Chinese Textbooks Compiled by the Ministry of Education and Supporting Reading Series of Classics: Teahouse

This book includes Lao She's famous plays "Teahouse" and "Longxugou" and more than a dozen classic essays. "Teahouse" is structured into three acts. It takes the rise and fall of a large teahouse called Yutai in old Beijing as the background, and shows the social landscape of Beijing and the life changes of different people from all walks of life in the nearly 50 years from the late Qing Dynasty to the Beiyang Warlord period and then to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Each scene describes an era. People from all walks of life in Beijing come from this big teahouse. What is displayed in the whole play is a magnificent historical picture, which vividly illustrates the inevitable demise of the old China and the inevitability of the birth of the new China.