Path to joy

Four Chinese folk art practitioners are said to hold the key to happiness, according to a Tsinghua University's discovery. Sun Ye learns more.

There are four Chinese you should know. None of them is famous - or has the prospect of becoming so - or wealthy, or highly educated, or a newsmaker. But the four craftspeople from the countryside have somehow unknowingly found the secret to happiness, serenity and the essence of being a traditional Chinese.

That is, they're all virtuous, unconditionally kind and unruffled by the changing times - a feat most urbanites struggle with, according to the Tsinghua University documentary group that studied them closely.