China News Service, Taiyuan, October 26 (Yang Jieying and Hu Xiaoping) "I am a stranger in a foreign land, and I miss my relatives every festive season. I know that my brothers are climbing on the heights, and one less dogwood is planted." Overseas non-Chinese children are led by their teachers Next, I recite this poem "September 9th Recalling the Brothers in Shandong" by Wang Wei, a famous Tang Dynasty poet, in Chinese. It has become familiar and understood by more and more children in Western society.

　　At 9 o’clock on October 25th, London time, supported by the International Cultural Exchange Alliance of Shanxi Provincial Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and hosted by the British Wenlin Chinese Culture School and China Yidao Education, the “Respect for the Elderly, Love the Old, Love in Chongyang, Let Love Be Not Absent” Cloud Exhibition cum The award ceremony was held online as scheduled.

Lu Haitian, Counselor for Overseas Chinese Affairs of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the UK, attended the event and delivered a speech. Chen Lei, the second-level inspector and secretary-general of the Shanxi Federation of Overseas Chinese, attended and presented prizes for works that won the special prize.

Nearly a hundred people from all walks of life, young people and parents at home and abroad gathered in the cloud to celebrate the Chinese traditional festival-Double Ninth Festival.

　　Chen Lei said that Chinese culture has a long history. Promoting Chinese culture is the common mission of Chinese descendants at home and abroad. The "Love in Chongyang" activity started with the common value pursuit of "kindness and caring" in Chinese and Western cultures, allowing more overseas friends to understand intuitively. Chinese traditional virtues.

The Shanxi Overseas Chinese Federation International Cultural Exchange Alliance will continue to give full play to its advantages and support overseas Chinese schools to organize related activities to jointly spread Chinese traditional culture more widely and let Chinese traditional virtues pass on from generation to generation.

　　The 2020 "Love on Chongyang Festival" event is to better promote the "Chongyang Festival" and the traditional Chinese culture of respecting and respecting the old in Western society, and to encourage young people and children at home and abroad to express their love for their elders and the elders around them through practical actions. Online call for papers.

Since the launch of the event in September, in just one month, the organizing committee has received a total of 603 works from 6 countries including China, the United Kingdom, Portugal, the Netherlands, Australia and Malaysia, and has won 82 units and schools from all walks of life at home and abroad. And the strong support of the organization.

All participating units also launched the "Today is Double Ninth Festival, remember to call the elderly at home" in their own online communities, which received extensive support from group members.

　　"Respect for the Aged, Love the Old, Love in Chongyang, Let Love Be Not Absent" Cloud Exhibition and Awards Ceremony used the form of cloud exhibitions to show the audience the excellent works of 2020 "Respect for the Aged, Love the Old, Chongyang", and invited the young authors to share the work behind them story.

　　The youngest person to participate in this activity, only 22 months old, from the British Wenlin Chinese Culture School, Max, under the leadership of the teacher, made a blessing card for his grandparents.

After receiving the card, grandpa happily raised the wine glass.

The western old man recorded a video in Chinese to express his gratitude for the event.

　　Four-year-old Iris is from England. She likes to see flowers with her grandma.

But because of the epidemic, she hasn't seen her grandma for a long time, and she can't go to see the flowers with her grandma.

So she made a lot of exquisite, paper-made flowers by the method taught to her by the teacher, and showed them to grandma through video.

　　A pair of brothers from India, the elder brother is 6 years old and the younger brother is 5 years old.

Wearing traditional Chinese clothes, they made a pot of warm tea for their mother. The two brothers rushed to pour tea for their mother and said to her mother in Chinese, "Happy Double Ninth Festival! We love you!" Mother's face was full of happy smiles.

　　More than 350 children of non-Chinese descent from St. Augustine's Catholic Primary School in the United Kingdom, under the leadership of a Chinese teacher, all participated in this "Respect for the Old, Love the Old People" activity.

ShantoshM from SevenKingsSchool in the United Kingdom listened to the contents of the Double Ninth Festival introduced by the teacher, not only shared the happy time he spent with his grandparents, but also created a long and sincere poem for his grandparents.

　　There are many such overseas children. Some of them have made exquisite greeting cards to express their blessings to the elders; some express their thoughts for the elders through paintings; some express their gratitude to the elders in the Chinese they have learned.

There are also children who write "shou" and "filial piety" with traditional Chinese pen, ink and paper, and draw chrysanthemums to wish the Double Ninth Festival together.

　　"A Letter to Grandma" from China, Zheng Xinquan won the special prize in the writing category. He expressed his thoughts about the dead grandma in the form of a letter, and his work impressed the awarding guests and all the audience.

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