每次有到广州的机会,都因种种原因而不能成行。今年到广州出差,人已半百。会议讲究效率,没日没夜,广州城是什么样,到会议结束我也不知道。但是有一天,我下了决心,利用午休时间去了黄花冈。如果再不去,我会后悔一辈子的。在黄花冈只有一个小时的时间,也算了却了一桩宿愿。这是我少年时代就仰慕的一群精英,这是我从少年时代就想来拜谒的地方。这里长眠着最早觉醒的一群人,他们不肯留那屈辱的辫子,不肯下跪。我抚着那一块块的基石,在心里默诵着他们的名字。他们死去的时候,都是青年,只因为不肯跪,故而含笑面对死。这里埋葬着青春的躯体,但是埋葬不了青年的梦。我去的那天,本当是有阳光的,可能是因为污染重,天总是不太明朗。我想,辛亥年阴历三月二十九日(1911年4月27日)那一天下午五点钟时的广州,是什么样的天气呢?想来想去也是惘然。我只能想到,他们多是南方青年,说着我不大听得懂的广东话、福建话和四川话,虽然几路队伍总共就那么二三百人,但是出发时他们没有像现在的特种部队一样隐蔽,而是大摇大摆地走向敌人,还呜呜地吹着螺号…… Every time there is a chance to go to Guangzhou, it cannot be done for various reasons. This year we have a business trip to Guangzhou. The conference focused on efficiency, day and night, what kind of city in Guangzhou, I do not know when the meeting ended. But one day, I resolved to use the lunch break to go to Huanghuagang. If you do not go, I will regret it forever. In Huanghuagang only one hour, but also considered a wish. This is a group of elites that I admired during my youth. This is where I wanted to come to see me from my childhood. There was a group of people who had been awakening for the first time. They refused to leave behind the humiliating blindness and refused to kneel down. I caressed the cornerstone of that block and silently remembered their names in my heart. When they died, they were all young people. They only smiled and faced death because they refused to bow. The body of youth is buried here, but the youth’s dream cannot be buried. The day I went was supposed to be sunny. It may be because of heavy pollution. The sky is always unclear. I think what kind of weather was in Guangzhou at 5 o’clock in the afternoon on March 29th (April 27th, 1911) of the Lunar Calendar of the 1911 Lunar Calendar? I can only think that they are mostly young people in the South. They speak Cantonese, Hokkien and Sichuan dialects that I don’t understand very much. Although there are a total of only two or three hundred people on the road, they don’t have special features like they are now. The troops are as covert as they are. They are swaggering to the enemy, and they are swaying quietly...