[Explanation] Fuzhou’s first privately-run overseas Chinese reps museum, the Baimei Overseas Chinese Reps Museum, was officially opened to the public recently. The precious overseas Chinese reps on display showcase the culture of the hometown of overseas Chinese, and record the hardships of overseas Chinese and their strong family and country feelings.
On May 9, the reporter visited here.
[Explanation] The Baimei Overseas Chinese Reps Museum is located in Baimei Village, Tingjiang Town, Mawei District, Fuzhou City. This is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. In the 1990s, many villagers in Baimei Village went overseas to work hard. Now there are more than 1,300 people in the village, including foreigners. More than 800 overseas Chinese.
[Concurrent] Zhou Xiaochuan, Director of the Baimei Overseas Chinese Museum
Tingjiang Baimei is a well-known hometown of overseas Chinese. Most of the villagers here have made a living abroad, so it is a very good place with a deep understanding of overseas Chinese, so we came here to build a museum. The local villagers welcome us to build this overseas Chinese Museum.
[Explanation] Zhou Xiaochuan is the person in charge of the Baimei Overseas Chinese Remarks Museum. When the reporter saw him, he was in front of the counter sorting out the overseas Chinese remarks collected in recent years.
In 2008, Zhou Xiaochuan began to collect and study the batches of overseas Chinese in Fujian and Guangdong, and has collected more than 2,000 copies so far.
In the past, letters and remittance vouchers sent by overseas Chinese to the country were collectively referred to as overseas Chinese batches.
In Zhou Xiaochuan's view, the gathering of thousands of overseas Chinese is a history of immigration and entrepreneurship of overseas Chinese.
[Concurrent] Zhou Xiaochuan, Director of the Baimei Overseas Chinese Museum
It represents a kind of spirit, a kind of overseas Chinese sending money and letters back outside, this kind of spirit is a kind of trust and righteousness, it represents a good tradition, a tradition of patriotism and love for the family.
[Commentary] The reporter saw that in the exhibition hall, more than a hundred pieces of overseas Chinese from the Republic of China period to the 1990s were exhibited.
Among these yellowing overseas Chinese, there are short talks from parents and sighs about the feelings of the home country. The amount of the remittance slips varies, and some are sent to relatives for daily life, while others are for building roads and schools in their hometown.
Among them, two parcels of overseas Chinese sent by Shi Wenqing, a compatriot from Baimei Village, to Chen Jingzhong, an elder from his hometown, attracted the attention of reporters.
[Concurrent] Zhou Xiaochuan, Director of the Baimei Overseas Chinese Museum
These two letters express his feelings of homesickness and love.
It was stated in the letter that they wanted to send 20,000 US dollars back. What are they doing back?
To build an elementary school, to build an elementary school, and then he wrote that the difference between our young people and American young people, so we must cultivate our Chinese people's strong self-esteem and self-confidence, we must be independent, respect teachers, and love life. , Here is a good expression of the patriotism of the overseas Chinese and their patriotism.
[Explanation] The overseas Chinese batch is not only a memory of the times, but also a record of family, nostalgia, and national conditions, witnessing the changes in the development of overseas Chinese.
Zhou Xiaochuan told reporters that there are five exhibition halls in the museum. In addition to the two exhibition halls that have been built to exhibit calligraphy works on the theme of Chen Qiaopi and Qiaopai culture respectively, the Overseas Chinese Book Reading Hall, Overseas Chinese Object Exhibition Hall, Minnan and Chaoshan Overseas Chinese The batch exhibition hall is also under preparation.
[Concurrent] Zhou Xiaochuan, Director of the Baimei Overseas Chinese Museum
With the development of Internet technology and technology, this kind of overseas Chinese delegation has gradually disappeared. Therefore, through this method of building a museum, more people can understand what a living situation at that time was like, which is more beneficial to our overseas Chinese When we come back to find their roots, we can find their roots, which can be a window for our tourists and people to understand the overseas Chinese.
[Explanation] Having collected overseas Chinese batches for many years, Zhou Xiaochuan said frankly that with the changes of the times, many overseas Chinese batch materials have been lost.
He is also speeding up the collection and sorting of overseas Chinese batch materials, and hopes to use the overseas Chinese batch museum to display, protect, and inherit the overseas Chinese batch culture.
Reporter Wu Shengwei reports from Fuzhou, Fujian
Editor in charge: [Li Ji]