Lao She finished writing Teahouse in 1957.The play shows the lives of common people in China between 1898 and 1945.It takes place in a teahouse in old Beijing and it tells us the story of Wang Lifa and his customers.It asks us to see the teahouse as the centre of the neighborhood.Finally，it says goodbye to old Beijing and its people.

The story starts in 1898 during the Qing Dynasty.It continues in 1916，and finally，it brings the audience(观众)to the end of the Anti Japanese War，in 1945.After the war，Wang loses the teahouse and dies.

Lao She was born in Beijing in 1899.His parents sent him to the Normal School in Beijing and he learned to teach.From 1924 to 1929 he taught Chinese to the English in London.He wrote many plays，novels and short stories.He was named “the People's Artist” and “the Great Master of Language”．He was one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20th century.

In Lao She Teahouse today，waiters bring tea to the customers and sell them delicious Chinese food.If you like the Beijing Opera，folk(民间的)music，acrobatics (杂技)or magic shows，you can enjoy them in the teahouse.Lao She Teahouse gives a wonderful welcome to everyone from China and from all over the world.

On October 30, 2018, the Chinese-speaking world lost a literary giant-Louis Cha Leung-yung who died at the age of 94 after a long illness. It recorded 1.27 billion views on Sina Weibo.

Cha was widely known by his pen name, Jin Yong. He was regarded as one of the greatest Wuxia novelists with over 300 million copies in book sales. Born in Haining in 1924, Cha had planned to become a diplomat. But he began working as a journalist in 1947 to support his studies. He moved to Hong Kong and then founded the local Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao(《明报》) in 1959 and served as its editor-in-chief until retiring in1989.

In 1955, Cha published his first wuxia novel,The Book and the Sword in the New Evening Past using the pen name Jin Yong. The novel turned out to be a great success. Cha went on to write another 14 hugely popular wuxia novels, ending with The Deer and the Cauldron in 1972. His novels have been made into films, TV and radio series, and deeply influence the cultural development of Chinese-speaking communities around the world.

Among the first to react to Cha’s death was billionaire Jack Ma, a lifelong lover of wuxia. " It’s a huge loss for Chinese people around the world.   And it's especially sad for us as Cha’s wuxia spirit has become a core value of Alibaba, "Ma said. Many of his employees gave themselves nicknames drawn from characters in Cha’s novels. Many stars at home and abroad, including Andy Lau, Jordan Chan and Indian actor Aamir Khan also shared their grief at the news of Cha’s death.

Jin is gone, but he will always be in our hearts. After all, who would want to put down his novels?