China News Service, Zhangzhou, March 18th (Lai Jincai) "We can walk, we can go, we have to go to the ninth day of February." On the 18th, it was the ninth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, and the 10th "Cross-Strait Love and Field Fate" Baosheng Emperor Cultural Festival It was held at Xintian Palace, Xintian Village, Banzai Town, Pinghe County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province.
When delivering his speech at the opening ceremony, Lai Zhiming, the honorary chairman of the Lai Luo Fu Clan Association in Changhua County, Taiwan and the mayor of Dacun Township in Changhua County, specifically expressed his excitement about going to the ancestral land to worship in southern Fujian.
It is reported that Xintian Palace in Xintian Village is the mother palace of Yuanbao Palace in Taichung City, Taiwan. Both places are dedicated to Emperor Baosheng.
The Lai family temple next to Xintian Palace is the common ancestral hall of more than 100,000 descendants of the "Xintian Lai family" in Fujian and Taiwan.
On March 18, the 10th "Cross-Strait Love" Baosheng Emperor Cultural Festival was held in Banzai Town, Pinghe County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province. A delegation of Lai family members from Changhua, Taiwan took a group photo in front of the Lai family temple in Xintian Village.
Photo by Lai Hanzhong
On that day, the sound of drums and firecrackers was heard at the event. More than 40 Taiwanese compatriots and pilgrims from all over the world gathered at Xintian Palace. A grand welcoming procession welcomed Emperor Baosheng back to the palace. Dragon art, float parade and other folk performances were held along the way.
The Taiwan compatriots participating in this conference are from Dacun Township, Changhua County, and the surname Lai is the largest ethnic surname in Dacun Township.
Most of the Lai family in Dacun Township are the descendants of the founders of the "Xintian Lai family", Bulong Gong, Dafang Jingchun Gong, and Jinglu Gong, the second family, who moved to Taiwan. The population has reached more than 20,000 people.
The ancestral couplet of Lai Jingchun Ancestral Hall, the founder of the ancestral hall, is embedded with words such as "Jingchun", "Fujian", "peace" and "heartland".
"'Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are rooted in each other, and the Lai family in the heart is a family member' is a saying passed down from generation to generation by the descendants of the Lai family in Taiwan." Lai Zhiming said that in recent years, the two places have had frequent exchanges between clans, holding many symposiums, and jointly compiling genealogies. , looking forward to further enhancing the friendship and recognition between the Lai clan on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
On the 17th, relatives of the Lai family in Changhua also went to Biling (Chiling) Village, Guoqiang Township, Pinghe County, Zhangzhou to trace their roots and pay homage to their ancestors.
The group will return to Taiwan at the end of the trip on the 20th.
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