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A student has a rest on a folding stool during a recent rehearsal for the National Day celebration in Tian'anmen Square.
It's 6 am.
Ji Yulin's daughter looks out of the window and is delighted to find that it is raining -- perhaps her drills for the National Day parade will be cancelled today?
But no such luck.
Ji Yulin, who is reluctant to reveal his daughter's name, takes her to the Beijing No 2 Middle School as usual and then moves on to the school's sub-campus, a 10-minute walk away, where he works as an instructor, to lead his own students through rehearsals.
Ji, 44, who took part in the parades for the nation's 35th and 50th anniversaries, will march with his students along Chang'an Avenue, the main east-west thoroughfare in Beijing, and pass Tian'anmen Rostrum, where Chairman Mao Zedong declared the founding of New China in 1949.
A special committee for the parade, set up in March, decided to include students from dozens of Beijing colleges, primary and middle schools in the celebration.
Many believe the parade is a once-in-a-life-time experience.
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