Observe | behind the "New Year Blessings For Crossing the Strait": The year connects the two sides of the strait and loves to cross the mountains and seas

Love and thoughts are more intense every festive season.

On the eve of the Spring Festival, Mr. Fang Hanqi, a 96-year-old mainland journalism giant, and Mr. Li Zhan, a 98-year-old Taiwan journalism tycoon, exchanged congratulations on the New Year through videos such as "Looking forward to tea" and "Gathering for a Hundred Years."

As soon as the video came out, this good story of crossing the century and the strait immediately detonated the Internet.

Subsequently, people from all walks of life on both sides of the Taiwan Strait also began to express their love and wishes to relatives and friends through social platforms, and the media also reported on it.

This Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, the "New Year Blessings Across the Strait" continued to brush the screen on the Internet, which attracted widespread attention.

Every festive season, I think of my family. In its commentary, the People's Daily explained the reason for the "New Year Blessings Across the Strait" and the profound meaning behind it: The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and it is also the cultural gene flowing in the blood of all Chinese sons and daughters. This festival is about reunion, about missing, about family affection, carrying the blessing of a better life, carrying the warmest and most lively emotional memory of the Chinese. No matter how far apart they are, the distance between the hearts will be shortened at once, and the blessings will be exchanged.

No matter where you are, you must have a good New Year, which is the deepest tacit understanding and the most sincere blessing between Chinese. This great New Year's Greeting, which originated on social media and quickly ignited online enthusiasm, vividly exposed the "family affinity" feelings of the people on both sides of the strait flowing in their blood. CCTV News also pointed out in the commentary that "Nian" is like a kind of "reminder", and she uses the powerful centripetal force of Chinese culture to connect the warmth of the family on both sides of the strait. People who exchange blessings on the new media platform, although they are separated from each other and cannot meet, are full of affection.

"Nostalgia is a shallow strait, I am here, the mainland is at that end."

However, "the strait is difficult to separate the wild geese, and the years have not changed people's hearts." ”

Bless the friendship of the century in the video

Just as the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger was approaching, the 96-year-old mainland journalism giant Fang Hanqi and the 98-year-old Taiwan journalism giant Li Zhan detonated the Internet through the news of "looking forward to tea" and "gathering for a hundred years" and appeared on the hot search.

Mr. Fang Hanqi recalled in the video, "We have a common experience, such as the anti-Japanese salvation at that time you were an exiled student, I was also displaced, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, almost before and after attending more than a dozen schools, this experience is our common. My impression is that after the reform and opening up, I remember that at that time you went to the mainland many times to communicate with the mainland journalism scholars, and you provided great help to the mainland journalism researchers, scholars, and professors. ”

"I have also been to Taiwan many times, and I have many relatives who are buried in Yangming Mountain, and this kind of water-milky family relationship between the two sides of the strait exists objectively," Fang Hanqi introduced to Li Zhan: "We Beijingers eat the dishes of your hometown Shouguang every day. In life, in the feelings of the countryside, it is also inseparable. ”

Wang Runze, the publisher of the video and deputy dean of the School of Journalism of Chinese Min University, said: "After the New Year's greeting video was issued, it caused a warm response from netizens, with more than 600 messages on Douyin alone, some netizens left messages saying that they were moved to cry, and several netizens also recalled their exchanges with Mr. Li Zhan in the mainland or Taiwan many years ago, which was very touching. ”

Subsequently, Li Zhan, because of his advanced age, entrusted his daughter to appear on camera to send a video of the New Year to Fang Hanqi, "Brother Hanqi, we have known each other for more than seventy years, experienced war and turmoil, and have been able to reunite again, how fortunate it is, now that we have passed the year of our precious birthday, I am deeply gratified to recall that we are committed to journalism education on both sides of the strait and cultivating outstanding talents for society." ”

This century-old friendship between the mountains and the flowing waters of the mountains is extremely moving. On the Sina Weibo platform, the "New Year Greetings Across the Straits" topic hosted by The Paper has received more than 150 million views. Some netizens left a message, "The strait is difficult to separate the wild geese, and the years have not changed people's hearts" "Century of friendship, touched!" More people sent blessings to the two gentlemen, "70 years of acquaintance, 100 years old reunion" "It is so good that this friendship, I wish the two grandfathers good health!" People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, China Central Radio and Television Corporation, Guangming Daily, Economic Daily, China News Agency, China Youth Daily and other domestic mainstream media have all forwarded reports.

