When the plane landed at Kaohsiung Hsiaogang Airport, I was thrilled and excited. I looked at this déjà vu place, even though there are a thousand words, a hundred feelings, a moment do not know where to start. Now that the stars have changed, I wonder if I can still fit into the place where I grew up as a child. Now things are different, hometown or that intimate place?
Happy reunion
Since this is a team visit, the time to meet with loved ones had to be arranged in the latter part of the trip. The first few days, whenever I thought of meeting with my loved ones, I couldn't calm down for a long time. 20 years, ah! How many thoughts have accumulated, how many words. After the end of the team trip, my sister specially picked up our mother and daughter to go to Taipei's eldest uncle's family reunion, hometown relatives have long been waiting for us there.
Despite the fact that I hadn't seen my hometown relatives for more than 20 years, I instantly recognized my eldest uncle, who looked very similar to my father. 80 years old, he was still in good health, with a rosy complexion, and looked at my daughter and me with fatherly love, asking me about my life and work with concern. As soon as we met, my little cousin welcomed us and greeted us warmly. She told us about the time when I was a child and how she was the one I clung to the most, and how I often followed her like an ass-worm. My cousin's youngest son met me and asked me with a smile, "Is it fun for you to come to Taiwan for the first time?" A sentence that amused everyone at first, and then openly laughed!
The family gathered around a table, and my uncle kept giving my daughter food, watching his grandchildren all eat happily, and he couldn't stop smiling. The first time I saw this, I was able to see the whole world, and I was able to see the whole world, and I was able to see the whole world. I remember when my grandfather was still alive, every year we would go back to the ancestral house to pay homage to our ancestors, because it is the youngest child in the family, the adults in the family love me even more. My sisters always took me to the orchard to play, a few cousins also set off fireworks for me to see, every time my cousin picked me up, in order to let me see farther. Although the reunion dinner is no longer a success because my grandfather and my parents have passed away, the reunion dinner, which was more than 20 years ago, is really so precious to us, mother and daughter.
For this short but rare reunion, the relatives wished for more time and endless words and feelings. After the meal, all the relatives came to the eldest uncle's house with great excitement, and more than ten people filled the living room to overflowing. Cousin was busy preparing the fruits after the meal, aunt took my hand and sat on the sofa, asking with concern about how things have been going over the years. Cousin and cousin sister also greeted me with your words, it was so lively. During the conversation, I learned that my cousins' children were studying in high school to prepare for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), which was very stressful, and just like students in mainland China, they tutored until late every day. The companies that my cousin and sister work for have either business dealings or branches on the mainland, and they, as department heads, come to the mainland for business trips from time to time. I introduced my second hometown, where I have lived for many years, with a scenic film of Sanming City that I brought with me, inviting them to come to Sanming as guests.
Happy times always fly by, and it was nearly midnight when my daughter and I reluctantly said goodbye to our relatives. The relatives from the living room to the door, and from the door to the car, clutching hands shake over and over again, although the eldest uncle repeatedly retained that tomorrow is the weekend has nothing to do with, but the group rules can not be violated, had to be driven by my sister to send us back to the team stayed in the hotel. The car started, I can not help but turn around, found that the relatives are still standing in the door, the figure is getting smaller and smaller, until my vision blurred. The sky was drizzling, perhaps, the hometown also seems to want to retain me as a child who has been away from home for many years. I brought with me the infinite love, the love and care of my relatives, the blessings they gave me, and the infinite expectation of both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and looked forward to returning to my hometown next time. The story of this "relative" is still in June 2010," he said. It was at the 3rd Straits Forum organized by the Fujian Women's Federation that my daughter Jiang Jianqin, on behalf of Sanming City, Fujian Province, and Hu Chuyi, a child from Tainan City, formed a pair of good friends. So far, two families on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have gained one more "relative".
The first time the two families met was in Xiamen, where our children exchanged gifts and left each other addresses and phone numbers. This time my daughter and I returned to the hometown of the two families before the phone a few times to determine a good place to meet, to give the two children a surprise. The hotel we stayed at that day was also in Tainan, but it was still a long way away from them, and the roads in Tainan are quite like a maze, and the local tour guide said that even the locals often get lost without being careful. When Hu Chuyi's parents picked us up that day, they searched for some time before finding the hotel where we stayed. They were really very hospitable and drove for almost an hour to pick us up at their home despite the fact that they had to work during the day. As soon as we arrived at their home, the kids immediately hugged each other with excitement.
