祖先之來源/莊峻華

祖先之來源/莊峻華

昨日觀看一網路電視片，講到台灣平埔族，非常有趣，其中一位講

者，沈建德教授，幾十年來，我就讀過他之看法，而且深受影響，

我相信我之祖先，是平埔族，是凱達格蘭，但血液中之一脈，來自

中國，外祖父是來自唐山，外祖母是平埔，父系這一圈，則是平埔

無疑，我有我之判斷根據，我沒驗血證據，也無祖譜，査戶口謄本

，也査錯，査到祖母，沒看到熟字歸類，熟就是熟番，就是漢化之

土箸，稍別於高山，不願漢化之土箸，這是非常有趣者也。

我們祖先，到祖父這一代，都是文盲，都為生存而掙扎，殊不知祖

譜何務也，一直到先父，因日本統治，始有學校教育，開始識字，

先父知識豐富，但無閒思考祖先事略，我到美國移民後，開始接觸

開放資訊，開始懷疑祖先是中國人之說。我覺得我之姓莊是賜姓，

戶口上之福建安溪，是加上去的，以我判斷，父系祖先，一直住在

台北三峽，一直到先父這一代，因工作始有機會，遷徙到高雄大寮

，然後南投埔里，雲林虎尾，所以我認同凱達格蘭，不願說是福建

安溪，我講之母語，應是漳州音，而非安溪之泉音，這是後天環境

影響始然也，都是小事，不足掛齒。

我強調者為，血統上我非中國人也，所以我無需為中國人所統治，

電視節目，沈教授等人，在挑戰我們都是中國人，你是中國人嗎？

這些統一中國之統戰說法，祖先之來源，並非日後生活品質之保證

，倒是被中國人統治，可以重大影響品質和機會，不可不慮。

我雖一直頑抗認同中國，但我無可否認，漢化甚深，想法和作法，

甚似中國人，而且咬文嚼字，喜歡儒家佛學，但我仍務實，在台灣

已經採用英語小名，以便於美國人稱呼，漢姓仍有困難，學習西班

牙語後，我直借西語村莊，普也波羅，為姓，而且在與菲律賓愛女

結識後，一不做而不休，自稱來自菲律賓宿霧市，我們平埔與菲人

，可能同種，都有蓮霧鼻，就是朝天鼻，但我這些菲律賓愛女，一

般看來均是五官端正美麗，原來都是篩選而來，如觀馬尼拉華埠，

則如置台北市街頭。

追究祖先之來源，莫非挑戰中國傳統大一統之說法，在人類學上，

或有些價值，我們後代子孫無辜，避免為中國人所統治，比較確切

，是基本認識。

A response to Ms. Ding-mei Liu/Carlos Pueblo

A response to Ms. Ding-mei Liu/Carlos Pueblo

Dear Ding-mei,

Thanks for your frequent request to connect with me on Linkedin account

on the internet. I must apologize for not responding to you because that I

have not used the account ever since my first usage of the platform and I

have no longer remember my password. We can correspond with each

other on e-mail which you do have my address.

I did watch your interview with Dr. Ko during his 2014 Taipei Mayoral

Campaign and that was a good program. I have been a fan of Dr. Ko and

I firmly believe that his loyalty to Taiwan and his workaholic habit on his

Job as the Capital City Mayor. Your interview was excellent and I was very

Impressed.

I still have remembered you ever since your visit of Houston a long time

before. I am very impressed of your struggle and conquering the difficulty

in your youth and coming out ahead in your meaningful life. I am with you

and you are my role model.

I am scheduling myself very much among my continuing study of languages,

traveling, and writing at my retirement life. You can visit my blog site at

jienhua.blogspot.com and give me some comments. You are welcome to

discuss with me for the subject which I write on my blog. Thank you very much.

