Chapter 5 <Stories from afar︱Central and South America travel notes>

Qiu Yanming's record (San Mao came out in sign language) If you still don't understand what the sign language just means?So let me love you all again!This is the International Sign Language I love you, but I changed the last word to everyone. Last fall, I made a promise that one day, after traveling all over Central and South America, I would come back and meet my friends.Today, I have fulfilled this promise, and I will hand over this achievement to you, as a heartfelt gesture of traveling thousands of rivers and mountains on behalf of the United Daily News and on behalf of all of you!

we are earthlings Over the past few years in Taiwan, there has been a very good phenomenon. I have found that Chinese people are more and more fond of their own cultural heritage, love our folk customs, love our history, and love the rich things left by our ancestors.In fact, I am also the same in this aspect. I like folk art very much, and I like historical relics very much. Why do we talk about loving China?My point of view is that since there are so many friends in Taiwan who have made great efforts and contributions in Chinese culture, should we only try to discover things from our own country? Is that enough?

I don't think so. When I see friends of different nationalities living on the same earth, I can't help thinking: Who are we?who are we?What kind of creature are we?Finally came up with a noun to we are earthlings.Since we are earthlings, this little earth belongs to us.Therefore, we love China, and don't neglect to know the earth, because after all, we are the inhabitants of the earth.In this situation, I like to travel on behalf of you. Central and South America is said to be far away, but it is said to be very close. Compared with the whole universe, it is actually our neighbor.Then it is also meaningful for us to explore that area and report our little experiences.That's why when others are working hard on Chinese culture and let Sanmao enjoy it, I left my home country and went to a distant place. At this time, I often think of a sentence: When others are planting wheat, I quit , to plant roses.This is also my explanation for going to Central and South America.

do homework Today I call the first part Doing Homework.Everyone, especially the younger brothers and sisters, must be very disappointed. It is rare to come here today to relax, so why does Sister Sanmao do her homework again when she is here?I still insist on doing my homework, because I think you have been standing outside for a long time. If you only heard Sanmao's so-called faraway stories, of course you would not get nothing, but I feel that I am lacking in my conscience. A confession.Now that we have left Central and South America, shouldn't we have the responsibility to make a simple report with you in terms of history and geography?

Along the way, traveling is not my first homework, but I have never traveled before working with a colleague.I have traveled with my parents, siblings, and with my husband; now with a Misha photographer who was sent by United to work with me.How to maintain a good relationship with colleagues in this situation where each other must be absolutely self-respecting and mutual respect is very difficult, and it is even more difficult for me, because I am not a gregarious person, and I like to be alone. Walking, but if it is not for my colleagues, everyone will not be able to see this set of beautiful slides in a while.And if it wasn't for the work of the art team and the United Daily Supplement this time, plus the cooperation of all the staff using the site; even the cooperation of all the staff would not be enough. Without everyone, who would we show our slides to?So I said, this is the work of a group, and the greatest contribution is patience, and only with great patience can everything be considered.But in this mutual work attitude, I think the most important strength lies in the wild applause just now. (Audience applauds again)

Who are you applauding for? friends!You are applauding yourself, don't you even know it?You are applauding yourselves. (Laughter) Last night I was in the United Daily News Supplement office, talking about this lecture tour, when an elder I didn’t know came in, and he said: Sanmao!You are amazing.Later I told him: I have to correct what you said!Sanmao is nothing special at all. The novels she writes are not exciting, violent, political, or provocative. She doesn’t even have the academic qualifications to refuse the entrance exam.Under such circumstances, it is not Sanmao's achievements, but readers' great minds, that ordinary articles, one story after another, have gained such great resonance from compatriots in the past eight years.

I don't need to stand here and say something flattering to you. The word I've been thinking over and over again is just benevolence, which is what the Chinese call benevolence.The Chinese character ren is very interesting. It is the word 人 with a second character added, that is to say, when two people are added together, it is called ren.Of course, this is the most basic interpretation, but if these two people are added to another two people, and then two people, to the whole human being, our entire society is a combination of human figures. In my explanation, this is called benevolence. .Therefore, when I meet with you face to face, I am deeply moved by you, please applaud yourselves!not for me.

see my ordinary Today I am wearing my old blue cloth trousers and standing on the stage. I have my explanation. I sincerely ask all friends who love Sanmao to see how ordinary and ordinary I am. Don’t love me, love yourself.Because what you love is actually not Sanmao, what you love is the common dedication to human beings and society.Sanmao's words are the common voice in everyone's heart, but you have to take the entrance exam, work, take care of your children, and all kinds of things make it impossible for you to hold that ballpoint pen in your hand and climb the grid. Today I am just representing you. Let me tell you what is in my heart. Our ordinary hearts are the same. It is your hearts that encouraged Sanmao to write some small stories.Now we really start doing our homework.

it would be nice to have one I am now Teacher Zhang (laughing), and I would like to ask you one thing. Whenever I travel to a place, Teacher Zhang, I must take out the reference books of this country and look through them before I go. Look at their population, geography, and history, because the era of traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books has passed. If you have this opportunity, it is best to read the information before walking, and use your own experience to confirm what the book says. Is it the same, and then you write down your personal feelings.So, I would like to ask you a question. Since you are here to attend the Central and South America Travel Lecture, which one of you has read the map of Central and South America at home?

have!There is a show of hands. (Enthusiastic applause from all) I am really happy, just having one!As long as this work can benefit one person, as long as one, only one, then our painstaking efforts will have achieved results.Since there is only one person who has read the map, and no one else has a map, I can only show you a map of Central and South America later. into the earth Now everyone, please don’t think of me as San Mao or Mr. Zhang, please think of me as a map of Central and South America (San Mao used his own body and limbs as a map to introduce the location of Central and South America on the earth and the locations of various countries in Central and South America. This paragraph is omitted, readers are asked to refer to the map of Central and South America.)

