After a woman has a child, the child's name is added to her own, so she is then known as "Mother Ali" or "Mother Lydia," for example. "It's a little like what people in the northern part of China do, calling a woman something like 'Dazhuzi's Mother,' but it carries more respect," says Tsai.
女性生了孩子之後，稱呼底下還要加上孩子的名字如「媽媽阿里」、「媽媽麗達娃」等，「有點像大陸北方常被喚作『大柱子的媽』，不過帶有更高的敬意」，蔡珠兒形容。