李黃嬋英
在1975年南越政變後，我和二哥（榮光）和弟弟（榮南）就讀的「同心」中小學，从私立成了公立學校，取消了學校制服。由於不夠老師，加上政府監控學校制度，又撤銷所有華語課堂，規定只准許學習當地越南文。學校改為兩班制課堂，所有中小學生只能選擇上午或下午課堂。所以在1964年代後出生的華人子弟，是沒法得到華文正規的教育，只能靠私人補習班。
校舍義工
由於校方沒有清潔工人打理，各班課室由學生自己負責打掃清理。學生還要分擔買清理用具的費用。學校公共洗手間由各班輪流負責。學生在學校只負責做清潔和倒垃圾。同學每天輪流將掃把和清潔用具帶回家，為免被其它課室的學生偷走。學生跟本沒法專心上課，而是像在校舍做義工。
過了一時段，校方又下令，每個學生在限期內要帶三公斤白米到學校儲備處用來賙濟軍人，不然會扣減成績分。有不少學生在回到學校前，米袋已破裂，白米灑漏在地上剩下無幾，我是其中之一個。校方又再下令，每个學生要捐助四塊紅磚頭去援助政府蓋樓之用，還要帶到校務處報到作登記。南北越多年內戰後勞民傷財，政府窮到極點，連磚頭都買不起啊！學生每天上課背包裏裝的不是書本，而是米、磚頭和掃把等東西。所有學生的家長都弄不清，學校究竟在推動什麼教育的政策，這些不像學生該有的樣子。
爬窗逃出
一回，我們正在上課的時候，忽然聽到有同學說：「學校有吸血鬼」。這消息一傳開全校轟動，雞飛狗走，還未證實真相，每一個學生都想即時逃離學校。校方想要安撫和下禁令都控制不住學生。當時我是在四年級班上課，全班約有六十多個學生。老師安撫我們說沒有此事，請不要離開。學生已聽不入耳，課室門雖關上，許多同學仍要爬窗逃出學校。經過幾天停學之後，才確知事件因由。原來校方想要學生捐血，學生被嚇倒而抗拒，便傳開學校有「吸血鬼」。如此強制政策誰都會抗拒，並且校方是未經家長同意就執行要學生捐血救援傷兵，不是每一個學生都適宜捐血，一旦出事後果誰來負責任呢？難怪學生一個個都衝出窗戶要逃走。許多家長寧可讓子女停學在家，也比在學校安全。
迷信謠言
政治動盪，人心惶惶，民間迷信也滿天飛。有一時段，民間謠言傳說：你的門框要掛上有刺的仙人掌可以闢邪驅鬼，不然會有邪氣入屋引來禍患。大家都篤信不疑，搶著去買有刺仙人掌，家家戶戶都掛上大小塊仙人掌在大門前。原本長滿了刺的仙人掌是毫無價值的植物，一瞬間，仙人掌在市場價格上漲驚人。仙人掌真的能救人趨吉闢凶嗎？聖經勸告世人要離開罪惡，歸向真神才得赦免。「當趁耶和華可尋找的時候尋找他，相近的時候求告他。惡人當離棄自己的道路，不義的人當除掉自己的意念。歸向耶和華，耶和華就必憐恤他；當歸向我們的神，因為神必廣行赦免。」（以賽亞書 55:6-7）。 「倚靠耶和華、以耶和華為可靠的，那人有福了！」（耶利米書 17:7）。
在少年時，還記得是在一個大節日，我曾經隨著我姊嬋嬌到一間駙馬廟去拜拜。廟內外擠滿人，有一條長龍隊排向一座石灰人像。此石像身穿京劇中的古裝長衣，騎著白灰石馬。傳說單身女性只要穿過石馬下三次，就得如願嫁給一個如駙馬般的如意郎君。許多年輕女生不求甚解，但為了達到心願，盲目隨波逐流去做了才安心。當時廟宇人山人海擠擁、香火鼎盛熏天、濃煙冲入眼內、個個淚涕滿面、像一個瞎子摸象朦朧看不清，硬要去爭先恐後一連三次穿過石馬下才肯罷休。駙馬像的長衣襚子都被人膜拜沾濕透了。若是當今的新冠狀病毒在當年爆發，在場的年輕少女生命都危在旦夕。聖經上說: 「…偶像是金的、銀的，是人手所造的。有口卻不能言，有眼卻不能看，有耳卻不能聽，口中也沒有氣息。造它的要和它一樣，凡靠它的也要如此。」（詩篇135:15-18）。
作者：李黃嬋英師母出身越南堤岸。少年信主後，移居北歐瑞典，修社工。婚後與夫婿移居美國。
李黃嬋英。〈【小趣奇遇】教學混亂與民間迷信〉《真理報》(美東版) (2023年8月)。
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[Interesting Adventures] Suppressing the Merchants (Part II)
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[Storm Buster Series] Preempt Wildfires
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[Interesting Adventures] The Oppressed Merchants (1)
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Mom and dad ran a textile and cloth business for thirty years. Their humble street hawker beginning was never remote. Only through thrift living and hard work did mom and dad gradually expand their business and eventually proudly owned a retail shop in the middle of the vegetable markets.
