China News Service, Hangzhou, August 11th (Qian Chenfei) The 8th China Mercy and Filial Piety Culture Festival in 2022 will open in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province on August 13th.

The activities include the collection and selection of Chinese filial piety figures in 2022, Cai Zhizhong's Zen cartoon exhibition, the "Century 7 Millennium Spiritual Hidden" Cixiao Bus, the opening ceremony of the 8th China filial piety Cultural Festival in 2022 and the annual Chinese filial piety figures award ceremony and the Chinese filial piety pension. Forums and other activities promote the Chinese culture of filial piety in the new era at home and abroad, let the wind of "filial piety" reach people's hearts, and let the sound of "filial piety" stretch for thousands of miles.

　　Eight years later, a new set sail.

Since the China News Service and Hangzhou Lingyin Temple jointly hosted the event in 2015, the Chinese Charity and Filial Piety Cultural Festival has not only gradually diversified in form and content, but has also become a brand event that stimulates the filial piety and cohesion of Chinese people around the world.

　　Eight years of concurrent journey, infinite vitality.

How can the vitality of this brand activity continue?

It is the best answer to let the Chinese culture of filial piety see people, things and spirits.

Poster for the Chinese Charity and Filial Piety Culture Festival.

Photo courtesy of the organizer

Seeing People: Kind and Filial Characters Outline Warm Group Portraits

　　"I hope more seniors can see the diversity of a better life. Just like the lyrics sing: I want to live out my youth again. We seniors should also help seniors. Let's keep up with this era, even if the pace is slow. A little." Dong Yunrong, a 78-year-old Hangzhou "rock grandma", is one of the Chinese filial piety figures in 2022. She and her friends formed the Hangzhou rock grandma band. The elderly participated in various public welfare performances, promoted the positive energy of society, and performed "kindness". express in the moment.

　　What kind of filial piety culture does the new era need?

The Chinese Charity and Filial Piety Cultural Festival is more active, more equal, more respectful and more civilized.

The individuals or teams selected together with Dong Yunrong this year, as well as the charity organization "Red Apple Charity", which provides assistance to the minor children of prisoners; "Portraits of 100 Martyrs" public welfare activity; Var Amu, a young man who returned to his hometown to realize his basketball dream for children in mountainous areas; Zhou Daguan Cultural and Educational Foundation, which encourages people with disabilities, cancer children, and rare diseases to "love life and live happily"; The melodious action of "hearing and hearing clearly" for the disabled; Fang Shugong, the spiritual caregiver of the dying elderly; Ye Junli, a Chinese who adheres to the ancestral motto and continues to write love and help the development of his father's hometown across thousands of miles.

　　Kindness in the heart, filial piety in action, and love for others.

To carry forward the light of kindness and filial piety with typical power is what the Chinese Kindness and Filial Piety Cultural Festival has always insisted on.

Over the past eight years, the China Charity and Filial Piety Cultural Festival has selected batches of representative Chinese filial piety figures of the year, and let the example stories continue to move and influence everyone.

　　It is not only the characters of kindness and filial piety who tell "ordinary stories" that outline the warm group portraits of kindness and filial piety.

　　Over the years, well-known personalities such as Li Yugang, Qi Yu, Zhu Zheqin, He Shuifa, Zhao Yanjun, Zhao Wenzhuo, Michelle Ye, Zhu Qinan, Deng Yaping, Hou Jingjian, Zheng Peiqin and so on have been employed as ambassadors of Chinese filial piety culture, expanding the radiation radius of filial piety culture.

　　Hou Jingjian, a well-known actor and the actor of the young Mao Zedong in the TV series "Age of Awakening" and "Glory and Dreams", once said when he was hired that the practice of filial piety does not necessarily require special characters, special environments, and special times. It is a part of daily life. It is not only an honor but also a responsibility to become a "Cultural Ambassador of Kindness and Filial Piety" by revealing it anytime, anywhere.

It is the unshirkable responsibility of contemporary young people to spread and carry forward the culture of benevolence and filial piety.

Seeing things: Doing the little things around you to call kindness, filial piety and great love

　　Promoting the culture of filial piety requires not only the power of role models, but also platforms and carriers.

　　Since 2015, the China Mercy and Filial Piety Cultural Festival has changed from a provincial forum for selecting filial piety figures to a series of influential “filial piety” themed events at home and abroad, with continuously enriching forms, increasing levels, and growing scale.

　　For example, in the 2018 China Charity and Filial Piety Cultural Festival, a filial piety thanksgiving concert was held at Lingyin Temple, Hangzhou, a thousand-year-old temple.

Qi Yu, Li Yugang, and Zhu Zheqin, three Chinese ambassadors of filial piety culture, sang praises of filial piety culture.

　　In 2019, the Organizing Committee specially opened a special subway train, the China Mercy and Filial piety train, which aims to spread the concept of filial piety to the society and create a good atmosphere of "actively giving up your seat" by using the means of transportation commonly used by the public as a carrier.

