Thus although he personally is not at all in favor of promoting fire-walking (for fear of accidents), in deference to local beliefs he wrote a newspaper article explaining fire-walking's purifying significance, and also explained it to the several thousand spectators present at the event.
因此，儘管他個人根本不主張提倡過火（由於易生意外），但在尊重地方信仰的前提下，他配合宣傳在報端執筆解釋過火，並在現場向數千遊客解說其中意義。