China News Service, Hong Kong, March 19th. Title: Interview with Hong Kong columnist Qu Yingyan: Reshaping the cultural identity of Hong Kong people towards the country
China News Agency reporter Suo Youwei
If it were not for the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the well-known Hong Kong columnist Qu Yingyan would often travel between the mainland and Hong Kong for more than a year.
Traveling in the Mainland not only brought her more writing inspiration, but also allowed her daughter to gradually understand her motherland and the culture of her motherland.
"The year before last I took my daughter to camp at Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang. Many of my friends in the tour group were friends from the Mainland. They sang together at a bonfire in the evening. They all sang "My Motherland" and "Nanni Bay", and I sang along, my daughter. I asked, "Why do you sing, mother, why I haven't heard it?" At that moment, I felt that there is a big gap between young people today and the mainland—cultural gap." Qu Yingyan recently accepted China News Agency. The reporter talked about such a past event during an exclusive interview.
Qu Yingyan Primary and Secondary School attended Xiangdao Middle School and its affiliated primary school. This school was one of the first schools in Hong Kong to raise the five-star red flag when New China was founded.
It is for this reason that although Hong Kong was still in the colonial era when she was studying, the school would organize students to watch "Heroes" and "Sparkling Red Star" in theaters showing mainland movies.
"At that time, I didn’t go to watch it in particular, but it looked pretty when I watched more slowly. During class, the mathematics teacher would tell us which Chinese mathematician is very famous, and the music teacher would teach us how to sing. "My Motherland", so I have no sense of separation from the mainland."
"This generation of young people is different from us. I traveled to Tiananmen Square in Beijing for the first time. I felt shocked by such a large square. But now young people may have gone to many places before the age of three. One way to communicate." Qu Yingyan told her story about communicating with her daughter, "It was also the year before, when we passed through the Gobi Desert, most of the restrooms were dry toilets, and my daughter didn’t want to go. I took five or six hours in the car. , It’s the Gobi Desert outside. I’ll tell her, you understand why the toilet is like this. It’s unrealistic to spend a lot of resources here to build a toilet that is not a dry toilet, and then she understands. So, the same It depends on how to interpret and explain things. This is very important."
Qu Yingyan wrote in an article in "Hong Kong People Talking about the Land": Many people ask, why do young people in Hong Kong have no sense of home and country and no patriotism?
I don’t blame them. I blame the educators or even the parents. How many national nutrients have you ever instilled in your children?
Looking through the Chinese history and Chinese literature that Hong Kong elementary and middle school students study, and then looking at what national information our social environment provides for the next generation, you will understand why children have no sense of the country.
No feeling, just talk about love in vain.
"If you don't hurry up to do things to win people's hearts, there may be black violence in five or ten years." Qu Yingyan said frankly, she suggested that the three dimensions of family education, school education, and media education should be considered. Start with, reshape the cultural identity of Hong Kong people to the country and the identity of "Chinese".
"Cultural identity must first have channels for Hong Kong people to understand the national culture, but now Hong Kong does not seem to have this soil. There are many very good movies in the Mainland. Recently, "Hello, Li Huanying" is very popular, but I did not find a movie theater in Hong Kong. Seeing this movie, I feel that culturally it is not synchronized with the mainland, as if it is isolated, and this road should be opened first."
Qu Yingyan believes that sports is also a good method of integration.
She said: "My biggest sense of identity with the country in the past was when I watched the Chinese women's volleyball match and the Olympics, all our national identity came out."
"The colonists do not allow you to have a sense of national identity. Hong Kong itself is a good teaching material. At least there should be a colonial museum to let young people know how the colonists bullied us Chinese and patriots. Parents, The teacher should take the children to take a look, and then explain after reading, so that they will remember more deeply."
In Central, many streets are named with colonial features such as the Governor's name.
"Why not put up a small sign on the street to write down this piece of history so that people know what these Hong Kong governors did in Hong Kong? And Hong Kong has the history of the Dongjiang Column Hong Kong and Kowloon Brigade resisting Japan. Don’t say that children don’t know, many Middle-aged people don’t know that we should keep all these histories, and there are still living people who can talk about it. If they are gone, it will be even more difficult for us to understand this history.” Qu Yingyan said: “Human hearts return It’s a long process, but if you don’t do it, you’ll never be able to return. It’s useless if you just ask young people to go back to the National Security Law and the Basic Law. They have to tell them about the country’s development and progress in a good way. method."
Qu Yingyan laughed at some remarks that the National People’s Congress’s decision to improve Hong Kong’s electoral system was a “democratic regression”: “The best system is to allow the people to live and work in peace and contentment. Looking back at what happened in Hong Kong a few years ago, we feel safe. Don’t you dare to even go shopping; the Legislative Council can’t elect a chairman of the House Committee for half a year. Is this good governance and good governance? If someone thinks this is good, what kind of standard is this? So I’m not entangled with them, we It is the common people, and the common people hope that the government can operate well, so that the common people can have a sense of happiness and security." (End)