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"And I sing, the whole square seems to be my stage."
"They like it when I sing," Liu said, pointing to some photographers on the square not far away.
"When people see me bend down collecting cigarette butts, sweating all over under the scorching sun, they usually pick up the litter they just dropped,franklin marshall," said Liu.
As the cleaner who has worked the longest on the square, Liu said the square is cleaner than years ago.
Liu said not many people know how to sing the old tunes, but whenever she was humming, people were interested and willing to learn a piece or two from her.
"She's getting old," said Wu Xiuyun,moncler, Liu's daughter. "She now suffers from tinnitus and she may faint anytime."
"When I started to pick up cigarettes, my then 4-year-old granddaughter said I was like a spy, sneaking out every day," kidded Liu.
Besides old-time songs, Liu loves singing traditional commercial babbles as well, which vendors in old China used to sing to attract traders.
"She's a fun auntie and most of us know her," said a cleaner on the square surnamed Tang. "Work is fun in her company."
"They even let me have an identification card dangling around my neck with my address and daughter's phone number on it in case I'm lost," Liu said. "They treat me like a kid."
"I don't sweep the floor at home but I never let go of a single cigarette butt on the square," said Liu Yuzhen. "The square is the window of Beijing,ralph lauren pas cher, not my bedroom."
For 17 years, Liu Yuzhen has come with a plastic bag to Tian'anmen Square at about 5 am,moncler, a little bit before the first security guards, and voluntarily picked up the scattered garbage on the square.
BEIJING - This 74-year-old granny has never thought of picking up a tangerine peel off the floor by her bedside and throwing it in the dustbin.
"She possesses good merits," said Jose Martinos, a Brazilian tourist at the square, on seeing Liu rushing forward suddenly after discovering a cigarette butt lying ahead.
"I make use of people's sympathy,doudoune moncler," Liu laughed.
"She even burned herself once as a cigarette butt she picked up was still on fire," said Wu. "The butt ignited the garbage in her bag and her trousers."
Wu bought her mother a mobile phone designed for seniors, with a big emergency button on top in case Liu fainted.
Liu said she was smart because she has been "taking advantage of her seniority" as the square beautician.
But cigarette butts on Tian'anmen Square? Definitely.
Liu Yuzhen, a volunteer garbage collector in Tian'anmen Square.
Liu comes to the square so early that there are only a few people there.
"Which she is,louboutin," Wu argued back.
Getting up before the sun rises, Liu prepares seafood flavor instant noodles, sometimes with an egg,polo ralph lauren, for her husband, who has been bedridden for years. After working for three or four hours, Liu takes the bus back home around 8 am, before the tourists from home and abroad swarm in and her family wakes up from dreams.
Liu said she used to learn vocal music from noted operatic soprano Guo Lanying.
Wu said Liu was sensitive to sunlight and had to wear long sleeves even in summer,louboutin pas cher, when the temperature soars.
"They call me the 'golden voice' of the square," said Liu. "I like the title."
"You are talking with the singer of the square,giubbotti moncler," three photographers shouted back.
"She thought I was doing something cool, like going to a candy factory. It's just something cool she can't understand,ralph lauren, though."
However, despite Liu's devotion to the battle against garbage, her family has been worrying about her health.
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