Every day life is beautiful on its own. I recognize this once i translated the short story Best of luck and Best Wishes from Chinese into English.
Within the story, people live a primitive life with few modern belongings in a far-off mountainous area; however, they like life enormously. A bowl of fermented spirits, a flowery bun, colorful strings, spices, scented pouches, and longing for love and marriage bring them great joy of just living.
Mom teaches her teen daughter how to hold a needle and how to use a thimble to stitch flowered cloth into the form of a heart to create a scented pouch, and how to spread aromatic spices to create the scented pouch bulge. The lady savors the pleasure of using a thimble to push a needle, the pleasure of pulling a needle via a cloth, and also the pleasure of joining two bits of cloth together.
Dad teaches his young boy to pound the spices in a mortar with a stone pestle, but spices jump out mischievously. Through pounding and pounding, the boy finally could make the spices turn compliant and burst into flowers, which satisfies him. Because he pounds the pestle down and up, the house becomes filled with the aroma.
The climate is aromatic and mystic and the practice means a lot more than itself. The teenagers feel that it is something beautiful and worth expecting. The implication of sex education is evasive, beautiful and healthy.
On Dragon Boat Festival (your fifth day of the 5th lunar month), the young children and girls climb onto mountaintop to gather Chinese spicy mugwort plants, they feel like harvesting good luck and finest wishes for the entire year. They enjoy being young, being together, being pure and being in love.
The story doesn?t provide a specific time setting nor a specific place. There?s nothing to do with politics. It is simply an ode to life. Living is meaningful and beautiful by itself. It does not take much to be happy.
Good Luck and Best Wishes, authored by Wenbin Guo, is roofed in the short story collection Street Wizards along with other New Folklore, one amount of Modern day Chinese Literature, which presents a kaleidoscope of Chinese folk customs and offers a view of the multifaceted and living China.
Source: http://www.guywritersmagazine.org/the-joy-of-living/
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