Vietnamese legend Cây tre trăm đốt (The Hundred-knot Bamboo Tree) tells of a poor, young farmer who fell in love with his landlord's beautiful daughter. The farmer asked the landlord for his daughter's hand in marriage, but the proud landlord would not allow her to be bound in marriage to a poor farmer. The landlord decided to foil the marriage with an impossible deal; the farmer must bring him a "bamboo tree of 100 nodes". But Gautama Buddha (Bụt) appeared to the farmer and told him that such a tree could be made from 100 nodes from several different trees. Bụt gave to him four magic words to attach the many nodes of bamboo: Khắc nhập, khắc xuất, which means "joined together immediately, fell apart immediately". The triumphant farmer returned to the landlord and demanded his daughter. Curious to see such a long bamboo, the landlord was magically joined to the bamboo when he touched it, as the young farmer said the first two magic words. The story ends with the happy marriage of the farmer and the landlord's daughter after the landlord agreed to the marriage and asked to be separated from the bamboo. Africa Bozo The Bozo ethnic group of West Africa take their name from the Bambara phrase bo-so, which means "bamboo house". Saint Lucia Bamboo is also the national plant of St. Lucia. Hawaiian Hawaiian bamboo ('ohe) is a kinolau or body form of the Polynesian creator god Kāne. North America Arundinaria bamboos, known as giant cane or river cane, are a central part of the material cultures of Southeastern Native American nations, so much so that they have been called "the plastic of the Southeastern Indians." Among the Cherokee, river cane has been used to make waterproof baskets, mats, fishing poles, flutes, blowguns, arrows, and to build houses, among other uses; the seed and young shoots are also edible. See also Bamboo blossom Bamboo processing machine Bamboo torture Bambuseae Ceremonial pole Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia International Network for Bamboo and Rattan List of bamboo species Mautam Plant textiles Table of Wood and Bamboo Mechanical and Agricultural Properties Xiangshuishen (Xiang River goddesses) References Further reading Bamboo – The Plant and its Uses. Part of the Tropical Forestry book series (TROPICAL, volume 10), 2015. External links Bamboo for Climate Change by INBAR. Bamboo Structural Design ISO Standards Building materials Bamboo Bamboo Bamboo Bamboo Bamboo National