“To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?”
"Thirty-three Happy Moments"
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
“To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?”
"Thirty-three Happy Moments"
"Thirty-three Happy Moments"
"What Can I Do About It?"
"What Can I Do About It?"
"How to Read the Shui-hu chuan", § 26; in How to Read the Chinese Novel (1990), ed. David L. Rolston, p. 137
“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
“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"