"If something important comes up, they send a local official out to make an announcement and explain what it's all about." Wu Tsung-sheng adds, "They're totally outside the loop here. You of course know the phrase, 'Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.' Well, it was people like my grandmother who coined it."
「無所謂，日本政府也好，國民政府也罷，反正有重要的事，政府自然會派村里幹事拿公告來解釋給大家聽」，吳宗昇解釋：「我們這裡是化外之地，標準的天高皇帝遠。」