[Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Special Line] (New Year News) "New Villagers" Come from Taipei: Picking Up Mom to Celebrate the New Year across the Sea
China News Service, Ningde, Fujian, January 25th, headline: "New villagers" come from Taipei: picking up mother across the sea to celebrate the New Year
Author Lu Qiaoqin Lin Rongsheng
"I am going to take my mother to the mainland to celebrate the New Year together. I have also invited many Taiwanese relatives to come and experience the strong New Year atmosphere in Nanyan Village." As the Spring Festival approaches, Chen Baijing chooses to stay and celebrate the New Year.
Nanyan Village is located in Tantou Town, Fu'an City, Ningde, Fujian. It is an ancient village where Chen Baijing settled in to carry out rural construction and rural innovation cooperation.
This Spring Festival will be his third time celebrating the New Year in Nanyan Village.
Chen Baijing told reporters from China News Service that during the Spring Festival, there are plans to hold small tea-making activities around the fire, add some festive New Year elements to the milk tea shop, and "make" some new drinks and Taiwanese snacks to attract tourists.
With the completion of projects such as rural cultural and creative milk tea shop, North and South Taiwan goods shop, light food sharing space, promenade loft culvert water bar, heavy motorcycle club, backpacker cultural station and other projects, Nanyan Village has now become the center of eight surrounding villages. A place for "Internet celebrities" to check in.
The Ming and Qing dynasty buildings in Nanyan Village are well-proportioned.
Photo by China News Service reporter Lu Qiaoqin
"I now make my home in Nanyan. I stay in the village for more than 20 days a month. I am considered a 'new villager' in Nanyan Village." Chen Baijing, who is from Taipei, is a director, teacher, musician, and founder of rural construction. With multiple identities including a mentor, he is the "slash uncle" in the eyes of Nanyan villagers.
In 2018, Chen Baijing "landed" to pursue her dream, "I hope to bring my cultural and creative experience in Taiwan here, adapt to local conditions, and help revitalize rural areas in mainland China."
When he first arrived in Pingtan, Fujian, he founded the Fu Ren Call Cultural and Creative Team. With cross-strait youth cultural and creative exchanges as the main axis, he opened cultural and creative workshops, built a country music cultural square, and set up a group of rural B&Bs, turning the Fu Ren Call cultural and creative base into A check-in spot for local “Internet celebrities”.
The following year, Chen Baijing led the lucky people to call on the cultural and creative team to inspect Nanyan Village.
Nanyan Village, built on the mountain, has a history of more than 700 years and is known as the "Ming and Qing Architectural Museum of Eastern Fujian".
Standing at the entrance of the village, he saw more than 40 Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings of various shapes scattered in an orderly manner, which attracted him.
Starting in 2020, he and his team will be stationed in the village to carry out accompanying rural construction and creation services.
The picture shows the cultural and creative product exhibition hall in Nanyan Village.
Photo by China News Service reporter Lu Qiaoqin
How to add a "literary style" to the "local style" of Nanyan Village?
Chen Baijing started from a milk tea shop.
An old and dilapidated building in the village has been re-planned and designed and transformed into the village's "Internet celebrity check-in shop" - Furen calls on the cultural and creative milk tea shop to sell Gucun Inn's signature milk tea, longan and red date tea, as well as latte and American brewing Coffee and other drinks.
"The milk tea shop is built on the original foundation of the old building. It is renovated and reinforced without damaging the structure, giving people an authentic sense of an ancient milk tea shop." Chen Baijing said.
Climbing to the second floor of the milk tea shop, you can have a panoramic view of the cultural and natural scenery of Nanyan Village.
Mr. Zheng, a tourist who came all the way from Shanghai, said that it was very pleasant to walk among the tile-roofed houses in the ancient village and stop and take pictures. Ordering a cup of milk tea or coffee at the milk tea shop can also help you stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city and enjoy a relaxing vacation. Quiet afternoon.
The picture shows the "Nanyan Addiction" created by makers who settled in Nanyan.
Photo by China News Service reporter Lu Qiaoqin
In Chen Baijing's view, Nanyan Village should not be hasty in its rural construction, nor should it be too conservative; it should not only adhere to the principle of "repairing the old as before and preserving it as much as possible", but also combine protection, development and revitalization.
In more than three years, Furen called on the cultural and creative teams to create more than 10 projects, which not only protected and revitalized traditional buildings, but also enriched the tourism industry, allowing Nanyan, which was once an "empty shell village", to transform and transform. newborn.
According to villagers, in the past three years, more than 100 "new villagers" and entrepreneurs have returned to Nanyan Village, and the average annual tourist reception has reached more than 100,000.
On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2023, Chen Baijing took her eighty-year-old mother to Nanyan Village.
He said that in addition to wanting his mother to see with her own eyes the results of pursuing his dream in mainland China, he also wanted to fulfill one of his mother's wishes.
It turns out that Chen Baijing's mother left the mainland for Taiwan with her parents when she was 6 years old. They were separated for more than 70 years and she always wanted to return to the mainland.
"When I was young, I left home and my boss came back, but my local pronunciation has not changed and my hair on my temples has faded." Chen Baijing described her mother's mood like this, "More than 70 years have passed very quickly, but fortunately we are close to each other."
This year is my mother’s first Spring Festival back in mainland China. Chen Baijing said that she plans to cook two or three Taiwanese stir-fry dishes for the New Year’s Eve dinner, and prepare some ingredients for hot pot.
"Both sides of the Taiwan Strait share the same roots, so the New Year customs are similar, including setting off firecrackers, visiting relatives, etc., but the Chinese New Year flavor is much stronger than in Taiwan."
"Mainland is the place where my dreams set sail." After more than six years of "landing", from being alone to having a cultural and creative team of 18 people, Chen Baijing said, "Here, the world is vast and there is a lot to do."
Nanyan Village has been listed as a model village for Fujian-Taiwan Township Construction and Township Creation Cooperation in 2024.
Chen Baijing said that she hopes that in the new year, Nanyan Village will become a "hot spot", allowing more people to return to their hometowns to start businesses, and attract more tourists to visit; she also hopes that more rural construction and rural innovation cooperation will "flower and bear fruit" in the future. , to promote the integrated development of both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
(over)