Why are Bamboo Stalks Lucky?

My Dearest Feng Shui Fans!

In this blog, I will help you leverage one of the most trendy and popular Feng Shui remedy or cure for your home or a business with the placement of the Lucky Bamboo. The Lucky Bamboo is symbolic for good fortune, good health and prosperity. This plant attracts and increases the Chi energy throughout your space and also helps the chi energy flow freely throughout areas where energy is stagnant. It’s an easy care plant that can survive in any kind of light. Feng shui principles claim that bamboo attracts auspicious chi energy. Since the bamboo plant is strong, it can energize your living and work space. The Lucky Bamboo can be found in spirals or as a long stem stalk. It will grow toward a source of light, so turning the plants as they grow produces different shapes. Importantly, the Lucky Bamboo is easy to take care of and affordable!

When used as a feng shui cure, a Lucky Bamboo plant generally includes all of the five elements of wood, earth, water, metal and fire.

Here is the 5 Elements breakdown:

• Wood (Green) – is represented by the Lucky Bamboo stalks

• Earth (Brown) – is represented by the pebbles, rocks or soil

• Water (Blue) – is represented by the water kept in the container

• Metal (Metallic) – is represented by the vessel, figurines, ornaments

• Fire (Red) – is the enhancer for the plant and is represented by the ribbon placed on the bamboo stalks

There is significant meaning to the number of bamboo stalks you place in a vessel. Traditionally, Lucky Bamboo arrangements have one to ten stalks with many larger arrangements having twenty-one or even ninety-nine. The number of stalks determines the kinds of energy the plant attracts into your home and life.

Here are some tips around the number of stalks you should have:

• One Bamboo Stalk – One sounds in larger dialects, it is most associated with things that are easy or simple. Like our tradition of the single rose, the Chinese meaning of one is of truth or commitment.

• Two Bamboo Stalk – Two is a lucky number. Chinese numerical meanings are for only good things, “good things come in pairs”. One could also infer that two meant the wish for luck for a new couple.

• Three Bamboo Stalks – Sounding like birth or life, the number three is often associated with new things or a new beginning. Wishing a happy birthday, success at a new venture or a change in life is well within the meaning of three. The plant of three bamboo stalks is one of the most favorite number combinations to have in your home. It brings three kinds of luck to you: Happiness: Fu, Long Life: Soh, Wealth: Lu

• Five Bamboo Stalks – With the number five, there’s one stalk for every area of your life that can bring you wealth. The overall energy attracted to a five bamboo stalk plant is one of health, which is needed to benefit from any of the five areas of your life. You’ll want to have a healthy career, healthy relationships, and more. The five stalk bamboo reinforces each of the five areas of your life that can influence the level of wealth. They are: Emotional, Intuitive, Mental, Physical, and Spiritual.

• Six Bamboo Stalks – Six in the Chinese language also sounds like the word luck. Other dialects reflect happiness and success in business. Harmony seems to be the more general meaning. Six stalks of bamboo attracts prosperity and advantages to achieve greater wealth.

• Seven Bamboo Stalks – Seven stalks of bamboo bestows good health to you. Sounding most like terms indicating togetherness, the number seven is very lucky for relationships. Any group of any number that have a common bound or goal could add to the odds of success with the association of the number seven.

• Eight Bamboo Stalks – Eight sounds like the word used for grow or thrive. Usually, prosperity or wealth, but in Cantonese it sounds like the word for joy. It is probably a reasonable step to equate prosperity and wealth with joy. The Chinese businesses like to incorporate eight into their business as much as possible. Eight stalks also improves fertility.

• Nine Bamboo Stalks – The number nine sounds similar to words for harmony and unity. Nine is most associated with long lasting relationships and most often used in various ways at weddings. Nine stands for prosperity, good health and a happy positive love life. 8, 18, 28 or 38 stalks also stand for prosperity. Thus, the more stalks in the planter, the greater the blessing of good fortune and luck.

Four bamboo stalks are not used in the Chinese culture for this plant as the number four draws sha (negative) energy. In the Chinese language, the word used as four sounds very similar to the word used for death. You’ll never find a four-stalked bamboo plant in the Chinese culture; much less ever give one for a gift.