(Focus on the Straits Forum) The opening feature of the Straits Forum: "Drinking a pot of wine together is the same root"
China News Service, Xiamen, July 13th, title: The opening feature of the Straits Forum: "Drinking a pot of wine together is the same root"
China News Agency reporter Lin Chunyin and Chen Xiaoyuan
Eight 10-meter-high green bamboos raise eight blessing flags, which are straight and steady, showing the beauty of the power of Bamin Erlang.
This unique skill of carrying flags spread across the Taiwan Strait to commemorate the national hero Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan opened the curtain of the Straits Forum Conference.
On July 13, the 14th Straits Forum Conference was held in Xiamen, Fujian Province.
Jinmen County Mayor Yang Zhenwu said before the meeting that "the two sides of the strait share a pot of wine, and the two sides of the strait share the same root", which was mentioned again at the conference here, and re-created the consistent tone of this "cross-strait folk grass-roots carnival" Footnotes.
The Straits Forum sees both nostalgia and youth.
Picking up flags, singing and dancing, Taiwanese singer Wei Huini, who participated in the opening theatrical performance of the conference, instantly returned to Taiwan "the lively alley of grandma's house".
Wei Hui Ni's ancestral home is Zhangzhou. She told a reporter from China News Agency that the skill and custom of picking flags originated in southern Fujian, which is also the ancestral place of most Taiwan compatriots. "Taiwan also has flags, and it is also commemorating the national surname.
Wei Huini and mainland singer Tashi Dunzhu sang "Let's Sing a Song Together". Some people were making tea quietly, and some people were playing chess in Rong Yin, just like a wanderer's mood, "Returning to my grandfather's grandfather's house, this nostalgia was melt".
Hearing the Hokkien accent colliding with the Tibetan accent, the Taiwanese girl who has landed for six years said with a smile, "I am very moved, as if the young people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are having a dialogue."
The Straits Forum sees both the country and the future.
In addition to youth exchanges, the Straits Forum has been held for 13 consecutive years, focusing on the fields of agriculture, fishery, water conservancy, townships and villages, and religious exchanges.
The situation of singing "Same Roots" shows the cross-strait acacia in the blessed land of Fujian.
During the performance, Uncle Hualien from Hualien County, Taiwan exchanged agricultural skills with Uncle Lianhua from Lianhua Mountain, Tongan District, Xiamen, celebrating the harvest and drinking wine.
The dance "Tea · Fragrance" poetically interprets the beauty of the cherry blossom tea garden in Yongfu Town, Zhangping City, Fujian Province.
Yongfu is located in the core area of Zhangping National Taiwan Farmers Pioneer Park. It is one of the townships where Taiwanese farmers have the most investment in the mainland, and is also the largest Taiwanese soft branch oolong tea production base in the mainland.
Fragrant tea welcomes guests, compatriots on both sides of the strait approach relatives, ten thousand mu of tea mountain, Tainong has made Yongfu a "mainland Alishan".
The Straits Forum sees both the heart and the vision.
"35 Years of Heart Road" cross-strait exchange chronicle will appear, Taiwanese businessman Xu Tao's "China Core", Taiwanese media person Huang Zhixian's call for "our generation, we want to bring Taiwan home", Taiwanese doctor Chen Borui tells about his father's "eight thousand miles of road cloud" The mainland complex of "Heyue"... The cross-strait story that once moved people's hearts was mentioned again at the conference.
The burgeoning cause of rural revitalization in the mainland has attracted Taiwanese youth to cross the strait to build rural areas.
In Qingjiao Village, Haicang District, Xiamen City, Taiwanese rural designer Li Peizhen promoted the "Bacon Project" to restore the ancient houses of the Northern Song Dynasty, excavate the customs and culture, and open a nostalgia museum.
Unexpectedly, "the deeper we dig into the local human history, the deeper we take root here."
Helping the villagers to feel their homesickness, the Taiwanese youth in Li Peizhen's team also deepened their identification with this land, and "bacon" has become a two-way "rooted".
In Daliangshan, Sichuan, after receiving a doctorate from the School of International Relations of Peking University, Taipei youth Lin Shuren turned to take over his father's olive oil cultivation business. "Sichuan Youth May Fourth Medal".
The Straits Forum is both free and easy, but also persistent.
Because he promised to take orphans to ride the mainland to see if the water in the Yellow River is yellow, Taiwan compatriot Yang Minzhong has held the "Bicycle Angel" public welfare sports activity for 10 years.
In the past 10 years, he has traveled to 50 cities on both sides of the strait and drove 12,000 kilometers, benefiting 920 disadvantaged young people on both sides of the strait.
Numerous college student volunteers from both sides of the strait participated in the "bodyguard escort", and many touching "riding" marks occurred.
Like the participating Taiwan compatriots who came to "drink a pot of wine together, share the same roots", Yang Minzhong regarded "the friendship between the new generation of mainland young people and Taiwan's new youth" as precious.
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