The Art of Living Lin Yutang/ Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction

In the book, Lin Yutang discussed Zhuangzi's indifference, praised Tao Yuanming's leisure, recited "Returning to the Countryside", explained stories from the Bible, and talked about how Chinese people taste tea, how to play drinking games, how to watch mountains, how to play with water, how to watch clouds, how to judge stones, how to raise flowers, raise birds, enjoy snow, listen to rain, chant wind, and play with the moon, etc. Lin Yutang put the Chinese people's open-minded and optimistic lifestyle and romantic and elegant oriental sentiment into his writing, and eloquently told a model of a perfect lifestyle that can be emulated and a typical example of a happy life, showing the different styles of a poetic life, a talented life, a humorous life, and a wise life.