For instance, the main characters in my book include seven old men, each of whom is a master of a very important skill: astrology, cooking, painting, martial arts, medicine, knowledge of history and legend, and numerology. In fact, China had even more such things, but they would be too much to include. Writing about them also expresses the continuation of a cultural heritage.
像我書中的主要人物──七位身懷絕技的老人，他們就各自代表了一項很重要的功夫，星象、飲食、繪畫、武術、醫學、掌故歷史、奇門遁甲，中國其實還有更多的東西，我只是寫不下，我把它們表現出來，代表著某一種的文化繼承。