The golden dragon celebrates the New Year, and the two sides of the strait welcome the spring and are blessed.
The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The Year of the Dragon is approaching, and the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are filled with a strong New Year's flavor -- various forms of New Year friendship activities have been carried out in various parts of the mainland to send New Year's greetings to all walks of life on the island and Taiwan compatriots on the mainland; In Taiwan, the New Year's street is crowded, and the Nantou lantern will be lit up to welcome the new year. During the Spring Festival, Xiamen and Kinmen will also jointly present fireworks displays to send New Year blessings to compatriots on both sides of the strait.
In the past few days, Wuli Ancient Street, Yongchun County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province has held a number of performances to welcome the New Year, and more than 50 teachers and students from Taiwan have brought wonderful singing and dancing performances to local citizens and tourists. Photo by Ding Minghui.
Spread the voice of the country across the strait
We were very moved by the Spring Festival couplets and blessings sent by Shandong, and wished the Shandong folks a prosperous Year of the Dragon. In the recently held "Scholarly Ink Rhyme Passing on the Native Sound of the Countryside and Celebrating the New Year on Both Sides of the Strait" Shandong villagers on both sides of the strait to welcome the Spring Festival and send blessings, Yu Maosheng, chairman of the Taiwan Shandong Townspeople Association, paid tribute to the Shandong villagers in the early years through the first connection.
Before the event, the organizers of Shandong invited more than 100 calligraphers to create 800 pairs of Spring Festival couplets and 2,600 blessing characters, and sent their works to Shandong villagers in Taiwan to convey good wishes. "Compatriots on both sides of the strait are 'descendants of the dragon', and in the new year, everyone should interact more and communicate frequently. Fei Hongtai, chairman of the Taipei Shandong Association, said.
In addition to sending blessings in spring, lanterns from the mainland also crossed the strait to appear at Taiwan's major lantern festivals to celebrate the New Year. The reporter learned that the Nantou Lantern Festival continued to launch the mainland lantern area this year, inviting Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Ningbo and other cities to display lanterns to further promote the exchange of lantern craft on both sides of the strait. In addition, Shanghai will organize a delegation to participate in the 2024 Taipei Lantern Festival, continuing the "lantern bond" between the two cities.
Xiamen and Kinmen celebrate the Chinese New Year with fireworks, a practice that has continued since 1987. The bright fireworks convey the blessings and expectations of the people of Xiamen and Jinjin for the New Year, and also contain the family affection of compatriots on both sides of the strait. This year, the 2024 Cross-Strait Fireworks Gala, co-hosted by the people of Xiamen City and Kinmen County, will be staged as scheduled at 20 o'clock on February 10 (the first day of the first lunar month). At that time, Xiamen Huandao Road Huangcuo Beach and the opposite bank of the small Kinmen Beach will be set off at the same time, the audience can not only enjoy the grand occasion on the spot, but also through the online platform ** live broadcast, in the fire trees and silver flowers to celebrate the New Year.
Gather together to talk about family affection
Recently, the 2024 Cross-Strait Marriage and Family and New Year Fireside Meeting in Sichuan and Taiwan Youth was held in Chengdu, Sichuan, where more than 30 Taiwan compatriots who took root in Sichuan to work and live gathered together to paste window flowers, write blessing characters, guess lantern riddles, welcome the New Year, and recount family affection.
At the event site, Xiao Wanrong, a young painter from Sichuan and Taiwan, talked about the origin and development of various traditional folk customs of the Spring Festival, and guided everyone to create creative blessing characters rich in elements of the Year of the Dragon. Taiwan compatriots sang "Love Fight to Win" and "Love Each Other as a Family", and wrote New Year's best wishes on the red paper.
Since the beginning of the lunar month, Beijing, Jiangsu, Fujian and other places have successively carried out visits and condolences and New Year friendship activities with rich content and various forms, so that Taiwan compatriots can live a comfortable life and celebrate the New Year warmly. In Shenyang, Liaoning Province, more than 50 Taiwan compatriots who participated in the New Year Friendship Activity of "Welcoming the New Year and Talking about Reunion" recently walked into the Qipanshan Ice and Snow World to experience the beautiful winter scenery and welcome the Spring Festival together. "I grew up in Taipei, and it was the first time I experienced so many snow and ice events. Xie Tingyuan, a young man from Taiwan, said that in Shenyang, he could not only catch up with the "ice and snow fever", but also feel the thick "fireworks".
The Taiwan Affairs Office of Nanning, Guangxi Province recently launched the "Inheritance of Guangxi's Intangible Cultural Heritage and Compatriots on Both Sides of the Strait" to welcome the New Year folk customs experience activity, inviting marriages and families on both sides of the strait to experience the "intangible cultural heritage on the tip of the tongue" - oil tea. "I'm very happy that everyone can get together to play oil tea and sing mountain songs. Ye Qiuhong, vice chairman of the Women's Committee of the Nanning Taiwan Compatriot Investment Enterprise Association and representative of Lu Pei, said that Guangxi has a lot of excellent folk culture, "We will do a good job as a bridge for cross-strait exchanges, so that more Taiwan people can understand Guangxi."
Treasure Island welcomes the New Year with a strong flavor
New Year's food ingredients, sweets and cakes, new clothes and accessories, ......Walking into the New Year's Street in Taipei, all kinds of commodities are dazzling, the cries of selling come and go, and the sound of "Happy New Year" blessings is endless. The whole street is decorated with a new look, and the giant dragon puppet of "Dragon Comes and Good Luck Comes" "greets the New Year" to the people, welcoming the New Year and sending off the New Year.
The crowded Taipei New Year's Goods Street. Photo by reporter Zhang Pan.
Since its launch in 1996, Taipei New Year's Street has gone through 29 sessions and is the most representative festival market in Taipei. "2024 Taipei New Year's Goods Street" is themed "One-stop New Year's Goods" and consists of ten New Year's flavor business districts such as Dihua Street, Rongbin Shopping Street, and Huayin Street. The reporter saw at the scene that many citizens went out with their families, and some customers came to buy with small carts. "I want to bring my children to experience the feeling of the New Year, so that everyone in the family can pick their favorite products. A citizen told reporters.
For the first time this year, Taipei New Year Street has partnered with a food delivery platform to launch an online boutique New Year goods zone, bringing together more than 300 popular items, including radish cakes, mullet roe and gift boxes, so that you can easily buy Chinese New Year goods without leaving home. "Strong buying", "this year's stock increased by two or three percent", "good sales performance" ......The industry has said.
In order to enrich the festival experience, Taipei New Year's Goods Street connects neighborhood organizations and nearby elementary schools, inviting local residents, shops, schoolchildren and tourists to paint lanterns to decorate the neighborhood with "Creating a New Year's Flavor Lantern District", becoming the most atmospheric photo check-in spot on New Year's Street. The scene of the New Year's Street also set up the "Dragon Coming New Year Flavor DIY" bucket teaching, inviting the public to wave together and depict new hopes for the New Year. A variety of street performers perform to make shopping more interesting.
During the Spring Festival, Taipei's Ningxia Night Market and Monga Night Market launched the "Night Market Does Not Close" activity, allowing people to "have fun, buy and live" all the way to the Lantern Festival. Exciting events such as the New Taipei Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival will also be held as scheduled, during which drone and fireworks shows, AR (augmented reality) interactions, singing and dancing performances, and food markets will surprise visitors.
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