html More than 170 years ago, the Kuomintang troops retreated to Taiwan, and millions of soldiers and their families went to Taiwan with the Kuomintang. Many people's separation lasted for a lifetime. From then on, the story of Taiwan’s military villages began. In the years since the separation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, homesickness has become the most common and moving emotion in Taiwan’s military villages. Perhaps there are items that parents carry with them; perhaps there is a photo of their wife and children; or perhaps it is the taste that they like to eat in their hometowns in mainland China, these have become the most precious thoughts in the hearts of residents in military villages.
Military Village Cultural and Creative Zone
Deng Xuegui, from Changning, Hunan, in 1948, when the Kuomintang army was defeated and moved south, he joined the army at the age of 22. The reason is just to join the army due to a livelihood. Who would have thought that he would take him away from his hometown and from the mainland for decades!
Deng Xuegui, who came to Taiwan with the army, has been missing his mother far away from her hometown for decades, and his mother also missed her son who joined the army day and night but had no news! The mother spent the first half of her life worrying about home, but spent the second half of her life missing, hoping that her son would return one day, and until the last moment she still remembered this son who had no news for many years. However, her son could not hear her call day and night, nor could she see her last time.
Veteran Deng Xuegui
The only comfort she has in Taiwan is the few veterans who live in the military villages together! However, year after year, fellow villagers gradually left. Now, Deng Xuegui has become an isolated island in Taiwan. No one understands his words, nor does anyone speak his hometown accent with him.
Stories like Mr. Deng Xuegui are everywhere in military villages in Taiwan, and the nostalgia is deeply buried in the deepest part of the hearts of these veterans. There are many celebrities who come out of the military village and we are familiar with. They are all descendants of veterans in Taiwan military villages or their families. They grew up under the dialect of their elders' mainland hometown. Although they have been separated by generations, the connection with their mainland hometown is easy to see from their accents and living habits. Wang Weizhong, a well-known Taiwanese TV program producer and the general producer of programs such as "Serial Cannon", "The People's Boring", and "Kangxi is Coming".
Wang Weizhong’s data picture
“Your accent is basically a Beijing man, and you can’t hear the Taiwanese accent at all!” This is the biggest feeling that others feel after hearing Wang Weizhong’s speech. Wang Weizhong's time story begins from this military village in Chiayi City, Taiwan. Although his life is quite difficult, whenever he recalls that time, the military village will always be "a wealth that stayed in the past." Because here, he tasted the noodles of his mother in the north and the bacon of his mother in Hunan, heard the accents from all over the world and the stories of their hometown; he saw the hardships of a generation of people returning home, and even developed a cross-strait complex that was difficult to resolve throughout his life.
"My parents migrated to Taiwan in 1949. For my generation, this is a very important part of life." With a longing for "the other side" and thinking about "hometown and foreign land", in 1988, Wang Weizhong embarked on the road to "going home" and came to Beijing for the first time. In the years that followed, Wang Weizhong brought Taiwan’s mature TV variety show model to the mainland and became a significant force in the development of mainland variety shows. All of this comes from his deep affection for his parents' hometown in mainland China - his "root".
catering chain Taoyuan military village
Nowadays, the nostalgia from the military village has transformed into many literary works, cultural and creative products and food brands that we most often come into contact with. For example, many military villages in Taiwan have been built into cultural and artistic areas, with graffiti and decorations that are beautiful and humane, expressing the feelings of military villages to maximize the feelings; the catering chain "Taoyuan Military Village" from Taiwan's major cities in mainland China is also very popular with consumers, becoming an internet celebrity breakfast, etc.
I hope the memories of the military village will not be forgotten, I hope the tragedy of the war will no longer happen, and I hope the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will be unified as soon as possible!
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