"Books and Far Away" submissions | see the truth in the Ping An Batch

"There is a kind of family letter in the south, called 'peace approval', and when you receive a peace approval, the stone in your heart falls to the ground." The person who sent the approval sent the hard-earned money and the news of the recent peace, and the people who waited for the approval received the subsidy to maintain their lives and the response full of longing.

Letters since ancient times have been an important medium for Chinese to convey emotions and information, people say that "a family letter can reach ten thousand gold", and its value of not changing gold lies in the relief and expectation of "seeing words like meetings" in the depths of the heart when the letter is displayed. Ping An batch came from thousands of miles away, a piece of paper letterhead, a few words of advice, a number of hard money, carrying the overseas wanderer's earnest thoughts of his hometown homeland, the affectionate concern for his blood relatives, and the historical imprint of making a living overseas and taking root.

Chen Jiming, the author of "Ping An Batch", uses the letter sent back by the protagonist Zheng Mengmei as a guide to tell the vivid story of the Chaoshan people going to Nanyang. At that time, the primary function of this letter of approval was actually to send money, and sometimes even the only function. If you need greetings and discussions during the New Year's Festival or in case of trouble, you will send two or three instructions, some items, and a few frames of images with the letter. However, in today's view, these few words attached to the family subsidy show the feelings of home and country that cannot be changed. The Chaoshan people, represented by Zheng Mengmei, show in the author's pen the adventurous spirit of resolutely going to the ocean to revitalize the family business, and also the national righteousness of standing up for the salvation of the homeland.

The notes have turned yellow and the story is still circulating. Flipping through the letters in the book, the beginning is "exhibition paper application letter, such as to soothe hunger and thirst", and the end is "don't think for hope, thousands and thousands". Being in a foreign country, busy for his livelihood, he cannot serve his parents or raise his children at the bottom, but he wishes that the family will be smooth and everything will be as usual, and when he returns to his hometown, he will talk about the wine with the kings.

Guangzhou Public Utilities Technician College Zhong Limian