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Taiwanese teacher Wang Sentian briefed China News Agency reporters on her "time blueprint" for the new year. Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
(New Year walks to the grassroots) "Landing" Taiwan compatriots in the New Year: from a university associate professor to an executive director of the museum
Zhangzhou, February 13 (Zhang Jinchuan, Liao Zhenmei) "Although I have not returned to Taiwan for the New Year, my friends on the mainland are enthusiastic and concerned, and this year is still very fulfilling and happy. Just after the Spring Festival, Taiwanese teacher Wang Sentian began to get busy in her new office, sharing with the satisfaction and joy of the first New Year in the mainland with the reporter of China News Network.
Wang Morita's new office is in the Fujian Provincial Hi-Silk Clock Museum, and the executive director is a new identity for her year of the tiger. Previously, she was an associate professor at the College of Literature at Minnan Normal University and has been teaching for 6 years since she "landed" in 2016.
During the Spring Festival, Taiwanese teacher Wang Sentian shared with reporters her satisfaction and joy for the first Chinese New Year in the mainland in her new office. Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
Zhangzhou is the main ancestral hometown of Taiwan compatriots and an important birthplace of southern Fujian culture. Wang Sentian said: In Taiwan' New Year's Day, there are customs such as writing about the Spring Festival, hanging red lanterns, and worshipping the Heavenly Gong on the first lunar month, and the same is true on the mainland.
"Our family is engaged in the dissemination and promotion of the dance in Taiwan, and I am also the inheritor of the dance." Wang Sentian said that her grandmother told her from an early age that the dance was brought to Taiwan by her ancestors from Fujian and that "the traditional culture of the two sides of the strait is linked by blood."
Carrying forward the traditional culture of the dance in the mainland has become Wang Sentian's tireless pursuit. In May 2021, the dance was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage. Wang Sentian has also been awarded the training certificate of "Hanfu Han Ceremonial Officer" certified by the Fujian Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, becoming the inheritor of inheriting and carrying forward the Chinese Hanfu Hanli.
Taiwanese teacher Wang Sentian introduced the development status of Zhangzhou watch enterprises. Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
Also because of the dance, Wang Morita and the Hai silk clock museum became acquainted. Now, holding both positions, she admits that both identities have in common with inheriting and carrying forward traditional Chinese culture, "Which is also related to my original intention of leaving Taiwan and going to the mainland alone." ”
"My grandmother told me since I was a child that our Wang surname is from the 'Langya Wang Clan', and our ancestral hometown is minnan, and the old ancestor came to Taiwan from minnan." Wang Sentian can't forget that her grandmother taught her excellent traditional Chinese culture from an early age and taught her to speak fluent Minnan dialect. Influenced by his grandmother, Wang Sentian went to university to study in the Department of Chinese, obtained a doctorate, and after graduation, he taught at Taiwan Jing Yi University, Feng Jia University, and Taichung University of Education, and has been engaged in international Chinese teaching.
"When my child is older, I want to look for what my grandmother said about Minnan." In 2016, Wang Sentian searched for mainland colleges and universities, saw that the name of "Minnan Normal University" in Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, included the word "Minnan" that his grandmother cared about, so he submitted his resume without thinking.
Taiwanese teacher Wang Sentian introduced the "those who are as subtle as possible to the vast number" watch poster and praised the "craftsman spirit" of mainland watch enterprises. Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
"They all speak Hokkien dialect, food and customs, and they are very enthusiastic about Taiwan compatriots." The school notified the interview, the first time he had close contact with Zhangzhou, Wang Sentian liked Zhangzhou, and then stayed for 6 years.
At Minnan Normal University, Wang Sentian's research direction is literature and art, Chinese as a foreign language, and she is mainly engaged in the teaching of excellent traditional Chinese culture and the inheritance and promotion of the culture of dance and ritual music. "I hope that we can continue to carry forward the traditional Chinese culture in the mainland, and let more people understand and feel the essence of the culture of dance and ritual music."
Wang Sentian, who has just taken up his new post, has a new "time blueprint": "I will give the Fujian Haisi Clock Museum a deeper time culture and heritage, and hope that it will become a national watch museum in the future." ”
During the interview, Wang Sentian specially led reporters to the front of a poster of a clock in the museum that "the subtle ones are to the vast" and praised the "craftsman spirit" of the mainland watch enterprises. She said that Zhangzhou is the "City of Chinese Clocks and Watches", the foundation and cultural heritage are so good; every part of the clock is exquisite and subtle, and it will surely promote Chinese clocks and watches to the world.