China News Service Zhengzhou, July 23 title: Taiwan youth worship Huangdi, chasing the past, searching for roots, thinking of ancestors and homesickness
China News Service reporter Yang Chengchen
"Only my ancestors, descendants admire each other. Five continents and four seas show the Huaguo." Lin Ziyou from Taipei Deming University of Finance and Economics told reporters that worshiping Xuanyuan Huangdi makes her feel that her roots are in the mainland.
July 23, "Love in Youth on the Cross-Strait Youth Central Plains Tour" came to the hometown of Huangdi Huangdi in Henan Xinzheng . Hundred college students on both sides of the strait worship their ancestors in front of the statue of Huangdi. China News Service reporter Yang Chengchen took photos
The temperature in Xinzheng that day was as high as 39 degrees Celsius, and the students were sweating profusely before they stood still. The process of worshiping ancestors such as incense burning, worshiping worship, and reading ancestor worship is completed one by one. The high temperature has not reduced the popularity of young people towards this traditional but fresh ritual.
"Similar activities are rare in Taiwan, and you will only have the opportunity to see such a scene when you go to the other side of the strait." Lin Ziyou, who represents Taiwanese students, said that the words and sentences in the strait of the ancestors of both sides of the strait that impressed them, and also made their generation feel where they came from.
22, college students visited the Central Plains National Advertising Industrial Park located in the northwest of Zhengzhou, and watched a micro-film about an elderly man from Henan who returned to Henan to find his relatives. In the play, the old man's homesickness across half a century was connected with the clues of the face of Emperor Huangdi in the play, which resonated with students on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. At the ancestor worship ceremony the next day, many Taiwanese students said that their ancestors were in mainland China, and having the opportunity to come to worship was also to express their feelings of missing their ancestors.
In the summer of 2016, Lin Ziyou participated in the "Love Youth Cross-Strait Youth Tour" event and visited Fujian Quanzhou , Zhangzhou and other places. This year, she participated in the event again and had more expectations.
"This activity is divided into different themes of martial arts sports, literary performances and art creation. Each group will go to will be related to the interests or expertise of the group members." Lin Ziyou, who loves street dance and national standard dance , is in the performance group. Their team will go to Sanmenxia City, Henan Province to enjoy and learn local intangible cultural heritage art.
Taiwan's "China Youth Mainland Research and Education Foundation" is the Taiwan organizer of the "Love for Youth" series of activities. Li Zhonggui, the chairman of the foundation, has participated in many ancestor worship activities in different places such as Shaanxi and Anhui, and he always accompanied Taiwanese college students.
Li Zhonggui emphasized that Taiwan’s original primary and secondary school textbooks had special chapters to introduce Chinese history and traditional Chinese culture, but this part of the textbooks is missing now. She gave an example, saying that today's Chinese textbooks replace or significantly reduce the content of ancient Chinese literature such as Tang poetry and Song lyrics with the so-called "Taiwanese native literature", "this is a numeral to forget the ancestors."
"Sacrifice to ancestors is especially necessary for young people in Taiwan. We must tell them that they are descendants of Yan and Huang." Li Zhonggui said that young people will have different feelings when they experience traditional culture and understand traditional culture themselves. "People should learn to remember their source by drinking water and know where they come from." (End)
