竹类属禾本科(Gramineae)竹亚科(Bambusoideae),为多年生常绿木本植物,也是重要的经济树种和用材树种之一。它生长快,成材早,伐期短,收益长,一般栽后三、四年成林,七、八年成材,连续采伐可达几十年之久。我省晋南一带的永济、芮城、平陆等地的群众,素有栽培粉绿竹、甜竹、筠竹的悠久历史,对竹林的栽培和经营管理有着丰富的经验。六十年代末和七十年代初期,我省由广西、浙江、江苏、河南等省相继引进了一些优良竹种,大部在晋南地区安家落户,茁壮生长。竹子在四化建设和人民日常生活里用途很广,栽培竹子收益多,是农民致富的途径之一。如芮城县马壁大队的甜竹林, Bamboo Gramineae (Bambusoideae), a perennial evergreen woody plant, is also one of the important economic tree species and timber species. It grows fast, ready early, short cutting, long benefits, generally planted three or four years of forest, seven or eight years of timber, continuous logging up to several decades. The people in Yongji, Ruicheng, Pinglu and other places in the south of Jinnan of our province are well-known for their long history of cultivating Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys pubescens and jun bamboo and have rich experience in the cultivation and management of bamboo forests. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, some fine bamboo species were successively imported from Guangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Henan provinces. Most of the bamboo species were settled in the villages in southern Shanxi and thrived. Bamboo is widely used in the four modernizations and people’s daily life, and the benefits of bamboo cultivation are many and one of the ways for farmers to get rich. Ruicheng County, such as the Mabian sweet bamboo forest,