سکوت و پذیرش، قسمت ۵ از ۶

Aulacese (Vietnamese) people like this the most, right? (Yes, yes. Thank You, Master.) The colors of the homeland. (Yes.) (You’re so beautiful, Master!) Just look, then go home and have one made. (Yes.) Can you make it? (No.) Why not? (The embroidery won’t look the same, Master.) For embroidery, you have to find someone who really knows how to embroider. (Yes.) Even this embroidery, I had to give instructions; otherwise, they’ll just embroider it in one color. Otherwise, it’ll come out ugly. I also had to add a bit of “soy sauce,” too. (Adding it makes it look so beautiful.) Adding it makes it different. (Yes.) Just adding a little color already makes a difference. (The colors are beautiful.) Even the people who do the embroidery said they’d never embroidered anything like this before. I said, of course not – only after Suma Ching Hai came along did this exist. […]

Anyone can embroider. Anyone can learn to sew. But how to harmonize colors, and what to embroider with what – that’s very difficult. (Yes.) You have to know it naturally; just going to school won’t teach you that. At school, the teacher only teaches what she herself knows. She’s not Suma Tzu, so how could she know that much? […]

(The scarf Master is wearing looks so beautiful.) Beautiful (So beautiful, Master.) This scarf is one you’re supposed to wear inside. Usually, this scarf is worn on the inside. Then you wrap another scarf on the outside and it becomes a crow-beak style. But I thought: normally there’s no phoenix beak or dragon beak. No phoenix beak, no dragon beak, so why is there a crow’s beak? So I told them to cut off the crow’s beak. Just wear this one inside and this one outside, and it looks different right away, that’s all. It’s still just those same tools, nothing different. […]