Fragrant and Soft Moments (Cultural Figures Talk About Tea Ties - Illustrated Edition)

Author: Ma Mingbo / Xiao Yao (editors)
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: "A Soft Time Overflowing with Fragrant Tea" takes "Cultural Masters Discussing Their Tea Ties" as its main theme, selecting over seventy outstanding chapters and masterpieces by renowned writers, artists, and thinkers from the 20th century onwards. In the misty aroma of tea, the wise have acquired a poetic sentiment. They are not only refined tea drinkers but also deep observers of life. Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Liang Shiqiu, and Lin Yutang's writings are like Tieguanyin tea, with enduring charm; while those of Xiao Qian, Wang Zengqi, Zhong Jingwen, Jia Pingwa, Yu Qiujiu, Dong Qiao, and Zhang Chengzhi resemble green tea, with subtle and lingering meanings. A small world within a pot, the wise see in it a life of leisure and elegance; what we read is the mortal world beyond the bitterness and fragrance of tea. A cup of fragrant tea, a soft time, flows into our hands through this book. In the exquisite words, we savor the years that emit the aroma of tea.