(Taiwan Strait Guanlan) Dragon Boat Festival "Hot" Wind Crossing the Strait
China News Service, Fuzhou, June 1 (Reporter Long Min) Just like the short video of "Yunnan" in the New Year of the Tiger and the live broadcast of Liu Genghong's fitness under the epidemic, the dragon boat race across the Taiwan Strait has also been screened with the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival. A "hot" wind was blowing across the strait during the Dragon Boat Festival.
As a traditional Chinese folk activity with a long history, dragon boat racing is deeply loved by the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
On June 2, the 18th Cross-Strait Dragon Boat Festival Cultural Forum and China Dragon Boat Tug-of-War Open will be held in Xiamen, kicking off the two-day "Dragon Soaring Tiger Leaping" 2022 Cross-Strait Dragon Boat Race.
In the past few days, the activities of compatriots on both sides of the strait to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival have appeared in many places in Fujian one after another.
In Xiamen, the 2022 Huaqiao University Dragon Boat Challenge was held on May 29 at the Xiamen campus of Huaqiao University. Nearly 200 students from home and abroad, including Taiwanese students, participated in the dragon boat race and experienced Chinese dragon boat culture.
In Zhangzhou, the 2022 Dragon Boat Festival Exchange and Friendship Event for Taiwanese and Taiwanese Compatriots in Longwen District was held on May 28 with the theme of "The Dragon Boat Festival is full of 'Zongzi' and the same origin as the 'Zongzi' is a family". 15 Taiwanese businessmen Family members experience making rice dumplings, watching sand painting performances, hand-making parent-child sand painting bottles, and sharing the Dragon Boat Festival together.
In Fuzhou, the 2022 "June 1" Children's Day Fujian-Taiwan parent-child cultural park event was held on May 28 at the Taiwan Guild Hall in the Sanfang Qixiang neighborhood. 21 Fujian and Taiwan parent-child families wore Hanfu and participated in shooting pots with blessings and bags. A series of Dragon Boat Festival special garden projects such as sachets and dumplings, to experience the traditional culture of the Chinese nation together; more than 20 young people in Rong Taiwan gathered at the Taiwan Guild Hall on the evening of May 25 to experience the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival together, taste fragrant tea, taste dumplings, and sew incense. Sac, talk about health.
In Ningde, the Ningde Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Office and Xiamen Bank Ningde Branch jointly held the "Dragon Boat Festival with Dumplings and Sharing the Same Roots of the Taiwan Strait" event on May 26, inviting Taiwan compatriots to make rice dumplings and talk about homework together.
Common festivals, common cultural memories.
Zhuang Mengxiong, a Taiwanese compatriot who has been "landing" for 20 years, said when he participated in the event in Ningde that the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival on both sides of the strait are similar, and to spend the Dragon Boat Festival with everyone here, it feels like a family.
Taiwanese doctor Zeng Renhong, director of the Rehabilitation Department of Fuzhou No. 6 Hospital, said that traditional folk customs and Chinese culture will always be the common genes of both sides of the strait.
Liang Boxiang, a young Taiwanese who is studying at Fujian Normal University, said when he participated in the event in Fuzhou that the traditional beliefs and customs of Taiwan and the mainland are in the same vein and resonate very much.
As the venue for the "Dragon Soaring Tiger Leaping" 2022 Cross-Strait Dragon Boat Race, the Dragon Boat Pool in Jimei District, Xiamen City witnessed the cross-strait Dragon Boat Festival folk exchanges.
Since 2006, the cross-strait dragon boat race has been held here, and it has become an important carrier of cross-strait cultural exchanges; in 2011, the cross-strait dragon boat race was upgraded to the cross-strait (Jimei) dragon boat culture festival, and the dragon boat race became the main event of the dragon boat culture festival. In 2017, the cross-strait dragon boat race was included in the Straits Forum, and it became an important supporting event for the Straits Forum.
The Fujian-Taiwan crossing custom of Fujian Shishi is another witness to the celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival with the same customs on both sides of the strait.
The 16th Fujian-Taiwan Duodu Cultural Festival and the Kangjiang Maritime Water Splashing Festival theme series will be held online on June 3. Through VR technology, an online experience will be used to panoramically display the Shishi Kangjiang and Taiwan Lukang two places. The customs of crossing crossings - boats at sea chase and splash water, wish each other auspiciousness and mingle friendship.
Experts here believe that the compatriots on both sides of the strait have the same cultural tradition, and the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival and dragon boat races have a long history and a broad public base on both sides of the strait.
Through the "hot" wind crossing the strait on the Dragon Boat Festival, you can intuitively and deeply feel the close connection of blood, emotion and relationship between people on both sides of the strait, further shortening the spiritual distance and enhancing each other's feelings.
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