On January 21, 1972, the famous poet Yu Guangzhong wrote in Taiwan: "Nostalgia is a shallow strait, I am here, the mainland is at that end." Today, this song "Nostalgia" has been exactly fifty years. The nostalgia of that year has influenced generations. This set of videos not only shows the sincere friendship between the two masters, but also makes everyone feel that the compatriots on both sides of the strait are connected by blood and hearts.

In the comments made by the surging news, it is said that a hundred years of life is already a great blessing, and if there are still one or two confidants who talk about tea, they can expect each other, which is really a blessing in the luck. The acquaintance of the two masters in their legendary lives is not a microcosm of the Chinese on both sides of the strait working together to cross history and move toward the future.

Subsequently, the 98-year-old "goddess of poetry" Ye Jiaying sent New Year greetings to friends in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas through video; Fang Ming, a half-lifelong close friend of Yu Guangzhong and a famous poet from Panyu, recited "Nostalgia" in Yu Guangzhong through video in order to express his thoughts of his friends on the mainland; Yu Jiulin, an actor of kunqu opera in the mainland, and Bai Xianyong, a writer from Taiwan, bid farewell to the New Year in a video and said "continue to pass on the art of Kunqu opera"...

CCTV News commented that these cultures not only showed the quaint and exquisite side of the Spring Festival, but also opened the lock of "common culture, common experience, and common memory" between the two sides of the strait, so that we can "move" and "salute" and have a little more thinking about the DNA in our own blood.

CCTV News also paid attention to the fact that when Gao Binghan, an 87-year-old veteran in Taiwan, and his 85-year-old brother Gao Bingtao, who settled in Xiamen, expressed their thoughts and concerns to each other through video; when Tian Zhengjie, a Taiwan businessman who stayed on the mainland for the New Year because of the epidemic, "reported" to his family in Taiwan about his fun incident of participating in the "Dumpling Wrapping Contest" that day; when the children of marriage and family on both sides of the strait said to their Taiwanese relatives in front of the camera, "I hope the virus will go away quickly, and you can also come to Suzhou for the New Year"... You will find that in every simple greeting, there is a thick "Chinese emotion".

On the occasion of the Spring Festival, this series of New Year's greeting videos full of deep affection and friendship not only conveys thoughts and blessings, but also the "nostalgia" linked by blood, and is also a deep expectation of a family on both sides of the strait looking forward to reunion.

China Daily also mentioned on Weibo that this new year's greeting, which originated on social media and quickly ignited online enthusiasm, vividly displayed the "family affinity" feelings flowing in the blood of the people on both sides of the strait.

Hong Kong Commercial Daily commented, "The New Year newspaper is clear, and the love is strong on both sides of the strait." In the case of not being able to meet, the Internet has linked the family and friendship between the two sides of the strait. The strong cross-strait love affair cannot be relinquished even because of the epidemic. ”

Zhang Zhi'an, a professor at the School of Communication and Design at Sun Yat-sen University, said in an interview with the Southern Metropolis Daily, "The mutual greetings of the people on both sides of the strait arouse our strong national feelings and hometown feelings. The topic of family affinity on both sides of the strait has also made everyone feel the feelings of the same root and the same origin of the Chinese nation, which is a common emotional expectation of the Chinese nation and has a strong emotional mobilization and connection effect. ”

The People's Daily commented that the two sides of the strait are close to each other, and both are Chinese. Compatriots on both sides of the strait have the same roots, the same language, and the same species, they are brothers who break bones and connect their tendons, and they are a family whose blood is thicker than water. Chinese culture is the root and belonging of the hearts of compatriots on both sides of the strait, and compatriots on both sides of the strait are the inheritors of Chinese culture. The fact that the compatriots on both sides of the strait are separated by brotherly affection that is thicker than water cannot stop the compatriots on both sides of the strait from eagerly hoping for family reunions. The need for exchanges and cooperation between the people on both sides of the strait is a historical trend, and no matter how much cross-strait relations change, they cannot stop the pace of cross-strait relations moving forward.

