Words from my grandpa

This is my grandpa's writing, which he showed to me when I was in Beijing. He agreed that I can put it on my blog to share it with my readers. Hope you will like it.
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Dr. Hu-shie once had written, "I was asked by someone, 'Referring the question of love and marriage, what is the difference between the Westerners and Chinese?" I said to them, "The main difference is that, the Westers always make love at first then get married, while Chinese are the revers. They used to get merried first then love each other as long as they live." Such as saying might be suspected as the emphasizing of the concept of matrimonial monopoly by parents. However, families formed like thus in China have long been existing. Generally speaking, when people fall in love, they used to be attracted by the beauty or merits of the opposite party, as the Chinese proverb says, "in the eyes of a lover, Xi-Si (the most beautiful Chinese woman) appears." When the lovers get married, things go on may no be so smoothly as expected. Family conflict may arise here and there at any time. If these conflicts can not be settled promptly, their future prospect may not be so joyful. So, when people falls in love, no matter whether it lies before or after marriage, the key point is that, love must be endurable for life. This is our view-point concerning love and marriage.

As for our own case, our matrimonial union belongs basically to the Chinese old style. Our "love at first sight" lasted only a few weeks, while our married life extended as long as 70 years. According to our experience, married people want to be long living in harmony, they need to follow:
First of all, they must respect and trust each other.
Secondly, never pursuit those wealth and positions that is beyond one's ability, and never lose their self-respect when they are ill treated.
Thirdly, their altitude toward their children should be openly and fair.
That's all we could suggest.

Perhaps a set of brief statistics will tell how we have been getting along for these seventy years.
1. The family had moved 26 times.
2. The total mileage we had taken for family moving amount to 18,200km.
3. Our eldest daughter Lu-hua had attened 7 primary schools.
4. We had endured as "The Best family for 22 years.
5. 13 babies were born to this family.
6. 23 kinsfolk, mostly of the past generation had left this world.

There was a small temple called "The Old Man Under The Moon" on the hillside of the South Mountain, Hangchow. It says,
Heartily wish all lovers in the world to become husbands and wives at the end;
Don't let slip the lucky matrimony that had been matched in the Divine World.

Possibly, we are the pair that had been matched in the Divine World beforehand. Aren't we?
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I've never seen this "romantic" side of my grandpa before ^^. He's 93 right now and my grandma is 90. Wish they are happy together forever.

ps, I just graduated from high school in that pic... ehhhh... donno what to say... my friends used to call me piggy...