Me and tea on Westlake
‘嘆世界’ Tan Sai Gai in Cantonese means ‘Enjoying life’, roughly. It means sitting right on the lake, watching the boats go by, the fishes hopping out of the water every few minutes, sipping some of that Dragonwell, as the sun sets on the lake. Nothing replaces history, that molding and refining that happens to a place over time. Tea is the cultural beverage of mankind, the oldest and deepest and most refined of them all. Just the fact that I was drinking tea grown on thousand year old plants on the same spot as Emperor Qian Long from the 1700s appreciating a lake in a city considered the most prosperous in the country in the Song Dynasty (1200s AD?) makes one feel, if ever so grandly, timeless. Watching the world go by.
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