Jin Shengtan Quotes

Jin Shengtan , former name Jin Renrui , also known as Jin Kui , was a Chinese editor, writer and critic, who has been called the champion of Vernacular Chinese literature. Wikipedia  

✵ 1610 – 1661
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Famous Jin Shengtan Quotes

“Eat pickled turnips with yellow beans. It gives the taste of walnut.”

Last words of Jin Shengtan, "contained in a sealed letter to his family as he went to his execution, as a joke upon the magistrate", as quoted and reported by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Understanding (1960), p. 468

Jin Shengtan Quotes about happiness

“To open the window and let a wasp out of the room. Ah, is this not happiness?”

"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

“To have just finished repaying all one's debts. Ah, is this not happiness?”

"Thirty-three Happy Moments"

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