The most common things, from paper to clay to bamboo, are turned into objects of beauty.

最常见的东西，从纸到粘土再到竹子，都变成了美丽的物品。

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They are made of bamboo and covered with paper.

它们是用竹子做的，上面覆盖着纸。

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Bamboo is also used for making paper, furniture and instruments, from flutes and drums to the pan pipes of the Andes.

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Before allowing that tendril of delicately battered calamari to hit the tongue, a diner should first admire the artistic manner in which the tempura was arranged upon the gold-flecked Japanese paper lining its woven bamboo dish.

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On 19 September, the eve of the full moon, many people take to the streets or parks carrying lit paper lanterns hooked over a thin bamboo stick (or the modern plastic equivalent).

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