Sincerely yours,

Jien-hua Chuang

Houston, Texas

USA

給劉丁妹姊之回信/莊峻華

給劉丁妹姊之回信/莊峻華

丁妹姊大安，

妳之網路連繫要求，我已收到，非常感謝，我的困難是，我並

不熟悉近代網路通訊技術，一般而言，我較善用電子郵件聯絡

，就像我讀來信一般，請妳原諒，我已無法開起該網訊址矣。

我在四年多前，觀看過妳訪問柯文哲醫生之影片，我甚心儀，

我一直是柯迷，而且我堅信他對台灣之忠誠，希望妳也同意。

自從妳在休市演講後，我心一直惦念這位奮力上進之大姊，也

感謝妳對社會弱勢之關懷，我很高興妳已有自己之電視節目，

祝福妳成功順利。

我的老年生活，非常舒適，甚多旅行和遊記寫作，我的部落格

，已有多年，累積短文三千篇，讀者不多，確是遍佈全球，希

望指教，我將我之部落格網址書寫如下。

Jienhua.blogspot.com

莊峻華拜啟

Remembering at a small library at my hometown/Carlos Pueblo

Remembering at a small library at my hometown/Carlos Pueblo

Other days, I was determined to read some Japanese children books and

went back to city libraries. I did run into difficulty to find the book by a

flooded library and another one without the inventory. I did find some

Spanish children books; however, the result was not as I expected. This

reminds me to think it over of my past learning languages in my life other

than my mother tongue, Amoy. 1945 was the determined year, Chinese

replaced Japanese as the official language in Taiwan and that put me in

an awkward situation, to learn a foreign language from the scratch. My

elder sister took me to a small library of the old sugar factory where my

father served. There were limited copies of Kanji children books in that

room and I did remember that I did check out some.

After my reading improvement at schools, I started the Water Margin, a

Chinese novel written in spoken language form other than the traditional

classical writing. I believe that reading books has helped me to learn Chinese

and English and I blame my slow progress in Japanese and Spanish to lack of

reading and making the composition. I learn Chinese and English due to needs

for schooling, immigration and work while learning other foreign languages

are simply of personal interests or hobby. I like to know the meaning of Japanese

songs and I like to speak to locals in Texas in their own language.

It has been to a conclusion that I must practice more and more to make it perfect.

Professor Nagamoto’s opinion is that if I can live in Japan for 6 months then I’ll be

familiar with the language. Now, I do have a hard time to understand the movie

and even a regular conversation. I can guess the newspaper. In Spanish, I am still

attempt to find the root form of a verb in order to check the meaning in the

dictionary. I know that is frustration.

I am very happy for the learning opportunity of foreign language. Every week

has been very occupied and sometimes even makes me to remember my home

town and childhood life. Both professors have decided to continue their classes

for another 8 weeks term and I have better to rearrange my schedule in Saturday

and traveling to the classes which I have had a feeling that I may have an eventually

breakthrough.

