Chinese New Year |" Foreign daughter-in-law "China's different Chinese year."
——This is the 14th Spring Festival spent in Changting by Yang Song's Argentine daughter-in-law Yang Qina in Changting!
Like ordinary Chinese housewives, early in the morning Chinese New Year's Eve, the "foreign daughter-in-law" Qina began a busy day, and she had to cook Chinese New Year's Eve meals for the whole family with her sister-in-law. White chopped chicken, stuffed tofu, dumplings, potato balls... More than a dozen Hakka dishes, she made it with ease.
Jancina, formerly known as Viviana Cardoso, is from Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. This year's Spring Festival is the 14th Chinese New Year she spent in the small city of Changting in western Fujian.
In 2004, at a Chinese event in Buenos Aires, China met Yang Song from Changting, Fujian Province, and the two fell in love at first sight, and the next year they married. In 2006, she followed Yang Song to China with her newborn son. Yang Song's mother gave her daughter-in-law the Chinese name "China".
China arrived in China shortly after catching the Spring Festival. Changting is the first Fuzhi city inhabited by Hakka people, known as the "Hakka capital of the world", the "New Year's flavor" here is very sufficient, and the lively New Year atmosphere has left a deep impression on her.
"Families visit each other to pay respects to each other, the New Year's dinner is eaten from years ago to the fifteenth day of the first month, and there are various folk performances, and I was immediately deeply attracted by Chinese culture." She said.
When she first arrived in China, she was overwhelmed by language, diet and cultural differences. Her husband was busy outside, there was no translator, she and her mother-in-law talked "chicken and duck", communication is all based on gestures.
"My father-in-law began to teach from Pinyin, bought children's picture books for me to practice reading, and wrote a word on the small blackboard every day for me to practice writing. Whether we were out or at home, he would point to something, tell me what it was, and ask me to say it, so he would slowly learn. Chinna said.
In terms of diet, she also faces a lot of problems. Bitter melons, loofahs, herbs for stews, durians with a pungent smell... These ingredients, which she had never seen before, would take a while to adapt.
"The durian opened all over the room and it stinked, and I thought this thing was bad and couldn't be eaten. But my mother-in-law was eating and kept stuffing it in my mouth. I think I should be able to eat it, and I slowly like to eat durian. She said.
A variety of Changting cuisine opened the door to a new world for her. Soon after coming to China, China learned the famous local dish "White Chopped River Chicken" from her mother-in-law.
"I just stood in the kitchen and watched her do it. In the beginning, my mother-in-law cooked three or four dishes, and finally left one dish for me to cook, and she supervised how I made it, and in this way, I would cook more and more dishes. "Making Chinese food is like making handicrafts, and the place I go to the most now is the wet market." ”
Today, Chinna is fully integrated into Chinese life. The couple has a son in his third year of junior high school and twin daughters who are in elementary school. Like most Chinese mothers who "hope to become jackie chan," she enrolled her children in dance, guzheng and painting classes and supervised their homework every night. "But sometimes I correct my mistakes, help me, and get criticized by my teacher the next day."
In 2011, China and her husband returned to Argentina to visit their parents, and she couldn't stay for just two weeks. "Life in China is very comfortable, very safe, it is also very convenient to go out, in Argentina you will miss China's food, think of Chinese friends."
However, in China, she will also miss her relatives and grass and trees thousands of miles away. Every day, after sending her children to school to buy vegetables, she would video chat with her mother to "reduce her thoughts a little."
"At least half an hour a day, talking about what's going on at home. During this year's epidemic, I will remind them every time to wear masks when going out and not to go to crowded places. Chinna said.
However, The most reassuring thing for Chinna is her father, who runs a farm in Paraguay, who is in his 70s, does not use electronic products, and cannot meet online, so China can only send him photos.
Since this winter, the epidemic in China has been sporadic. The Chinese government advocates local Chinese New Year and encourages people to travel less, but this does not diminish the joy of the New Year for her and her children.
"This Spring Festival, I will stay with my family, cook their favorite meals, visit the ancient city of Changting, and get together with friends to go to the surrounding countryside." She said.
Xinhua News Agency, Fuzhou, February 12 (Reporters Zhang Yizhi and Chen Wang)
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