September 21 is a traditional Chinese national holiday, the Mid-Autumn Festival. "Every holiday is a good time for family members." How do Taiwan compatriots in the mainland spend the holiday?
What are the different customs in Taiwan, which is "separated by the water"?
Xiaoxin will take you to listen to Taiwan compatriots in mainland China telling them about their different Mid-Autumn Festival!
[Concurrent] Lin Jiaxuan, a graduate student of the Dance School of Minzu University of China
Hello everyone, I’m Lin Jiaxuan, and I’m currently a graduate student at the Dance College of Minzu University of China.
[Concurrent] Cai Yiling, Exchange Student, Department of Information Management, Peking University
I am currently exchanging in the Information Management Department of Peking University, and my name is Cai Yiling.
[Concurrent] Chen Guanying, Graduate Student, School of Public Administration, Tsinghua University
My name is Chen Guanying, and I am currently studying in the second year of graduate school of the School of Public Administration at Tsinghua University.
[P1: How long have you been to the mainland?
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[Concurrent] Lin Jiaxuan, a graduate student of the Dance School of Minzu University of China
I have been in Beijing for more than a year.
[Concurrent] Cai Yiling, Exchange Student, Department of Information Management, Peking University
This is the first time I spent the Mid-Autumn Festival in Beijing, so it should be a very fresh experience for me.
[Concurrent] Xu Chenpin, Director of Taiwan Chinese Youth Development Association
I have come to the mainland for about six or seven years. This is the first time I spent the Mid-Autumn Festival in the mainland.
[Concurrent] Chen Guanying, Graduate Student, School of Public Administration, Tsinghua University
I came to Beijing last year. I have only been in Beijing for more than a year now. This is my first Mid-Autumn Festival in Beijing.
[P2: How to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in Taiwan?
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[Concurrent] Xu Chenpin, Director of Taiwan Chinese Youth Development Association
In fact, since we were young, our customs have been similar to those of the mainland, basically the same, but Taiwan’s Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue is very popular.
[Concurrent] Cai Yiling, Exchange Student, Department of Information Management, Peking University
Because I am from Kaohsiung, when I was in Kaohsiung, we were all members of the family. We all barbecued together outside the house, because we have a slang term called "One family barbecue, Wanjiaxiang".
[Concurrent] Chen Guanying, Graduate Student, School of Public Administration, Tsinghua University
Every Mid-Autumn Festival everyone will barbecue, so barbecue should be regarded as a custom in Taiwan. If you don’t barbecue, you don’t feel that the Mid-Autumn Festival has been celebrated.
[Concurrent] Lin Jiaxuan, a graduate student of the Dance School of Minzu University of China
Every year there is a barbecue on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and our Taiwan students will gather together to have a barbecue, peel the grapefruit, and eat moon cakes like this.
[P3: How do you spend the Mid-Autumn Festival in the mainland this time?
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[Concurrent] Cai Yiling, Exchange Student, Department of Information Management, Peking University
At present, our Taiwanese teachers at Peking University have invited our Taiwanese students in school to eat Mid-Autumn barbecue together.
[Concurrent] Chen Guanying, Graduate Student, School of Public Administration, Tsinghua University
In fact, I want to eat barbecue with my friends, but our Shimen had a dinner together, so we had to eat Mid-Autumn Festival meals with the Shimen people. This is also a different kind of experience. I have experienced it for the first time.
[Concurrent] Xu Chenpin, Director of Taiwan Chinese Youth Development Association
Eat moon cakes with my family in the mainland, like this.
[P4: What was your impression of the mainland before you came?
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[Concurrent] Lin Jiaxuan, a graduate student of the Dance School of Minzu University of China
Before I came to Beijing, my impression of the mainland was actually the kind of tourist attractions that travel agencies saw, such as 5A-level scenic spots and 4A-level scenic spots.
I think it is a city with well-preserved Chinese culture.
[Concurrent] Xu Chenpin, Director of Taiwan Chinese Youth Development Association
Before I came to the mainland in person, it should have been before 2003. At that time, I felt that the mainland was old-fashioned, because Taiwan learned a lot of history and culture, Chinese history and culture.
[Concurrent] Chen Guanying, Graduate Student, School of Public Administration, Tsinghua University
Before I came to the mainland, I always thought that Beijing was all siheyuan, that is, the red high walls and full of siheyuan, and then there will be all kinds of high-rise buildings outside the inner city.
[P5: After coming to the mainland, what is the real situation?
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[Concurrent] Lin Jiaxuan, a graduate student of the Dance School of Minzu University of China
I think that after I came here, everyone was very enthusiastic about me. After I came here, I suddenly discovered that there are things that I could not learn before. I learned that because I am studying ethnic minority culture, I only came here to find out. There is such a major, so I come here to study graduate school now.
[Concurrent] Cai Yiling, Exchange Student, Department of Information Management, Peking University
(Following) The gap in Beijing in my impression is very large. The progress is very rapid, very fast, in terms of humanities, society, and culture. The preservation is gradually becoming more and more perfect.
[Concurrent] Chen Guanying, Graduate Student, School of Public Administration, Tsinghua University
It’s a bit different from what I imagined. Actually there are quite a lot of high-rise buildings inside the inner city, and then I think everyone should have that kind of phony and tongue-twisting in their speech. But I didn’t expect that everyone is not much different from me, but I think I’m Mandarin. It's still possible.
[Concurrent] Xu Chenpin, Director of Taiwan Chinese Youth Development Association
After arriving in the mainland, I discovered that the original high-tech, modern construction is very fast and numerous, especially the magnetic levitation high-speed rail, which was the first time I saw it in the mainland, and it was not there yet in Taiwan.
[P6: Mid-Autumn Festival Wishes]
[Concurrent] Xu Chenpin, Director of Taiwan Chinese Youth Development Association
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, I hope that compatriots in Taiwan and mainland China will also be able to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together. I wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival.
[Concurrent] Lin Jiaxuan, a graduate student of the Dance School of Minzu University of China
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, I wish you all a reunion with your family, eating moon cakes and grapefruit.
[Concurrent] Cai Yiling, Exchange Student, Department of Information Management, Peking University
I wish all Taiwanese compatriots the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is full in the sky, the world is reunited, both sides are in harmony, the two sides of the strait are in harmony, and the world is in harmony.
[Concurrent] Chen Guanying, Graduate Student, School of Public Administration, Tsinghua University
I wish all compatriots on both sides of the strait a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and a happy festive season!
(Reporting by reporter Jean Baokui and Zhu He from Beijing)
Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]