Ten thousand candles burn in the sky, and there are two Lantern Festivals in the sky on earth.
Year after year, today is the Lantern Festival.
If the Spring Festival is the beginning of the year, then the Lantern Festival is usually regarded as the last climax of the Spring Festival.
Where the heart belongs, there is love.
This first full moon night of the year must belong to the family, lovers, closest friends and closest partners.
Visiting temple fairs, appreciating lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, these traditional customs of the Lantern Festival are the most ceremonial reunion and company.
Before and after the Lantern Festival this year, folks on both sides of the Taiwan Strait continued to stage splendid lantern exchange activities: the "Little Tiger Castle" from Shanghai was very popular in the friendly exchange lantern area of the Taipei Lantern Festival; at the Nantou Lantern Festival, a series of strong "Zhejiang elements" The large-scale group of lanterns makes people linger; Nanjing, Jiangsu and New Taipei City, Taiwan hold the 2022 Cross-Strait Celebration of Chinese New Year "Cloud Lighting" event online; the cross-strait lantern festival being held in Xiamen, Fujian is full of rich Fujian and Taiwan cultural charm.
"These lanterns have the taste of my childhood hometown"
“The environment and atmosphere here is very homely”
"I feel very warm to see such beautiful lanterns and familiar programs."
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During the Chinese New Year Lantern Festival, many Taiwan compatriots who chose to stay in the mainland for the Chinese New Year once again felt the strong taste of home.
"Having a Lantern Festival, cooking glutinous rice balls, the reunion of flesh and blood is full of joy, men, women and children gather around the table, and the family eats Yuan Wan." Like a steaming bowl of glutinous rice balls, it not only satisfies the taste buds, but also activates the longing hidden in the bottom of my heart. ——The long road, always connected, led every year, the world is full of red dust, and the home is at ease.
The Lantern Festival is a beautiful sustenance, a remembrance of happiness, and a sincere prayer, praying for harmony and beauty and reunion.
Lin Gufang, head of the Taipei Academy and cultural scholar, said that rituals can make a society deeply connected.
The traditional three festivals are particularly important to Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, because the meaning reflected in them can travel through the past and the present.
For example, after the Dragon Boat Festival, in the past, out of the need for health, we must get rid of some "evil spirits" that are not good for our health; the Mid-Autumn Festival represents an emotional connection.
The Dragon Boat Festival is more about taking care of the "body", while the Mid-Autumn Festival is more about the "heart".
The Spring Festival is the practice of combining the two, and the family is reunited.
Up to now, the Spring Festival is still the biggest festival of the year in Taiwan. At this time, it is necessary to meet relatives or friends face-to-face as much as possible.
Therefore, this is a natural need that comes from life and the heart.
You see, how many people still have to travel like this during the epidemic.
Even in the Internet age, the form has changed, but the meaning of gathering has not diminished.
In the Year of the Tiger of Renyin, Fang Hanqi and Li Zhan, senior journalism scholars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan veteran Gao Binghan and his younger brother Gao Bingtao, who settled in Xiamen, famous literary master Bai Xianyong and Kunqu opera actor Yu Jiulin, family members of the same name in Quanzhou City and Keelung City, Dalian Village, participated in the Beijing Winter Olympics. The family letter sent by the Taiwanese students who served as volunteers... a series of blessing dialogues and New Year's greetings videos spread like wildfire, and they were screened again and again on social media, warming countless compatriots living on both sides of the strait.
It was they who gave a new expression of nostalgia, a video of New Year greetings, a letter to the family during the Spring Festival, and a sound of blessings at the Chinese New Year Lantern Festival.
From the New Year greeting video to the New Year letter to the Chinese New Year Lantern Festival, the hope for reunion and reminiscence is the sincere wish contained in this year, the cultural code that all Chinese people can understand, and the connection between people on both sides of the strait. Emotional bond.
"The grass and trees sprout, and the spring mountains are in sight." After the Lantern Festival, everyone will embark on a new journey, devote themselves to new jobs, and face new challenges.
The road ahead may be difficult and bumpy, but we will never feel lonely and helpless, because we always have people we care about and feelings of missing in our hearts.
This deep concern can travel across the ocean and history, and one day it can reach the warm hometown and crash into the arms of relatives.
Wanjia lights up for Lantern Festival, the most beautiful thing in the world is reunion.
The Paper Commentator Dongping