Moyan s Novel

Shifu, You'll Do Anything For a Laugh. Nobel Prize winner Moyan's Novel. The term 'shifu' is a generic and generally respectful term for skilled workers and the like; widely used, it has, in a sense, replaced other terms, such as ?comrade.?It is common in China to use kinship or professional forms of address in preference to given names. The Shen Garden in the story of that title, which was located in the southern city of Shaoxing over a millennium ago, is famous as a metaphor for encounters between once married couples. It is where the Southern Song poet Lu You is said to have met Tang Wan, whom his parents had forced him to divorce.