Source: Li Xiang,Chinese New Year's Eve reporter of China News Service, Beijing, February 1, 2019 The Lunar New Year is the most important festival for the sons and daughters of China, all over the world

【Chinese New Year's Eve rice in a foreign country, reunion in Chinese flavor is more homesick】 Source: China News Service

Beijing, 1 Feb (China News Service) -- The Lunar New Year is the most important festival for the sons and daughters of China, and overseas Chinese students from all over the world will gather together in different ways to celebrate the New Year on this festival, and the Chinese New Year's Eve meals Chinese New Year's Eve have become a link of cultural inheritance and emotional outpouring.

On the occasion of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, China News Service reporters interviewed 4 overseas Chinese students from all over the world to tell their stories of Chinese New Year's Eve and Chinese New Year's Eve meals.

Li Ruiwu, founder and president of O2WORK Eco Office Space in Singapore, said that the Chinese New Year's Eve meal Chinese New Year's Eve this year is to eat a sumptuous hot pot at home and with his family, which means that the Year of the Tiger is booming, and he hopes to drive away the virus as soon as possible.

According to Li Ruiwu reporter, the Chinese New Year's Eve rice of The Chinese in Singapore has a famous dish "Fishing Raw". "Fishing" comes from cantonese meaning "mix", and as the name suggests, it is a cold dish made from fish meat and various vegetable ingredients. When eating, a person gives orders, and everyone uses chopsticks to clip the various materials in the plate high, and shouts loudly while clamping: "Fish up!" Scoop it up! One year is better than one year! ”

Liu Wengang, president of the British Aberdeen Chinese Federation, said that because there is no holiday during the British Spring Festival, Chinese families and international students may have work and study during the day, but they will also decorate their homes at night, prepare a rich Chinese New Year's Eve meal to celebrate the Chinese New Year's Eve, relatives and friends get together, leave the old and welcome the new.

Liu Wengang said that most Of the Chinese in the UK will gather with family and friends on Chinese New Year's Eve night to celebrate the Spring Festival, and the Chinese New Year's Eve meals are traditional Chinese dishes, selected according to the tastes of their respective families. Indispensable is fish, because it means "more than every year"; there is also lettuce, which means "to make money". Most of the international students are close friends or people from the same apartment get together to prepare everyone's special dishes and wrap dumplings together.

Liu Wengang said: "There is a deep family affection in the Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and the Chinese New Year's Eve meal of the family reunion is the cultural DNA engraved in the bones of all Chinese. For us who are far overseas, Chinese New Year's Eve meal is a hometown dish that haunts our hearts, pinning our thoughts on our homeland. ”

Ma Xiao, an international student who graduated from the Florence Conservatory of Music in Italy, said that in the past, Chinese New Year's Eve would call on a good friend to cook a large table of dishes on the day, and each person would make a few dishes, or eat hot pot directly, steaming hot, which could also make everyone have a more enjoyable chat. However, the recent new crown pneumonia epidemic in Italy is not very optimistic, coupled with the fact that there are people around who have been diagnosed one after another, and for the first time there is a sense of oppression, so this year Chinese New Year's Eve everything is simple, and the roommate is simple for the New Year, but the Chinese New Year's Eve rice and dumplings are still indispensable.

Ma Xiao said: "I went to Chinese supermarkets to grab a lot of dumplings, because Chinese New Year's Eve rice is an indispensable sense of form. At that moment, I felt like I was standing on the familiar land again, and the tip of my tongue could taste the taste of home; at that moment I felt that I was closer to home, although in different corners of the world, but everyone was living the same festival, talking about the same things. Whenever you think about your family during the festive season, people may not be able to get home, but the heart and taste buds have already reached first. ”

Chen Sijin, senior adviser on risk management of the International Financial Consortium living in Canada, said that in Canada, before, due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, a stay-at-home order was implemented, but the enthusiasm of the Chinese New Year did not diminish, and many people went to the supermarket three weeks in advance to prepare New Year goods and cook a reunion dinner at home, and the supply of traditional Chinese ingredients was in short supply.

"On Chinese New Year's Eve night this year, my wife and I prepared a Chinese New Year's Eve meal that can be described as a 'combination of Chinese and Western', with pasta, steak and Western-style pastries, as well as traditional Chinese cuisine, and a sumptuous dinner accompanied by watching the Spring Festival Gala on the Internet." Chen Sijin said, "Although I am overseas, the essential elements of the Spring Festival are indispensable, and Chinese New Year's Eve rice means triggering the 'Chinese stomach' with 'Chinese taste', inheriting 'Chinese culture', and feeling the 'Chinese heart'!" (End)