Youth association in the New Year Family Book

The "New Year Blessings Across the Strait" has attracted more and more netizens, and young people on both sides of the strait who are on the mainland have joined in the festive atmosphere of this "Cloud New Year's Greeting". And the "New Year Family Letter" they wrote to the family on the island through video is also quite touching.

"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 studying graduate school at Tsinghua University Law School, took a "New Year Family Letter" for his family in Hokkien dialect; in order to serve as a volunteer for the Winter Olympics, Li Ruojun, a junior at Beijing Second Foreign Chinese College and from Hsinchu, Taiwan, stayed in Beijing for the New Year, and she sent a video family letter to her family in Taiwan, wishing her parents and sisters a happy new year and auspicious Year of the Tiger; for the first time in 21 years, she did not celebrate the New Year at home. Zhou Enxian, a Taiwanese student who is a senior at Tsinghua University, sent New Year greetings to his parents in a somewhat hoarse voice through the video, and said that he missed his mother's stewed chicken soup... These sincere "New Year Family Letters" were praised and left by a large number of netizens.

Why is the traditional method of family letters still warmly welcomed by young people in the Internet age? China Youth Daily said in the commentary that Hongyan passed on the book, the family letter to the million gold, why the wanderer often has tears in his eyes, because the love for the family is deep, the family letter can write this deep love thoroughly, and can also reach the heart of the relatives.

New media makes communication incomparably convenient, not as slow as the previous carriages and horses, electronic media can make the mind arrive in an instant, if the end of the world is next to each other, Chinese still like to call this greeting affectionately called the family letter. Deep affection still needs a long word to be exhausted. Chinese square characters, Chinese traditional way of communication, a heavy sense of cultural ceremony, can deeply depict our family affection that is connected to traditional culture and integrated into the bones. Where is the township book? Return to Yan luoyang.

China Youth Daily pointed out that this is the reason why family letters are still very popular in today's era of developed new media, and we Chinese are very introverted, especially in emotional expression, and we think more in our hearts than we say in our mouths. When we call our parents, sometimes our thoughts are rushing, but the words are often clumsy and often silent for a long time. Many love words that cannot be spoken in person on the phone can be expressed freely in text and video. Dear Mom and Dad, how are you? I'm busy at work now, am I doing well? Next year's Spring Festival I will definitely go home, so let's write about it first. A family history is a spiritual history that Chinese pours out the feelings of homesickness and homesickness, and the family letter has no other words, only to return home early.

But this Spring Festival, although these young People from Taiwan on the mainland cannot be reunited with their families, they will not be lonely or uncomfortable. In the home book video, Su Yongjun eats Taiwanese sausages, which he says is the "taste of hometown." He also said his family wouldn't worry about him because they also knew that "I'm really good at living on the mainland."

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."

The Paper said in its commentary that similar food habits, the same festival customs, and familiar living environments have made 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.

As mentioned in the People's Daily in its commentary, more and more young people in Taiwan are coming to the mainland to pursue their dreams, build dreams, and realize their dreams, and while realizing their own dreams, they have constantly enhanced their ambition, backbone, and confidence to be Chinese. Young people are the future of the country, the hope of the nation, and the future and hope of cross-strait relations. Young friends greet each other, talk to each other, jointly feel the unique charm of the long history and splendid culture of the Chinese nation, jointly appreciate the vicissitudes and great changes of the great motherland, and jointly look forward to the bright prospects of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, painting a moving picture of youth.