The English Book Series of The Symphony of Poetry and Tea: Tianfu Culture in Four Seasons Published in Chengdu
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CHENGDU, China, Dec. 23, 2021 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--
The English Book Series of The Symphony of Poetry and Tea: Tianfu Culture in
Four Seasons was published on December 22 in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan
province in southwest China.
The series was edited by The Research Institute of Tianfu Culture Center for
Urban Cultural Studies and Communication of Chengdu University, to showcase the
unique personality, lifestyle, and aesthetics of Chengdu to the world, and
promote cultural exchanges and mutual understanding between China and foreign
countries.
Chengdu, an international metropolis with a population of tens of millions in
China, enjoys a history of more than 2,300 years. Speaking of the city, people
usually think of a few key words: home to giant panda, poetry palace, Sichuan
teahouse, a livable and well-being city. The translation series also covers the
most representative elements of "poetry" and "tea" extracted from the Chengdu
culture to epitomize the historical and cultural relics and contemporary
creations of the city.
The poetry and tea not only serve as a bridge for value expression and
promotion, but also the carrier that spreads a lifestyle of elegance, easiness
and simpleness.
Chengdu has long been a place for prosperity of literature and art since
ancient times. Li Bai and Du Fu, the two great sages in the history of Chinese
poetry, had deep connections with Chengdu. In 2020, the lens for filming the
documentary Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet amplified the focuses on Chengdu to
recall the lifetime and masterpieces of Du Fu, telling how the great poet and
his works have become a representative and a symbol in the spiritual world of
Chinese people.
This poetic sentiment spreads across the historical and cultural context of the
city, influencing the development of culture and art in Chengdu abidingly and
generating a steady stream of vitality for literary creation that has no longer
limited to poetic form for a long time.
Just like great poets coming forward in multitudes, Chengdu is the home to
several young, middle-aged and senior generations of sci-fi writers, from here
the Chinese sci-fi literature growing and spreading to the world. Chengdu won
the bid to host the 2023 Worldcon at the 79th World Science Fiction Convention
(Worldcon) in Washington DC on December 18, 2021. Chengdu will be the first
city in China to host the Worldcon.
The thriving of literature and art is inseparable from the rich local spiritual
and cultural life. People in Chengdu love to interact with people and organize
diversified cultural and recreational activities in urban public spaces, among
which the teahouse is the main venue for public life in Chengdu.
As one of the earliest regions in China to plant, drink and sell teas, Chengdu
enjoys a long history of tea culture which will never fade along with worldwide
recognition of tea culture and the development of the city.
Due to the love and fascination of Chengdu people for tea, no any other city in
China has as many teahouses as Chengdu. According to historical records, as
early as the end of Qing Dynasty, there were 454 teahouses throughout Chengdu.
The teahouses scattered all over streets have become a unique scenery and a
symbol of folk culture, which has not changed to this day.
Recently, the BBC documentary One Cup, A Thousand Stories has been filmed at a
120-year-old teahouse in Chengdu to trace the Chengdu stories of tea. The
executive producer Matthew Springford said, "Tea has become more popular today.
In the past 10 years, tea consumption has increased by 25%, and billions of
people around the world are enjoying this drink."
With the changes of the times, the teahouses in Chengdu have long changed from
the "only" in public to "one of". Today, Chengdu has developed into a
diversified city full of cafes, teahouses, museums, and bookstores. In 2021,
there were more than 4,000 coffee shops, 159 museums, and more than 3,600
bookstores and reading spaces around Chengdu.
The integration of traditional atmosphere and modern vitality makes the present
and future of this city full of charm. The symphony of poetry and tea
continues, and more new movements will be performed with the development of the
city.
Source: The Research Institute of Tianfu Culture Center for Urban Cultural
Studies and Communication of Chengdu University
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