Chapter 65 Fly up the branch and watch the flying branch

Dear Xiaowen: One year before my father went to prison (1970), a small country in the Pacific Ocean became independent. She was only half the size of Taiwan, and her name was Fiji. She was originally from the United Kingdom, so there are four points in the flag. One of the places is the Union Jack. Feizhi has two large islands and 800 small islands.Together they are called the Fiji Islands. There are a total of 500,000 people in Feizhi, including Chinese. The capital of Fiji Island is Suva (Capital and Commercial Center of the Fiji Island is Suva. Banks, offices, and stores are located in central Suva.).

If Feizhi’s police officers come to Taiwan, they will definitely be arrested by Taiwan’s police on the charge of “harmful to public morals”—because Feizhi’s police officers wear skirts, which are called sulu, and the skirts are very thin , the bottom is sawtooth (teeth of a saw), weird, the police in Taiwan must be very angry, so they arrested them. So maybe the Feizhi police dare not come to Taiwan. Men in Feizhi also wear skirts, which are called tapa skirts, which are relatively short and have flowers on them.Of course they are also "immoral", so they dare not come to Taiwan.

Although the modern Feizhi people are afraid of the Taiwanese police and have little courage, they used to be quite courageous. They were cannibals——A human being that eats human flesh; by extension, any animal that eats its own kind, broadly speaking, eating animals of the same kind), or headhunters (head-hunters. head-hunting, n. The custom, characteristic esp. of heathen Malayan peoples, of decapitating enemies and preserving their heads as trophies. Fengyi The custom of beheading the enemy's head as a souvenir of the victory is unique to the Malay nation taught). Some natives in the world cannibalize human flesh and don’t hunt heads, and some headhunters don’t eat human flesh. Feizhi’s natives come from both. " in English.).

In the past, the natives of Taiwan, except the Yami people in Lanyu, all hunted heads and did not eat meat.One of the most famous heads they hunted was that of Wu Feng (Wu Feng, Wu Feng, an official who, when head hunting was still common among the aborigines of Taiwan, ended the practice at the cost of his own life in 1768.). From this point of view, the police in Taiwan probably would not dare to go to Feizhi, because if they fail to do so, the people in Feizhi will go crazy and revive barbarously. or endure). Fijians once were cannibals and head-hunters, Most of them are now Christians, but they still observe local customs. They make outrigger canoes from hollowed logs. They also manufacture pottery and personal ornaments of shell, bone, and boars tusks. A small clan Living near Viti Levu still practices the ancient custom of fire walking. Performers do not walk on fire, but on hot stones. Fijians drink kava (yanggona in Fijian), a strong but non-intoxicating drink made from the root of a pepper plant . The drink partially numbs the tongue and lips. Fijians use it as part of most ceremonies. They celebrate every occasion with dancing.

Most Fijians grow crops or catch fish for a living, but many work for the Europeans as clerks, carpenters, and police. People of Indian descent grow most of the islands sugarcane, and they also keep dairy cattle. Miners take gold, copper, and iron from the rocks of the lager island. The Fiji Island produce coconuts, sugar, gold, timber, and tobacco. They ship tropical fruits to Australia and New Zealand. Most eastern Fiji Islands are volcanic. They only industry there is making copra（dried coconut meat). dad September 7, 1975 [Postscript] The English commentary about Wu Feng quoted in this letter is naturally based on "myth".In fact, Wu Feng was killed because of breach of contract, cursing, and fighting with the Cao family.See Lian Heng's "Biography of Wu Feng" for details.