Abstract: Analyzing 407 questionnaires about bamboo culture in Yiyang District, the authors find that bamboo has not only penetrated into the folk society，including food and drink, irrigation, architecture, traffic, writing materials, music instrument, but also became the symbol of celebration, memorial ceremony, literature, painting and expressing emotions. This paper put forwards suggestions to develop bamboo industry in Yiyang district, such as giving full play to the foundation role of bamboo culture, emphasizing the penetration and integration of bamboo industry with bamboo culture, and advocating the operating mode of sharing development achievements with local district.