In 2021, the "Cixiao Bus" decorated with cartoons by Chinese modern painter Feng Zikai will appear on the streets of Hangzhou. The vivid cartoons will lead the public to appreciate the charm and inheritance of compassion and filial piety, and feel the truth, goodness and beauty written by the master.

　　Doing the little things around us calls for kindness and filial piety and great love. The holding of the above activities also sowed the seeds of kindness and filial piety culture in the hearts of many ordinary people, and made them take root and sprout, becoming the inheritors and promoters of Chinese kindness and filial piety culture.

Ms. Feng, the mother of a 6-year-old child who took her child on the China filial piety train, said, "'ci filial piety' is to be kind and filial to the mother. In daily life, I will do my best to be filial to my parents and treat my children well. The culture of filial piety must start from the baby, It should be part of everyday life.”

　　Along the way, the Chinese Charity and Filial Piety Cultural Festival has new characteristics and new development every year, and this year is also the same.

　　During the 8th China Mercy and Filial Piety Culture Festival, the works of famous cartoonist Cai Zhizhong were exhibited at Lingyin Temple.

This exhibition will use comic art as a bridge, create an experienceable cultural scene in Lingyin Temple, and spread the Chinese culture of filial piety through art.

　　In order to promote the culture of kindness and filial piety, so that all the elderly can be cared for, depend on, enjoy, and feel comfortable in the old age, this event will also hold the China Kindness and Filial piety Pension Forum, and invite professional guests to discuss the theme of "active pension". Carry out the "collision" of thinking, and explore the diversification and development of the pension business.

See the spirit: kindness and filial piety are the eternal nutrients of the Chinese nation

　　Kindness and filial piety is the ethical starting point of Chinese civilization, and it is also the greatest common divisor of Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad.

　　After years of holding, the China Mercy and Filial Piety Cultural Festival has become a ideological and spiritual feast for conveying the great love of filial piety.

In the past eight years, China News Agency has selected filial piety figures from Zhonghua around the world, and has produced 80 figures/groups.

Many of them are from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan: Macau's "Best of Hardships" team, which conveys the country's national conditions through dramas; Taiwan's chief Liu Dewen, who travels across the Taiwan Strait to fulfill the last wish of Taiwan veterans "going home"; Taiwanese Wang Kuncheng, who opened a "supply station" for the left-behind elderly for free ; Taiwan's loving grandmother Chen Shuju, who has been selling vegetables for decades to support poor and orphaned children; Taiwan's inspirational girl Lu Shiyun, who supports the whole family for single mothers with her thin shoulders...

　　It is the words of kindness and filial piety that convey love over and over again, bringing closer emotional communication and national cohesion.

　　"Time goes by and the culture of filial piety has been passed down for thousands of years. It has become an important spiritual connotation of the Chinese nation and the eternal nourishment of the nation." During the 7th filial piety Cultural Festival in 2021, the former chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang and the director of the China Qingyan Peace Education Foundation Chang Hong Xiuzhu said in a video speech.

　　"No matter where the Chinese go, no matter where they are in the world, the Chinese culture of kindness and filial piety has always been rooted in the hearts of Chinese children." Honorary Vice President of the Chinese Kuomintang Chairman Jiang Xiaoyan expressed his hope when participating in the event, "Culture can overcome many obstacles and strengthen cross-strait cultural exchanges. Cultural activities for people on both sides of the strait and activities with common ideas should be held more, and more people should be invited to participate, which is very important to attract people on both sides of the strait. "

　　The culture of filial piety runs through the history of the Chinese nation, and it is a common force instilled in the hearts of Chinese children.

　　As one of the organizers of the event, Wang Min, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of China News Service, believes that China News Service is actively giving full play to its advantages in media resources, using the Cultural Festival of Kindness and Filial Piety as a carrier to explore the vivid stories of Chinese kindness and filial piety, and use integrated media reporting methods. , three-dimensionally spread the good voice of kindness and filial piety to the world, and widely formed the good fashion of filial piety, respect for relatives, and kindness in the whole society, leaving intangible valuable spiritual wealth.

　　Master Guangquan, deputy secretary general of the Buddhist Association of China and abbot of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, said, "As one of the ten ancient temples, Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou consciously adheres to the direction of Sinicization of Buddhism, and is guided by compassion, charity, and filial piety. , to hold alms and filial piety cultural festivals, and strive to adapt to the socialist society and infiltrate religion with traditional culture.”

　　It is reported that the 8th China Mercy and Filial Piety Culture Festival in 2022 will be hosted by China News Service and Hangzhou Lingyin Temple, undertaken by Hangzhou Lingyin Temple, China News Service Zhejiang Branch News Development Center, and China News Service International Communication Group Zhejiang Branch, and won the title of "China News Service". News, China Philanthropist Magazine, Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Revolutionary Committee, Zhejiang Provincial Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan Overseas Chinese and Foreign Affairs, and Hangzhou Yunlin Public Welfare Foundation.

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