American Now that we have a rough idea of ​​geography, who were the original inhabitants of this land?Please be patient and help me with my homework.I put the boring part at the front, lest you escape. In fact, the door has been locked, and you can't escape. (audience laughs) You will definitely ask me, Sanmao, you have worked so hard to make your own map, one time like this, one time like that; my purpose is to ask everyone to understand why I have to dissect my body countless times to show you, then this Now that a piece of land has been produced in this synagogue, where do these inhabitants come from? I'm not an Indian yet, and when this talk with you is over, I'll bring some Indian clothes, and I'll transform myself into Indian men and women on the spot, with physical speech, Please take a look.Where did the Indians of Central and South America come from?Was it blown out of the sun?Or the Spaniards that Columbus brought with him when he discovered the New World in 1492?None of this! I just said that the time when Central and South America was discovered, please go to research, it should be correct.On October 27, 1492, Columbus' fleet encountered Cuba.When his fleet found a piece of land, they shouted: India has arrived!Because Columbus was going to find us Chinese. It happened in the 15th century. He was going to China. When he sailed across Cuba, he knew that it was not China. He thought that place was India, so he called those Indians India. people.Now, in Central and South America, it is common to call local residents of pure blood who have not mixed with Spaniards in blood, and the pronunciation in Western is actually Indian, which is why we call them Indians. Where did they come from?According to the more than a dozen reference books I consulted and the explanations of the anthropological museum, I got the same conclusion. These oldest Indians came from Mongolia.You will definitely say that there is an ocean between Asia and America. Do they have the skills to row boats?Got a knack for sailing?No, so I turn myself into a map Asia and America hold hands (San Mao explained how Asia and America were connected in the current Bering Strait when the ice sheets were not thawed. Please refer to the map and omit it.) At that time, the Mongols were chased by a giant beast from Asia, maybe it was a dinosaur, but I guess dinosaurs were slow-moving animals, but every museum said that the giant beast was chasing them. I thought that since it was a giant beast, it must have run very slowly. Rhinos, elephants, dinosaurs!Fleeing, fleeing, fleeing all the way from Mongolia to North America.At the same time, I think the giant beast also crossed the ice sheet, because since humans escaped the junction of the Bering Strait, of course the giant beast also chased it.All in all, use your imagination, chase them from the North Pole to North America, and then flee south to where the giant beasts can't live, and they settled down. This is the native people of Central and South America in the past.The proven source is Mongolia.No wonder, when I was traveling, they looked like me, and they looked like me again. Then I thought, huh!We are still brothers!Maybe my ancestors and their ancestors used to be neighbors and gossip together.When the beast came, we fled to the south, and they fled to the north. This time, the children and grandchildren didn't meet each other. When it was my turn, they got together again.real!Hard to say!It's possible.Of course, it's not worth doing this kind of research. (crowd laughs) maya Here, I have to remind you that there is a splendid civilization in Central America, which existed before the Spaniards occupied Central America.From 400 BC to 900 AD, that is, the tenth century, this culture was called the Mayan culture.Later, the Mayan culture blended with another Taotas culture in Mexico.For details, if you like ancient history and history, please refer to the books you can buy in bookstores.Or this time I wrote a travel note called "Traveling Thousands of Waters and Thousands of Mountains". In this book, there are more or less explanations about Mayan culture, in terms of age and its culture. Inca There was also an empire in South America in the past, the Inca Empire.The explanation in my article is particularly clear, but there must be some readers of mine who see it more clearly and will ask me back: Sanmao, you are lying!You didn't say a word about the Inca.I would like to remind everyone that I am a writer, not a teacher of history and geography, and what I am doing this time is just a literary trip, not archaeology.However, I like to use the tone of the story to express the civilian life of the Inca era in my words.However, I can't say like a textbook that the Incas didn't have cows and horses at that time. They only ate corn, and they didn't have wheat.At this point, you will say: Ouch!Let's not look!I