Big Drum Cool Umbrella Team and Waist Drum Team "Ode to Joy" pray for good weather on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
(Reporter Zhang Jinchuan) The first cross-strait (Nanjing) Guandi Cultural Festival and Cross-strait calligraphy and painting exchange meeting opened in Nanjing County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province on the 25th. More than 1,200 Guandi believers and calligraphers and painters from both sides of the Taiwan Strait People attend.
Zhangzhou Yang Yineng, chairman of the Yang Family Exchange Committee, delivered a speech. Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
Nanjing County is one of the important ancestral homes of overseas Chinese and Taiwanese compatriots in Zhangzhou City. There are more than 30,000 overseas Chinese and more than 1 million Taiwanese compatriots in Nanjing.
Taiwan Chinese Taoist Guan Sheng Emperor Hongdao Association President Chen Zhansong delivered a speech. Photo by Zhang Jinchuan At the opening ceremony of
, the performance of "Ode to Joy" by the Big Drum and the Waist Drum Team was praying for good weather on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, while calligraphers and painters on both sides of the Taiwan Strait splashed ink on the spot and communicated interactively. After the opening ceremony, thousands of Guandi believers faced the Guansheng Emperor Temple in Dongshang and visited the Guangong Cultural Corridor on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Calligraphers and painters from both sides of the Taiwan Strait exchange and interaction on-site writing. Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
"The spirit of "loyalty, courage, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust" in Guandi culture is deeply rooted in the hearts of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait." Zhangzhou Yang Yineng, chairman of the Yang Family Exchange Committee of Yang Family, told China News Net reporters said that the Yang family in Zhangzhou has a population of 368,000, and more than 70% of the Yang family Taiwanese compatriots are in Zhangzhou. In 2009, the Yang family members on both sides of the Taiwan Strait carried out cultural exchange activities through genealogy and other genealogy.
Calligraphers and painters on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait exchange and interaction on the spot to write. Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
Nanjing Dongban Guandi Temple was built in the 13th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1808) by the 11th generation grandson of the Yang family of Dongban, and was rebuilt in 1927 and 2019. In recent years, the Guandi Temple in Toksaka has continued to carry out a series of cultural exchange activities of "Cultural Chinese and Relationship with Guandi", and has successively organized groups to conduct cultural exchanges in Thailand, Malaysia , Singapore , and Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places to gather at home and abroad. Family and friendship among overseas Chinese.
Mainland calligraphers and painters showcase their calligraphy and painting works "Guan Gong's Family Portrait". Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
Yang Yineng expressed that since 2013, , Kaohsiung , Taiwan, Yang clan leader led the Yang clan back to Dongban Guandi Temple to search for his roots and pay homage to his ancestors, Yang clans on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have close contacts and common cultural beliefs Let the hearts of the clans on both sides of the Taiwan Strait get closer.
believers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait gathered in the Guandi Temple in Dongban, Nanjing, Fujian to worship Guan Gong. Zhang Jinchuan took a photo of the believers of Guandi. Photo by Zhang Jinchuan
"Where there are Chinese people in the world, you can visit the imperial temple." Chen Zhansong, president of the Taiwan Chinese Taoist Guan Sheng Emperor Hongdao Association, who came to participate in the cultural festival, said that Guandi is an inseparable destiny for the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and Guandi believes in it. Become a bridge and link to communicate the emotions of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, "The spirit of Guandi should be carried forward." (End)
