"Eat pickled turnips with yellow beans. It gives the taste of walnut."
— Jin Shengtan

January 1, 1970

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Last words of Jin Shengtan, "contained in a sealed letter to his family as he went to his execution, as a joke upon the magistrate", as quoted and reported by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Understanding (1960), p. 468