| 1 | Uncle, Empress Mother, I wish you both everlasting happiness. | |
| 2 | We wish Chairman Mao have a long life! | |
| 3 | Thanks to him, the poor eat three times a day. I hope he stays in power a long time. | |
| 4 | During Hu Yaobang's memorial, a couplet on the wall of the People's University lampooned the communist bureaucracy: "Seeking not accomplishment, but faults free, one shall achieve immortality"; | |
| 5 | But in that same year in which the Tisroc (may he live for ever) began his august and beneficent reign, on a night when the moon was at her full, it pleased the gods to deprive me of my sleep. |