公元1921年2月8日,是中国旧历新年。这一天,中华民国航空署的数架飞机翱翔于北京的蓝天,在总统府、国务院和航空署上空作低式飞行及其他技术表演。这一仪式宣告了投机、冒险的猴年业已结束,自负、好斗的鸡年已展翅登台。数十年后,有位伟人写下“雄鸡一唱天下白”的豪迈诗句。其实从第一声鸡叫,到天下大白,还要经 February 8, 1921, the Chinese Lunar New Year. On this day, several aircraft of the Republic of China Air Department flew over Beijing’s blue skies and performed low-flying and other technical performances over the presidential palace, the State Department and the Department of Aviation. This ceremony proclaimed the speculation that the adventurous Year of the Monkey was over and the conceited Year of the Rooster had its wings on stage. Decades later, a great man wrote the heroic verse of “The rooster sing the world white.” In fact, from the first chicken, to the world, but also by