Chapter 51 Norman blood

To go from Paris to London, one must first cross the Normandy region and then cross the sea. I have been fascinated by Normandy for a long time, and there are many reasons, large and small.The least reason is that the French father-in-law of Taiwanese actor Liu Dekai lives here.Dekai is my friend, and he has described to me the rural life in Normandy many times. It is very interesting. Has historical blood. De Kai was skeptical about this, and asked me to call him over when I came to Normandy this time, so that I could do some research with his father-in-law.But at present, he has a shooting task and can't get away casually. Due to the tight schedule, I don't have time to visit his old Mount Tai, which is very regrettable.It’s just that because of this factor, when I drove through the vast Normandy plain, I kept watching the roadside, hoping to see a few French people who looked like Chinese in stature and appearance, to see if there were any remains of Chinese blood. Yes, I will take a closer look, hoping that he happens to be Dekai's father-in-law.As a result, along the way, there were a lot of suspects to choose from.A partner suddenly shouted: Mr. Qiuyu, stop the car, look at the old French man behind the oak tree, he looks like Liu Dekai!

When it comes to blood relationship, everything is messed up. In the laughter, I thought of the open-air bar under the phoenix tree on Hengshan Road in Shanghai. I was chatting with Dekai, for example, about "Parking Temporary Borrowing Questions". Turning to his French father-in-law, the ladies got up quickly.I think it's not that these ladies are vying to marry Liu Dekai, but rather that they don't want to see such a docile son-in-law and husband sitting on the side of the road and still talking about the distant Normandy. I have never heard of the early blood relationship between the Normans and the Chinese, but in the UK we are going to soon, the Millennium Dynasty is all Norman blood, so the so-called millennium line is for sure.

Since William, Duke of Normandy, crossed the Channel to conquer England in 1066, the ruling language was French for hundreds of years. It was not until Henry III that he used English for the first time in his proclamations.The English language, which is so prominent now, was then a poor native.Later, due to in-law relationship, the British throne was also exclusively inherited by the Hanoverian royal family of Germany. The first two monarchs of this dynasty could not speak English, but only German. The image of Germany was so bad during the First World War that the British used the name of the palace Windsor to refer to the dynasty in a fit of rage until today.But even in the Hanoverian Dynasty, due to the maintenance of in-laws, the successive monarchs were all descendants of William.

If you want to check William's blood relationship, he is not in Normandy, but from the north, probably Scandinavia. In the eyes of many Chinese who pay special attention to local blood, authentic blood and pure blood, this kind of blood map of the British royal family is really disgraceful. On the contrary, the vast majority of British scholars are only interested in the history after William's conquest, and even think that is the real beginning of British history. Thinking of this, I couldn't help laughing.If Dekai's father-in-law's statement is true, and the Chinese are related to William's ancestors, then William's ancestors may have something to do with pirates, right?The British, French, and Scandinavians will not be embarrassed by an ancestor related to pirates, but how can the Chinese bear it?It's better to save this worry, not to mention that according to my judgment, it is unlikely.

I remember the English writer Defoe once said a few words: purebred English?I do not believe!Literally a joke, essentially a phantom. Defoe's statement is beyond doubt.I have always regarded his "Robinson Crusoe" as an allegory, and everyone is a drifter. In fact, not only Britain, but also Germany, France, Italy and many other countries in Europe, fight back and forth when they are unhappy, and marry back and forth when they are happy, and the result of many fights is also marriage.For thousands of years, blood relationship can be said to be inseparable and inseparable, and beliefs and languages ​​are not necessarily bound by national boundaries. Therefore, too much emphasis on the concept of nation-state is really lacking in basis and a bit reluctant.

Blood, family, and nationality should not be the criteria for dividing relatives and enemies. Many confrontations are a kind of single-phase purification of intentionality and emotion, which cannot stand the pursuit of history and reality. This can be witnessed by Normandy. So, what is the criterion for dividing relatives and enemies and the basis for establishing confrontation?Normandy has provided another more spectacular testimony, which is the thrilling bloody beach where the Allied forces landed in the late World War II.Not long ago, the American movie "Saving Private Ryan" made people all over the world remember this beach again, and what they remembered again was the great standard of good and evil that human beings transcend blood and nationality.

The image of Britain at that time was really good.Fighting against Hitler's fascism so tenaciously and thoroughly will make many European countries feel ashamed.London once became the base for gathering counter-offensive forces, which made the whole world admire not only it, but also the spiritual landscape behind the industrial revolution and commercial revolution.From this incident, everyone suddenly thought that not only Hitler, but even Napoleon could not invade Britain, and it had never been conquered in the thousand years after William.Thousands of years later, William's descendants attacked William's starting point in a mighty way. This round of circles finally explained the struggle between civilization and barbarism more and more clearly, and it should be read as an epic.

There are also many heroic American soldiers who have traveled thousands of miles into this circle.From its layout to its colors, the Normandy Beach American Cemetery reminds us of some of life's big questions.The American old man guarding the cemetery is still choked up when talking about the past today. He remembered the look in the eyes of the comrade who fell beside him, and he stayed here for fifty-six years.Now I feel that I can't be with you for too long, so I shed tears.He is not a blood brother who has been with him for life, and he has not returned to his hometown for fifty-eight years. This is really touching; but where is his hometown?Is it in America?Apparently his ancestors were not Native American either.Looking at this old man, I just feel that the sky is high and the earth is wide.

When bidding farewell to the old man, my partners and I made a decision by coincidence: Although the submarine train has already been passed, we still have to abandon the simple and complicate and cross the English Channel by boat. Modern technology is doomed to delete history, and there is nothing we can do about it. Our China’s Baocheng Railway has already deleted "The Difficult Road to Shu".But some history is not far away, it is a pity that it hastily deleted.In particular, the deletion of the disaster and heroism that has just happened will reduce modern times to numbness and mediocrity.Then, while it is not exhausted, make a sacrifice.

Today, the English Channel is very windy and the waves are high, and then it rains heavily. Through the rain, you can see the beautiful sunset.My partners and I stumbled and leaned forward and backward in the cabin, thinking how many historical legends were written in this kind of upheaval, so we took out a pen and paper to write this article while the wind and waves calmed down.Two old British ladies walked over with the backs of chairs, and suddenly stopped beside me. It was the first time in their lives that they saw how Chinese characters were written. Seeing that I wrote so fast was very refreshing, and they kept admiring.They didn't ask me what I was writing. I smiled at them and said to myself, old lady, I am writing about Normandy and when you were young in a language that you don't understand.

I suddenly remembered the passengers who took the submarine train, and it was a pity for them.At the moment they are at our feet, completely unaware of the high winds and high waves, and the bleak sunset. They only heard the whistling of the train, and they have passed through all the history.