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But what I saw and heard on the night before yesterday on Chinese New Year's Eve, when I attended the family "Spring Festival Gala" held by Mr. Yau Changren in Jakarta, made me feel emotional. Especially seeing the scene of him crying excitedly, it shocked my heart even more, and I can't help but record it and share it with you here. 
Speaking of the Qiu family, as early as the 1930s, Mr. Qiu Changren's parents crossed the sea from their hometown in Meizhou to Indonesia to make a living, traveled all over the world, struggled with hardships, and then settled in Lampung on the island of Sumatra, raised ten children, and have lived for nearly 90 years. The family blossomed and took root in Indonesia. The eldest brother is 85 years old, the youngest granddaughter is only 7 months old, and the family spans four generations, with more than 100 family members scattered all over Indonesia. 
Because of the words and deeds of their parents on traditional Chinese culture during their lifetimes, the ten brothers and sisters of the Qiu family have all succeeded in their careers, among which the eldest Qiu Changren is the most successful, and he is a well-known industrial and commercial entrepreneur in Indonesia. Due to well-known historical reasons, the Suharto authorities implemented a large-scale anti-Chinese culture in 1965, completely banning Chinese culture, Chinese schools were closed, Chinese people could not speak Chinese in public, and in the worst cases, even mooncakes sold in Chinatown with the word Chinese on them would be confiscated and fined by the military and police. Such days lasted for 32 years, and it was not until Suharto ** in 1998 that the ban on Chinese began to be gradually lifted in Indonesia, but the evil consequences of the anti-Chinese planting that year led to a serious fault in Chinese education, and two generations of Chinese did not know Chinese, and the vast majority of Chinese under the age of 60 could not speak, let alone read and write. In recent years, although many Chinese associations have tried every possible way to establish "trilingual schools", it will take a long time to restore the former situation where all overseas Chinese children can use Chinese proficiently. This has become a hidden pain in the hearts of Qiu Changren and his generation. What they are most worried about is that the next generation will forget their roots, especially because there are many younger generations who believe in ** religion or Catholicism, and have become estranged from the excellent traditional Chinese culture. In order to promote Chinese culture overseas, Yau Changren has been the general president of the Indonesian Dragon and Lion Sports Federation since three years ago, and travels to various places every year to guide and support provincial chapters to play competitions, and hire Chinese coaches, with the aim of widely carrying out this sport and better passing on the dragon and lion dance brought by the Chinese. In order to let the descendants of the family not forget the roots and accept the influence of ancestral culture since childhood, he has worked hard and devoted a lot of effort. Every time the Spring Festival is approaching, he has to hold two activities, one is the 29th day of the lunar month, calling his siblings and their children to his home to worship his parents and ancestors according to the Hakka custom; Second, on the evening of the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the entire family, men, women and children were invited to the hotel, put up lights, and celebrate the reunion according to the traditional Chinese way. More than 20 years of perseverance, year after year. Although it took a lot of effort to do this, Qiu Changren was not sure in his heart, mainly because every event, he and several brothers came to the stage to speak, painstakingly encouraging their children and grandchildren to learn Chinese, and the children followed the elders to "fish for fish", happily ate and drank, happily took the red envelope and went back to their respective homes, whether it had any effect is unknown. 
The Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon is approaching again, and Mr. Yau began to plan for the celebration early. He wants to create a fiery and grand Chinese New Year for the community and family. As the leader of the Indonesian dragon and lion movement, Yau Changren told me that during the Spring Festival, the Guangzhao Guild Hall Dragon and Lion Troupe under the Indonesian Dragon and Lion Association has arranged 40 lion dance performances, not only in the Chinese community, but also invited to perform in turns in major shopping malls in the capital, bringing a strong festive atmosphere to the whole city.
In addition, he also personally planned his family's Spring Festival Gala.
Yau Changren booked the multi-purpose lobby of AYANA Midtown Plaza Hotel Jakarta in advance and hired a team of professionals to design and decorate the decorations with the theme of the Year of the Dragon, creating a festive atmosphere full of Chinese New Year flavors.
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, before the start of the "Spring Festival Gala" of the Year of the Dragon of the Qiu family, Mr. Qiu and the author took a group photo in front of the background wall of the lobby of the AYANA Hotel he arranged.
The lawn outside the hall is also full of 100 red lanterns, and the performance of the dragon dance team adds to the warm festive color.
A few days ago, a reporter from the Jakarta branch of the China News Service came to interview, just in time for Qiu Changren and his wife to take their youngest daughter and his family to his vegetable garden villa to post Spring Festival couplets and hang lanterns. The author happened to be there, so I took a few **. 
