Chapter 45 Whose it belongs to (2)

Let's look at this portrait, this portrait is Aristotle, his hand is pressing the head of this hippopotamus, the head of that statue.The word Aristotle should be pronounced Aristotle in English.My teacher, Yin Haiguang, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at National Taiwan University, loves books so much that he once taught his youngest daughter to pronounce the philosopher's name, Aristotle.The young girl's teeth are still deciduous teeth, not permanent teeth, and there are two cavities. When she read Aristotle, she made a mistake, and saliva came out from the gaps between her teeth.After the saliva came out, I sprayed it on my teacher Yin Haiguang's favorite book.My teacher yelled "Aiyo" and quickly wiped the drool with a rag.This joke has been passed down among us students.

This Aristotle, although he is a famous philosopher and thinker, but he made a joke, that is, he said that men have more teeth than women.In fact, regardless of gender, there are thirty-two teeth, the number of deciduous teeth is twenty, and after the deciduous teeth are replaced with permanent teeth, the number is thirty-two. Both men and women are the same.However, Aristotle asserted that women have fewer teeth than men.He shouldn't touch the hippopotamus's head with his hand, he should touch his wife's teeth, or look at his wife's teeth, count them and know that your wife has as many teeth as you.Why is this a joke?What I just said about "horse teeth growing too fast" reminded me of this joke.

This tells us a conclusion that what should belong to you is yours, and what should not belong to you is not yours.Therefore, I think we need to understand: whoever belongs to it is whoever it belongs to, and the Diaoyu Islands belong to China, and the Japanese will not leave if they want to.Deng Xiaoping told us that the issue of the Diaoyu Islands can be suspended. If our generation cannot solve it, the next generation will be smarter than us and will find a solution.Deng Xiaoping said again and again that the issue of the Diaoyu Islands should be put aside for a while, and maybe the next generation will be smarter than us, and they will solve it.

I must tell you that the present generation is constantly changing.We can see that this is Yan Fu, the first president of Peking University, and they are the first generation of patriots.After Yan Fu, it was the second generation.Yan Fu's grandson, Yan Qiao, is the third generation of them. He was arrested when he came to Taiwan from the Communist Party.I thought he died in prison, but later Hu Shi wrote me a letter, telling me: Your teacher is still alive.This letter was written by Hu Shi himself: Mr. Li Ao, I have good news for you. Ms. Yan Tingyun, the author of "The Lamp of Wisdom", and her husband, Mr. Ye Mingxun, came to see me yesterday. They said that Yan Yiqiao (That is, Yan Qiao) has regained his freedom, and now teaches at the private Yuying Middle School in Taipei.He drank too much and his health was affected.I hope this news can give you some comfort, Hu Shi.This was on October 29, 1961. His letter was afraid of being inspected by the pseudo-government of the Kuomintang, so he asked my teacher to bring it to me—respectfully begging Yao to hand it to Mr. Li Ao from Mr. Wu's stool.

Let me give you this example to tell everyone that the first generation of Yan Fu's method of saving the country has passed away, and so has his second generation, and the third generation is the Communist Party, who was arrested for working in Taiwan.I was nineteen years old at the time, and I was planning to smuggle back to the mainland with him. I didn't want to live in Taiwan, but when he was arrested, this dream was shattered.Now in the fourth generation, what is Yan Fu's (grand) grandson doing? He is an important figure in Taiwan's media.In other words, the four generations of the Yan family, a big family in Fujian, have different ways of patriotic and different ways of saving the country.

Today we are dealing with a completely new generation.In the mainland of the motherland, today we see national leaders who are younger than me.Why are most of them lighter than me, why?Because they are the new generation.To be honest, it is the kind of "earth road" that we know, the kind of millet plus rifles to conquer the world, that kind of revolutionary method is gone, and now we need to rely on modern technology to protect the motherland and help us to become rich and strong in the future , to be able to take back the Diaoyu Islands, isn't it?So, we know from the overall understanding that Deng Xiaoping's so-called next generation may be smarter than us, and we hope that this fact will be honored.Therefore, I think we must face this problem: how to maintain personal human rights and personal dignity, but also be able to contribute real power to national security.