Yet the items in this shop can carry you through the year's holidays and "24 solar terms" of the Chinese calendar; they can mark the rhythms of life--births, deaths, marriages--with appropriate auspicious or solemn symbolism; and they suggest that it is still possible to keep a simple respect for doing things closer to nature, the old-fashioned way ....
但是，它卻可以告訴你：一年三百六十五天、廿四個節令，的確是有秩序、可以依時而過的；生老病死、婚喪喜慶的心情，原來是起伏高低、可以明示或化解的；而對於大自然，也是可以素樸地敬重的……。