回憶埔里糖廠圖書室/莊峻華

回憶埔里糖廠圖書室/莊峻華

最近我有需要，重回圖書館借書，借日文童書，增進日語學習進度，

這是仲本老教授推薦，我知道住家附近之市立圖書館，有此藏書，但

不巧，新圖書館已因水災關閉，整個休市日文藏書，已經減少許多，

他說有私人日本圖書館可利用，我衡量手上藏書尚有，可以撐上一段

，於是不甚急切，倒是學習日文，進度緩慢，讓我檢討並比較我的兩

種非母語之學習效果，就是中文和英文，同樣初學，我在此段時間內

，已堪稱流利，讓我想起糖廠之圖書室，我在孩提時代，已有之借書

習慣。

我之母語為台灣河洛，就是廈門附近之閩南語，母親有過日語小學教

育，家裡用詞，常見日語補助，她不語中文，因此我之閩南語是母語

，非常流利，而且有古中文背景，十分自如，但台灣話以漢字為體，

漢字在幼園小一開始，因此我印像中之圖書館經驗，應該是埔里十年

中之後兩年，此圖書室就在宿舍隔小馬路對面，日本人文明之痕跡，

虎尾糖廠也有一圖書室，規模稍大，前僑委會主委張富美，其令尊翁

茂林公，就是館長。我因學校功課輕鬆，大姊萬里，長我七歲，帶我

上此圖書室借書看，我確實有此回憶，但當年開始識字，而且中文童

書有限，但此經驗，已有腦海印像。我幾十年後，幾次回埔里故鄉，

已經找不到這些舊日建築，我仍有印像，圖書室在中山堂旁，與糖廠

幼稚園，第一招待所比鄰，招待所北側，就是廣大木薯渣曬場，是水

泥地，有中國流亡畫家，住招待所，坐曬場，畫遠處雪山。

我在小學六年級，無意間讀上水滸傳，於是開始我之武俠技擊閱讀，

虎尾糖廠圖書室閒書，幾乎為我翻遍，這是奠立我日後中文寫作之基

礎，我算是勤於寫作者，一直努力寫作，而且運用自如，這些都是幼

年閱讀習慣所致，我甚自傲有此喜愛，此亦為我老年之主要活動，例

如喜愛政治，喜愛旅行，喜愛花卉，喜愛電影，和喜愛美女等等。

我讀西班牙童書，馬上遭遇單字和文法困難，我發現這是因為非母語

之過也，我有的是時間，可以一一克服，學習外國語，是一嗜好，而

且也是老年精神寄托，借書又勾起我童年美憶，暫時擺脫政治節目之

壓抑。

My progress of Japanese and Spanish learning/Carlos Pueblo

My progress of Japanese and Spanish learning/Carlos Pueblo

It has been several weeks for me to go back to Japanese and Spanish beginner

classes at the community center. I like to report my progress. I appreciate the

opportunity to have one hour a week for both language plus I do have some

study time after classes. I study my old textbooks and review the sentence

patterns which have been applied to the conversation. I believe that I can catch

up with the teachers’ curriculum very easily. It is very interesting that Japanese

language has some verb conjugation and present, pass, and future tenses and

Spanish posts very much challenge to see the regular or irregular verbs change.

I don’t see that in the Mandarin Chinese language which is relied on the adverbs

heavily like time of the current, future, and past.

Nagamoto Sensei asks us to practice some basic sentence such as self- introduction,

family, and daily life routine. We have covered a lot, as much as we can go and with

no restriction of questioning. Japanese language has been influenced by the ancient

Kanji, Chinese characters, very much. I can see the vocabulary just pronunciation in

Difference, of course, there are some Kanji developed after generation which are not

in use in the modern Chinese character. I can say that there is indeed an advantage

for me to learn Japanese other than the westerners who must get involve Kanji

eventually.

I have checked out several children Spanish books to read. I still feel very challenge

to understand such level of Spanish. I try to make an excuse for that it has taken so

much time for me to break through. When I see the new verb, I can guess the root

form and go to the dictionary yet some of the tails of verb are unfamiliar to me and

I have to go back to my grammars text. Spanish has three or more sentences to express

the whole meaning of sentence like in English.

Overall, I am knowable to pop up two or three sentences to start a conversation in

both languages yet I am still unable to watch movies. I may be better off in reading.

One of these days, I hope that I can do a better job like the Mandarin Chinese and

English to express freely.

  

日西語課進度/莊峻華

日西語課進度/莊峻華

每週四上日語課，週六上西語課，兩教授均強調基本會話，這是

初級班課程，對我而言，確是難得一週一小時外語訓練，回家後

，我也做作業，繼續兩語文之基本文法閱讀學習，我嚐試觀看無

英文字幕之日本老影片，仍舊無法聽懂，倒是可以了解一些報紙

文字。日文老師推薦閱讀兒童書籍，我到鄰近圖書館，發現不再

有日文藏書，倒是借出幾本西語童書。

成人教科書，循序漸進，童書作者，則是自由發揮，對非母語系

學者，仍舊困難，單字仍舊需査字典，故事中用到過去式，西文

字典需要有字典型動詞，非常有挫折感，我仍舊回到成人教科書

，尋取溫暖。

我剛大略閱畢一日文句型文法，於是開始重溫，三本古教科書，

作者採取一日本株式會社，描寫其公司內之生活，我書是不曾完

成，但這些年來，我確是旅行日本多次，按照書中之介紹，花見

，紅葉，千年古寺，重建古城，日本料理等，更堅定我學習日文

之決心。

我們鄰居有幾家西語系，這些鄰居特別親切，因為我非常努力對

話西語，也因為學習西語，把我帶到西班亞，阿根廷，智利，波

多黎哥，和加勒比海諸島，非常有趣，我發現菲律賓語，也有許

多西語影響，採用許多字彙使用，雖是老年成人教育，確是非常

充實有趣。