Recently, Lee Dong-heon, a taekwondo athlete from Taiwan, China, became the focus of his five-star red flag on the podium when he participated in the 2023 Asia-Pacific Masters Games in South Korea.

The picture shows Li Dongxian raising the five-star red flag on the podium. Photo courtesy of me.

Li Dongxian's move has aroused countless netizens on the Internet.

Some netizens left a message: "The moment you raised the five-star red flag, it instantly turned powder!" The 14.14 billion people of the country are your strong backing! "What you are holding up is not a national flag, but the hearts of hundreds of millions of compatriots looking forward to your return," "<>.<> billion people applaud you, and <>.<> billion people support you."

The picture shows Li Dongxian entering the arena with players from Chinese mainland and Hong Kong. Photo courtesy of me.

Another noteworthy detail is that at the Asia-Pacific Masters Games in South Korea, Taiwanese athletes from China entered the competition together with Chinese mainland and Hong Kong for the first time through the efforts of Lee Dong-heon, the head of the Chinese mainland taekwondo delegation Li Chao and Han Bing, a member of the Asian Taekwondo Federation.

"It's not the first time I've been raped online,

No fear of gossip"

The scene of Li Dongxian holding high the five-star red flag made the politicians in the green camp on the island unable to sit still, and online violence against Li Dongxian followed.

Chen Jianren, head of the administrative department of the Taiwan authorities, even threatened to thoroughly investigate Li Dongxian, bluntly saying that "relevant units must be checked and clarified" and said that "they will be dealt with in accordance with relevant laws and regulations."

Faced with such a voice, Li Dongxian responded in an interview with China News Network.

Regarding Chen Jianren's claim that Li Dongxian did not participate in the selection of the competition, Li Dongxian responded, "As a high-level administrator, Chen Jianren should have the obligation to screen the authenticity of the incident. ”

He pointed out that the competition is for retired or amateur athletes over the age of 30, so there is no need for selection. "The Taiwan authorities did not even understand the rules and regulations of the competition and began to condemn and splash dirty water."

"The DPP will take the small people to the knife"

In response to the siege of the "1450" Internet Army on the island, Li Dongxian said that recently, a huge fraud organization in Taiwan was arrested, which involved many high-level members of the DPP, and "just when the focus of the DPP could not be shifted, 'it just happened' that Li Dongxian appeared" and "in order to divert the attention of the people, the DPP took the small people to attack."

The picture shows Lee Dong-heon. Photo courtesy of me.

Li Dongxian said: "I believe that raising the five-star red flag was not done by Li Dongxian alone, but by many predecessors in Taiwan." Just because "the timing is right" was used by the DPP to hype up the scandal.

Instead of paying attention to these attacks, it is better to look at the positive energy emitted by the compatriots of the motherland, it is better to look at the compatriots of the motherland for reunification, and it is better to look at the expectations of the compatriots of the motherland for Taiwan's return.

"A good brother on the mainland,

Changed myself"

Because he grew up in southern Taiwan, Lee used to have a "deep green" political stance.

It wasn't until he went to college that he lost a debate with his classmates about history. Li Dongxian began to think about whether he had missed anything in the historical knowledge he had learned in Taiwan's history textbooks. Since then, he began to make up for the history of modern and modern China and the history of New China, from the late Qing Dynasty to the reform and opening up of New China. In the process, his political stance slowly changed.

However, due to differences in political views and family, Lee Dong-hyun only returns home almost every year on Chinese New Year's Eve nights.

"I slept in the dojo for six years because I didn't know how to get my parents to change [political opinions]."

Hearing is nothing, seeing is believing. In 2012, Li Dongxian decided to come to the mainland to have a look. After coming to the mainland, he met a close friend - Li Chao.

Li Dongxian (first from right) and Li Chao take a group photo. Photo courtesy of me.

This "good big brother" in the eyes of Li Dongxian is also the head of the Chinese taekwondo delegation at the 2023 Asia-Pacific Masters Games, and under the influence of Li Chao, Li Dongxian has become more and more convinced that China is his country.

"A good brother on the mainland, changed himself." Li Dongxian sighed deeply.

He wrote in his circle of friends, "I am not afraid to go to war, I am afraid that Taiwan will not have an economy, I am afraid that the Taiwanese people will live in the heat of water life, I am afraid that Taiwanese people will forget that they are the descendants of Yanhuang, I am afraid that Taiwan will forget its own history and its mother, I am afraid that Taiwanese people will not find a way home, and the children will go home with the door open, it is not so terrible." ”

"Xiamen is my second home"

At present, Li Dongxian lives in Xiamen. He said Xiamen people also speak Hokkien.

Children in southern Taiwan love to speak Hokkien, and in Xiamen he can find many compatriots who are familiar with the rural dialect.

In terms of diet, whether it is fried sea oysters or ginger mother duck, you can find a familiar taste in Xiamen. Therefore, Xiamen has become Li Dongxian's second home.

He said that Tainan is the place where he was raised, while Xiamen is the place where his business was developed and nurtured.

The picture shows Lee Dong-heon. Photo courtesy of interviewee.

Previously, Taiwan media reported that Xiamen is just a "small fishing village". After Li Dongxian came to Xiamen, he found that Xiamen's economic development is rapid, the transportation is convenient, and the sports industry is booming. He lamented that Xiamen has changed from a "small fishing village" to a "big villa". He called on the young people on the island to "go home" and see whether the "home" is now a broken thatched house or a "big villa".

Li Dongxian said that he has no plans to become an Internet celebrity, and hopes to return to the sports field in the future. We will continue to do a good job in cross-strait exchanges, expand the voice of the cross-strait pursuit of peace, and lead more young people to develop on the mainland and across the strait.

He believes that more and more people will raise his five-star red flag again in the future!