Tea Stove
Hulu jushi fanyi
Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130-1200 A.D.) of the Southern Song Dynasty
Tea Stove
Old Immortal unveils a stone stove
Right in the middle of the water.
Tea drunk, our skiffs drift together.
The scent of tea…lingering delicate fragrance.
Portrait of Zhu Xi
茶灶
仙翁遺石灶
宛在水中央
飲罷方舟去
茶煙裊細香
Source
Chazao 茶灶 (第十一首) (Tea Stove, eleventh poem), Wuyi jingshe zayong shi’er shou 武夷精舍杂咏十二首 (Twelve poems from Miscellaneous Songs of the Abode of Perfection at Wuyi), Hui’an xiansheng Zhu Wengong wenji 晦庵先生朱文公文集 (Collected Works of Master Hui’an, Zhu Wengong) (Beijing: Beijing tushu guan chuban she, 2006), ch. 9.
Figure
Guo Xu 郭詡 (1456-1532 A.D.)
Ming dynasty
Wengong xiansheng xiang 文公先生像 (Portrait of Master Wengong [Zhu Xi]), 16th century A.D.
Hanging scroll: ink on paper
National Palace Museum, Taipei