China News Service, Beijing, June 3 (Yan Xu, Zhang Yudi, Li Xin, Song Yang) On June 3, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, on the Dragon Boat Festival, Taiwan compatriots in the mainland and local people raced dragon boats, made rice dumplings, and made a lot of fun. Celebrate the festive season and show the deep and long-lasting friendship between the two sides of the strait.
"'Cross-strait together, go all out', which means that this team is a team of young people from Taiwan and the mainland, and everyone is rowing forward with all their strength on the same boat." During the cross-strait dragon boat race, Martha, a dragon boat rower from Taiwan, explained the team's slogan to reporters.
On the same day, the Xiamen Taiwan Association Xiamen University Taiwan Youth League Team won the fifth place in the women's group in the finals.
The team consists of half Taiwanese youths and half mainland youths, some of whom are from Xiamen University, and some who have already started their own businesses.
After a month of practice, the team members not only cooperated tacitly, but also forged a deep friendship, and made an agreement to "stay together for 15 years".
Wu Jiaying, President of Xiamen Taiwanese Investment Enterprise Association, has been deeply involved in the mainland for 24 years. She has spent at least 18 Dragon Boat Festivals in Xiamen, and has participated in dragon boat races across the Taiwan Strait for many years.
"Among the 41 participating dragon boat teams, 17 teams from Taiwan compatriots came to the competition. I was very excited to see compatriots from both sides of the strait together." Wu Jiaying said, "Taiwan compatriots share the economic development dividends of the motherland and the mainland, and they also share Feel the atmosphere of the festival. The integration and development of the two sides of the strait can be seen through dragon boat racing. Some dragon boat teams are half Taiwan compatriots and half mainland compatriots. Together, this is one family on both sides of the strait."
On the same day, the Wufangzhai Headquarters Building in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province also held the 2022 Jiaxing Dragon Boat Festival Folk Culture Festival, a friendly competition for Taiwanese compatriots to wrap rice dumplings, and 40 Taiwan compatriots and Taiwanese participated.
The event has been held in Jiaxing for fifteen years.
Participating Taiwan compatriot Lu Xuanqing said that making rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival is not only a traditional custom, but also an important carrier to enhance the feelings of compatriots on both sides of the strait.
"This is the eighth year I participated in the rice dumpling competition in Jiaxing. This year, I wrapped 14 rice dumplings." After the competition, Lu Xuanqing, who was carrying a large bag of rice dumplings, said with satisfaction.
Lu Xuanqing believes that whether in the mainland or in Taiwan, people eat rice dumplings, race dragon boats, make sachets, and various folk activities.
Although they have lived in the mainland for nearly 20 years, Lu Xuanqing and her husband still eat zongzi with Taiwanese taste.
And their son, who was born in Jiaxing, likes to eat Jiaxing-flavored meat dumplings.
Every year on the Dragon Boat Festival, Lu Xuanqing's family makes two kinds of zongzi with different flavors.
With the theme of "family culture", the activity of "Home in Jinan - Jitai Love 'Spring' Home Ancient Village and Taste Zongxiang" was also held in Zhangqiu District, Jinan City on the same day. More than 40 Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan students who live in Jinan join.
Everyone arranges the zongzi leaves, puts the stuffing, and wraps the silk thread together to wrap the well-being and auspicious festival blessings into the zongzi.
Wu Di, vice-chairman of the Jinan Taiwan Compatriots Investment Enterprise Association, said that the dumplings made by oneself are linked to the love of the compatriots on both sides of the strait with the same origin and connected roots.
Ruan Xiting, a Taiwanese student at the School of History and Culture of Shandong University, said: "Cross-strait cultures and hearts are connected. The Dragon Boat Festival activities have left me unfulfilled. I want to walk and see more in Jinan, feel the inheritance and feel the warmth."
The Taiwan compatriots and students who participated in the event also visited the Zhujiayu Chuangguandong Cultural Exhibition Center Tonghe Village and Sanjianxi Village of Qilu Model Village for Rural Revitalization.
"We dig deep into the connotation of 'family culture', and take traditional festivals as a vivid carrier of 'family culture' in the exchange and cooperation between Ji'nan and Taiwan, and continue to strengthen family and country feelings and promote the spiritual harmony of compatriots on both sides of the strait." Han Yongjun, director of the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of Jinan City Said that the "family culture" series of activities is an important measure for Jinan to implement the concept of "one family on both sides of the strait".
Traditional festivals are an important part of Chinese culture and a concentrated expression of the national sentiments of compatriots on both sides of the strait.
The event also simultaneously launched the "Dragon Boat Festival Passing True Love on the Cloud" exchange activity, produced a Dragon Boat Festival-themed promotional video, and passed it online to the compatriots on the island, showing the origin, meaning and Chinese traditions of the Dragon Boat Festival in an all-round and multi-level manner. Culture, with traditional Chinese culture as a link, builds a bridge to communicate the spiritual harmony of compatriots on both sides of the strait.
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