"Tea Shop Story" is set in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. It revolves around a tea shop called "Qingmingxuan" and tells the story of the tea shop owner Liu Qingming and various characters who became friends and fell in love with tea. A teahouse is not only a place for drinking tea, but also a place where people and the world meet. Liu Qingming uses tea as a matchmaker to resolve grievances and connect the joys and sorrows of the town residents. From a cup of tea, she glimpsed the complexity and warmth of people's hearts, and also looked for self-salvation in the fragrance of tea. The story connects family grievances, love entanglements and changes of the times through tea culture, showing the perseverance and hope of ordinary people in turbulent times. Each chapter starts with a kind of tea, lays out the fate of the characters, depicts the psychology in detail, and outlines a picture of the world in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
