The cultural landscape created by bamboos in Southeast Asia

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We investigated how bamboo spread from a relationship of a human being and bamboo, about bamboo used by ethnic minority in Southeast Asia. A Lisu, Lafu, Hmong and Aka tribe who live in the survey area use around 10 bamboo species to suit the purpose of use. These 4 tribes play a traditional pipe instrument made by bamboo in the same way, and the materials of the pipe instrument which a Lisu, Lafu and Aka tribe use are wild bamboos, on the one hand a Hmong tribe used the cultivated temperate bamboos. The Hmong treats this instrument as the special thing which uses on funeral. Therefore the bamboo, which is the material of the instrument, is very important, and when they emigrate, the bamboos carried with them always together.