Shantou was established because of overseas Chinese and prospered because of overseas Chinese. In recent years, the city has deeply excavated the unique humanistic imprint and profound historical heritage of overseas Chinese, inherited overseas Chinese culture and Chaoshan culture, enhanced the cultural identity and exchange and integration of overseas Chinese at home and abroad, expanded the opening up of the cultural field to the outside world, gathered the strength of overseas Chinese, and jointly built a hometown of overseas Chinese.
In the Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Museum of the Chaoshan History and Culture Expo Center, the Chaoshan folk customs activities held by overseas Teochew people's associations in their places of residence are displayed. To this day, many Chaoshan overseas Chinese still retain the traditional culture and customs of Chaoshan such as making Chaoshan cuisine, speaking Chaozhou language, and brewing Gongfu tea, and integrate with the civilization exchanges of their places of residence. Lin Jiaguang from Malaysia is a descendant of overseas Chinese, although they live in Malaysia all year round, but every traditional folk festival, they will spend the festival with their family and friends, taste the delicacies of their hometown, and talk about the changes in their hometown.
Lin Jiaguang, acting president of the Malaysian Federation of Teochew Guilds, said: "In Malaysia, we still maintain a fairly complete Chaoshan culture and customs, such as our eight festivals of the year, the Spring Festival, the Winter Solstice, the Lantern Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Qingming Festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival, to the winter solstice, Chongyang, we will deal with it according to traditional customs, and we are also very particular about Kung Fu tea." ”
Li Yun, deputy director of the Public Education Department of shantou City Museum, said: "Our overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese will live some festivals in accordance with some traditional customs of the Hipsters, such as 'Sai Da Pig' and 'out of the garden', making some cantonese products, and the descendants of overseas Chinese have also continued these situations of our festival customs." It can also be seen that the spread of our Chaoshan traditional festivals and traditional culture has been recognized and recognized by them. ”
As the first overseas Chinese museum in Shantou, the Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Museum has a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the history of overseas Chinese in Chaoshan in an exhibition hall of more than 6,000 square meters. Here, you can appreciate the Chaoshan culture and overseas Chinese customs, feel the feelings of home and country in the hometown of overseas Chinese, understand the spread and inheritance of Chaoshan culture overseas, and the deep affection of overseas Chinese in feeding their hometown.
Li Yun said: "I hope that through the exhibition, overseas Chinese returning to their hometowns can understand the history and indomitable spirit of their ancestors who carried forward the overseas hard work and struggle at that time, as well as their patriotic feelings for their hometown feedback." ”
At the Chaoshan Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall in the Chaoshan Expo Center, Chaoshan wood carvings, porcelain, embroidery and other exhibits are dazzling, showing visitors the long history and culture of Chaoshan to visitors. Whether it is Chaoshan cuisine such as brine goose, kueh and beef balls, or traditional Chaoshan buildings such as four-point gold and xiashan tiger, it can arouse the nostalgia of the chaoshan people and their descendants in the hometown of Chaoshan.
Zhuang Kunhan, head of the Chaoshan Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall, said: "Our traditional houses have been moved to our entire venue, so that some visitors, including some Overseas Chinese, recall memories of the past. For overseas Chinese, they can bring their past memories at home and abroad more deeply. ”
"Where there is tide, there are hipsters, and where there are hipsters, there are tide dramas." Through the continuous implementation of the "Chao opera sowing plan", the city condenses the nostalgia with the local tone and promotes the overseas dissemination of chao opera culture and even Chaoshan culture. Recently, the city held the first one-month international Chao Opera Culture Training Class, and the Guangdong Chao Theater Xinmatai Chao Opera Heritage Center was also unveiled at the same time. Many overseas Chao opera students learn the theoretical knowledge, performing arts, practical skills, etc. of Chao opera culture through online methods, and the seminar uses drama as a medium and drama as a bridge to build a closer cultural "bridge connecting hearts" between hipsters at home and abroad.
Chen Xuan, Artistic Director of Hong Kong Chao Opera Heritage Centre, said: "Chao Opera is deeply loved by Chinese overseas, and the holding of international training classes can give full play to the charm of Chao Opera gathering overseas Chinese with academic training, and help Shantou bid to host the 22nd International Teochew League Friendship Annual Conference. I hope that this international seminar can be held continuously, and the fans of Chao opera in more countries can learn together, so that the 'cultural treasure' of Chao opera can become the world's 'common' language. ”
Chen Haiyong, member of the party committee and vice president of Guangdong Chao Theatre, said: "This year we will actively implement the sowing plan of Chao Opera, tell Chinese stories well, run the 'Overseas Connection Cloud Theater', enrich the exhibition and broadcast program library, continuously expand the influence of Chao Opera overseas, and deepen the feelings of overseas Chinese, especially overseas Chinese descendants, for their hometown." ”
Source: Shantou Olive Terrace