After my four sons and daughters turned into "bananas" (yellow on the outside but white on the inside), they knew their father was a writer, but they didn't know and couldn't appreciate whatever was in the novels and essays he wrote with those arrange symbols. Their having cast off the burden of Chinese culture has always weighed heavily on my mind.
身邊的四位子女漸漸成為「黃皮蕉」後，只知父親是位作家，那些方塊字發表的小說散文究竟內容是些什麼就無法欣賞，他們扔棄了中華文化的包袱令我耿耿於懷。