Spring Festival Zhejiang street new year taste. Photo by Wang Gang
The first week of work after the holiday has passed, but in the traditional concept of Chinese, as long as the Lantern Festival has not passed, the Spring Festival is not over.
This year is the third year of the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the new sister is very curious, under the epidemic of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, how did overseas Chinese and Chinese live?
Stay behind only for a better reunion ·
A large number of Zhejiang wanderers in distant places have chosen to celebrate the New Year on the spot, but they still love their homeland.
Ye Songlan and the French Overseas Chinese Women's Federation celebrated the Beijing Winter Olympics. Photo courtesy of Leaf Songlan
Ye Songlan, president of the French Overseas Chinese Women's Federation, whose hometown is in Yueqing North White Elephant Town, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, she is far away in France and has not returned home for the New Year for three years. "But my heart has long since flown back to my homeland." Ye Songlan said that in order to celebrate the Spring Festival, the French Overseas Chinese women's Federation held a dance performance activity in Paris to "Welcome the New Year and Celebrate the Winter Olympics." The members used their graceful dance postures to show the spirit of perseverance of French overseas Chinese and Chinese women in the face of difficulties, and also contained the good wishes of overseas Chinese compatriots uniting as one at a difficult time.
Lin Jiaji, president of the Zhejiang Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce and Industry and vice president of the World Foundation for Chinese Nation, was born in 1954 in Bailuyu Village, Baixiang Town, North Yueqing, and he has not returned to his hometown for the New Year for three years, but he often stays in front of the TV set, watches The Chinese news network, and understands the current events in China.
During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, Lin Jiaji was invited to participate in the New Year's Greetings to the Chinese organized by the Mayor of New York City, USA. Lin Jiaji said, "Being abroad, I send blessings to my relatives and friends every year during the Spring Festival, and I have always retained this habit, which is also a heart. ”
·New Year's taste of overseas Chinese·
Times are changing, and the taste of overseas Chinese has not faded, both preserving tradition and innovating.
Qingtian "Happy Garden" theme lanterns. Picture 丨 Qingtian released
The smell of Qingtian's New Year fills the colorful fish lanterns and big red lanterns in the streets and alleys, which is festive. Qingtian Fish Lantern Dance and Bird Lantern Dance are the most traditional and representative local characteristics of overseas Chinese, the fish lantern dance means that there is more than one year, and the Bird Lantern Dance prays for the next year's wind and rain, Guotai Min'an.
This small county town in this big mountain not only retains the traditional customs of the year, but also "moves the world back home".
Zhejiang Qingtian Qiao Xiang Import Commodity City. Photo by Wang Gang
In recent years, with the development of Qingtian Overseas Chinese Import Commodity City, "Taoyang Goods" has become the New Year's flavor of Qingtian, a hometown of overseas Chinese. A variety of imported goods greatly meet the needs of overseas Chinese people for one-stop shopping. "Imported wine sales have increased significantly recently and have become the best-selling New Year goods." Tu Yaoliang, head of qingtian County's Pouring Wine Hui Import and Export Trade Co., Ltd., said.
·“ Yang "Friends' Book Fragrance Chinese Festival ·
Recite classics, read poems, paint sugar paintings, write Spring Festival... Overseas messenger Simone and other international friends walked into the overseas Chinese village of Wencheng to experience traditional New Year customs and spend the Chinese Festival of Books and Fragrances.
Exhibiting calligraphy works by Pan Congcong
"In the long history of China, the literati and inkers of the past generations have composed many famous articles for traditional festivals for each traditional festival, so that the Traditional Chinese Festivals have shown a profound cultural heritage..." In the poetry appreciation link, Simone, Daia and other international friends and the on-site "second generation of overseas Chinese" and "third generations of overseas Chinese" on the spot guessed riddles, found verses, recited classic Sinology, and interacted with poetry solitaire and flying flower orders, and enjoyed the charm of traditional Sinology.
Reading traditional poems by Pan Congcong
"In addition to the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su. Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old charms. During the sharing and recitation of classic poems, Simone showed off his newly learned verses. He said: "I feel that traditional Chinese culture is very broad and profound, and the simple four sentences depict the lively scene of firecrackers and spring festivals in every household during the New Year."
The New Year's cake reads: "Isolation does not separate love, the union 'mother's family' accompanies you to spend the New Year" Zhao Junpu photo
During the special period, overseas Chinese in all parts of Zhejiang have conscientiously done a good job in prevention and control, so that overseas Chinese can feel the warmth of their hometown, let them feel isolated and loveless, and compatriots are close to each other.
Generations of overseas Chinese sons and daughters have left their hometowns and returned, bringing an international vision to the mountain towns, so that the way of presenting the annual flavor of overseas Chinese has become diverse and inclusive, rich and colorful.
Different lands, colliding with wonderful delicacies, different cultures, blooming out of the same love.
Across the mountains and seas, long goodbye reunion
The story of overseas Chinese and Chinese is not finished
The happy taste of overseas Chinese is spread
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Source: China News Network Synthesis
Author: Fan Yubin, Ye Changyi, Shu Xuying, Lin Wei, Zhu Dandan, Chen Jie
Editor: Hu Haiying