【小趣奇遇】民族之間文化的差異
我父母親年輕未婚時來自潮州；但我們六個兄弟姊妹都是出生於越南。全家一直住在華人聚居最多的「堤岸」。華人都是做大小生意為生的。連本地越南人都學會說粵語，特別需要在生意上能用粵語溝通，他們也讓自己孩子去華文學校讀書。
Heatwaves
Heatwaves in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere captured the public’s attention. The inadequacy of the central air conditioning units in many of the northern cities testifies to the unexpected increase in air temperature across Northern Europe, Asia and America.
Cultural Divide
Born in Vietnam, my siblings of six including myself, lived in a Chinese town called “Cholon”. Cantonese was the business dialect that even the native Vietnamese learned to speak. Many of the Vietnamese natives sent their children to Chinese schools.
【小趣奇遇】教學混亂與民間迷信
在1975年南越政變後，我和二哥（榮光）和弟弟（榮南）就讀的「同心」中小學，从私立成了公立學校，取消了學校制服。由於不夠老師，加上政府監控學校制度，又撤銷所有華語課堂，規定只准許學習當地越南文。
The Unfathomable Deep Space and Seas
Man is an adventurous creature. In the pre-pandemic year of 2019 the US travel and tourism industry generated 1.9 trillion dollars in economic output. That was a startling 9% of the nation’s corresponding GDP of 21.38 trillion dollars in 2019.
Chaotic schools and rampant superstitions
When the communists took over Vietnam in 1975, my second eldest brother (David), I and my younger brother (Kevin) were studying in the “Same Heart” middle-and-elementary school in Cholon, Vietnam. Originally a private school, it was changed to a public school under the communist government.
Calmness after the War (Part II)
My parents ran a textile and clothes retail shop from our home. Under the new communist government after the Vietnamese civil war, every home was eager to sew the new national flag. Therefore, all of a sudden our home business was thriving beyond our wildest imaginations.
【小趣奇遇】戰亂後的平息（下集）
父母親是做買賣布料的家庭式生意。內戰後的新興政府，規定家家戶戶都要買布料縫裁新國旗。突然間，店舖的生意好到忙不過來。我的大哥（雁榮）想幫父親的輕型電單車加油，去了附近一公哩以外的油站加油。
Pollen Allergy Becoming a Mainstay
Pollen allergy is more commonly known as hay fever. Medically speaking, it is called seasonal allergic rhinitis —- a provocation of the immune system to overreact to pollen from trees, grasses, and weeds. Hay fever occurs mainly in the spring and fall when pollen from trees, grasses, and weeds are in the air.
Calmness after the War (Part I)
In the May issue we mentioned the civil war between North and South Vietnam. It finally ended on the so-called “Liberation Date” on April 30, 1975. The North united the country into a communist country.
滕張佳音博士
國宣創辦人
▪︎美國芝加哥三一福音神學院文學碩士(宣教)及教牧學博士(宣教學)
▪︎前建道神學院跨越文化研究部副教授
▪︎牧職神學院榮譽創院院長
▪︎國際短宣使團創辦人
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