When Ceramic Cup Was Broken, Chinese People Would Actually…

You may think — It’s just a cup, just throw it in the trash after it’s broken.

However, in Chinese cultural psychology, the “pursuit of perfection” is a very common phenomenon.

People in China believe that “defects” are in need of repair, even if they are broken, there is still the possibility of restoration. That is why, when a ceramic cup is broken, Chinese people will pay a lot of money for a master to repair the beloved cup.

Behind every dark cloud there is a silver lining.

While behind each broken cup there is also a silver lining.

When you are faced with your favorite broken cup, what choice would you make?
When you are faced with a cracked relationship, what choice will you make?

It seems that these two questions are unrelated, but in fact their answers both point to the same question —

how do you deal with the imperfections in your life?

The master repairer using a more precious material than the cup itself, such as gold, would help the owner of the cup to restore the broken cup.

Although the body of the cup will leave traces of restoration, it is also a kind of open attitude — to accept the imperfections in our lives.

In addition to porcelain, jade, wood, bamboo and bone products can also be repaired.

Sometimes our emotions for a special person are pinned on some object. For example, the first sweater your mother knitted for you by hand, or the first necklace you gave to your lover.

It is exactly because the price of the emotion behind these items is immeasurable which is why we spend more effort on an old item.

Perhaps, do you also kept an imperfect old object?