"Books and Distant Places" submissions | the struggling "Chinese heart" - reading "Ping An Batch" has a feeling

There is a kind of family letter called "peace approval", and when you receive a peace approval, the stone in your heart falls to the ground.

Reading the book "Ping An Batch" stems from the touch brought by this sentence. It was as if he had also traveled through the long river of time, and engaged in dialogue with history through that letter of peace.

"Batch" is the Hokkien language, that is, the meaning of "faith", peace approval, that is, peace letter. The correspondence between the overseas Chinese in Chaoshan and southern Fujian and their hometowns is the "overseas Chinese batch". The vast number of overseas Chinese compatriots are overseas, their hearts are close to the motherland, and they have made great historical contributions to China's social and economic development, and the overseas Chinese criticism is also a history of overseas Chinese immigration and entrepreneurship, which records the arduous struggle of chinese overseas Chinese who wandered overseas. Reading Mr. Chen Jiming's "Ping An Batch", I have a new understanding and understanding of this unique overseas Chinese criticism culture and the story of the struggle of the Chaoshan people in Nanyang.

In the book, Zheng Mengmei shoulders the mission of reviving the family business in Xiqian, and Li Zhinian is alone in Nanyang. In a foreign country, "Ping An Batch" unexpectedly became his life's work. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, overseas Chinese merchants in Chaoshan resisted Japan in various ways to save the country and help refugees. Zheng Mengmei and her relatives and friends resolutely threw themselves into the grand cause of serving the motherland, and opened up a new "lifeline" for transporting batches of anti-war materials and donations in the fires of war... Using Ping An Pi as the medium, the novel integrates into the changes in the world over the past hundred years, writes the spiritual world of one party, and writes a "Chinese heart" that cherishes love and righteousness, patriotism and love for the country.

Art originates from life, and it is higher than life, and the feelings of home and country and human fireworks are always gripping. The book "Ping'an Batch" integrates the original dialect of the Chaoshan region, the native language of Fan Ping, Hou ShengZai, Shi Lai... It is very local and at the same time full of artistic atmosphere, and at the same time, it also describes the food, architecture, opera, religion, customs, etc. of Chaoshan and Nanyang regions, making the book storyful, interesting and intellectual. As a native of Northwest China, Mr. Chen Jiming has worked and lived in Northwest China for a long time before moving to Zhuhai. The identity and perspective of "outsiders" allow him to "not be the spokesperson of Chaoshan", "can jump out of Chaoshan to see Chaoshan", from a new perspective, with great interest to explore and interpret the "root" and "soul" of Chaoshan local culture.

The home is a small country, and the country is a million. The structure of traditional Chinese society is based on the family, emphasizing the harmony and perfection of the family and emphasizing the benevolence between people. "Ping An Batch" does not introduce the home and country feelings of the tide merchants from a macroscopic point of view, but penetrates into a seal of Peace Batch, immersed in a distinct character and story, quite a still water deep flow meaning.

There is a proverb in Chaoshan: you can make a living after a long time, and your business will make a fortune. I was most impressed by the discussion in "Ping An Batch" about the low-key humility of the Chaoshan overseas Chinese business community and the death of donkeys. Mr. Chen Jiming said: "The personality of the Chaoshan people is actually the personality of Chinese, and it can even be said that it is a strengthened version of the personality of the Chinese. Such a character is a inheritance, a bloodline, and the result of experience and reality indoctrination. ”

Zhang Xiaoyu, Party Committee of the Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission