Publisher's Synopsis
Western China, 1196. Yun Cai, a handsome & adored poet in his youth, is now an old man, exiled to his family estates. All that is left to him are regrets of a growing sense of futility & helplessness & the irritations of his feckless son & shrewish daughter-in-law. But the 'poison dragons' of misfortunes shatter his orderly existence.