左眼右眼看华人

Behold the Chinese People with Your both Eyes

Page 1: Xu

序︰ 阅后感言-陈运涛

马来西亚中小型工业咨询中心 ─ 执行董事

Prologue: Some After-Reading Impressions of the Book – by Mr. Chen Yun Tao – the Executive Director of the National SMI Consultative Center, Malaysia

首先得感谢李得民先生介绍符策勤先生给我认识，后来更推荐本中心与符先生一起刊印这本书 《左眼右眼看华人》。

First of all, I should like to give my hearty thanks to Mr. Li De Min for his kind introduction of Mr. Fu Ce Qin to me, and his recommendation of this center to have the book “Beholding Chinese with Your both Eyes“ published in collaboration with Mr. Fu – the book’s author.

过去看书，是“消遣”或获得“信息”（know what）；现在看书，更多的是想“知道为甚么” （know why） 和“如何做到” （know how）。符先生这本书以深入浅出的方式，把这四点都做到了。

In the past, people usually read books for “recreation” or “knowing what”, but they do the same now for “knowing why” or “knowing how” more often than not. The book authored by Mr. Fu had realized all these four with a unique writing skill that explains the profound things in a simple way.

我为了需要预先构思如何推荐这本书，特别要求在印刷之前先得以过目。怎知一下子就被符先生的巧妙文笔、编排方式及生动内容吸引住了。
For planning this book’s marketing and promotion matters well, I required to read the book first before having it printed, and I was deeply impressed by author’s masterly writing skill, its lively contents and the plot arrangement.


个别找到动人的题材不难，但需要把全世界各主要地区的华人和他们的特色一连串地勾划出来，肯定不是一件容易的事；
It is not so difficult to gather a few interesting topics, but to draw the outline in a series manner of the typical characteristics of Chinese people living in the major communities in the world was surely not an easy job. …

……这说明了符先生除了多年来奔走各地，经验所累积之外，也将深入的观察和体会默记心中，反复思索、探测 ...... 现在则借 《左眼右眼看华人》 将之一一细腻地呈现在读者眼前。

Page 2: Singapore

新加坡也是以多元种族为社会基础。华，巫，印人为主要民族。
Singapore also has a social foundation composed of multiple nationalities wherein the Chinese, the Malaysian and the Indian peoples are the dominant ethic groups.


国语是巫文，但在商业社会还是以英语为主。学校环境也是以英语为重。
Though the Malaysian remains as the official national language, but in fact English is the most dominant language in the commercial cycle. And in the school environment, English is also regarded as the most important language.


曾几何时，新加坡曾经放弃华语的重要性，但后来政府改变了有关的教育政策。
In the past, Singapore had once disregarded the importance of Chinese language, but recently the government had changed its educational policy toward language.


新加坡的英文水平在亚洲是有目共睹的，但近年来地方化的影响，其水平有逐渐下降的迹象。
In the past, the general level of English in Singapore was obviously superior to all in Asia, however in the recent years the situation has shown a downslide degradation influenced by the regionalisation tendency.


国家领袖吴作栋曾经批评新加坡人讲的英文是‘Singlish’（新加坡式英语）。
The former leader of Singapore Mr. Wu Zuo Dong had once criticized that what the Singaporean really say was not English but “Singlish”(the English with Singaporeans characteristic).


就如新加坡的笑话短剧 Phua Chu Kang里的 Singlish是怎样的出神入化。Dont play play、cannotlo 等等。
In the farce play Phua Chu Kang, the comedians talked in “Singlish” such as “Dont play play”、”cannotlo” etc. so vividly that the audience would burst into cold laughter.


用心良苦的政府是那幺担心新加坡国民失去在语言上的竞争力。

The government was sincerely afraid that the irregular usage of English would cause a people lost their competitiveness in respect of language.

