The 26 February issue of Hong Kong's "Asia Weekly" published an article by Qiu Liben entitled "The Delicate Relationship between the New Generation of the Two Sides of the Taiwan Strait on the Internet," and the full text is excerpted as follows:
The new generation on both sides of the strait met on the Internet, from video games to beauty, from travel to revisiting cultural classics, forming a subtle "love relationship".
They come from very different backgrounds and have never met, but they have become esports partners online. This is a typical scene of netizens on both sides of the strait, many of whom have become acquainted with each other online because of video games. Although there are differences in the text and the occasional difference in wording, it is quick to communicate. Behind this is the love of the same kind and blood thicker than water.
For many Taiwanese girls, the mainland's Xiaohongshu and Douyin are both "just needs" in life, they spend a lot of time on these platforms every day, explore the colorful lifestyle of the mainland, discover everything about beauty and fashion aesthetics, feel the pace and heartbeat of peers on the other side, and are also attracted by the high cost performance of Guochao cosmetics.
Although the Taiwan authorities have recently banned Taiwan tour groups from traveling to the mainland, non-governmental contacts between the two sides of the strait have continued to flow like threads on the Internet, breaking through political roadblocks. Even if Taiwanese people can't organize a group to go to the mainland for the time being, they can "sleep" on Xiaohongshu and Douyin to "sleep" in the land of China, from Xiamen and Shanghai nearby, to Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang as far away, they can have "zero distance contact" on social **, such as being there, and they can leave messages and interactions.
** The authorities want to eliminate Chinese cultural elements from textbook syllabuses and reduce classical Chinese, but many new generations have a kind of rebellious mentality, finding a distant subset of Tang and Song poems and classics and history on Xiaohongshu and Douyin. Many people in Taiwan like to watch mainland bloggers explain poetry and songs, and they also fall in love with programs such as "Good Chinese Poetry", so that the cultural China lost in Taiwan can be "lost and regained" on the mainland's online platform.
This is also the peculiar fate of the two sides of the strait. **The authorities have abolished traditions and culture "from the palace". On the mainland, there has been a boom in traditional culture, emphasizing creative transformation, building strong cultural self-confidence, and attracting a new generation of treasure islands.
In the poems of Li Bai and Su Dongpo, and in the famous sentences of Du Fu and Bai Juyi, the people on both sides of the strait suddenly looked back and found that in the light of culture, the vision of peace and prosperity in the Taiwan Strait was reflected. [*Refer to the news network].