Sending Blessings for the Spring Festival The two sides of the strait are heart-to-heart

The Xiamen Lantern Viewing Event attracts tourists to wear Hanfu to punch in. Photo by Shen Weibin

Splash ink to write New Year blessings; brilliant flower lanterns, reflecting the family on both sides of the strait; inheriting intangible cultural heritage, playing a happy prelude... The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. At the end of each year and the beginning of the year, the mainland will send New Year greetings to all walks of life on the island and to Taiwan compatriots in various ways. In this year's New Year blessings, the cultural taste and cultural elements are particularly prominent. In the words of Wang Qingyu, deputy director of the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of Shandong Province, Chinese culture is the common spiritual home of compatriots on both sides of the strait. Cultural exchange is easy to walk the heart, trigger emotional resonance, and is the best carrier of family affection and nostalgia.

Networking events are varied

Han mo books are fragrant, and the rural sounds are full of spring. Townships from Jinan, Shandong, Taipei, and Keelung, Taiwan, gathered together in the "clouds" to hold a Spring Festival blessing activity. The artists of Quancheng created more than 200 calligraphy and painting works in one go, and then introduced the beautiful meaning of the works to the villagers of the Shandong Hometown Society in Taiwan through online videos, so that the compatriots on the island could feel the warmth of their relatives from their hometown.

The "2022 Chinese New Year Irori Meeting" was recently held in Chengdu, Sichuan. Friends from both sides of the Taiwan Strait sat together, laughing and laughing, everyone ate hot pot and sang songs, and exchanged New Year greetings. The interactive sessions in the middle are also very lively. As a representative of the marriage and family on both sides of the strait who returned to his hometown to start a business, Li Lu presided over the "Tim Jin Na Yin" intangible cultural experience that left a deep impression on everyone.

The 2022 Cross-Strait Lantern Festival - Fangte New Year Night Lantern Viewing Activity kicked off in Xiamen, Fujian Province, in late January. This lantern fair combined the cultural characteristics of both sides of the strait and the characteristics of the New Year, and exhibited a total of 23 groups of large-scale lanterns. Among them, the "One Family on Both Sides of the Strait" light group takes the theme of the flower and shows the picture of the two sides of the strait being connected by heart and holding hands.

Jointly inherit Chinese culture

In 2021, Taiwanese Nanyin artists Zhuo Shengxiang and Lin Sumei became the non-hereditary inheritors of the Nanyin Project in Fujian Province. At the scene of the Xiamen Lantern Festival lighting ceremony, they joined hands with Xiamen Nanyin artists to bring a cheerful song "Greeting the New Year" to play a joyful prelude for the lantern festival on both sides of the strait. "These shows have the flavor of childhood hometown." A Taiwanese youth at the scene said in an interview that it was as if time had traveled back to the stage of his hometown. He sighed that the Spring Festival on both sides of the strait is the same, the same lively, the same warmth.

"Tianjin Nayin" adopts the traditional Sichuan silver silk intangible cultural heritage and craftsmanship. From opening a tea factory to spreading tea culture, to joining the promotion of lacquerware and silver silk intangible cultural heritage last year, Li Lu felt that she had the responsibility to inherit and promote Chinese culture, and hoped to promote more Young People in Taiwan to deepen their understanding and recognition of Chinese culture.

Xia Yingzhou, chairman of the Taiwan Association of Chinese National Unity, still remembers the school motto that he recited in Qingdao Primary School: I am proud, I am confident, I am Chinese. In a video produced by the Shandong Hometown Association in Taiwan, he wrote a poem to express his heart: "Ethnic groups are harmonious and there is no barrier, working together to build a family state, one heart at home and abroad, and the Chinese nation must be strong." ”

The two sides of the strait are full of affection

Wu Jiaying, president of the Xiamen Taiwan Businessmen's Association, said: "I hope that this beautiful flower lantern and wonderful performance will reflect the deep friendship between the compatriots on both sides of the strait whose blood is thicker than water." ”

Feeling the strong affection coming from Qilu's hometown, Taiwan's Shandong Hometown Association also carefully produced a short video to send blessings for the Spring Festival, expressing the common aspirations of the people of Tiannandi and Beishan, and sending out the strong voice of the sons and daughters of China at home and abroad -- only the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the common blessing of compatriots on both sides of the strait.

"Searching for roots, you and I have a dialogue, we have crossed the strait, and the two sides of the strait have always been one", in the song of "We Sing a Song Together", the atmosphere of the New Year exchange activities in Jitai reached its climax. The villagers' longing for family affection and friendship, and their expectations for an early reunion, accompanied by melodious songs, continue to build a bridge connecting hearts across the strait through the "clouds".