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[quote=GRIZ326,287027]In the old "Charlie Chan" detective movies I watched as a boy, Charlie Chan always referred to his children as Number one son, Number two son, Number one daughter... "My Number One son will get the papers..." "My Number One daughter will get us coffee..." Or something like that. Did Earl Derr Biggers (author) and the movie scriptwriters of "Charlie Chan" extract this interesting way of identifying children out of something in Chinese culture? Or is that just something that Hollywood dreamed up? Here is a Wiki reference to Charlie Chan: "Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers, reportedly in part under inspiration from the career of Honolulu policeman Chang Apana. Chan is the hero of a number of books and dozens of movies. At first a sergeant (but later promoted) in the Honolulu Police Department, he and his wife have fourteen children (the oldest of whom is colloquially known as "Number One Son") and live in a house on Punchbowl Hill." There is a website for these old movies: http://www.charliechan.net/ The stories were always quite clever and the "proverbs" endearing, although I doubt they came from Chinese philosophy.[/quote]
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