Ji'an, April 4 (Zhu Ying) "I never thought that I would have the opportunity to go to the birthplace of our Hong Kong ancestor Peng Yanniangong - Ji'an Yinyuan Mountain Pass to find roots and ask our ancestors. Peng Zhensheng, executive vice president of the General Association and mayor of Fanlingwei Village in Hong Kong, said.
Shankou Village, Youtian Town, Ji'an County, Jiangxi Province, is the ancestral home of the Peng clan of Hong Kong's "four major families", the 12th ancestor of the Peng family first moved to Guangdong, and then moved to the area of Fanling, Hong Kong, Shankou Village and Hong Kong Peng's family are in the same water. Since 2022, the county has built a platform for exchanges and exchanges between Jigang and Hong Kong with clan relatives as the link, and consolidated the foundation for exchanges and exchanges between Jigang and Hong Kong.
The picture shows Peng Chun-sheng and others from Fanlingwei Village, Hong Kong, visiting the Kyrgyzstan-Hong Kong Clan Exchange Base. Photo courtesy of United Front Work Department of Ji'an County
During the Qingming Festival this year, Peng Zhensheng and his entourage from Fanlingwei Village in Hong Kong visited Shankou Village, Youtian Town, Ji'an County. Stepping into the base, street lamp lighting, pond fence beautification, idle miscellaneous base greening and other quality upgrades have rejuvenated the overall image of Yamaguchi Village and greatly improved the living environment; Inside the ancestral hall, six aspects of the Peng family motto, the lineage, the clan handsome, cultural heritage, meritorious deeds, and the Dun Qin Mu clan were displayed and publicized.
"For the Peng family in Hong Kong who came to Jiangxi for the first time, we feel very honored, and the clan members are extremely happy to gather together." Peng Zhensheng said that seeking the roots of Peng's culture, so that a family endows the power of history, and let the virtues of filial piety polish the family business card, this is not only a ceremony, but also a spirit, a strength, a culture, so that the descendants can remember the history and bits and pieces of the ancestors, and pass it on from generation to generation.
The picture shows Peng Chun-sheng and others from Fanlingwei Village, Hong Kong, visiting the Kyrgyzstan-Hong Kong Clan Exchange Base. Photo courtesy of United Front Work Department of Ji'an County
This reporter learned that the launching ceremony of the activity of 10,000 villagers returning to their hometowns, sponsored by the United Front Work Department of the Jiangxi Provincial CPC Committee and undertaken by the United Front Work Department of the Municipal CPC Committee and the Jiangxi Overseas Friendship Association, was recently held in the Jizhou Kiln Site Park in Ji'an County. The United Front Work Department of the Ji'an County Party Committee took this event as an opportunity to invite some Hong Kong clan relatives and world clan representatives to visit Ji'an County, promote and publicize Ji'an County, discover and mine investment information, take the initiative to connect, actively follow up, and achieve complementary resources.
"In the future, our county will combine the profound cultural heritage of Luling, rely on the Kyrgyzstan-Hong Kong clan exchange and exchange base to carry out various forms of cultural exchange activities, and actively dock various friendly exchange and exchange activities such as Hong Kong-related economic and trade inspection and cooperation, so as to deepen the exchange and exchange work between Kyrgyzstan and Hong Kong and create characteristics." Luo Xiaozhong, member of the Standing Committee of the Ji'an County CPC Committee and director of the United Front Work Department, said. (End)