Wrath from Annette Lu's Ancestral HomeAnnette Lu's disgraceful act of advocating Taiwan independence has aroused the wrath of her distant relatives in their ancestral home in Nanjing County in east China's Fujian Province.All 200 members of the Lu family in the village have asked her to stop spreading heretical ideas aiming to separate Taiwan from China's mainland, and warned her not to smear the family name. In an interview today with Xinhua, 63-year-old Lu Zanchun said: "Reunification of the motherland is what is wanted by all Chinese and also the main trend of historical development. We, the Lu family members are blood relatives, and can only be united when China is unified." "Lu family members in Taiwan should also unite to fight against 'Taiwan Independence', in a bid to realize unification as soon as possible," he said. Lu Zanchun, who is Annette Lu's nephew, is editing a family genealogy at the request of the Lu family's Taiwan branch. He told Xinhua that Annette Lu sent her resume and photo and an inscription in August 1999, to be included in the book. Annette Lu's elder brother went to the mainland three times with other family members in Taiwan to hold memorial ceremonies for the Lu ancestors. He also wrote an introduction for the genealogy, which said that "though the two sides of the Taiwan Straits has been away for a century, no one can deny that blood is thicker than water." Lu Zanchun also remembered that Annette Lu came to Nanjing to pay a formal visit to honor her ancestors on August 29, 1990, and as a gesture of respect she drank water from a well in her ancestral family yard. Annette Lu then said that "drinking the water reminds me that the well was dug by my ancestors in China." Feng Jiaming, an official who hosted Annette Lu when she came to Nanjing, said that Lu's pro-Taiwan independence speech not only betrayed her motherland, but also her family. "If you perversely insist on Taiwan Independence, you will come to no better end than other traitor in Chinese history," Feng said. |
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