清洗着，营养着，雕刻着，珊瑚慢慢形成了，一朵又一朵，一丛又一丛，建构成了一个珊瑚世界。
莹洁，纯美，莹洁纯美得一尘不染，让人不忍稍有触碰污染之念。那是海水日夜不停清洗的结果。海水是很有耐心的清洗者，也搓，也揉，轻轻地，一次，一次，又一次，丝毫不累，不厌……。
对珊瑚来说，海水是一个乳汁丰沛的母亲。她不断地以其乳汁喂饲珊瑚，营养珊瑚。珊瑚乃顺利地生长，生长成各种树木、花草，生长成钻石、珠宝、晶石，生长成诸多建筑、屋宇、宫殿、房舍，生长成莹洁、纯美……。
海水又是一名精巧无比的艺术家，以其巧艺，不停地雕着，刻着，聚精会神，孜孜不倦。一刀，一凿，一刀一凿都见功夫，都留纹痕；不管线条或图案，都精致灿丽。那是一种神雕，举世难寻，人间所无。
这是一个很特殊的地方，一个世外桃源，一个自然生成的“福地洞天”，是那么莹洁纯美，莹洁纯美得一尘不染，让人不忍稍有触碰污染之念，有如钻石、珠宝、晶石。鱼、虾、蟹等海中动物是穿梭其间、栖息生活其间的族类，可以想像得到是很欣悦、幸福的，过得逍遥而自在。该是神仙生活吧！
要好好保护它！不要去破坏它！
1997年3月18日台湾日报副刊
The World of coral Hsu ChiCheng
Washing, nurturing, curving, coral forms slowly, a flower after a flower, a tussock after a tussock, set up a world of coral.
Clean, pure, clean and pure into untainted by even a speck of dust, let all others have not any mind to touch. It’s the result of the seawater which washes day after night ceaselessly. The seawater is the washer with great patience, will twist, will rub, gently, one time, next time, and next time again, without any weary, be satisfied…
As to coral, the seawater is a mother rich with milk. She feeds coral with her milk ceaselessly, nurtures coral. Coral then grows smoothly, grows into every kind of tree, flower, grass, grows into diamond, pearl, quartz, grows into many buildings, houses, palaces, cabins, grows into clean and pure…
Seawater is also a great delicate artist, carves and chisels ceaselessly with his cleaver skill, be concentrated on, indefatigably. A knife, a chisel all appears his skill, all remains his texture; in spite of line or pattern, all is delicate and splendor. It is a carve of highly skilled, difficult to find, out of the world.
It’s a special place, a garden of the peaches of immortality, a “fu di tong tain”, thus clean, pure, clean and pure into untainted by even a speck of dust, let all others have not any mind to touch, like diamond, pearl, quartz. The clan which perch and shuttle among them just as the animals of fish, shrimp and crab can visualize, joyful and happy, live carefree and enjoying themselves. Live with a fairy live!
We ought to protect it, don’t to destroy it! @
责任编辑：林芳宇
