许其正：筛子

有一种筛子，古昔农家用得多，或在田里，或在晒场，是用竹子编制而成的，用来筛稻谷、豆类等，使之以本来真面目，成为好粮食，不再被鱼目混珠，不辨真伪。

另有一种筛子，在用到砂石的地方出现，譬如砂石厂，譬如建筑工地，譬如河床，是用铁丝编制而成的，所以筛选，给砂石分类，让砂石分出粗细，依其品类、质地、用途，各自去担负各自的职分，砌建楼房大厦。

再有一种筛子，在田野里，在丛山中，是用树木的叶子编制而成的，和树叶同寿，用来筛风，筛雨，也筛阳光，筛风则乐音沙沙呜呜而响，筛雨和阳光则有颗颗真珠垂落成珠帘，珊然可爱。

还有一种筛子，在整个宇宙间，是用时间的细绳编制而成的，所以筛去腐朽不净之物，不管是动物，是植物，是人类，留下来那些精纯的，可以永垂不朽的，许是真理，许是美好的灵魂。

更有一种筛子，在每个人的心中，是用无形的丝线编制而成的，用来筛去思想、情绪和知识中的杂质、烦躁、膺品，留下精纯、和平、真实。

筛子，不管是用什么编制而成，不论是用来筛选什么，总有许多纲目，是用来筛选的，以去伪存真。这是它们最大的用处。愿筛子永存，并发挥它的大用！

1988年9月9日台湾日报副刊

The Sieve  Hsu ChiCheng

There is a kind of sieve, often used in the family in ancientness, may on the field of drying, or on the buda banai, compiles with bamboo, for sift paddy, bean etc., makes it original face, becomes good grain, no more pass off fish eyes for pearls, can’t tell the difference.

And there is another sieve, appears in the place where to sift the sand and stone, for instance placer deposit, building field, riverbed, is made by barbed wire, for sift, classify the sand and stone, divide thick or thin, according to sort, quality, use, to bear their duty, build the tall building and big mansion.

There is a sieve once more, on the open country, on the mountains, which made by the leaves of the tree, is the same longevity of the leaves, used for sieve wind, sieve rain, and also sieve sunshine, the song will sound rustle and whimper while it sieve the wind, and there will hang curtain of a grain and a grain of pearl while it sieve the rain and sunshine, great pretty.

There is a sieve still, in the whole universe, which made by the thin silk yarn of time, used for sieve impurity, bothering, and forgery of thought, feeling and knowledge, retain pithy, peace and true.

Sieve, no matter what material to make, no matter what thing is to be sieve, there always has many outlines, for use to sieve, in order to eliminate the false and remain the true. It’s the greatest roll. Wishing the sieve exist forever, and play the great roll of it! @

责任编辑：林芳宇