抗日战争胜利后,周恩来代表中共中央到南京与国民党谈判。可一心要打内战的蒋介石政府并无和谈的诚意,谈判期间经常肆意中伤我方代表。有一次,蒋方一位代表公然侮辱我方,说与我方谈话简直是“对牛弹琴”。周恩来听了十分生气,但是当着那么多中外记者的面又不便发作,于是灵机一动,将对方的话稍作改动,回击道:“对,牛弹琴。” After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Enlai negotiated with the KMT on behalf of the CPC Central Committee in Nanjing. The Chiang Kai-shek government, bent on playing the civil war, has no sincerity in peace talks and often slanders our representatives during the negotiations. On one occasion, one of Jiang Fang’s representatives publicly insulted us and said that talking to us is simply a “play against the harbinger.” Zhou Enlai was very angry, but at the time of so many Chinese and foreign reporters, his face was inconvenienced. So he took the opportunity to make a slight change in the other’s words and replied: "Yes,