What is especially astonishing is how this casual, loose-knit organization has managed to perpetuate itself for so long, from its establishment in Shanghai in 1924 up to the present. The only lapse occurred sometime around 1941, during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai.
令人驚訝的是，這樣一個鬆散自在、無組織規章的社團，從民國十三年在上海成立，直到民國三十年左右，上海淪陷於日軍手中才中斷。