Cultural Interpretation
Bamboo is believed to be able to sense changes in soil. Therefore, people in China believe that the blossom of bamboos is a precursor of coming natural disasters.
Recent studies in India have found that, whenever bamboo blossoms, the rat population will increase fourfold, due to the "bamboo rice" nurturing the rats, and the expanded population of rats consumes the crops stored by people. Starvation is thus caused, so the blossom has become an indicator of coming starvation in Northeast India.
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