Taste the taste of life and create everything in the world.
A thick copy of "The Tea House" is held in the hand, as if holding a treasure trove.
I feel the years oozing from between the lines, and history wafting in the tea perfume.
The author Wang Di is an authentic Chengdu native, he borrowed Chengdu's unique teahouse culture, wrote out the Chinese social history, Chengdu cultural history, daily life history, micro history from 1900 to 1950, it can be said that the 50 years of changes in one book, gathered 50 years of cultural essence in one museum. Taste the taste of life and create everything in the world.
1. Book of Academic Research
This is an academic book, is the first monograph on the history of teahouses at home and abroad, the author carefully studied the relationship between teahouses and society, tea houses and economy, tea houses and politics, the development of research angles, the richness of mastery of information, the thoroughness of research systems, and the depth of research levels are enough to make this work a work that has been handed down to the world.
Taking Chapter 6 "Guild" as an example, the author studied the Chengdu Tea Commercial Professional Association, an organization that revolves between the industry and the state, has its own perfect organizational structure, formulates complete rules and regulations, is responsible for arranging the activities of the same industry, maintains the stability of the economic environment of the industry, negotiates with the government on price and tax issues, maintains the balance of the interests of the practitioners internally, and ensures the living space of the practitioners externally, which is a special organization that has made great contributions to the tea house industry in a certain period of time.
The author collected a large number of written materials of the guild at that time, and in this chapter alone, the author used 71 annotations, some of which were so detailed that they could almost independently write a small paper. In addition, the author also collected a lot of physical information, such as the Chengdu Evaluation Conference Price Spot Check Registration Form, zhengyu Garden's one-day business and revenue and expenditure records, Sun Life Tea House's business registration application, business license, etc., to support his research.
After reading this chapter, we have a very detailed understanding of the situation of trade unions at that time.
2. A book of popular interest
Although this book has a strong academic flavor, it is not as far away from ordinary readers as ordinary academic works, and this book is like the teahouse he studied, which is a place where three religions and nine streams can find a place in the middle.
When you read academic works, he can meet your rigorous academic needs.
When you read it as a custom sketch, it seems that you can shuttle through the teahouses of half a century ago, watching people coming and going, listening to laughter and laughter.
Let's look at the fourth chapter, "Groups," which tells how people from all walks of life and social groups use teahouses.
We. We can see merchants in teahouses to meet their potential buyers or sellers, we can see many laborers waiting for their employers here, we can see coachmen and dungmen also have their own teahouses, we can see a variety of occupations attached to teahouses: hot face paws, hookahs, craftsmen, shoe shiners, pedicures, ears plucking, haircuts, fortune tellers, etc. Chengdu people have moved their lives into teahouses, making Chengdu's teahouses a unique scenery in the world. This depiction of culture is still very attractive. When I went to Chengdu last year, I once tasted tea in a tea house in Chengdu while watching the earmaker next to me plucking the ears of a tea guest, and the humming sound emitted by the unique tool seemed to be mobilized by the author when reading this chapter, and the author's text was very concise and flexible, which could make people feel immersed.
This is a good book that is worth tasting repeatedly and collecting.