Chuyi also made her own chocolate and soy milk, as well as cinnamon grown in her family's orchard, and so on, and set up a table full of food to entertain my daughter and me. As we ate, we chatted about what was going on in our respective schools, and it just so happened that both of us were learning to play the piano, so we had a lot more to talk about. Chuyi's parents and I sat together, talking about work and life, and exchanging ideas about how to raise children on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. At that moment, we were so cordial and caring to each other, no gap, no longer rusty, as if we had not seen each other for many years as brothers and sisters. Chuyi's parents also said, "The hotel on your itinerary for tomorrow is not far from us, so we will come back to pick you up tomorrow after your trip." My daughter and I politely declined for fear of further trouble.
The two families chatted late into the night, and Chuyi's father drove us back to the hotel again. When we said goodbye, Chuyi's family brought a package of Tainan specialties, which have to be booked in advance and can only be bought in faraway places, and this kind of sincerity is really touching. On the day they left Taiwan, they also called again and again, hoping to have the opportunity to visit their home again.
The two sides of the Taiwan Strait join hands *** to create a better future
In the past few years, cross-strait exchanges have become increasingly close, today's two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the past has long been different from the same day. This time, I went back to my hometown to visit my family, all the way from the south to the north, I saw a lot of things, let me feel the changes brought by the three links across the Taiwan Strait and economic and trade exchanges.
Homecoming a few days, whether in the scenic spots, or stores, everywhere can be seen from the mainland provinces to Taiwan to travel the compatriots shuttles to and from the figure, coupled with the cross-strait lineage of culture and *** with the same language, so that everyone is experiencing some familiarity and cordiality. Nowadays, compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait perceive and identify with their own eyes in their interactions, and they will realize that everyone is one family. In the hometown of just a few days and the local folks chat conversation, the deepest feeling is the island folks are generally supportive of this closer cross-strait exchanges and dealings. Many folks have also come to the mainland to visit, visit, travel, and I talked to me, but also gave birth to the rapid development of the mainland exclamation. I was born in Taiwan and grew up on the mainland, and this life experience has made me more y appreciate the process of cross-strait peace and development.
I remember when I was a child, Taiwan's national textbooks described the people of the mainland as living in "dire straits", and the illustrations in the text were accompanied by a few people dressed in rags. At that time, Taiwanese television often broadcast news about the authorities dropping food, clothing and small electrical appliances to the mainland. It was precisely because of such education and media dissemination that many Taiwanese compatriots have always thought that the life of mainland compatriots must be very hard. Nowadays, with the increasing frequency of cross-strait exchanges, many Taiwan compatriots have traveled to the mainland for tourism, business, education and visits, and there are also many families formed by cross-strait compatriots, all of which have made the mainland in their eyes look very different from the propaganda of the authorities in the early years. When I went back to my hometown, I learned from talking with my cousins that they often traveled between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait because of their business needs, and walking between major cities in the mainland also made them share the same feeling that the mainland market is much bigger than Taiwan, and the speed of development in the mainland is so similar to that year when Taiwan's economy was taking off. The peaceful development of cross-strait relations has provided a shortcut for both sides of the Taiwan Strait to **** together to enhance their economic strengths, complement each other's strengths, and **** together for development. When I was a child, I loved to eat fruits such as saga, durian and lotus mist, which are now readily available in Sanming City under the signing of the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA). Taiwan's opening of mainland residents to travel to Taiwan, but also for the development of Taiwan's economy to bring new opportunities, this time back to their hometowns to listen to a lot of folks, the arrival of mainland tourists as if to the catering industry and the service industry injected a shot in the arm, but also give rise to a lot of new business opportunities.
In the hometown of a few days, time flies, hometown loved ones and the enthusiasm of the townspeople let me dispel the previous doubts, affection makes me feel warm, the township let me move, once away from more than 20 years of hometown, in front of us: once away from more than 20 years of affection, never far away; once thought that more than 20 years of hometown away from, has long been things are not the same, but back to the hometown to find that, it turned out that the hometown has not changed, the hometown of affection has not changed! The only thing that has changed is that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have long since ceased to be hostile, and the peaceful development of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait nowadays has also given me more expectations ......
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