can't write this way, because the newspaper will arrest me for such boring writing. (Audience laughs) So, under this circumstance, the life of the common people of the Incas was woven into an article called "The Granddaughter of the Medicine Master" by me.Others will say: You did not live in that era, how do you know?In Ecuador, I asked nearly a dozen scholars, read books, and then based on my inner feelings, weaved this pharmacist's granddaughter into a story of her predecessor. If you are interested, you can look for it carefully. It is the only story that did not happen during my journey. It is about a man who lived in the early sixteenth century before the Spaniards fully occupied the land. Let me tell the story of an ordinary woman who died, and how an Inca woman and her husband lived their lives.There are already some explanations in this article, and the historical part will not be repeated. Machu Picchu One thing I have to explain is that some friends may not read my article, and our slides will introduce a great discovery in Peru later, called Machu Picchu, the lost city, the lost city of the Incas.Until now, this city has no history, no writing, and no surviving residents. Why is this abandoned city abandoned in the mountains?This story is also written in my book, called "The Lost City". In the Peru part, the slides will also come out. This is a point I have to explain. plateau and coca The highest altitude I have ever been to in my life is Bolivia at 4,100 meters. This is a rather unique experience for me. Of course, this will cause altitude sickness.At that time, the lack of oxygen in your brain made you sluggish and kind, and you had no thought of quarreling. The loyalty and kindness of the residents there may be due to the lack of oxygen in your brain. (Laughter from the crowd) Don't think this is a good thing. This ghost thing called altitude sickness is called Sonocchi in the language of the Inca Empire that has survived to this day.There is also a text about Sonocchi. There is a herbal coca in the Andes plateau, which can be extracted into a drug called cocaine. When I was in the plateau, I chewed this leaf all day long. Leaves, the police station will definitely invite you to go in and sit for a few days, eat one leaf for a day, eat seven leaves for a week; What the embassy workers brought out was also coca tea.Coca leaves are an indispensable plant on the plateau, and it is also our little common sense. I saw that when several newspapers introduced coca as a plant, they said that it was banned in South America and could not be eaten. It was a drug.Yes, it's a drug, how to say it?A ton of coca leaves may yield about a gram of white powder, which when injected into your bloodstream is, of course, madness.In this case, it is indeed a drug.Therefore, things in the world are like money. If it is used well, it is the most powerful thing. If it is not used well, money will ruin your family, and the same is true for coca.Why this plant in particular?Because eating coca makes me feel very fresh. It is sold in general vegetable markets. What I eat is only coca tea. After eating, it can alleviate the lack of oxygen in the brain.If this phenomenon subsides within three to five days, when you live on the plateau forever, our body will help you add a kind of thing in your blood that people on the plateau don’t have. I won’t talk about that term, that is, you The oxygenated components in the blood are different at high altitudes, it will produce oxygenated components for you, so you should not come down, because when you go down to the lowlands, you will not get used to it again.This is a special point for Bolivia, because it is the highest country in the world, and you will see that beautiful plateau on the slide later. revolutionary This is a brief introduction to Central and South America in a very limited time. There are two other characters that must be mentioned.Why?Because they led the independence of Central and South America, this is our common sense. The first revolutionist who led the independence of so many countries, his character is very similar to our founding father, Mr. Sun Yat-sen, this person is called Boliva; the other revolutionary who led the independence of South America is called San Martin (San Martin) ). In the past, in the comic book "Dolls See the World" that I translated, because it was an Argentine book, St. Martin often appeared.Our Chinese children will always ask me: Who is St. Martin?Why does he appear in the doll?I also asked my father: Daddy!Let me test you, who is Saint Martin?My father said: St. Martin, isn't he a priest from Gengxin Academy of Arts?I asked again: Who is Bolivar?He said: Is it a poet in France?Perhaps ordinary people in China are still unfamiliar with these two characters.Please go to the reference book! migrant You must be asking me about modern Central and