The rabbit chases the winter, and the dragon reports the spring. During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait celebrate the bright and bright reunion of thousands of families, and compatriots on both sides of the strait share family affection and enjoy family love, showing the heart of peace and reunion. The warm current of the Chinese land is surging, the auspicious and joyful New Year is strong, and the compatriots on both sides of the strait celebrate the Spring Festival together with good wishes for the Year of the Dragon.
Kyushu celebrates the Spring Festival
Shanghai Yu Garden Lantern Festival, the Chinese romance of "one night of fish and dragon dance", let Liu Ying, a Taiwanese student of Tongji University who stayed in Shanghai for the New Year, immerse herself in the lively and prosperous New Year's flavor.
On January 21, tourists enjoy the lanterns on the streets of Yu Garden**. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Ying.
The school held a social activity for Taiwanese students who stayed in the mainland for the New Year, writing blessing characters, couplets for the Spring Festival, and cutting window flowers. Liu Ying said that the school's care made her mainland New Year more homely.
On the occasion of the Chinese New Year, the mainland carries out a variety of activities to welcome the New Year, so that compatriots can feel the enthusiasm and temperature of the mainland at the beginning of the Year of the Dragon.
In Beijing, the "Go to the Grassroots and Make Friends" New Year blessing activity presented the "Policy Service Package" to Taiwan compatriots; In Zhejiang, the activity of "Sending Thousands of Family Letters to Taiwan" allows "family letters" to cross the strait and convey nostalgia; In Sichuan, compatriots on both sides of the strait sang "Blind Date and Love Family" at the "Sichuan-Taiwan Youth New Year Fireside Party" to recount their family affection and celebrate the ...... of the New Year
The sea and the sky are difficult, and the road home is never long. In the northern Xinjiang of the motherland, thousands of miles away from Taiwan, the combination of "Chinese red" and "ice and snow white" weaves the unique Spring Festival memory of Taiwan compatriots and Xiangwei.
Taiwan compatriot Lian Xiangwei (first from right) and her husband Wang Rendong from Heilongjiang returned to Tongjiang City, Heilongjiang with their two daughters for the New Year. (Photo courtesy of the interviewee).
Eight years ago, Lian Xiangwei married Wang Rendong from Heilongjiang and lived in Taiwan, and this year they brought their two daughters to Wang Rendong's hometown of Tongjiang City for the New Year. "When I saw the snow, my children and I were very excited, and the red lanterns in the ice and snow world were even more festive. Lian Xiangwei said.
Also celebrating the New Year with relatives in the mainland was Qiu Qingling, the "son-in-law of Fuzhou", who returned to Fuzhou from Shanghai, where he worked, a week ahead of schedule. Buying New Year's goods, visiting relatives and friends, and worshipping the land ......The customs of the New Year seem to be numerous, but there is only one pursuit - reunion.
This year, he and his wife paid New Year's greetings to relatives and friends in Taiwan on Chinese New Year's Eve. Qiu Qingling has been "landing" for more than ten years, and no matter where he celebrates the New Year, he will dial the ** of his family on the other side of the strait.
The treasure island has a strong New Year's flavor
A table of reunion dinners is the most flavorful. For the sake of the gentleness in this ordinary fireworks, the Taiwanese people began to gather a week or two before the Spring Festival. Dihua Street, Taipei, peanuts, melon seeds, cakes, all kinds of New Year's goods are full of pits and grains; Taipei's South Gate Market, all kinds of New Year's ingredients from the mainland are overwhelming.
On February 3, on Dihua Street in Taipei City, a clerk at a store was selling to customers who were buying New Year's goods. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Jianxing.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, Liu Dewen, the head of Xianghe Lili in Zuoying District, Kaohsiung City, delivered New Year's dishes door-to-door to "veterans" living alone in the community. As a lieutenant for more than 20 years, Liu Dewen took care of the elderly in the military village, and because of the entrustment of the elderly, he crossed the strait with the ashes of the deceased again and again, and brought their souls back to their hometown.
Liu Dewen is a native of Taiwan and a native of southern Fujian. On Chinese New Year's Eve, he and his brothers and sisters took their families back to the Sanhe Courtyard in the countryside, adding up to 16 people, and set two tables around the fireplace with their parents, which was the liveliest time of the year.
The strait is difficult to separate the wild goose, and the years do not change people's hearts. Set off firecrackers, Chinese New Year's Eve the New Year, light peace lanterns, ......National festivals are engraved in the blood of compatriots on both sides of the strait, and these New Year's customs have long become the "reserved items" of the New Year on Baodao.
Chen Bohan, who is studying for a doctorate in the mainland, returned to Taiwan for the Chinese New Year before the Spring Festival. His nephew, who is less than 10 years old, danced "subject three" with the neighbor children after a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. "When I went back to Taiwan this time, I found that there are more and more mainland elements in Taiwan. In the streets and alleys, popular mainland delicacies such as snail noodles are deeply loved. He said.
During the Spring Festival, there are abundant activities in Taiwan from north to south. Taipei Songshan Cultural and Creative Park held the "New Year's Festival Story Exhibition" to interpret Chinese fairy tales; The New Beiping Creek Sky Lantern Festival is coming as scheduled, praying for good luck and peace; Tainan's "Taiwan Lantern Festival" celebrates the Lunar New Year ...... with "Dragons Come to Taiwan".
A new chapter is opened
On the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the 2024 Cross-Strait Spring Festival fireworks show opened in Xiamen and Kinmen, with more than 70,000 fireworks lighting up the night sky of Xiamen in about 30 minutes. Compatriots on both sides of the strait looked up at the night sky and made good wishes in the bright fireworks.
The age is in Jiachen, and the dragon is auspicious. On both sides of the strait, spring is getting stronger. Chinese on both sides of the strait regard themselves as "descendants of the dragon" and will always have a special joy and expectation for the Year of the Dragon.
Hunan Taiwanese businessmen Zheng Congjun and Zheng Yang, father and son, returned to Taipei from Changsha this year for the Chinese New Year. "Grandma is 102 years old, and this year's Chinese New Year is the most crowded year, and more than 50 people have gathered at grandma's house. Zheng Yang said, "Grandma is very pleased to see that we have a family in the mainland and a happy and smooth life and career." ”
In 1993, Zheng Congjun came to Changsha to invest and develop a business, and has been deeply cultivated for many years, and the brand "Rosa" has become quite famous in the local area. Zheng Yang is full of confidence in the development of the mainland this year, "It is expected that the Rosa Baking Cultural and Creative Park in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province will be put into operation smoothly this year, integrating factories, cultural and creative industries, and tourism, which will bring new profit growth points for enterprises."
Zhou Yongqin, a student at Tsinghua University in Hsinchu, spent a reunion with his family in Taipei this year. In the Year of the Dragon, he faced graduation from university and went on to graduate school, and during the Spring Festival, he went to Taipei Xingtian Palace to pray.
As an important element of Chinese cultural tradition, the dragon symbolizes prosperity and strength. I hope that my homework will leap into the dragon gate, and I look forward to the new year of the two sides of the strait to create prosperity and prosperity in everything. Reporter Wang Chenghao, Chen Jianxing, Liu Mingyang, Zhang Yujie).
*:Xinhua.
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