No more care honking, engine-running sounds on Xuanwu street.No more swarming, pushy crowds at the street cross at Xidan.Gone was the smoke above the Ethnic Palace.

• 这是一个平抚心灵的清静世界，再也没有了宣武大街的汽车轰隆声，西单街口熙熙攘攘的人群，民族宫上空弥漫的烟尘。