He led a miserable life, but he always chose to love the world.
A cup of tea is a good life teacher. Because of him, I feel that all the sufferings of past lives are no longer sufferings. And happiness is the real happiness.
Xiaolin Yicha, whose real name is Yataro, was born in an ordinary peasant family. My mother died when I was three years old, and then I was abused by my stepmother. My childhood was miserable. When I was a child, I didn't get the warmth of my family, so I was very close to small animals and made friends with them.
A tea loves small animals and sympathizes with the weak. In old Japan, there was a custom of fighting frogs. A cup of tea always supported the weak side.
Yicha has been traveling since she was in her twenties, running back and forth between her hometown and other places. He lived a wandering life for half his life, lonely and helpless.
At the age of 52, all three sons and one daughter died young after a tea marriage. This haiku was written after the death of a fork's little daughter. I know that the world is not always long, and some are as fleeting as dew, just like my little daughter. However, however ... I still feel uncontrollable sadness.
A simple and naive poem. It is especially sad and warm to understand the story of tea.
Unfortunate childhood, memories of hometown will not be particularly happy. But there is always warmth and touch in time, from a sparrow, a stream, a flower and a tree. When I think of my hometown, I always feel sad and nostalgic.
This haiku was written in a tea sickness. How beautiful it is to see the Milky Way through the window. A tea feels that she has been wandering for half her life, lonely and helpless, but she is comforted by the vast and gloomy galaxy.
A kind of tea left my hometown for fifteen years and then came back to write this poem. The local accent hasn't changed, and the old tree is still there. Summer is a good time to enjoy the cool. A cup of tea is very comfortable.
Yi Cha's childhood was unfortunate, but he always maintained his love for his hometown and life. Expectation, gratitude, simple as a child.
This haiku is a variation of Li Bai's "The breeze and the bright moon are free of charge". Li Bai doesn't have to buy it for a penny, but he thinks it's generous to buy a cup of tea for five pence. Gratitude for the gift of nature is also contentment.
I got both in one tea.
Continue to love the world, and you will find that happiness is actually a very simple thing.
Life is so fragile and so rich that we have no reason not to cherish it. Time is life, we are not afraid to waste it, but we can't.