No. IV · Water · 水
Moonlight No.15
月 光 十 五 號
The fifteenth moon — kept fifteen years, for those worth the wait.
十五年,為值得等待的人留下的一夜月光。
Some gifts are spoken at once.
This one waited fifteen years to be given.
十五號,是真實的等待 — 這份茶花了十五年才離開倉庫。時間,是少數能打動人的禮物。
Verse · 序
銀枝月下 白鹿渡林 葉中藏光 十五號夜
Silver branches under the moon. A white deer fording the wood. Light kept inside the leaf. The night of the fifteenth.
Full Moon Edition · F-001 Held
Tasting · 韻
Read it the way you would read a room you once loved.
不是味道的清單 — 是一連串你以為自己早已忘記的畫面。
The first sense does not arrive on the tongue. It arrives in the chest.
深色的茶湯,喝下去之後,第一個感覺不在嘴裡 — 在胸口。
Like an old song playing in another room: you cannot make out the words, yet you know exactly who is singing.
像有人在另一個房間放了一首老歌,你聽不清歌詞,卻知道是誰在唱。
By the third steep, someone always remembers their father.
喝到第三泡,會有人想起自己的父親。
Cool jasmine, river silver, the breath of cedar — a forest exhaling under a full moon.
滿月夜裡,森林呼吸的氣息。
Brewing Ritual · 沖
Second steep retained — the fifteenth moon does not leave after one pour.
In the Five · 五行定位
Among the five vessels, Moonlight is the one that holds the centre — the weight the whole passage rests upon.