, Penglai bamboo and so on.

Scattered bamboos: their long underground stems creep underground! New bamboos then emerge from these underground stems, so the new bamboos will grow near the old ones, appearing to grow independently, branch by branch. Mengzong Bamboo, Gui Bamboo, Sphinx Bamboo, Ink Bamboo, Tang Bamboo, Four Square Bamboo, Japanese Red Bamboo, etc.