As night fell, Chinese workers generally gathered at the bamboo-weaving factory to sing songs of sorrow and play nanguan on simple instruments, remembering their parents, wives and children back home.
每當夜幕低垂，下了工的華人們經常聚集在竹器廠中，纏綿悲歌、哀哀切切地撥弦吹簫演奏南管，思念家鄉的高堂妻小。