South America by now.I went on this trip not only as a city mouse, but also as a country mouse, traveling everywhere. After flying to a big city, I stay there for a week. If I feel that this country does not echo me, I will not stay longer, but places like Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia are very partial. It is a pity that these countries will stay longer and write more articles. Many people ask me: Sanmao, I like to immigrate to Central and South America, what are your thoughts and feelings?Because you just came back.I asked: what is the purpose of immigration?I found that many families who wish to immigrate are quite at a loss about the country they are going to and their own goals. When they arrive in that country, they do not care about and participate in the society to which they immigrate.Personally, I feel very sorry about this. So, among my friends, if you want to immigrate to Central and South America with the intention of making money, then what I want to say is that if you go to a place in Central and South America where you don’t understand the language, put in your wholehearted efforts to earn what others have earned. With the same effort as you, why not pay this hard work in your own country?You also get paid, my opinion on immigration is not optimistic.My opinion is that if you love folk art deeply and you love to see the life of the local people, it is worthwhile.But if you say you want to make money, I want to tell you that after traveling all over Central and South America and then returning to Taiwan, I know how cute Taiwan is.There are no beggars in Taiwan. This is the result of the hard work of all our people. It has made our economy take off. Every one of us should feel proud.I say this because I have traveled to too many countries, including some countries in Europe, where beggars have slowly started to appear in the past ten years, not to mention Central and South America; of course, some big cities are so good Terrible, for example, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Santiago are all big cities, but there are beggars everywhere, and only we in the Republic of China and Taiwan cannot see this phenomenon.Are you immigrating to a country with beggars to make money?Or stay in a country where there are no beggars?Please measure it yourself!I can't answer you. alright!For me today, it seems to be a promise report to everyone when I come back from work. I have finished my homework here, and I will talk about some interesting things next. (Applause from the audience) Now I want to talk about what I do during my travels. At this time, I won’t break down the country and geography. my must see places I have two statements: one is, what I like to do; the other is, the places I have to see.There's a big difference between the two, and I'll start with the things I have to watch. public toilet Whenever I go to a new country, I must first look at their stations. I am used to taking buses and trains, because renting a car is too expensive.I want to see their public toilets more.well!A little brother in a red shirt over there is shaking with laughter when he hears this.Why, when ordinary people live in tourist hotels and so-called inspections, they don't think of going to public toilets for the public. Why does Sanmao go?Everyone is laughing.Ai!Sanmao's hobbies are really strange.Why?Because public toilets represent the most basic public morality and education level in this country, do you agree or not? (Applause) Do you want to watch it?No shame at all.If you live in a one-hundred-dollar tourist hotel, all you see are foreigners who go for business or meetings, and you won’t even meet the locals.So, where do you see things at the grassroots level in this country?In your foreign friend's house, the washroom is of course clean.Where is the sense of public morality and public conscience in this country?It's in its public restroom.It's not funny at all!I think this is the easiest place to look. Japanese I have traveled all over Central and South America, and I have to score with countries, which one is the best, because I have not only seen one; I have traveled all over Central and South America, and when I arrived in Brazil, I am very strict, especially when it comes to toilets. pass.When I arrived in Brazil, I entered a museum of Japanese immigration history, which is open to the public. Why do I need to see the museum of Japanese immigration history when I go to Brazil?Because Brazil is a country of immigrants, without immigrants, it would not be what it is today, and it is a place with a lot of people.I went to the Japanese Immigration History Museum, went to its bathroom, secretly inspected it, and even put my finger on its red brick floor to touch it, and my finger was clean.When I came out at that time, I had a deep feeling in my heart. Regardless of the hatred of past