Chinanews.com, Quzhou, February 19th, title: Staying at the home of Zhejiang students from Taiwan to spend the New Year: will continue to experience the Lantern Festival

　　Author Jiang Yangye

　　"The hair cakes of Longyou, Quzhou, Zhejiang Province are sweet but not greasy, glutinous but not sticky, and fragrant. I like them very much." During the Spring Festival, Huang Zixuan, a Taiwanese student studying at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, spent time with her classmates in Quzhou, Zhejiang. The first Spring Festival in the mainland.

Taste local delicacies and visit scenic spots to learn about the history of the city. Youths on both sides of the strait connect their friendship in their own way.

It is understood that Huang Zixuan plans to continue to play in Quzhou and return to school after the Lantern Festival.

　　In early January 2021, many sporadic cases occurred in many places in mainland China.

In this context, various parts of mainland China have successively issued the initiative of "not returning home if necessary during the Spring Festival".

Many Taiwanese who work and study in the mainland choose to stay there for the New Year.

　　Huang Zixuan told reporters that he planned to spend the New Year with friends in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

When her classmates sent out invitations to go to Quzhou for the Spring Festival, she looked forward to it.

"Family in Taiwan feel relieved to be able to spend the New Year at a classmate's house."

The picture shows residents of Longyou, Zhejiang making hair cakes.

Photo by Pan Min

　　"The New Year's Eve dinners on both sides of the strait are similar." Huang Zixuan said that she also tasted the Quzhou Longyou special delicacy hair cake in Quzhou.

"In Taiwan, you have to eat hair cakes for New Year's Eve dinner. Taiwan's hair cakes are made with brown sugar and are brown. The hair cakes you taste in Quzhou are white."

　　The freshly steamed Longyou Fat Cake is fragrant.

Huang Zixuan said that the freshly steamed hair cake is white and soft, with fine and even pores, and smooth and translucent.

Taste it, soft and mellow, the sweet taste melts on the tip of the tongue with the warmth that just came out of the oven, the taste is dense and tenacious, which makes people want to stop.

　　It is understood that Longyou Faguo has a variety of colors and varieties, according to taste, there are white sugar cakes, brown sugar cakes and so on.

Because "fa gao" is a homophonic of "Fugao", it means "fat every year, backgammon" auspicious meaning, it has become a must-have snack for local people on the festive table during the New Year.

　　After tasting the New Year’s Eve dinner, the new year has come after the bell is over.

During the Spring Festival, Huang Zixuan and her classmates went to relatives' house to pay a New Year greeting.

She found that some of the children would make a bow when visiting New Year.

　　Hand-in-hand is the most characteristic of Chinese culture in meeting and greeting etiquette. It can be traced back to Zhou Li, and it contains the classic cognition and aesthetic design of Chinese culture on interpersonal relationships.

In 2020, under the influence of the epidemic, Quzhou, known as the "Southeast Queli and Nankong Holy Land", will convey to the citizens the proposal of "no handshake, no hugs, only good intentions" in various forms.

　　Compared with the prevailing handshake ceremony, the traditional Chinese ceremony is undoubtedly more hygienic and more conducive to epidemic prevention and control.

Huang Zixuan felt that in Quzhou, the excellent Chinese traditional culture entered life and daily life.

　　In addition, Huang Zixuan and his classmates checked the local attractions.

In the New Year of 2021, the Yunshang Temple Fair in the Shuitingmen Historical and Cultural District of Quzhou will be launched in the form of "Internet + Temple Fair".

Tourists from mainland China and even the world can swipe their mobile phone screens to follow Grandpa Nan Kong's "check in" Tianwang Tower, Shao Yongfeng and other landmarks and intangible cultural heritage points.

　　Huang Zixuan said that the different temple fairs brought a new interactive experience, and he also felt a strong flavor of the New Year in Quzhou.

"We plan to continue playing in Quzhou and return to school after the Lantern Festival." (End)