The Cultured Guest

One: Fine calligraphy, quite good. Two: Second-rate talent, kept under wraps. Three: Three jin of liquor, still sober. Four: Clothes for all four seasons, never quite right. Five: A five-child game of Go, no regrets. Six: Kunqu opera in six acts, never refused. Seven: Crooked poems of seven characters, never delayed. Eight: Eight rounds of Ma Diao, never checked. Nine: A ninth-rank title, never sought. Ten: Perfect amiability, never vulgar.

Travel back five hundred years and experience the pleasures of a long-lost way of life. The Qing Ke, a heartfelt work by Zei Dao Sanchi.