wars between China and Japan, for Japan, except for their literature.I don't have personal sentiments, but like a fair teacher taking the name off the grade, the Japanese deserve a good grade for world cleanliness.Why can't the neighbors next to him, we Chinese, do well in this small matter that the Japanese can do?I was very touched when I saw it. The Japanese airline I fly, and all the Japanese chain businesses I have seen, all of them have won the first place in Central and South America.This point, I have the courage to speak out.Maybe many of us hate the Japanese, but hate as much as you like, but when you recognize your enemy, the Japanese are not a simple enemy, they are incredible.Their toilets are clean even when they touch the floor. Is it okay to fight a war?That's why I said that in terms of cleanliness and tidiness when traveling all over Central and South America, the Japanese are the first in the test.The Father of the Nation said: A small thing done perfectly is a big thing.When it comes to the Three People's Principles, you may think that it is a homework to memorize, but please think about the truth of the founding father. If a small public toilet is so clean, other things cannot be too bad.This is my personal opinion, so the first thing I must see when traveling is the public toilet. go to the market The second thing I want to see is the big vegetable market.Supermarkets in Central and South America are not as common as in North America, and there are still many housewives who buy vegetables in large vegetable markets.In this case, I must go there.why?I don't have a kitchen. I live in a hotel and eat very simple food. Why should I look at the vegetable market?Because of the living standard of a country's citizens, whether the material supply is abundant, and whether the market economy is booming or sluggish, you can see some clues in the market. There is no place better than the market, for me. If you go abroad for inspection, others will accompany you and say: This is our processing plant, this is our something, this is our something, you can't see the basic level of real consumers there.It just so happens that I am the person wearing blue work pants, and I happen to be entering the vegetable market, and I can’t enter the briefing room to ask someone to give a briefing, so I will naturally go to the vegetable market to see, observation is not enough, because I understand the local language, I also seek proof.I asked the people in business: how is it?Is business good?not too good!Some said: It's okay.I also look at the housewife's vegetable basket; I not only look at the housewife's vegetable basket, but I also say: Madam, you buy a lot of vegetables!yes!I asked: How many of you eat the vegetables in the shopping basket?The three of us ate it!Sir, a child and me.How often do you buy vegetables?Buy it once every three days, and add a little bit of milk and bread.Look at her three-day food basket.What is your husband doing?Ask her for advice in a chatty way.They will answer: My husband is teaching.Sir is the postman.Mr. works in the bank.I can roughly see what kind of income, what kind of food, and what kind of consumption this is.During my short stay, at least it gave me an understanding of the basic life of this country.Consumption is seen from the big vegetable market. into the bookstore In addition, the things I must see are entrusted by my father, not what I want to see.My father used to tell me: sister!I have a request for you, can you travel around the world instead of me?I said: You can tell me to do nothing, only this is the most convenient.Because that's all I can do.Father said: I have a wish.My father is a lawyer, not a teacher, but I was educated by him.He said: Can you travel to every country in the world, please go and collect elementary school textbooks for me?You collected primary school textbooks from all over the world to Taiwan, and we roughly asked someone to translate them, and then said: I invite you to do this work, we will hold an exhibition, and invite educators from all over Taiwan to take a look, How are other people's textbooks compiled?In comparison, how well are our textbooks compiled?This is a wish of my father. This time, because I don’t like to carry too many things when I walk, but I read it for my father, but I didn’t buy it. This is not my burden, I love to go to bookstores.Under such circumstances, I read textbooks from seven countries and did not buy them after reading them, because I felt that collecting seven textbooks was not enough. For my father's wish, I should make a special trip. After reading these textbooks, I am quite touched. Therefore, the third thing I must see is how their primary school education concepts and materials are, how they cultivate a child's mind, how to squeeze a piece of soft mud into a kind and practical person with textbooks. , hopeful, promising