A police station located in the northern part of Queensstate, Australia, has become an "Internet celebrity" on social networks due to its "down-to-earth" atmosphere during the Spring Festival.
At the entrance of the police station in downtown Cairns, there is a pair of red Spring Festival couplets with the words "auspicious dragon welcomes spring" written on it, "Kunming police protect the people" written below, and "police and people family" written below.
Spring Festival ornaments are "down-to-earth".
Ma Hong, head of the police department of the Far North Police District of the Queensland Police Department, said that this is not the first time that a "couplet" has been posted.
He said: "This couplet was sent before the Spring Festival in 2020, and then after the epidemic, the economy recovered, and Keynes reopened regular flights with Shanghai, and I felt that we should add some festive atmosphere to the city, so I thought of 'couplet'." ”
Ma Hong said that because the police station is located next to the Cairns Seaside Street swimming pool, a famous landmark in Cairns, "almost every tourist must go", and it is also a favorite place for local Chinese to go, so it is an "excellent location" to decorate the façade for the Chinese New Year.
This view was quickly endorsed by the group.
Ma Hong and his colleagues co-authored the couplet, complete with an English translation. Later, he asked a Chinese calligrapher in Brisbane to write the calligraphy for him.
There may be a bit of a debate about the term "police and bandits", and it may be that my peers think it is too old-fashioned. However, I think the community politics in the English context are in line with the Queensland Police's ideas, so they were saved, Ma Hong said.
Change the "serious" image of the Chinese towards **.
In Cairns, there were about 4,235 people of Chinese descent from the 2021 survey. There are 647 family members, or 1.1 per cent of the family, who speak Mandarin.
Ma Hong said that compared to some other places in Australia, the Chinese in Cairns live in smaller places. However, he still wants to use this to change the Chinese's stereotypes about **.
He said: "In the minds of the Chinese, our police station is a very serious place, so I wanted to add some festive atmosphere to them, and also sent their ** to the local circle of friends so that they have time to play." ”
To make it easier for local residents to understand the specific meaning of the couplet, Mahon and his colleagues pasted the English translation next to the upper and lower sentences.
Ma Hong and his colleagues set up a lot of Chinese New Year elements in this police station. Among these people was a police car used by the police to celebrate spring.
A sign reads: Please stay safe. "During the Chinese New Year, we walked around the streets, and many Chinese and foreign tourists would come and take pictures of us. ”
became an Internet celebrity "unintentionally inserted willow".
The video of the "couplet" posted by the sub-bureau and ** have been widely disseminated by Chinese social media and reported by major news organizations in China.
Ma Hong was taken aback by becoming an "Internet celebrity" overnight, but this kind of "unintentional willow insertion" still made him very happy.
I've gotten a lot of information from a lot of friends in China, and I'm hoping to confirm if this is related to me. I just found out. ”
Ma Hong moved to Australia in 2010 and joined the Queensland Police in 2018 after four years as a diving coach in Cairns.
He said that more newcomers like him could learn about Australia's different cultures and provide better communication channels for the police and society.
"My job is to communicate, to build bonds with the community, to give multiple communities the opportunity to express themselves, including their own," he said. 」
I've also been new to the past, and I know very well how hard it is for newcomers. So, I hope to help them a little bit. ”