"The Australian Police Department has become an Internet celebrity, and Chinese police officers welcome the original Spring Festival! "！
A police station in northern Queensland, Australia, celebrates the New Year"Sober"Christmas decoration has caused a heated discussion on social **.
In front of the Cairns Metropolitan Police Building, a Chinese New Year bilingual sign with black letters on a red background. The first line reads:"Fulong welcomes the New Year"；The second line reads:"The Kunming police protect the people and keep them safe"。The police and the people are a family"。
Sober"The Chinese New Year's Eve decoration month.
According to Ma Hong, the community liaison officer of the Far North Police District of the Queensland Police, this is not the first time that spring rolls have been displayed at a police station.
He said:"2020 was the Year of the Rat, with things returning to normal after the plague outbreak and Cairns resuming direct seasonal flights to Shanghai.
Located next to the swimming pool on the Cairns Esplanade, the Police Station is a famous landmark in Cairns"Basically all tourists will go"It is also frequented by local Chinese"。.
The idea was quickly adopted by the team.
Ma Hong and his colleagues wrote the couplets with an English translation. They then commissioned a Chinese calligrapher in Brisbane to write the poem.
Horizontal slogan'police in the community'It caused controversy among colleagues, who considered the slogan too old-fashioned. However, I think in the English context'police in the community'It is consistent with the concept of Queensland**, so it was copied.
Break the Chinese against the police"Serious"stereotypes.
According to the 2021 census, there are about 4,235 ethnic Chinese in Cairns. There are 647 people who speak Mandarin at home, which is 11%。
Mahon believes that the Chinese community in Cairns is not as large as in other Australian cities. However, he hopes to change the stereotype of the police in Chinese people through these measures.
We posted ** in the local WeChat group to encourage everyone to come when they have time"。
To help other locals understand the contents of the couplets, Mahon and his colleagues also prepared English translations to post next to the first, second, and horizontal batches of the couplets.
In addition to poems about the Spring Festival, Ma Hong and his colleagues also decorated the police station with various Spring Festival elements. Among them was a police car with a Chinese New Year sticker.
One side is"Internal and external peace"The other side of the slogan is"The police and the people are a family"slogan. While patrolling the crowd celebrating the New Year, many people, especially Chinese and tourists, came to take pictures.
Thoughts stopped"It caused a stir on the Internet.
Police stations and police stations that have been widely circulated on Chinese social media have shown that people are celebrating the Chinese New Year, which has also been reported in China.
Ma Hong became overnight on herself"Internet celebrities"Shocked, but this one"Unintentionally planted willows"It still made him happy.
My Chinese friends sent me a lot of messages hoping to make sure it had nothing to do with me. It took me a while to realize this.
Mahon moved to Australia in 2010 and spent four years as a diving instructor in Cairns before joining Queensland** in 2018.
He said he was pleased to have more newcomers like him learning about Australia's diverse culture through the event, which connects police and communities.
It's my job to communicate and connect with the community.
I know the difficulties of newcomers because I am a newcomer myself. That's why I want to help them through this article"。