February 4, Lichun, the day the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics kicked off, is also a time for Chinese families to gather together and spend the New Year together. The plan of the year is spring. A world-renowned sports event that nurtures the youthful dreams of countless young people; a festival of reunion and joy, containing the deep affection of all Chinese.
Dreams, hopes, warmth, concerns... Two New Year family letters from Taiwanese youth who served as volunteers for the Winter Olympics condensed these emotions together, and on this special day, countless netizens were in tears.
"When I was a child, my mother always gave us red envelopes, and she would always write down her blessings for each of our children. This year I grew up, change my bag to give my mother a red envelope..."
On the first day of the Chinese New Year, Su Yongjun, a Taiwanese student who was a graduate student at Tsinghua University Law School, took a "New Year Family Letter" for his family in Hokkien dialect. Li Ruojun, a junior at Beijing's Second Foreign Chinese College, also sent a video family letter to his family in Taiwan — they chose to stay in Beijing because of the Winter Olympics.
There is no flowery language, no excessive embellishment, but the New Year family letters of the two young people in Taiwan have touched many netizens. "The family letter has a sense of ceremony", "This young man is very loving", "Happy New Year to the classmates"... In the comments section, there are warm and heartwarming messages everywhere.
"Three thousand miles of river water, fifteen lines of family letters." In the context of Chinese culture, a family letter is a vivid letter to relatives, an emotional carrier that nourishes the heart, and the best form of expressing the mood. No matter where you are, a family letter and a word of peace can resolve the worries of your family and ease the nostalgia of your loved ones.
In this era of more and more diversified means of communication, perhaps we no longer need to lay a blank piece of paper and repair a ruler, but the distant mother, the family's ding-dong, childhood memories in the video family book... It is still an emotion that all the sons and daughters of China can understand, and it is still an image that young people on both sides of the strait can understand.
A fist and fist thoughts, a Yin Yin entrustment, a strong concern, in this New Year festival of ten thousand family reunions and happy harmony, reading such a sincere family letter, every Chinese will naturally feel the same. This is also the fundamental reason why countless netizens spontaneously liked, forwarded and left messages for their enthusiasm.
This Spring Festival, although young Taiwanese students cannot be reunited with their families, they will not be lonely and uncomfortable. In the home book video, Su Yongjun eats Taiwanese sausages, which he says is the "taste of hometown." Su Yongjun also said that his family would not worry about him, because they also knew that "I live really well on the mainland."
Many young Taiwanese who stayed on the mainland for the Chinese New Year and worked and lived in the mainland have similar feelings. Cai Yunyong, a Taiwanese girl who stayed in Beijing for the New Year, happily posted her prepared red sweater in a video home letter to her family. She could not hide her expectations for this special Spring Festival, "I took the Spring Festival with my roommate, took the Word Fu, and posted it to the door in a moment."
Similar food habits, the same festival customs, and familiar living environments make these young Taiwanese who study and work in the mainland feel no estrangement and strangeness. The unaltered rural tone, the red sweater, the festive Spring Festival... Through them, we once again feel the power of "home" and witness the "spiritual origin" of all Chinese.
Where we come from, where our roots are, and answer these questions, every young person's long life path can be more stable and more solid. The reason why the video family letters of Taiwanese students make the majority of netizens feel particularly cordial is because we have the same cultural genes in our blood and have common historical memories.
Today is the spring of Li Chun, the beginning of unity, the renewal of all things. A spring word is meaningful, and the "new taste" of our ancient nation is always full of hope and creation; a new word is profound, and our cultural spirit already contains endless power. The holding of the Winter Olympics has condensed the strongest emotions, warmest expectations and most beautiful wishes into a new starting point.
On a summer night 14 years ago, from Yongdingmen through Tiananmen To the "Bird's Nest", 29 fireworks "footprints" slowly moved forward and were extremely firm. They have crossed the historical light and shadow of the rise and fall of the Chinese nation and outlined a clear trajectory of the modern Olympic movement embracing the splendid civilization of the ancient countries of the East.
Today, Beijing will be the first city in history to host the Olympic Games in summer and winter. The Beijing Winter Olympics is not only a "covenant of ice and snow", but also reflects the "covenant of development" between China and the world and the future. How can this big era and big stage that nurtures unlimited opportunities and brings a new starting point not make every young person with a dream yearn for it?
The young heart always longs for a broader and more magnificent stage. February 4 is also Li Ruojun's birthday. "Being able to participate in the opening ceremony on my birthday is one of the most memorable, special and warmest birthday gifts that the Winter Olympics have given me." Li Ruojun said. Although she could not go home for the New Year, her excited and excited expression was already full of expectations and expectations.
The Beijing Winter Olympics is a global ice and snow sports event, and it is also a stage for all the descendants of Yanhuang to participate in the grand event. Compatriots on both sides of the strait should, of course, share this glory. A letter from the Family of the New Year will pass on the grandeur of the Beijing Winter Olympics to the island for the first time, and will also cross the shallow strait of the bay and connect everyone's hearts together.
The river of time flows endlessly, and each generation of young people has their own opportunities and opportunities, and they must plan their lives and create history under the conditions of their own times. The Beijing Winter Olympics have given young Taiwanese people such as Su Yongjun and Li Ruojun the opportunity to witness history and participate in history, and will also inject new impetus into the continuous development of cross-strait relations.
"Because we are a family", your youth dream is my unremitting pursuit. Tonight, the door to the world and tomorrow is about to open, let us embrace the dream, join hands, and move together to the future.
Poster design Zhou Huan
Source: The Paper
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