One afternoon, 97-year-old Hai-dai takes the bus by himself to visit the studio of his grandchildren. Still hale, he picks up two puppets and breaks into a routine. He declares that "a man's footsteps are rough, a woman's delicate." In his hands, the very feminine daughter of an established family, with graceful and refined gestures, bends her frame and seats herself with deliberation and elegance.
一個下午，九十七歲的黃海岱自己坐公車來到孫子的攝影棚，身體硬朗的他，拿起兩個戲偶就唱作起來，阿公說；「男步粗、女步細」，大家閨秀的小旦就在婀娜細緻的身段中、緩步優雅地欠身坐下。