Page 3: Malaysia

大马人(马来西亚人)

The Malaysian

椰酱香饭 （“那昔勒马”） ─ 多元种族之文化。
The Rice with Coconut Sauce (Nasi Lemak) – a Culture of Multiple Ethic Groups

一种早餐以椰汁饭为主，以辣椒酱、干鱼子、黄瓜、咖哩鸡、为配料。 三大民族都喜爱的特色民间小吃。
The main course of Malaysian breakfast is called Nasi Lemak in the aboriginal language which is a kind of rice and coconut pulp mixture seasoned with hot chilli, dried fish seeds, cucumber and curry powder. It is a folk style savory food adored by all three ethnic groups.

注︰“那昔勒马”有时可叫“辣死你阿妈”。

Remark: Because of the similar pronunciation and meanings, Nasi Lemak is also bestowed a nickname that means “the stuff is so hot that it will kill your mother”.

Page 4: China

第一章 华人看透透

Understand Chinese thoroughly

中国人

Chinese living in China

北京烤鸭 ─ 外表取悦之文化。
Beijing Roast Duck – A symbol of culture that shows the peacock’s feather

一种以其脆鸭皮为主的中华佳肴，驰名中外，以其皮取悦宾客的好奇。
This is one of the most famous Chinese dishes well known at home and abroad. The skin of duckling is cooked to a color of golden yellow and is so crisp that the curious eaters are usually amused with great interest.

食道，犹如中国当今的摩天楼与硬体设施，以外表示众。

Same as the numerous skyscrapers and good infrastructures that are quickly emerging in China today, the major aim of the eating is also for the impression and amusement of others with its distinguished outward appearance.

睡醒的巨人、五千年的历史、孙子兵法、五十年的社会主义、中国威胁论等等的措辞形容日益强大的中国。
Many references and depictions are being bestowed on a nation that is getting stronger with each passing day. Among those are the so-called sayings such as “an awakening giant”, “a culture with 5000 years’ history”, “Sun Wu’s Military Art”, “Socialism in 50 years” and the “China Threat”. ……

中国五十年的社会主义与海外华人的成长过程有极大的区别。背负着五千年历史文化的中华子弟，一群是闭门造车，一群受到移民国的熏陶培养出不同价值的中华民族。

Page 5: Japan

每天早上上班期间，可以看出日本人紧张又拼搏的精神。
Each day in the morning when everybody is hurrying to office, the spirit of tension and struggle of Japanese people have once again demonstrated out.


从早上五 点起床，随后追赶六点的地铁，七 点半到达公司的咖啡厅，再享受半小时的美丽早餐。
One would get up at 5 o’clock in the morning, catch up the 6 o’clock metro train and arrive at company’s coffee house by half past seven where he could enjoy his breakfast in the remaining half hour.


有些早早在地铁里买个便当草草了事 （有的为赶时间，有的是要节省）。
Somebody would buy a “bento” (a kind of Japanese fast-food box) in the train and wolf it off (for saving time or money).


我也试过在车厢内里搞定早餐的滋味。
I had also tried to have my breakfast in the metro carriage.


日本人乘坐地铁时，有十八般武艺 ─ 站着看报纸，（一手夹着公文包，一手握报纸）；
When sitting in the commuting metro train, Japanese show their “18 kinds of martial skills” (a saying of a Chinese metaphor meaning that one is versatile). For example, they can read newspapers when they are standing on their feet (hold the papers with both hands while clamping their portfolios under their armpits).


也有站时着睡觉的“武林高手”，到站时，他们自动醒来；
Sometimes they have become the master-hands of Chinese “Kung Fu” who can sleep on their feet and wake up by the instinct before the metro arrives at their destination.


也有“武林叛徒”施展“蛇形刁手”揩油。难怪日本女士个个都胸部平坦而小家气。

Of course, there are also a few “traitors of the martial school” who would practice their skill of “snake hands” to take liberties with ladies. It is no wonder why the breasts of all Japanese women are so flat that they promise little generosity.