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1936年9月,费孝通从上海搭乘外轮,离开家乡,踏上赴英国留学的迢迢水路。离家之前,他的奶妈包了家中灶上的泥土,悄悄地放在他出国要带的箱子底部。因为民间流行这样一个风俗:出国后,人生地不熟,水土不服,总是想家,就用家乡的泥土煮一点汤喝,可解烦忧。一张留洋的船票,一包家乡的泥土,似乎预示着费孝通日后中西合璧的文化性格,也预示着他此后行行重行行的学术之途。
In September 1936, Fei Xiaotong took a ferry from Shanghai and left his hometown to set foot on the waterway to the United Kingdom for study. Before he left home, his nanny wrapped the soil in his hob and quietly placed the bottom of the box he was going to take abroad. Because of popular folk customs such as: after leaving the country, unfamiliar, acclimatized, always homesick, use the hometown of the earth to cook a little soup drink, relieve worries. A ticket to stay in the ocean and a pack of mud in his hometown seem to herald the cultural identity of Fei Xiaotong’s later integration with China and the West as well as an academic path to be followed by him.