"Tea People Trilogy"

Author: Wang Xufeng
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: In the spring of 1981, Mr. Mao Dun bequeathed 250,000 yuan of his manuscript fees to the Chinese Writers' Association, donating it as a fund to establish a long award to reward the best novels each year. This marked the origin of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. Over the following two decades, this highest award in contemporary Chinese literature has always attracted widespread attention and had a profound impact. To date, the Mao Dun Literature Prize has held five sessions, with 22 long novels winning the prize (with two additional works receiving honorary awards). Our publishing house has been publishing the "Mao Dun Literature Prize Awarded Works Series" since the spring of 1998, successively including 11 works published and awarded by our house. Subsequently, many authors, readers, and relevant individuals have expressed the desire to see the complete collection of all awarded works of the Mao Dun Literature Prize published as a whole; they believe that fully reflecting the achievements of the highest award in contemporary Chinese literature is both necessary and beneficial. With the strong support of authors, their families, and relevant publishing organizations, the "Complete Collection of Mao Dun Literature Prize Awarded Works" has finally been published. The "Complete Collection of Mao Dun Literature Prize Awarded Works" includes textual collation of all works. For multi-volume works that won awards in part, the entire series has been included this time. The Triad of Tea Lovers follows the (fluctuating ups and downs) fate changes of four generations of the Hang Jiuzhai family, the owners of the Wanguyou Tea House in Hangzhou, the green tea capital, as the main thread. It portrays characters like Hang Tianzui, Hang Jiahé, Zhao Jike, and Shen Luei, each embodying different social significance and artistic brilliance. It showcases the temperament and spirit of Hangzhou tea masters who endure hardships, cleanse impurities, and still struggle forward despite bloodshed, reflecting the tenacious spirit of the Chinese nation in seeking survival and development, as well as their passion for freedom and yearning for a brighter future. The smoke of green tea, the steam of blood, the collision of hearts, and the entanglement of love intertwine in the author's elegant, gentle yet powerful writing. The vicissitudes of the century, the history of Hangzhou, the rise and fall of the tea industry, and the sentiments of tea lovers all blend together, demonstrating the author's particularly rare historical insight and skill in depicting large-scale social phenomena in the current era. The story takes place in Hangzhou, the green tea capital, where Hang Jiuzhai, the inheritor of the Wanguyou Tea House, was a tea merchant in Jiangnan during the late Qing Dynasty. He was elegant and charming but poor at managing his business, ultimately dying on the couch of a courtesan. The next generation of tea masters, Hang Tianzui, grew up during the era when the feudal dynasty collapsed completely and the Republic of China was born. He was always torn between (depression) and (vigorous effort). Educated, talented, passionate, and ambitious, yet indecisive, he loved his boyfriend, wife, concubine, and children, ultimately losing himself in love and having no choice but to flee to the Buddhist monastery. Hang Tianzui's three sons and two daughters experienced an even broader era. They participated in the rise and fall of Chinese tea in various capacities and ways. Among them, the fate of the nation, the family, and individuals is intricate and tumultuous, and the rise and fall of the tea house are closely linked to the rise and fall of Chinese tea over the past century. As a result, the novel weaves a long scroll depicting the fate of Chinese tea masters in modern and contemporary history.