Sichuan News Network-Home News Chengdu, February 2 (Reporter Xia Wanlin) Paste window flowers, hang lanterns, write blessing characters, guess lantern riddles, and ......Recently, on the occasion of the upcoming Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in the lunar calendar, the Taiwan Affairs Office of Sichuan Province held the 2024 Cross-Strait Marriage and Family and Sichuan-Taiqing New Year Fireside Party in Chengdu.
"2024 Cross-Strait Marriage and Family and New Year Fireside Party in Sichuan, Taiwan and Taiwan.
The event site was filled with the flavor of the New Year. Xiao Wanrong, a young Taiwanese painter in Sichuan, talked about the origin and development of various traditional folk customs during the Spring Festival, and guided everyone to "DIY" to create a creative blessing character rich in elements of the Year of the Dragon. Everyone picked up the brush in their hands and wrote down their best wishes for the New Year on the red paper that symbolized the prosperity and festivity. Marriages and families on both sides of the strait and Taiwanese youths sang "Love Fights to Win" and "Love Each Other as a Family", which pushed the fireside meeting to a climax.
Taiwanese youths communicate with each other and create creative blessing characters.
In the exchange and discussion session, the representatives of marriage and family on both sides of the strait and Taiwan compatriots and young people shared their touching stories of love with Sichuan and the stories of entrepreneurship and development in SichuanSome came for love, and achieved a double harvest of career and love in Sichuan;Some inherited the cause and spirit of the older generation of Taiwan compatriots and continued to struggle, devoting themselves to the development of Sichuan, showing the value of youth.
Mi Xinyi, a Taiwanese youth who married in Sichuan, shared her love story with her husband, as well as the entrepreneurial story of establishing a dessert shop and a cultural and creative company in Sichuan, hoping that more Taiwan compatriots will take root in Sichuan, integrate into the revitalization and development of Sichuan countryside, contribute to the development of the mainland of the motherland, and share the glory of national rejuvenation. Taiwanese compatriot Ye Jiancheng shared the story of integrating into Sichuan life after meeting the other half in Sichuan, as well as the joy of leading the Chengdu Taiwan Association baseball and softball team to achieve good results, and hoped to participate in more cross-strait baseball games and exchanges in the future to promote the development of baseball and softball in Sichuan.
Representatives of Taiwan youth, Guo Hongyang and Li Weiguo, shared the story of establishing a youth incubation platform in Sichuan to help Taiwan youth come to Sichuan for entrepreneurship and development. Li Weiguo also shared that a number of cross-strait cultural exchange activities will be organized during the Spring Festival, hoping to let more Taiwanese young people experience the feeling of celebrating the New Year in the mainland and Sichuan. Zhou Yuru, a Taiwanese youth who won the "38 Red Flag Bearer" in Chengdu in 2023, shared her experience in the early childhood education industry in Chengdu and her understanding and perception of education.
Liu Xiaochen, director of the Provincial Taiwan Affairs Office, said that Sichuan will continue to uphold the concept of "one family on both sides of the strait", always respect, care for and benefit Taiwan compatriots, conform to the common aspirations of compatriots, and actively implement policies that benefit Taiwan and the people such as the "70 Articles of Sichuan and Taiwan", provide convenience for Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan youths to study, work and live in Sichuan, implement equal treatment, help Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan enterprises integrate into the new development pattern, and participate in the high-quality development of Sichuan.
Photo courtesy of Sichuan Provincial Taiwan Affairs Office).