life.This is the third thing I have to do. things i love to do I still have things I like to do, which are different from what I have to do.What people like to do often has no purpose.What must be done is often explained to myself, to the newspaper, and to my father.But what you like to do is different. Set off The first thing I like to do, is start.I don't talk about parting. In fact, in every journey, the departure also symbolizes farewell; but I like to describe parting as departure, which is originally one with two sides. Every time I go to a place, I always make a group of friends unconsciously.The so-called unknowingly means that there is absolutely no need to catch people and say: Oh!God!I love you so much!You have to accept me!How much I admire you!How beautiful you are!Sign your signature!You write to me, and I write back to you, please!This kind of friend is called begging.Pull!Trick!Asking for an address; this is called begging.In Central and South America, I don’t ask for alms, I follow the fate, and when the fate comes, I am a friend; when the fate is scattered, the car takes me to a place where the blue bird can’t reach. The name of an article, I went up, and smiled with the friends below Forget it. Often I know that I will never go back to a small station in the forests of Honduras and run into the same old lady on a rainy day, which is unlikely.So when I got in the car, I told her, goodbye!farewell!goodbye.It's over, I'm gone, and I don't have too much melancholy in my heart.It's not good to let your precious feelings run wild, and it's important to know how to protect yourself. Sometimes, I will also leave some of my own feelings, leaving a small piece of my heart somewhere.But at this time, I thought that although I was reluctant to give up, there was an unknown waiting for me ahead.I have left things behind, but I am also welcoming the future.So when I got on the bus, the driver started the car, the radio was turned on, pop songs were sung, and I watched the scenery passing by outside the window, I would say to myself: How beautiful life is!Because I don't know what will happen at the next stop.So I said, I like to go. Eternal Knot Besides, I like meeting by chance.I have a colleague who walks with me, but my work is my ballpoint pen, his work is his camera, and the work of the two people is not the same.Therefore, when we take a plane, a train, a boat, a bus, or even walk, I often say a word to my colleagues: please pay attention to the shots you can take, because this time you come to Central and South America, you are not Come with me to visit mountains and rivers, I am not traveling with you, I want to take care of my life and enrich my writing; you have to take care of your camera and make your shots colorful.So please don't talk to me too much.He was also very good, and said: Don't talk to me, I'm looking for my camera. When I often take a long-distance bus, I tell this colleague: Misha!You sit somewhere else, I don't want to sit with you.I must go and sit next to a stranger.If this stranger and I have nothing to say, just say: Good day!May I sit next to you?good!If you don't talk, then I will follow the fate, and I will not talk.If he said: Do you have a lighter?I said: Yes!He borrowed the fire and he didn't speak, so I didn't speak either.This is random, absolutely random. It's completely random. If you want to talk to me, you can talk to me, and if you don't, you don't talk.However, I am a predestined person, and it is almost impossible to sit by my side and not talk to me. (The audience roared with laughter and clapped their hands.) Really, they would keep talking and telling me what was in their hearts.Of course, I had a bad habit of not being able to sleep when I was on a long-distance bus; so I listened, listened, listened, and listened, and there were some shocking stories about ghosts and gods, just from the mouth of an ordinary woman, people told, I listen.People who say it often shed tears.However, I never ask people: what happened later?and after?At the end of the talk, she called me: Mommy is up.This is the Spanish of the Indians, very affectionate.They call older women moms (ㄇㄚ'ㄇㄚ')!The man is called Dad (ㄅㄚ'ㄅㄚ')!I once heard a kid, about eight years old, being called Daddy by an older guy!They call me Mammy!It's Mommy!Please think about it, is such a society peaceful?Everyone on the street is mom and dad, (audience laughs) How wonderful!They started calling me Miss or Mrs all the time and I didn't feel recognized.One day, I suddenly realized that, somehow, I had become the "mummy" among them. With just this one word, they agreed with me. Mommy!Goodbye, this situation, my name is encounter by chance.Li Bai's poem.I have memorized "Drinking Alone under the Moon" many times. The last four sentences are: make love together when awake, separate when drunk, and love each