Qiu Changren proudly told the reporter of China News Service: This year is the Year of the Dragon, and it is the first Spring Festival in which the United Nations has decided to make the Chinese New Year a United Nations holiday. And our Qiu family's Chinese New Year's Eve celebration will also be extraordinarily grand, not only to have a reunion dinner, but also to arrange a variety of colorful programs.
He also emphasized that I would like to take this opportunity to test the results of Chinese learning among the children and grandchildren of my family. They have been informed that they will speak Chinese, sing Chinese songs, and show their talents in Chinese. He smiled and said, "If you don't know Chinese, you won't have red envelopes." "I drafted a family Spring Festival Gala speech for Mr. Qiu. He said, "If I want children to learn Chinese well, I also want to play an exemplary role myself." ”
In the evening, he suddenly called me: "Mr. Ding, I want to add a heartfelt message to the speech." For many years, the whole family's Spring Festival worship activities, as well as the Chinese New Year's Eve reunion, were all promoted by me. Now that our siblings' sons and daughters are all grown up**, and I'm in my 70s, I'm old, and if you like to keep this kind of gathering, I'm eager for the next event to be planned and hosted by their younger generation. “
Speaking of this, his tone was a little heavy: "Teacher Ding, you also saw at the Spring Festival reunion last year that there are dozens of juniors in my family, and not many of them can speak Chinese. I don't know what happened this year, and I don't know if they listened to me. How I wish these children could understand the good intentions of our older generation! “
I comforted Mr. Qiu, don't worry, those children are quite sensible, and now that the influence of Chinese in the world has become more and more great, they will definitely be able to master it in time.
Mr. Qiu said, then try it the night after tomorrow!
On February 9, the Qiu family's Chinese New Year's Eve party began, and it was needless to say that the festivities were warm. After the reunion dinner, it was time for the children to perform Chinese in the competition. According to the prior arrangement, the family also specially arranged several judges to sit at the long table in front of the stage and score carefully.
Mr. Guanren, the third brother of the Qiu family, who came to the scene in a wheelchair, as the elder with the best Chinese skills in the whole family, personally served as the leader of the judges.
Qiu Changren stood far away with a glass of red wine, looking nervously and expectantly at the stage.
The first child to play, about thirteen or fourteen years old, was the grandson of the second brother Jiang Ren. I saw him striding onto the stage, holding the microphone and speaking. The arena fell silent, he recited a beautiful article about family affection, and the hall sounded crisp Chinese Mandarin.
I hurriedly recorded it with my mobile phone in the audience:
People often say: "The life course of each of us has been integrated into every wave, every melody, every admonition, every laughter, every look, every step of the ........"However, the most valuable family affection in the world is not only warm care, but more importantly, education, so that the light of wisdom can be transmitted. Family affection is an oasis in the desert, when you are lonely, melancholy, weak, weak, thirsty, sick, at a glance is already full of radiance, the soul is comfortable, so you will not be lonely. It will quickly step forward, and with just a drop of water, the ocean of life will spread in the heart. And the affection of our big family is the North Star in the night. In the past, we chased after the goal and ignored its existence, until one day we did not know the direction and raised our heads slightly, and a soft light would guide us to take firm steps. Family affection is a harbor in the voyage of our lives, when we hit the reef again and again, slowly sail in, there are no strong winds and waves, we can stop here for a while, repair the wounds, prepare supplies, and set sail again......
This child speaks Chinese correctly, expresses himself very fluently, and is full of feelings. His mother didn't know Chinese and learned it by watching TV with his grandfather.
The hall burst into applause.
Next, the grandchildren of the Qiu family brothers and sisters took turns to play, the eldest in his early twenties, and the youngest was only six or seven years old. Whether it was telling stories or reciting, singing Chinese songs and dancing Chinese dances, everyone expressed their New Year wishes to the elders in Chinese.
It should be said that most of them performed relatively well, greatly exceeding Qiu Changren's expectations.
I saw Mr. Yau crying tears of excitement. When he saw me walking over, he quickly put down his wine glass, wiped his eyes with a napkin on the table, and picked up the wine glass again, enjoying the children's program with great attention. I noticed that his eyes still seemed to be shining with tears.
He muttered to me, "Mr. Ding, it has been less than a week since I sent them a notice, and the children have arranged such a good program." It shows that they did not learn Chinese for performance, but they have usually put in hard work. It seems that there is still great hope for the next generation of Chinese education in Indonesia!
The party is over. Qiu Changren and his relatives came to the courtyard one after another, lit the fireworks in their hands, and sprinkled the joy of the Spring Festival like a fountain. This fireworks also came from China. I'm thinking, isn't the story of the Qiu family's "Spring Festival Gala" in Indonesia a microcosm of the inheritance and adherence of overseas Chinese to Chinese culture!
May the light raised in their hands one day converge into a brilliant starry sky and illuminate the far-reaching and boundless future of Chinese civilization.