<p class="ql-block">村民才是真正的斜杠發(fā)明人與實踐者</p><p class="ql-block">?</p><p class="ql-block">?我們祖先和父母兄弟姐妹姑嬸嫂輩才是斜杠一族先驅而不是西方人.</p><p class="ql-block">Our ancestors, even my parents and sisters, were the inventors and practitioners of being the slash professionals, not the westerners. </p><p class="ql-block">我的鄉(xiāng)村別墅(老屋的美稱), 山里很多做竹制品的竹子,竹杠、農具以及日用品.</p><p class="ql-block">My house in the countryside where there are a lot of bamboos for making the tools for farming, including the bamboo levers. </p> <p class="ql-block">I used to go up the hill by this way. 上山頭割嶺草的路.</p><p class="ql-block">關于斜杠Slash，我有充分的理由證明，那是吾國村民的發(fā)明，我父母和大姐他們那兩代人關于務農使用桿與杠桿的故事便是鐵證。若林語堂博士能穿越時空，他或許會更新他的成名之作《吾國與吾民》，他的出版人諾獎得主賽珍珠亦會拍掌稱好。</p> <p class="ql-block">從廣東清遠新洲到英國劍橋大學</p> <div><div><br></div></div> <p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size: 20px; color: rgb(22, 126, 251);">斜杠一詞，英文slash，前幾年開始流行起來，現(xiàn)有橫跨全球乃至穿越太空之趨勢。</b></p><p class="ql-block"><b>The sign, slash /, which indicates different contents/ positions/ situations, becomes very popular recently, it has gone global, and there is even a trend going into the airspace.</b></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> 人們管那些多面手、善于做多份工作或跨界人士叫斜杠一族,通常有幾個頭銜,或用斜杠符號/分開，比如我,這頭是夏老師或夏教授，一轉身就是夏顧問,一到編輯部或雜志社就是作家，一走出去就是夏總,一跑馬拉松就成運動員...</p><p class="ql-block">We address those people who have multiple skills, several jobs and different job titles Slash Professionals, this is because their jobs and titles are separated with a Slash sign. Taking myself as an example, I own serval jobs and titles. During the lecturing, I am a teacher/lecturer/professor, depending on who the students are and what I deliver; and when I leave the classroom I become a consultant, when I work with the magazine editors, I am a writer; of course, when I run marathon, I am an athlete.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> 這種表達和實操方式不是西方人的發(fā)明或英文表達才有,我有充分的證據(jù)說明這是我大姐和媽媽那兩代人的務實及發(fā)明，甚至是我們的祖先，只是我看不到：干完這邊濕田工作就去種那邊旱地去，完成公務做私活，給孩子講故事并管教他們，準備幾條尺寸大小輕重不一的竹杠去挑做飯燒菜煮水的山柴嶺草是每家每戶必須的,那些杠是要斜放著的，這個樣才穩(wěn)，絕對是經典力學之平衡原理的源泉。這就是我人生第一次認識的斜杠，不僅僅是那幾條竹杠以及擺放，還有工作多面手的村民以及他們的生活，如果可以穿越時空，或林語堂博士在世，他定必更新《吾國與吾民》。</p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size: 20px;">I do not think that this presentation is the invention by the westerners or the expression only in English. I am fully convinced that it is the invention and practice of the two generations of my mother and sisters, even our ancestors, whom I never met: They would accomplish other farming jobs in the dry land after leaving the wet field, they would do their own jobs after finishing the collective works, and they managed to supervise the naughty kid like me. Also, they prepared several bamboo levers in different sizes for transporting the firewood and straw with their own shoulders, being used as fuels for cooking in most of the time. And the amazing thing was that the bamboo levers were placed properly like the slash sign / and were perfectly balanced, an excellent example of applying the classic mechanic. This is not only the slash sign in job but also reflects the lives in the village. If there was time travel, Dr. Yutang LIN would have revised and updated his book, My Country and My People.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"> 第二次深入認識斜杠是因為80年代,比爾蓋茨還沒有推出視窗系統(tǒng),更加沒有鼠標，但我的學習和工作需要使用電腦，使用一個相當于目前Excel初期版本的計算表Lotus 123的軟件, 很多情況下都按斜杠鍵 /（slash)后開始運行。用電腦或打字機寫或打文章，無論是中文抑或英文也常需要使用斜杠鍵。相對而言，這個比較鼓噪乏味，誰又想整天對住電腦而不是美麗善良的人們、天真無邪的孩子以及秀麗的風景？！</p><p class="ql-block">The second time I learnt and practiced the slash sign was in 1980s when Bill Gates did not provide the ‘windows’ for computers, no need to mention the mouse, however I needed to use computers to learn and work. As we can see, I had to use the slash sign when I typed or wrote a report and when I needed to use the Lotus 123 software, which was equivalent to the early version of Excel. Oh, this is quite boring, who want to face the computer all day long but not the beautiful people and innocent children as well as the amazing sights ？！</p>