His mother used to hum Hakka folk songs as she tilled the soil. "But at the end her voice would change," Lee recalls, "becoming that of a woman keening in the presence of death.
母親一邊挖地，一邊哼些客家小山歌，「但最後她卻把歌聲一變，就成了人死時婦人哭墓的苦調了。