# Bamboo

- By: Chiang Ting
- Date: 1772
- Medium: paper, ink
- Classification: hanging scroll
- Dimensions: height 10 cm x width 65.5 cm x depth 10.5 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift of Herman Visser, 1951)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-97-B--6155730462245f8dae02a867bfe20f14)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/3869964f63b040177f052a1ca7a4f19e.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Bamboo painting is said to have originated when a scholar was sitting in his study one night and noticed the shadows of bamboo plants in his garden projected onto the paper window of his study. He then replicated them in an ink painting. Bamboo is a metaphor for a scholar’s grace and resilience.