Youthful and Soft Time Overflowing with Vitality: Cultural Icons Talk About Their Tea Ties (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Ma Mingbo, Xiao Yao (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: "A Soft Time Overflowing with Fragrant Tea" takes "Cultural Masters Talk About Their Tea Ties" as its main theme, selecting over seventy outstanding essays and passages by renowned writers, artists, and thinkers from the 20th century onwards. In the misty aroma of tea, the wise have embraced poetic sentiments. 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 Tie Guan Yin tea, with enduring charm; while Xiao Qian, Wang Zengqi, Zhong Jingwen, Jia Pingwa, Yu Qiujiu, Dong Qiao, and Zhang Chengzhi's works 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.