Project manager Xia Zhi has suffered from insomnia for three years and stomach pain for two. He is so anxious that even breathing feels exhausting. His colleagues say he’s “like a taut string that could snap at any moment.”
Then, in a corner of the city, he discovers a sunken teahouse called Yijian.
The owner, Qingya, is an odd sort. He takes no money and makes no small talk, yet one look is enough for him to know what’s troubling you. The first tea is called “Return to the Roots.” That night, after drinking it, Xia Zhi gets his first good night’s sleep in three years.
Stranger still is the man’s identity: he is a Taoist priest who transmigrated from twelve hundred years ago. He knows Chinese medicine and the meridians. The tea he brews can set your qi flowing, and the lamps he lights can illuminate your heart.
Xia Zhi thinks he has come for a cure. Qingya says, “You grew your own illness. I can’t cure it.”
“Then what will you teach me?”
“How to live.”
It starts with eating properly, then standing meditation, breathing, and feeling the qi move through his body. Xia Zhi realizes that this thousand-year-old Taoist isn’t teaching him how to cultivate immortality. He’s teaching him how to wake up.
And when winter gives way to spring, and the first bud on a tree cracks open, Xia Zhi finally understands: this teahouse has been waiting for him for twelve hundred years.
This is a book that heals both the heart and the disease. Cure the heart of the current world and cure the diseases from ancient times to the present. Whether it's the heart or illness, it's all human bias after all. I believe that there is impartiality in this world. Some people call it Tao, while others call it something else. No matter what the name is, what we seek is the same thing - the balance between the heart and people. When we achieve such a balance, we will be fine. Most people only want good things in their lifetime, so writing this book may not be exciting or exciting enough, but I believe it can help you if you read it!