Xinhua News Agency, Kunming, September 30 (Reporter Meng Jia) "After returning to Xiamen, I will participate in the'Bobing Celebration Mid-Autumn Festival' event. I hope I can become the champion this year!" On the 30th, the "National Taiwan Federation of Taiwan 2020 "The media person goes to Yunnan" said Lu Shaoyuan, who visited the event.
Lu Shaoyuan is from Taiwan and came to the mainland to work in 2015. He is currently an assistant to the community director in Haicang, Xiamen, and a special reporter for Xiamen Haicang Rong Media Center.
He said: "As far as I know, Kaohsiung in Taiwan also has a pie tradition, but I haven't participated in it. Instead, I experienced it in the mainland. I have been looking forward to this session during the Mid-Autumn Festival in recent years.
The Mid-Autumn Festival cake is an annual folk event in Xiamen, Fujian and even southern Fujian. It is said that it was invented by Zheng Chenggong's general Hong Xu.
Hong Xu, a native of Kinmen, designed the game of throwing dice to win the “No.
The pie is round, and everyone sits together when playing the gambling game, meaning the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion.
Although he did not return to Taiwan to meet his family, Lu Shaoyuan still felt fulfilled and happy.
This year is the fifth time he has spent the Mid-Autumn Festival in the mainland. Every year, he organizes and plans colorful activities to spend the festive season with community residents.
Lu Shaoyuan has superb cooking skills and is good at making authentic Taiwanese food.
He said that, like the mainland, eating moon cakes is also an essential part of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Taiwan. It is based on this similar custom that he sprouted the idea of making moon cakes with community residents and shared the festive joy with everyone.
In 2018 and 2019, Lu Shaoyuan held activities to make snowy moon cakes and egg yolk cakes in various communities in Songyu Street, Haicang, and received positive responses from community residents. Many people participated in making cakes by themselves.
"If there are children to participate, I need to simplify the operation process and make preparations in advance. I remember an event I made more than 400 egg yolk cakes." For him, although the event is hard, it can bring joy to The community residents made him very pleased.
This year, Lu Shaoyuan also planned a DIY egg yolk cake activity, hoping that more people can feel the joy of baking and taste the Mid-Autumn Festival flavor from Taiwan.
Su Zirui, who participated in the Yunnan visit with Lu Shaoyuan, said that in Taiwan, grapefruit must be eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, "because grapefruit is round, like the moon."
In addition, setting up an oven in the yard and enjoying the moon with the family barbecue is also a routine activity of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
"The mainland does not have the custom of eating grapefruit and barbecue, but the meaning of reunion is the same."
During this visit to Yunnan, Su Zirui has repeatedly experienced the similarities between the cultures of both sides of the strait.
"I will share my experience with my family and friends, hoping that they will have the opportunity to visit the mainland in the future."
In the past ten days, more than 20 media professionals from more than 10 media on both sides of the strait went to Kunming, Yuxi, Honghe, Qujing, Zhaotong and other places to conduct discussions on Yuntai cooperation, ethnic unity, ecological construction, open development, and poverty alleviation. The investigation interview.
Zheng Ping, vice chairman of the National Taiwan Federation, said that media professionals on both sides of the strait are disseminators of news and public opinion on both sides of the strait, and are an important force in telling stories about the two sides and promoting the development of cross-strait relations.
For a long time, media professionals on both sides of the strait have recorded the changes of the times, conveyed the voices of the two sides, watched the feelings of the strait, and made positive contributions to promoting the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and bringing the spiritual distance between the compatriots on both sides of the strait.