html On July 8, the 6th Cross-Strait (Quanzhou) Southern Fujian Nursery Rhyme Competition and the "Simultaneous Voice across the Silk Road" Southern Fujian Storytelling Competition were launched in Quanzhou. Picture provided by the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of Quanzhou China News Service, Quanzhou, July 8 (Sun Honglin Qianhuang) "The local accent connects both sides of the Taiwan Strait and is inherited by the Maritime Silk Road", the 6th Cross-Strait (Quanzhou) Southern Fujian Nursery Rhymes Competition and "Silk Sea" "Tongsheng" Hokkien storytelling competition was launched on the 8th in Quanzhou, Fujian.
"Southern Fujian nursery rhymes are childhood memories, inheritance of customs and homesickness of wanderers, and are also a spiritual link between compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and overseas folks." Yang Weiju, president of the Taiwan Kinmen Association, said that southern Fujian nursery rhymes are not only one of the spiritual food for children. First, the content is rich and colorful, full of childishness, and is also the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the people in southern Fujian.
Nowadays, Hokkien nursery rhymes no longer remain traditional or restricted to the stage, but have infiltrated the lives of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and become a natural way of expression. They are also the warmest heartstrings deep in the souls of Taiwanese compatriots and overseas Chinese, and they are always It touched their thoughts of going back "home".
Yang Weiju, President of Taiwan Kinmen Association, delivered a speech at the launching ceremony. Photo courtesy of Quanzhou Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office
Since 2017, the Southern Fujian Nursery Rhyme Competition jointly organized by both sides of the Taiwan Strait has been successfully held for five times. It is open to kindergarten and primary school students on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and is divided into individual and group projects. During each competition, principals, teachers and students from both sides of the Taiwan Strait gather to communicate, discuss their experiences in learning and writing Southern Fujian nursery rhymes, visit Southern Fujian's living cultural heritage, trace their roots and plant friendship trees... The competition has thus become a new platform for cross-Strait cultural exchanges.
"The Cross-Strait Minnan Nursery Rhyme Competition not only rescues, inherits and promotes the traditional culture of southern Fujian, but also enhances the understanding and recognition between the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. I hope that the two sides can communicate more in the future and jointly write a glorious page in the history of cross-strait folk nursery rhymes." "Yang Weiju said.
In addition to Hokkien nursery rhymes, this year the competition also added the "Simultaneous Silk Road" Hokkien storytelling competition, with participation ranging from kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools and social groups. The organizers hope that through the storytelling competition, more people who like southern Fujian culture and care about the inheritance of southern Fujian dialect will join the ranks, using nursery rhymes as a link and southern Fujian dialect as a bridge to promote communication and exchange, and promote the inheritance and development of southern Fujian culture.
This competition is guided by the Taiwan League Central Taiwan Situation and Cross-Strait Relations Research Committee; Quanzhou Education Bureau, Quanzhou Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, Quanzhou Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, Quanzhou Overseas Chinese Federation, Taiwan League Quanzhou Municipal Committee, Quanzhou Radio and Television Station , hosted by Quanzhou Kinmen Compatriots Association; co-organized by Taiwan Kinmen Association, Taiwan Radio and Television Program Association, and Taiwan Cross-Strait Broadcasting Exchange Association. (End)
