(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) New Year's Eve of Overseas Chinese
China News Service, Beijing, January 1st, title: New Year’s Eve for overseas Chinese
China News Agency reporter Ma Xiuxiu
When the clock passed zero o'clock and the sky filled with fireworks, Wang Hao, the editor-in-chief of New Zealand Format Media, had mixed feelings, and she acquiesced to her wishes for the new year.
As a handover point for faring the old and welcoming the new, New Year's Eve is a day for overseas Chinese to celebrate and reunite.
However, the new crown pneumonia epidemic that is still raging around the world makes New Year's Eve in 2021 unusual.
From going out to staying at home, from face to face to screen to screen, although the form of the festival has changed for the overseas Chinese, the warmth and hope conveyed during the festival runs through.
In view of the needs of epidemic prevention and control, overseas Chinese generally choose to stay at home for the New Year, but the sense of ceremony remains unabated.
Li Li, deputy secretary-general of the European Federation of Chinese Professional Associations, invited friends to have a small gathering at home to make glutinous rice balls and eat wine to keep the year old; Zhang Xueyun, the founder of the Panama Chinese Cultural Center, and his family came out, Zhang Luo had a table of food, and toasted 2020; Wang Hao Making leeks sent by friends into a leek box satisfies his "Chinese stomach"; Chen Jianxin, chairman of the Spanish Association of Overseas Chinese and Chinese, prepared seafood, rice cakes, fireworks, etc. early to enhance the festive atmosphere.
"During the epidemic, home food will be cleaner and more refined." Chen Jianxin admitted that he would also take advantage of the festival to teach children about Chinese traditions. For example, "fish" means "surplus every year" and "nian gao" means "increasing every year" Wait.
Greetings from relatives and friends are indispensable during the holidays.
In the New Year this year, overseas Chinese are more inclined to blessing from the cloud.
Duan Yuezhong, editor-in-chief of Japan Overseas Chinese Press Publishing House, told reporters that compared with previous years, the number of paper greeting cards received this year was a little less, while the blessings received from mailboxes and WeChat increased year-on-year; Ma Bin, principal of China-Brazil Education and Cultural Center Through WeChat, call and exchange greetings with relatives and friends in China; Wang Hao customized holiday biscuits for relatives and friends, and made a small video "Review and Prospect" to send blessings to overseas Chinese.
Duan Yuezhong said that in addition to the routine blessings, this year's greetings are always inseparable from the background of the "epidemic".
"Everyone encourages and cares for each other and shows a positive mental state."
Although the epidemic has made travel difficult, the connection between overseas Chinese and their ancestral country is puzzled.
Yin Chuping, the permanent honorary chairman of the Association for the Promotion of China’s Peaceful Reunification in Brazil, and his family watched the Chinese New Year’s Eve activities online; Li Li received a holiday congratulation letter from the Shanghai European and American Student Association and the Shanghai Federation of Overseas Students, and his heart was warm; Argentina Chinese Education Foundation Chairman Liu Fangyong paid attention to the New Year's Eve party hosted by relevant domestic departments for overseas Jiangxi people.
"The thoughts of our relatives make us overseas Chinese feel at ease." Li Li said.
The New Year's Eve under the epidemic has made overseas Chinese cherish their ordinary lives even more.
Wang Hao said that the epidemic has given her a deeper understanding of nature and humans, and a deeper sense of respect for the planet we live on.
"This year's New Year's Eve, I am more excited than ever." Chen Jianxin said frankly that the epidemic has made people more aware of the preciousness of "accustomed" life and cherish the beauty of daily life.
Looking forward to the future, the hopeful and positive beliefs of overseas Chinese have never changed.
Wang Hao welcomes 2021 with a "very happy" attitude.
She said that in the new year, we will seize the opportunities of new media development to better show the colorful lives of overseas Chinese.
"2021 will definitely get better and better. I hope everyone can live a normal life soon." Chen Jianxin said that he would accompany the overseas Chinese through the "darkness before dawn".
Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan, Chinese educator Ma Bin is planning to prepare related celebration activities in 2021 and continue to "thread the needle" for cultural exchanges between China and Pakistan.
(Finish)