Quanzhou, 3 Mar (ZXS) -- On the afternoon of 19 March, the Fujian-Taiwan Border Museum in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, held this year's first study lecture on "Talking About Knowing and Doing," with the title of "Kinmen Field Report: What You Can See but Can't Imagine," inviting Wang Yifu, president of the National Taiwan Studies Association, and Chen Yiyuan, distinguished professor of the Department of Chinese of National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, to have interactive exchanges.
As the keynote speaker of this lecture, Chen Yiyuan has been engaged in Kinmen folk literature fieldwork since 1990. With more than 30 years of fieldwork experience, he vividly and humorously shows the charm of literature research and fieldwork.
At the lecture, Chen Yiyuan started from a "Fuyi Pavilion" with a typo at the entrance of Cai Cuo Ancient Road in Kinmen, and told the moving story behind an old drama box, a statue of Guan Gong with a hole in his waist, and two family letters from both sides of the strait that could not be delivered.
"In Kinmen, the temples, statues, buildings, inscriptions, etc. that everyone can see often have unexpected mysteries and wonderful stories behind them." Chen Yiyuan confirmed the deep relationship between the two sides of the strait in history, religion and population migration, and shared his investigation process and fieldwork methods on cross-strait folk songs, family letters and other cultures.
"Fieldwork is not only about collecting oral histories, but also about collecting written materials scattered among the people." In Wang Yifu's view, in the fieldwork, Chen Yiyuan was not only good at asking questions, but also established a benign relationship between the interviewer and the interviewee, so that everyone had a deeper understanding and understanding of the fieldwork.
As a national-level thematic museum reflecting the historical relationship between the mainland and Taiwan, the Fujian-Taiwan Border Museum of China has long focused on building a cross-strait academic exchange and cooperation platform, focusing on the social history of Taiwan and the study of ancestral culture such as southern Fujian culture, Hakka culture, and Mazu culture.
Chen Weiping, director of the Fujian-Taiwan Border Museum in China, said that well-known experts and scholars on both sides of the strait carry out face-to-face academic exchanges and see the truth from the subtleties; The "visible but unthinkable" behind the inheritance of the cultural context of Fujian and Taiwan are exactly what the people of Fujian and Taiwan see and move in their daily lives, demonstrating the common concept of "one family on both sides of the strait."
"It is expected that the two sides of the strait will usher in more opportunities for cultural and academic exchanges, enhance mutual familiarity and understanding among scholars on both sides of the strait, work together to understand the common past, and move towards a more harmonious and beautiful future." Chen Yiyuan said. (End)