Strike up a conversation with an old man sitting about, and his disjoined (if not confusing) narration will take you so easily back to the olden times of the Republic (founded in 1912).

• 随便找个闲坐的老人聊一聊，那些略显零乱甚至含混不清的叙述仍能把人轻易地带入民国的旧时光。