China Spring Festival, let the world understand the warmth and affection of ＂home＂
Li Xuemei
If there is no "home", most traditional festivals in China will lose their souls. This is especially true during the Spring Festival. China’s stories related to "home" all tell the warmth and affection, touching the people and the world.
In the early morning of January 21st, at Beijing Railway Station, passengers were waiting to leave on the K4051 train from Beijing to Nantong. On the same day, Spring Festival travel rush was officially launched in 2019. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xing Guangli photo
During the Spring Festival, the warmest word is "going home"
There is nothing like going home to wash the dust and comfort the hard work for a year.
Therefore, Qian Shan is also a smooth road.
In 2019, the number of passengers sent in Spring Festival travel rush is expected to reach 2.99 billion. In the documentary "China New Year" filmed by BBC, foreigners once marveled: "The Spring Festival in China witnessed the largest annual population migration activity on earth, and one sixth of the world’s population returned to their hometowns to reunite with their families." CNN once said that during the Spring Festival travel rush in 2016, the average travel distance of China tourists was about 410 kilometers, and the total mileage of Spring Festival travel rush reached 1.2 billion kilometers, which was equivalent to a vacation to Saturn.
The wanderer’s affection is as long as the way home, and the weight of affection is as heavy as the luggage back and forth. During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, Xiamen Airlines transported about 13,000 pieces of luggage every day, with a cargo weight of 14 tons. Bags and small bags, what’s in Spring Festival travel rush’s package? There are clothes for the elderly, gifts for children, and the taste of a year. What’s in the suitcase when I return from the Spring Festival? There are local products of rice flour, grain and oil, and there are concerns about "children traveling thousands of miles".
There are not only wanderers on the road in Spring Festival travel rush, but also the old people and children become migratory birds in Spring Festival travel rush. 40 Jin handmade vermicelli, 4 fried chicken and 10 Jin sesame oil, these are the luggage of an old couple in Zhengzhou. They are going to their son’s house in Xinjiang for the New Year, and they only buy station tickets and have to stand for 42 hours. Sixty or seventy pounds of oranges and 30 orange trees. This is the luggage of Uncle Zhu in Chengdu. My son has settled in Henan, and he will go to Henan for the Spring Festival this year.
East, west, north and south are roads, and the place where relatives are is home. Standing, sitting or lying down is a gesture of love, and big bags and small bags are heavy love.
On January 23rd, Cheng Hongyi, a post-80s courier, rode an electric car to deliver the courier on the streets of Hohhot. Because of his work, Cheng Hongyi has not returned to Hulunbeier’s hometown to spend the reunion year with his parents for five consecutive years. This year, in order to take care of colleagues from other provinces, Cheng Hongyi once again chose to be on duty during the Spring Festival. Xinhua News Agency reporter Peng Yuanshe
During the Spring Festival, the three most affectionate words are "I will stay"
No matter how far the road is, there is no home you can’t go back to unless you choose to stay. Those who stayed chose to let others go home first.
"Find leaders and colleagues to change classes this year, take a vacation and try to go home." This Spring Festival, Guo Jingjing, the post-90s train conductor of Xiamen EMU in Fuzhou Passenger Transport Section, wrote a blank check to his parents. She said: "Every year in Spring Festival travel rush, there are many people who are homesick, but every position is indispensable."
Guo Jingjing, a foreigner, said that if she didn’t get on the bus on New Year’s Eve, she might cook instant noodles alone. However, if you are on the train, you will see the passengers who are rushing back with the New Year bell and the old people who are pulling her home all the way. "It feels like a lively year."
During the Spring Festival, there are countless people who are on duty like Guo Jingjing. We can’t name them, but we know that they are public security armed police, peacekeeping troops, medical staff, sanitation workers and courier brother & HELIP; …
Home can be very small, with three meals for two people in one room and four seasons; Home is actually very big, Fiona Fang is 9.6 million kilometers, and there are nearly 1.4 billion sisters and brothers. "Small family" needs "everyone" to defend, and the realistic beautiful life needs to be created together. Behind the strangers who stay behind, there is a family, and they are loving "everyone" with the feelings of home and country.
On January 28, in Bangkok, Thailand, customers bought Spring Festival ornaments at stalls in Chinatown. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Laheng)
During the Spring Festival, the four words that are more warm and affectionate are "one family under the world"
It is the blood and family that keeps going, and the common destiny that can’t be earned.
More than a month before the Chinese New Year, Wei Ya, a programmer working in Toronto, Canada, went to the local Chinese supermarket to prepare the word "Fu", couplets and red lanterns for the Year of the Pig. In her view, the Spring Festival bears a deep homesickness of overseas Chinese, and "it must be lively, festive and prosperous".
"lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight, sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home", the Spring Festival in China bears countless wanderers’ yearning for their loved ones and their attachment to their motherland. As the Spring Festival approaches, Xinhuanet has received the most affectionate blessings from countless overseas Chinese and overseas travelers from all over the world, including overseas Chinese chambers of commerce, overseas Chinese groups, overseas university friendship groups, medical aid workers from chinese peacekeepers and China, and China’s overseas institutions at all levels … … Send back the most sincere wishes and warmest greetings to the people of the motherland with micro-video. They let the world see Chinese’s infinite attachment to his "home", his deep affection for his motherland, and Chinese’s cohesion and unity.
"the moon, grown full now over the sea, brightening the whole of heaven" and the Spring Festival in China are also burning the world more and more. On the eve of the Spring Festival, Xinhuanet also received many sincere wishes from politicians and celebrities from all over the world to China. China Spring Festival elements are burning all over the world. The United Nations issued a stamp sheet of China Lunar Year of the Pig; A well-known chocolate manufacturer in Australia introduced chocolate in the shape of a pig; Vietnam has launched "Lucky Fruit", where customers can engrave letters on fruits such as mango, papaya and grapefruit to wish the new year prosperity and happiness … …
"In recent years, western society has paid more and more attention to the Spring Festival, a traditional festival in China." Bian Jun, president of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce in Sydney and executive chairman of the Australia-China Business Summit, said, "Lion dance, lantern festival, cultural performance … … From the beginning of the year to the fifteenth, various communities and local governments will hold a variety of Spring Festival celebrations. "
"The United States and the United States are United, and the world is one." Spring Festival lets the world know China, and Spring Festival lets China influence the world. Today, when all countries share the same fate, you have me and I have you, when globalization becomes an irreversible trend of the times, and when the desire for peace, tranquility, prosperity and development becomes the common voice of people all over the world, the Spring Festival in China has become a symbol bearing the beautiful feelings of mankind, a common hope for "one family" and a common pursuit of peaceful development. China Spring Festival, let the world understand our warmth and affection for "home".
(Source: Xinhua News Agency, Xinhuanet, People’s Daily Overseas Edition, Zhongxin.com, etc.)