other forever.This is my understanding of meeting by chance.Goodbye, let's go!Mommy!Where is your home?The home is in the southeast and northwest.Where is home?Home is in the world.Where is home?home in the universe. (Audience laughs) I don't leave an address, never leave an address.My home is in the universe, goodbye!Well, this is just a chance meeting, and I love this thing. Harmonica This way, I have no toys.Adults should have toys too.In the Canary Islands, my toys were those books, and I was so happy when I got a new one.My toys over there, and the greens I grow at home, and my roller skates, and my belt hose to sprinkle the lawn at dusk and let the sea breeze make the spray.This is my game. When traveling, we don’t have a radio, and the easiest way to go is the best. Just leave with a small bag. My colleagues often say: Alas!So lonely!It would be nice to have a radio.The two of us don't talk much, and we've finished talking, what's your name, what's my name, there's nothing we can do. When I went to the market in Honduras, I bought a small harmonica for my little friend. (Sanmao took out a small harmonica and blew it.) I bought it in Honduras, a deep mountain where Indians go to the market that the locals don’t even know. After driving for eight hours, I finally bought it. It was a small harmonica made in the Czech Republic. (Audience laughs) It is this little baby who has accompanied me on the road of thousands of rivers and mountains.I like to use this little musical instrument to stride in the streets and alleys, in the deserted villages, what tunes do I play? I don't know how to play the harmonica, please don't think that I really can, I play very badly. But I bring a harmonica!Why?When I was a child, my father forced me to play the piano, which made me cry.The children in our family were forced to make up music by my father. How strange to have such a father! (Audience roars with laughter) At that time, I resisted all the time and refused to play the piano. I don’t like playing the piano, so just listen to it.我父親說：我強迫妳，因為將來妳在人生的路上，可能遇到一些坎坷。到時候要是爸爸媽媽不在身邊，音樂可以化解自己一點點的憂傷。我不懂，完全不懂父親的意思。我說：你說的憂傷就是沒有錢啦！I know. （全場笑）我沒有錢，你逼我彈鋼琴，我長大的時候貧病交集，那裏有錢買鋼琴娛樂自己呢？ 可是起碼我父親有關音樂這句話，到今天對我生了效果。我買了一把小口琴，自己摸索，摸索出音階來。好，我們就回到剛才那個地方，吹什麼曲子？think about it!在聖保羅，那樣的大都市裏，在玻利維亞大草原的穹蒼下，就是這條洗了又穿、穿了又洗的藍布褲子，就是這身打扮，也就是這個小口琴，吹什麼，吹呂泉生先生作曲的中國兒童進行曲。 我現在才知道，有很多的小學還是用這條曲子，做為早晨升旗時集合的曲子。各位知道這曲子嗎？好像都不知道，難道我這麼老了嗎？ (audience laughs) 在我說我喜歡吹口琴，這場旅行我只講愉快的事情。其實這是人生中最大的一場體力考驗，半年的時間讓妳走、走、走、走。每天早上十點鐘出門，到晚上十點回旅舍，這是我的作息。 在這種情形之下，有時候心理上會有高原現象出現，會疲倦的，不願意再走下去。How to do it?就吹這條曲子快樂我自己。 （三毛哼出了一段曲調）大家知道這首曲子？ （全場笑答：知道。） 在我小學一年級的時候，這裏沒有這樣可愛的小寶寶嗎？There must be.我一年級時是很可愛的小孩子，不是像現在這個樣子。 （眾笑）一年級的時候，剪著短髮，一件白襯衫，深藍色的裙子到膝蓋，穿著我母親替我洗得很清潔的一雙白球鞋。早晨，我們在教室自修，一聽到這條歌從擴音器放出來的時候，所有的小孩就像彈簧一樣從椅子上跳起了來，然後就順著曲子排隊，機器人一般恰恰、恰恰的走到操場上去，站在國旗下面。於是，一個小學一年級的孩子美麗的一天，在朝陽之下，因為這首曲子而打開了。我最快樂的回憶，就是跟這首曲子有關的。到今天，千山萬水怎麼走，我吹它的時候，又變成了當年那個快樂的小孩子。 喜歡偶爾的迷路 我又喜歡各位一定嚇一跳，我自己也很吃驚，原來我喜歡的是這個，因為上一剎我已經忘了我喜歡迷路。（聽眾笑起來） 別人說那有這種事，妳迷路了不是很慌張嗎？我不常迷路，因為我的方向觀念非常正確，我的方向觀念是因為多少的坎坷，迫得我不敢再走岔路，所以，我說我很少迷路。 可是，偶爾迷一次路使我開心得不得了，譬如說在一個一千七百萬人口的大城墨西哥城裏面，迷路了。比如在一千兩百萬人口的聖保羅城，在巴西，一下子發現也迷路了，我開心得不得了，終於一次，不是人為的使你迷路，自自然然。所以我說，我喜歡迷路。 Why?迷路的時候，往往使你有一點點心焦，然後呢，又有一點點歡喜。 最有趣的一回是在巴西，要回旅館，一不小心繞個圈，迷路了。這一迷路，迷到那裏去了呢？越走越不對，迷到了花街柳巷。（全場嘩笑） 我覺得這是旅行中給我的一個禮物，我必看的是大菜場啦，教科書啦，公共洗手間啦！怎麼沒有說必看花街柳巷。這偶爾一個錯失，使我進去了。我看到花街柳巷一個真真實實、活活潑潑的另一個層面的生命、美麗和藝術，是我平常所不能接觸到的。我不說它是低級、中級或者高級，我現在要說的是，看見的它是一個浮面的街頭喜劇，當然，裏面藏著的東西可能便是悲哀了。一生就可能這麼迷進去一次，也就出來了。所以，我說，我喜歡迷路。迷路這件事情也是好的，迷了方向，一下子峰迴路轉、柳暗花明，人生又是一番風光了。所以我說，我喜歡迷路。 人間燈火勝於巨星 再說，我喜歡看人間的燈火。 每當黃昏來臨的時候，我也走累了，常常往一個小山坡走去，當然在安地斯高原有很多斜斜的山坡，在那個山坡的旁邊，往往就會有一座教堂天主教堂，它們喜歡建在高崗上。教堂門口有長長的石階，我在石階上坐下來，對著腳底下那片小城，有的時候六萬人，有的時候十萬人，有時候十二萬人，我坐在那個地方，托著下巴，看天空淡淡的晚霞，由那種紅褐的顏色，轉成鴿灰，在轉變的時候，那個山崗下的燈火東一盞、西一盞的點燃了起來。 我常常在那裏看、看、看，看到發癡發狂了過去。那個時候，我絕對要求我的同事不要在我的身邊，我要一個人。 黃昏是一天裏最美麗的時刻，這個時候，妻子等著丈夫下班；工作一天辛苦的男人，放鬆了！孩子放學，母親炒菜；老祖父、老祖母在盼望什麼時候孫兒、孫女再來看望他們，這都是燈火下的故事。 我愛看那些燈火，看到後來心裏就要跟我那上天的爸爸講起話來了，我說：老天爺啊！求您看顧這些燈火，但願在這一盞盞燈火下，沒有命運的家破人亡，妻離子散，也沒有人為的夫妻吵架，父子不和，也但願天下每一顆流浪的心，有一天在一盞燈火下，得到永遠的歸宿。 這不是我在作散文，因為知道燈火對我，對人間，象徵著什麼樣的意義。 看到後來，黃昏過去了，天暗了，那個時候，我常常拿出我的口琴來輕輕的吹，吹什麼？吹甜蜜的家庭。對著不知道已有甜蜜家庭的那群燈火，在那個高崗上，靜靜的吹，吹到天空變成深藍色，吹到天上繁星萬點，地下火樹銀花好了！沒有了哀傷，我站起來拍一拍衣服，對自己說：走吧！回旅館去，美麗的一天結束了。這也是我喜歡做的一件事看燈火。 我不喜歡的事 我不喜歡做三毛，尤其在我旅行的時候。中南美洲不只是中國人認識我，因為我的文字被翻譯成西班牙文的時候，中南美當然也有，其實我的外形和在沙漠時代，已經是完全兩個不同的人了，在加拿大卻被一個墨西哥人認出來：我在那裏見過妳？我說沒有。他一直堅持見過我，對！妳就是坐在沙漠，抱著一隻小白羊的女人，那就是妳嘛！我問：你在那裏看到我的照片？他說：在讀者文摘畫上。 當然，這種外國人的情形是不多，因為他們把我看做印地安人的情形比中國人還多，但中國人不同。中國人在中南美洲的華僑是很多很多，出乎意料的多，這是我自己的孤陋寡聞。 我不喜歡的事情是不喜歡做三毛。我穿著這身工裝褲，中國人一看就知道是三毛，就會在街上追我，中國人就會把我捉住。 不得了，就要來愛了，讀者是愛我還是罰我，很難講，（哄堂大笑）那個愛，氾濫得比洪水還要可怕。怎麼愛呢？將人愛得死去活來不勝負荷。 有一次在巴西，被一位特別兇悍的讀者在街上抓住了，用手捉住，要帶我去她家，說她環境好，有大轎車，妳要去那裏玩都可以。我說，不行！我要走路，我要坐公共汽車，我要坐地下車，得到我自己的見聞，不然我浪費了報社的金錢。她不肯，問我住什麼旅館，我不肯說，後來她站在那裏哭起來了說：我等妳等那麼久，原來妳是這樣一個殘忍的人。（全體大笑）我認為這不是真正的愛護我。我不喜歡被人過分的愛護，尤其是讀者強迫我接受的那份愛。 盲琴師的故事 事實上這都不是遠方的故事，現在我要說一個小小的遠方的故事。 在秘魯印加帝國的古城，叫做古斯可。我因為雨季在那個地方被困住了，大約有一個月的時間，這段時間我在那裏寫了<索諾奇>、<夜戲>、<迷城>、<逃水>四篇文章，但是我忘了寫另一個故事，現在這裏補出來，也算是我在那四篇之外的第五篇。 