Shi Su is well-learnt about Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. He is also highly influenced by the contemporary painter Tong Wen. Su and Wen are cousins with an age difference of twenty-two years. They know each other well and are mutually attracted by each other. Since Wen is a master in painting the bamboos, their intellectual relationship is fully described in their writings and paintings. Su's theory of writing about the bamboos and his writings about Wen's paintings are really closed to Wen's theory of creation. This essay focuses on Su's writings about Tong Wen and explores the psychology of an intellectual artist in the beginning of creation and its further development, especially the intellectual artists such as Wen and Su, who are good at describing the bamboos in their works. Is Su's discussion about writing the bamboos a representation of an intellectual as well as an inner desire? Is this related to the contest of virtues among the artists or simply a projection of their mind? This essay also explores the special meaning of writing about the bamboos in Song Dynasty.