China News Service, Jinjiang, Fujian, May 30 (Reporter Sun Honglin Chunyin) Wulin Village in Jinjiang City, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province is a well-known overseas Chinese village. The lively red brick house was also funded by the government to reorganize the old house and activate it into a new public cultural space.

　　The Wulin Overseas Chinese Approval Hall is one of the more successful ones.

Recently, a reporter from Chinanews.com, together with Jinjiang City Cultural Relics Protection Center, Jinjiang City Museum Director Wu Jinpeng, and overseas Chinese critics collector Huang Qinghai visited together to experience the new look of the hometown of overseas Chinese.

　　Wu Jinpeng said that because the Minnan dialect reads "letter" as "batch", the letter sent by overseas Chinese back to their hometown is called "batch by overseas Chinese."

Usually overseas Chinese will attach some money when they send a letter home to report safety, so the overseas remittance is also called "Overseas Remittance" later on.

Overseas Chinese Approval Documents displayed in the Overseas Chinese Approval Hall in Wulin, Jinjiang.

Photo by Sun Hong

　　The overseas Chinese batches are mainly distributed in Fujian and Guangdong, the hometown of overseas Chinese.

In June 2013, the overseas Chinese batch archives were selected into the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

According to records, from the establishment of Jinjiang's first Overseas Chinese Remittance Hall in 1898 to 1935, there were 34 newly opened Letters and Letters Bureaus during this period, which shows how active Jinjiang and overseas Chinese remittances were at that time.

　　The Wulin Overseas Chinese Approval Hall was established in 1938 by Cai Shunyi, an overseas Chinese from Wolin, the Philippines.

However, before the overseas Chinese delegation was officially put into use, the Pacific War broke out and the overseas Chinese road was interrupted. Cai Shunyi donated all the decoration funds to the motherland to support the war of resistance, and the building was donated to the village as a school.

It was not until the completion of the new school in the village in 1984 that it was left unused.

　　Standing in front of this Spanish-style western-style building built with red bricks in southern Fujian, Wu Jinpeng said with emotion that the cement nails in the last century were all returned to their hometowns from Nanyang shipping. The typical cultural phenomenon of overseas Chinese villages has also become an important cultural image of Jinjiang, the hometown of overseas Chinese."

　　"The overseas Chinese who live overseas have brought the overseas lifestyle to their hometown and become a collective consciousness." Wu Jinpeng said, "They have nostalgia for this."

　　Today, this "Overseas Chinese Renaissance Museum", which was suspended due to the war, has continued its forefront amidst the tide of rural revitalization and cultural rejuvenation.

Jiang Jianming, born in 1949, "Mr. On behalf of the Book", was invited to move home such as pens, inks, papers and inkstones to help tourists experience the "cross-border book" of that year.

　　Written vertically, elegantly worded, and the names of celebrities who have been approved are written in English.

"Most people from Jinjiang go to Southeast Asia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and many of the place names of the streets and lanes are in my heart." Jiang Jianming, who has been acting for most of his life, said, "Many overseas Chinese sit in front of me, from their hair Wu Qing will never see that person again until her hair is gray. How much homesickness."

"Mr. On behalf of the book" Jiang Jianming (middle) was invited to re-write the modern letter scene at the Wulin Overseas Chinese Museum in Jinjiang.

Photo by Sun Hong

　　"Overseas Chinese approves the paper is short, the family and the country are long."

The reporter saw in the Overseas Chinese Remittance Hall that there were letters from enthusiastic youths returning home to fight against Japan, family letters to contact relatives, and remittance certificates to subsidize the family.

　　There are two overseas Chinese consignments, recording the journey of the "Motherland in Mind" building of the mansion built by Wulin wanderer Cai Huaipan and his cousin Cai Huaizi.

The letter confessed that his wife in his hometown bought a house to build a house, and a subsequent letter explained the details of the house construction and attached a graphic design drawing.

　　This building named "Motherland in Mind" was built in 1953 and is located in Wulin Village.

The reporter also noticed that another western-style building named "Looking at the World" is also located on the right side of the Overseas Chinese Remarks Hall.

　　"This was the normal way for overseas folks to serve Sangzi in those days." Huang Qinghai said, "Overseas batch archives are precious grassroots folk documents, and they are also an encyclopedia of Chinese society at home and abroad."

　　Standing on the balcony on the second floor of the Overseas Chinese Approval Hall, the swallowtail ridges of the red brick house of Wulin Village are one after another, and the Western architecture is scattered in a pattern.

"Swallowtail ridges are often interpreted as swallows returning to their nests, which are the spiritual image of overseas Chinese and Chinese people." Wu Jinpeng said. The collision and fusion of Southern Fujian architectural culture with Western Europe and Southeast Asia can also be seen here.

　　In Wu Jinpeng's view, revitalizing the Wulin Overseas Chinese Relations Museum helps to form a "local consensus", and "protecting and revitalizing the Overseas Chinese Relations Museum means that we retain the nostalgia."

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