Seven Worthies

Seven Worthies

Seven Worthies

of the bamboo grove

Tag: buddhism

Tag: buddhism

Is my lovely cup of tea a cup of tea?

Some time ago there was an advert for, I believe, water filtration of one kind or another, in which a woman of unblemished skin and calm disposition brews herself a cup of enticingly translucent tea in a glass cup, using said water. Her equally impeccable husband, looking on jealously at her newly-steeped beverage says admiringly, "That's a lovely cup of tea". To which she archly replies, "Wrong again! It's my lovely cup of tea." (I cannot now remember the male partner's first inaccuracy that made him wrong for the second time - presumably some wrong-headed assumption about water filtration.)

By |February 7, 2025|Categories: Update|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

12 Beauties of Jinling

One of the titles considered for the Hong Lou Meng (Dream of Red Mansions), "The 12 Beauties of Jinling" refers to twelve principal female characters in the novel. In an early dream sequence, the male protaganist Baoyu is shown poetic records of the twelve in question via a registry, with their fates foreshadowed in riddle form.

By |January 29, 2025|Categories: 12, Baby Steps, Featured, List, Literature|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on 12 Beauties of Jinling
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