Source: China News Network
Beijing, June 12 (China News Service) -- On the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival in China, overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese in many parts of the world are connected with their families and friends "in the clouds", and "dumplings" enjoy the Dragon Boat Festival. Compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and foreigners from all over the world also worked with local people to wrap rice dumplings and cook Chinese dishes, feel the festive atmosphere, and feel the traditional Chinese culture.
More than 20 overseas Chinese and students from the United States, Japan, Australia, Germany and other countries connected with their families "cloud" on the 11th.
On the same day, the scene also held a "colorful silk wrapped sachet, affectionate and auspicious" Dragon Boat Festival sachet production activities. The event was hosted by the Shanxi Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and the Shanxi Museum, and hosted by the Shanxi Overseas Relatives Association. The sachets made in the activity are designed by the Shanxi Museum, which has the meaning of "there is hua in the heart and flowers bloom freely". The ornamentation comes from the painted "flower" pattern on the faience pots excavated from the site of Xiyin Village. Hu Xiaoping, director of the Overseas Friendship Department of the Shanxi Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, Li Hongfang, honorary president of the Japan Shanxi Hometown Association, Wang Xiaobo, president of the Ao-New Zealand Shanxi Association, and other overseas Chinese leaders conducted on-site connections.
The Ningxia Science and Technology Department (Bureau of Foreign Experts) launched the "Dumpling Dumplings Celebrating Dragon Boat Festival" and Chinese cooking experience activities in Yinchuan on the 11th, inviting more than 20 foreign experts in Ningbo to follow Chinese chefs to learn rice dumplings and make Chinese dishes. The exquisite and small rice dumplings attracted the attention of foreign experts, and many people followed the "Chinese teachers" to learn to pack rice dumplings and take photos with their "homework".
That day was the second Dragon Boat Festival spent by El Batoul NEJJAOUI from Morocco in Yinchuan, Ningxia. In her view, whether it is Christmas and Easter in the West or the Spring Festival and Dragon Boat Festival in China, they all express feelings such as longing, reunion, and remembrance, and these emotions are common to the world regardless of nationality.
The activity of "Hetai Family, Dragon Boat Festival" was held in Bao Park, Cross-Strait Exchange Base, Hefei City, Anhui Province, on the 11th. Taiwan compatriots living in Anhui and children wrapped rice dumplings together and sang "Beautiful Hefei" together to share the same roots.
Zhu Rongzhi, a 72-year-old professor of Chinese literature at Taiwan Normal University, has long been engaged in traditional culture research and has been settling in Hefei for 10 years. He believes that in terms of folk culture, both sides of the strait have the same traditions and cultures, such as dumplings, dragon boat races, and wearing incense bags. "We Chinese attach great importance to family, ethics and culture, which we are proud of and should cherish."
The activity of "Greeting the Dragon Boat Festival with the Same Origin of 'Dumplings' 'Springs' Family Strong Love Dumplings" was held in Zhangqiu, Jinan on the 11th. Residents of Taiwan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao learn to make rice dumplings on the spot and feel the festive atmosphere.
Ding Chuning, a student at the School of Management of Shandong University in Taiwan, spent the Dragon Boat Festival in Jinan for the first time. "Although I am in a foreign country, I feel particularly warm to be able to spend the festival with my classmates and friends from my hometown and wrap rice dumplings together, which is also a different experience."
Xu Bei, deputy director of the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the Jinan Municipal People's Government, said: "On the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, we and the compatriots in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao wrap zongzi and taste the incense, so that they can feel the warmth of home, enhance their sense of national and cultural identity, reflect the deep affection of the same roots, the same ancestors, and jointly inherit the excellent traditional culture." ”
On the 11th, the Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao Affairs Office of Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, organized some Taiwan compatriots, Taiwan businessmen, and Taiwan dependents to go to Tianfu Stone Carving Park to carry out the activity of "Dumpling Love and Dumplings, One Family on Both Sides of the Strait", and everyone laughed and laughed, interacted peacefully, and the atmosphere was harmonious.
"Every festive season, I think of my relatives, and the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional culture shared by both sides of the strait." Lin Shouhong, chairman of Lingyun (Zhangzhou) Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., which is committed to operating a high-quality organic ecological tourism farm, attended the event. Lin Shouhong, who has been developing on the mainland for more than 20 years, said that he hopes that the two sides of the strait will continue to expand the field of exchanges, enhance mutual understanding and trust, and become closer and closer. (End) (Participating reports: Yang Peipei, Yang Jieying, Yang Di, Zhang Jun, Chu Weiwei, Sun Hongyi, Zhang Jinchuan)