在這個城有一個很大的廣場，廣場上有很多人在那裏兜售他們的土產，這是普通的現象。我因為雨季不能離開，而每天早晨是不下雨的，中午十二點過才開始下。每天早晨我到廣場上去散步，散步的時候，總也聽到有絃樂的聲音，從廣場的一個角落飄過來，但是看不到人，只聽到音樂。 散步了兩天之後，第三天就去找音樂的來處了。找到很遠一個角落，看到兩個人，一個比較胖的，年紀比較大的，是一個盲人；旁邊坐一個比較瘦的也是盲人，兩個人都戴了帽子。 一個盲人彈著類似豎琴一般的樂器，另一個吹笛子，非常好聽。我走過去，發現他們前面放著一個茶杯一樣的小罐子，當然是乞討，將音樂來換你一點點的銅板。 我認為一個將音樂帶上街頭的人就不是乞丐，因為畢竟他給了你一點什麼東西，一個把美麗音樂帶到街頭的人，是不能叫做空手乞丐的。 看看他們放錢罐，罐子裏是空的，我走過幾次，沒有人跟他們丟錢。我跑到對面廣場坐下來了，細聽那音樂，不能說彈得很好，也不能說差，民族音樂的風味。直覺這兩個人討錢的地方不對，他們躲在那角落裏討錢，人家只會聽到音樂，那裏會有人找到他們那兒去給他們錢呢？ 在這種情形之下，我心裏對他們付出了很大的同情。我走過去對他們說：請問是誰把你們帶到這街角的呢？這是廣場的最角落位置不太好喲！是我的小孩帶我來的。我問：收入怎麼樣？很少！非常老實的一對音樂師。這本來也是個貧富不均的國家。 一時裏我想了一下。古斯可城那時我已經熟了，有很多窄窄的巷子，是石塊砌的，印加時代砌的。我們遊客去參觀他們古蹟的時候，秘魯政府做了一件很有趣的事情強迫你買觀光聯票。你參觀這教堂時，非得同時買下另一個美術館的入場券，你買了美術館的入場券，他強迫你再買另一個古堡的入場券，一次十五個古蹟一起賣。 我想，有一條窄街，只兩條手臂伸直那麼窄，從一個大教堂出來的時候，遊客經過這條長長的窄街前往美術館，是遊客必經之路。我跟兩個盲人說：你們信不信任我？我是一個旅行來的人，我覺得我有辦法替你們多賺錢。他們一聽呆掉了。我說：你們別怕，我不會害你們的。Mrs!我沒有怕妳！What are you going to do?我們一向坐在這角落裏的。Come!你們這樣不夠賺，這不是辦法。他們實在很貧窮，我並不是鼓勵討錢，只是要幫忙。 我跟彈豎琴的人說：請站起來抱住您的琴，拉住我長褲後面的帶子我把他的手拉過來拿住我的背帶，他後面的人再拉住他的衣服，一串三個人像糖葫蘆一樣。我走前陣，慢慢走！這裏有樓梯。其實他們路比我還清楚，因為那是他們的城。我們三個拉著走，我也說不出他們的年紀，是兩個印地安人。 我們走得很慢，因為怕他們摔。我把他們帶到那條窄街上去，請他們坐在街邊。 我在對面等，看到那些遊客參觀完教堂了，開始要走向美術館去了，就開始喊：大師啊！音樂來吧！其實盲人的耳朵比我好，不必叫他們就知道有一群人來了，我是叫給那些遊客聽的。然後他們就彈起來了，我就趕快跑到他們旁邊去坐下，三個乞丐坐在一起，（全場大笑）一句話也不講，我口琴不能吹出來，一出來錢就不來了。（哄堂大笑） 我坐在那個地方，愁眉苦臉的樣子，別人先聽到這街道有音樂，走過來一看前面有個鐵罐子，當然是求錢啦！那麼這些人是剛剛從教堂走出來的，好意思不留一點點錢在罐子裏面嗎？Excuse me!良心有掙扎。 （眾人大笑） 後來，我說，我們省點氣力，人不來的時候我們不彈，遊客來的時候，我們才彈，要不然每天彈得好累。（大笑）兩個樂師忠厚老實，不太會說話，就在那兒等，有人來就工作。最後，他們的罐子裏面錢丟滿了。尤其彈豎琴那人，他的褲角是捲起來的，錢都滿到翻起來的褲管裏去了，都是錢，錢丟得太多太快了。 我這樣替他們討了兩天的錢。我說：記住了。我跟他的兒子，很小的一個小孩說，以後把爸爸帶到這裏來，下雨的時候就要拿傘來接，就坐在這裏，人群是逃不掉你們的了。（大笑） 要離開那個地方了，跟很多人去告別。東告別，西告別，最後到他們那裏去了，我心裏比較喜歡彈豎琴的那位。我跟他們兩個說：明天，我要離開古斯可了，什麼時候回來，不知道，但是我很喜歡這個古城，有一天總是要再來的。 他們聽我要走，心裏非常的悲傷，說：為什麼那麼快？我在這裏也沒有職業，我（眾人哄笑）我要有職業，還必須先去練練我的口琴。我沒有職業，我要離開這裏繼續我的旅程了。彈豎琴的盲琴師問我：媽咪達！請各位注意，最先我帶他們到窄街時，他們叫我太太！的，現在已叫媽咪達！up. 媽咪達！您是誰呢？盲人低低的問著。 我不知道怎麼回答，如果說姓陳，叫陳平，中國人，對他並沒任何意義。他是一個盲人，我怎麼辦呢？ 只有把他的手拉過來他的豎琴靠在他的肩膀上把他的手打開，把我的雙手交在他的手裏，請你摸我，我說：摸我的手，仔細的認一認，這就是我。等到不知多少年以後，再回來的時候，我要到這條街上來找你，不說一句話，當我再把我的手交給你的時候，你會知道，那個多少年前的媽咪達，回來了！ 既然我要離開這個城，這個國家，還有一些換不掉的當地錢，換一個國家也沒有用了，我就把那一些紙幣交在他的手裏，他一定不拿，說：不要！don't want!我說，不是的，因為我要離開這個國家了，很少的錢，一點點！請收下。 他做了一個動作（劃十字架），把我給他的票子拿起來放在嘴上親了一下，然後說：再見了！上帝保佑妳，媽咪達！ 結果，我得到一個盲人真心誠意的祝福。 幾句話大家共勉 最後，說幾句話，做為結束：愛是能力，健康是本錢。成功是努力的獎品；失敗，沒有這個字。考試落榜的弟妹們，記住了，一場付出代價的失敗，就是另一種成功。而最重要的，對我，一直支持到今日的，就是：快樂是最大的勇氣和智慧。 高雄部份問題回答 問：三毛，在妳生命中，談一談妳看萬物中有生命或無生命的美醜，最基本的是那一點？Thanks!醜男上。 （哄笑） 答：這是一位自認為長得不美的男孩子，寫來的問話。生命中，什麼是醜？What is beauty?他署名醜男，可見得他對自己有一份關心。 什麼叫美，什麼叫醜？在我看來，你生下來只有一個字，沒有美也沒有醜，叫做自然。 胡因夢小姐美嗎？beautiful!紀政小姐美嗎？beautiful!我愛看她們不同的美。可是這都叫做什麼？叫做自然。那麼，三毛美嗎？我要說三毛美！ （全場鼓掌不能停止） Why do you say that?這話是請各位對著鏡子的時候，告訴你自己：我是美麗的。我告訴自己：三毛！妳是美麗的，但是妳實在是個外表平凡的女人。怎麼使自己變成美麗？從這裏開始（將手放在胸口）做一個真誠的人。將我們生命中的光輝，煥發出來，在我看來世界上沒有一個醜的人。今天，走了這麼許多人生的道路之後，得到一個證明，以我這麼平凡而外表不美麗的女孩子，得到了世界的愛、陽間的愛、冥間的愛，父親的、母親的、丈夫的，還有朋友的。我正好站在你們的面前，請看看三毛，是不是一個容貌美麗的女子？no!但是，我要對自己說：我是美麗的！請各位也對自己說：我是美麗的。如何美麗？從心裏開始。孩子，你們的外表並不是太重要的問題，可是心靈，卻是可以培養的。 問：三毛，有一天我在陸橋上，看見一個父親帶著兩個小孩乞討。小女孩不停的哭著，男孩不想坐那裏想逃開，父親卻一把抓回來，男孩哭著坐在銅盤子前。如果妳看到這情形，會有什麼感覺？那父親的行為對嗎？ 答：我覺得相當遺憾。我總認為一個人，在沒有餓死之前，不要向人伸手乞討。And me?要是快餓死的時候，如果責任還沒完成，或者父母還活著依靠我的話，而我已是走投無路沒有別的求生能力，我會伸手向人乞討。 父親強迫小孩子討錢，我覺得遺憾而辛酸。難道台灣還有乞丐嗎？ 問：三毛，他日妳預備到何處去？ 答：說行程。七月就離開台灣回到迦納利群島的家去；有一個人睡在那裏，我要去看看他，所以必須回去。然後，沒有什麼變化的話，十月回到台灣來。這是我目前的計畫。十月後，回到台灣來定居一年。（全場熱烈鼓掌）但是我常常會用我的腳步去替各位走長遠的路，再回來。 愛的詮釋 問：請問妳對愛的看法。 答：倒是有幾句話是我小時候背的，就是在聖經哥林多前書，你們不論是不是教徒沒有關係，我認為可以看一看。我有信仰，愛看的不只是聖經，也看佛經，在我，一點也不相違的。在哥林多前書十三章，有一段對於愛的解釋： 我若能說萬人的方言，並天使的話語，卻沒有愛，我就成了鳴的鑼、響的鈸一般。我若有先知講道之能，也明白各樣的奧秘，各樣的知識，而且有全備的信，叫我能夠移山，卻沒有愛，我就算不得什麼。我若將所有的賙濟窮人，又捨己身叫人焚燒，卻沒有愛，仍然與我無益。愛是恆久忍耐，又有恩慈，愛是不嫉妒，愛是不自誇、不張狂、不做害羞的事，不求自己的益處，不輕易發怒，不計算人的惡，不喜歡不義，只喜歡真理，凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盼望，凡事忍耐。 這一段請各位去看一看。這是當年在教會裏強迫我背的，過了這麼多年的體驗，再思考時，生活中已慢慢的在進入了它。到現在了解，這是什麼意思。這是我回答什麼是愛的感想。 問：妳曾經看過只有幾個觀眾的歌舞團，那篇妳寫的<夜戲>，可曾想到面對空曠大禮堂的感受？ 答：今天假如我談話的時候，下面的位置只坐了一個人，當然那一位不能是聯合報？弦先生，可能只是坐著一位小弟弟，只要他聽得懂我講的話，我相信不只是我，我們全體的工作人員，為著這一個人，仍要做最精采的演說和多元媒體幻燈片放映，這是我代表工作小組所做的答覆。（掌聲不能止息） 問：三毛，如果我們要出國，那些書是必要參考？ 答：我不知道你要去那一國，去美洲不能去看歐洲的參考書，書店裏，出國以前，到書店看看比較好。 問：陳姐姐，中南美洲有一巨大圖形，妳有什麼觀點？ 答：這是我沒有講的，這是地上畫，在秘魯沙漠裏。這段故事，我為什麼沒說？因為當時我生病了，由攝影師米夏坐了小飛機到上面去拍的，這一段的謎，在我出的書《萬水千山走遍》，有一篇米夏寫的文章叫做<飛越納斯加之線>，謎在文章裏，幻燈片上也會有。有什麼觀點我不好說了，因為時間不夠。 問：今天我是被擠進來的，我很高興陳姐姐有這麼多朋友，但是我很擔心我身邊的一位孕婦，被擠得很痛苦，我覺得很遺憾。 答：有時候，擠，不是故意的，人潮在後面推你，你沒辦法，可是總有一個人開始推，才擠的。各位既然大家都是愛護三毛的人，包括我在內，三毛文章裏講的最平凡的東西，就是良知、公德心，就是愛，起碼我們這裏的人，在這點事情上，請求大家結合在一起，守秩序用行動來證實。對於進場秩序的狂亂，我向各位道歉，畢竟是因為我。這種事情，散場就不會發生了。（聽眾大笑） 問：您上次演講過燃燒是我不滅的愛，能不能解釋這句話？ 答：今天在這裏幕前幕後所有的工作小組人員是為什麼？我們大半今天清晨六點才睡覺，八點鐘又坐飛機飛來高雄，我所要講的一個字就是愛，而我個人對生命的愛最大的表達就是燃燒，難道要再解說嗎？ 但是請不要迫我變成兩頭燃燒的蠟燭。（語句停了，很艱難的再說）尤其是年輕的弟弟、妹妹們，你們是未來的中國不可忽略的巨大力量。今天，陳姐姐已是一支兩頭燃燒的蠟燭，我非常非常的疲倦，別無選擇，請求你們讓我靜靜的燃燒，只燃燒一邊，我們把這燭火傳遞開去，大家點，不只是演講者一個人的工作。今天站在這裏，更不是三毛一個人的光榮，如果這只是個人的光榮，棄之並不可惜，我不要。我最大的光榮是去陪母親吃飯而我沒時間（三毛當場哽咽，說不下去。） 很對不起對不起對不起好，終於哭出來了，哭出來也好，表示我還有淚。站在這裏的三毛並不光榮，因為她連一個人子的基本孝道都沒有做到，她不是光榮的人。 各位朋友，如果不是使我們有一個更樸實、活潑、祥和、健康而有盼望的中國，不然我為什麼站在這兒與大家共勉？不要再愛我了，從愛你自己做起，如果不看重自己，國家又如何強盛起來？ 但願這場演講之後，各位回去，心裏看見的不再是三毛，而是自己和中國，自己和人類，自己和愛的付出，使我們有一個更祥和的地球。 再見，謝謝大家，一切隨緣了！ （此為集合全島巡迴演講會講詞共同部分，由丘彥明記錄、三毛親自校訂。）