I forgot my own mean existence and felt like singing and skipping as merrily as my fellow men. Inadvertently, I began to hum a long-forgotten tune from some Peking Opera.

• 我忘记了我自家的存在，也想和我的同胞一样的欢歌欣舞起来，我的嘴里便不知不觉的唱起几句久忘了的京调来了。