The voices ot the city Hu Nai-an said that as a child he once rode in a horse-cart to the clatter of hooves through Fengyi Gate, into the old city of Nanjing. This ancient imperial city, which in former times variously bore the names of Jianye, Jiankang and Shitou Cheng, and which is tinged with the golden dust of six dynasties, fills one with many imaginings.
胡耐安說他小時曾坐蹄聲達達的馬車，由鳳儀門進南京城，這個古稱建業、健康和石頭城的「六朝金粉」王都，讓人充滿許多想像。