On board, I imagined that travelling down the Yangtze River would be similar to the trip I was taking, and I recalled some lines from a poem by the Tang dynasty poet Chen Tzu-ang: "I watch the hawks and cranes, singing as they dance across the sky."
只見老鷹、白鷗，在寬闊的江面翩舞，令我想起陳子昂「但見鷂與鶴，歌舞出天來」的詩句。