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A Tea Memoir in Twelve Pages十二頁的茶・回憶

Two rooms. One wooden table. A packet of tea kept sealed for years —
until the day it was opened, and the whole afternoon came back.
兩間房,一張木桌,一包封了多年的茶——直到開封那天,整個下午都回來了。

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Two cups of matcha with a bamboo whisk
Page 1 · 第一頁
Two cups. One beginning.
兩杯茶,一個開始。
Two adjoining rooms
Page 2 · 第二頁
Two rooms, side by side — where the afternoons happened.
兩間相連的房間,午後時光發生的地方。
Family photograph on a custom wooden table
Page 3 · 第三頁
The last family photograph, taken around the custom wooden table, over tea.
最後一張全家福,圍著那張訂製的木桌,喝著茶拍下的。
Heating the teaware
Page 4 · 第四頁
First: heat the ware.
第一步:把茶器溫熱。
Waking the leaf, pouring low
Page 5 · 第五頁
Wake the leaf. Pour low.
醒茶。低沖。
Elders first, knuckle thanks on the table
Page 6 · 第六頁
Elders first. A knuckle tapped on the wood stands in for a bow.
長輩先喝。指節輕叩木桌,代替一鞠躬。
A sealed packet of tea
Page 7 · 第七頁
A packet of tea, sealed and given with love.
一包茶,封好了,帶著心意送出的。
The packet kept sealed through years of grief
Page 8 · 第八頁
After his brother passed, he kept it sealed — through the years of grief.
弟弟走後,他一直把它封著,陪他走過悲傷的歲月。
California, years later
Page 9 · 第九頁
Years later: California.
多年以後:加州。
Opening the sealed packet
Page 10 · 第十頁
One quiet day, he finally opened it.
在一個安靜的日子,他終於把它打開了。
Hui gan, sweetness returning, family memory
Page 11 · 第十一頁
回甘 — sweetness returning in the throat. And the whole family afternoon came back with it.
回甘。喉頭泛起的甘甜,把那個全家人的下午,一起帶了回來。
Two cups of tea, tea mountains at dawn
Page 12 · 第十二頁
Two cups, again. Tea mountains at dawn.
又是兩杯茶。破曉時分的茶山。