The Third Part of the "tea Man Trilogy": Build a City with Grass
by Wang Xufeng
About This Novel
The story was written from the 1950s and 1960s to the end of the century, describing how the Hang family experienced the bloody war of resistance against Japan and then ushered in the turbulent historical period of the Cultural Revolution, reflecting the social reality at that time. The Hang family has gone through various tests, showing unprecedented tenacity and independent personality in pursuit of freedom. The novel exudes a rich flavor of tea culture. The story takes place in Hangzhou, the capital of green tea. Hang Jiuzhai, the descendant of Wangyou Tea House, was a tea merchant in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Qing Dynasty. He was elegant and elegant, but had trouble managing money and business. He eventually died on the smoke couch of a woman with fireworks. The next generation of tea master is called Hang Tianzui. He grew up in the era when the feudal dynasty completely collapsed and the Republic of China was born. He is always intertwined with the contradiction between decadence and hard work. He is knowledgeable, talented, passionate, and ambitious, but he is indecisive. He loves his boyfriend, his wife, his concubines, and his children... In the end, he is so "loved" that he feels lost and has no choice but to escape to Buddhism. The three sons and two daughters born to Hang Tianzui experienced a broader era. They participated in the whole process of the rise and fall of Hua Cha in various capacities and in different ways. During this period, the fate of the nation, family and individuals were complicated and ups and downs. The rise and fall of tea houses were closely linked to the rise and fall of Chinese tea over the past century. The novel therefore outlines a long scroll of the fate of Chinese tea people in recent and modern history.
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Official(2)Scraped 1mo ago
Taking the ups and downs of the four generations of the Hangjiuzhai family, the owners of Wangyou Tea House in Hangzhou, the capital of green tea, as the main line, it creates characters with different social significance and artistic brilliance such as Hang Tianzui and Hang Jiahe, showing the temperament and demeanor of Hangzhou tea people, embodying the perseverance of the Chinese nation and the ideal tendency of loving freedom and yearning for light.
It traces the history of the tea ceremony and the types of tea in the changing times, but the stories of the previous generation and the next generation basically overlap, and it is only the times that have changed, not themselves.
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Community(0)
Official(2)Scraped 1mo ago
Taking the ups and downs of the four generations of the Hangjiuzhai family, the owners of Wangyou Tea House in Hangzhou, the capital of green tea, as the main line, it creates characters with different social significance and artistic brilliance such as Hang Tianzui and Hang Jiahe, showing the temperament and demeanor of Hangzhou tea people, embodying the perseverance of the Chinese nation and the ideal tendency of loving freedom and yearning for light.
It traces the history of the tea ceremony and the types of tea in the changing times, but the stories of the previous generation and the next generation basically overlap, and it is only the times that have changed, not themselves.
