Fox Footprints/China
For works with similar titles, see China.
China
Dust and ruined beauty:The free walk of the men in their dark blue clothes:The shrewd humorous faces of the women:Loud voices and everywhere the latent mob:Temples created as by magic, with the imperial gold tiles falling from the roofs like leaves from an Autumn elm:Ridiculous whimsicality of embroideries:Confucius, Laotze, and Buddha with wagging sleeves, in a dance before the applauding old men of heaven:That greatest of all dragons, the Great Wall, coiling over whole ranges, the work and tomb of millions:Age, decrepitude, non-individualism, bursting like a scarlet fire-cracker into a shower of lyrics.