The medical masks urgently prepared by the Chinese Embassy in South Korea are ready to be shipped to Daegu. Xinhua News Agency issued
Chinese medical supplies waiting to be unloaded at Liege Airport in Belgium. Xinhua News Agency publishes
□ Dahe Daily · Dahe Client reporter Zhang Congbo
Do you still remember the touch of the message "Mountains and rivers, foreign land, wind and moon, same sky" on Japanese aid materials more than a month ago? At present, while the new crown pneumonia epidemic has been effectively contained in China, it is spreading rapidly in other parts of the world. The Chinese government and the private sector have taken actions to donate anti-epidemic materials to countries with severe epidemics.
"Disappear, night! We will win at dawn!" "Adam's children and grandchildren are brothers, brothers are like brothers and sisters"... On the packaging boxes of these foreign aid materials are also written sincere Send a message, cheer for each other, and bring warmth and touch to foreign friends.
Dahe Daily · Dahe Client reporter combed and found that the choice of these messages was quite deliberate. Most of them were to go to the countryside to choose famous sayings from local cultural classics, and there were also testimonies of Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges.
■ Donated Italian materials: "Disappear, night! We will win at dawn!"
posted a sheet of music on the anti-epidemic material packaging donated to Italy by Jack Ma and Alibaba Foundation Message: "Disappear, night! We will win at dawn!" This is the score of an aria in the opera "Turandot" by the Italian composer Puccini. Why did
choose the lyrics of Turandot to cheer up the Italian people? Perhaps it is because this western opera incorporates Chinese elements and is a classic work of friendship and cultural exchanges between China and Italy.
"Turandot" is one of Puccini's greatest works, and the story background of this play is China's Yuan Dynasty. It is about the love story between a princess named Turandot and the Tatar Prince Karaf who was exiled in Yuan Dynasty.
In this opera, composer Puccini used the Chinese folk song "Jasmine" as the main line of music. There are many place names, names, scenes, folk customs, etc. in the play, all of which are familiar to the Chinese people, such as Chinese palace buildings, lively scenes of dragon and lion dances.
"Turandot" has also performed in China many times in recent years. Zhang Yimou also directed two versions of "Turandot" in the Forbidden City and Bird's Nest in 1998 and 2009 respectively.
Faced with the feelings of Chinese friends, Italians also expressed gratitude and thanks through the Internet, and Roman citizens played the "March of Volunteers" in the community and shouted "GRAZIECINA!" (Thanks to China!)
■ Donated Korean materials: "Years of cold pine and cypresses will never forget each other" "The road is not far away, and there is no foreign country"
Source: The great scholar Kim Jong-hee who has been to China and the Silla scholar Cui Zhiyuan
The Chinese Embassy in South Korea donated KF94 masks to Seoul , On the delivery trucks and packing boxes, there is a message "Years of cold pines and cypresses, never forget each other". This phrase comes from the great scholar Kim Jong-hee during the Joseon Dynasty. Kim Jong-hee was also the messenger of Sino-South Korean friendship. He had traveled to China with his father and established friendship with Qing Dynasty scholars Weng Fanggang and Ruan Yuan in Beijing.
"Six-year-old pine and cypress" is a metaphor for a person who can maintain integrity in the face of adversity. The source is from Confucius's "The Analects of Confucius: Zihan": "When the year is cold, the pine and cypress die later." The pines and cypresses that stand in the cold winter watch and help each other to overcome the difficulties together. In the series of micro-documentary "If a National Treasure Can Speak", an episode of
tells about a tiger talisman-like silver belt hook. The inner wall of the two half-fans with the hook is engraved with a small seal inscription "Long never forget each other" in Yin and Yang script. This is a secret love story between lovers more than two thousand years ago. In fact, "Longevity will never forget each other" is a common blessing in the Han Dynasty. The exchange of "Longevity will never forget each other" is the same romantic as today's buzzword "May we look back over the years and share our love with affection". Of course, “forgetting each other forever” can also be extended to express the deep friendship between friends and neighbors.
Prior to this, the Chinese Embassy in South Korea had also urgently prepared more than 25,000 medical masks to be sent to Daegu. The banner of the truck was printed: "The road is not far away, and there is no foreign country." The source of
's sentence is "The Inscription of the Zen Master of Shuanglin Temple" by Cui Zhiyuan, a scholar from the Tang Dynasty of Xinluo. At the beginning of the chapter, he wrote that "the husband and the road are not far away, and there is no foreign country." The author Cui Zhiyuan, who was an official in Yangzhou for 16 years, is himself a practitioner of this sentence.
■ Donated Iranian materials: "AdamBrother Sun, brothers are like brothers and sisters."
Source: Ancient Persian poet Sadie's famous line, and similar famous quotes in "The Analects"
On the emergency donations of anti-epidemic supplies to Iran by the Chinese government and local Chinese enterprises, it says ancient Persia The famous poet Sadie's famous line: "Adam's descendants are all brothers, and brothers are like brothers. "The sentence
comes from one of Sadie's greatest works, "The Rose Garden", and was also hung at the United Nations headquarters as a motto. When China was fighting the new crown pneumonia epidemic before, Iran had held a huge tens of thousands of signature activities. He expressed the sincere feelings of the Iranian people towards the Chinese people with "Adam’s children and grandchildren are brothers, brothers are like siblings".
Sadie has been traveling around the world since he was a child, and his footprints have touched many parts of Africa and Asia, and have been to China. Xinjiang. His sojourn life lasted for thirty years. After observing the intricate social phenomena, he wrote this thought-provoking verse. For Chinese people, hearing this poem, it is easy to think of " The famous sentence in "The Analects of Confucius: Yan Yuan": "A gentleman is respectful but not lost, respectful and courteous to others, and within the four seas, all are brothers. "
After the outbreak in China, Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif also quoted the poem "I say no clothes, go with my son" to express the friendship between Iran and China.
■ Donated Japanese materials: "Watch and help each other. "Overcoming difficulties"
Source: Vocabulary created by news organizations and "Mencius"
Japan is one of the first countries to provide assistance to China in fighting the epidemic. The message on aid materials to China is "Mountains and rivers are different, wind and moon are in the same sky", "Qi Yuewu "Clothes, and the same clothes as the child" is touching. Nowadays, sincere words are written on the materials donated by China to Japan, expressing the support of the Chinese people.
Shenyang, China has donated 1,000 sets of protective clothing and material boxes to the sister city of Kawasaki, Japan There are also messages such as "Watching and helping each other to overcome the difficulties", "Refueling Japan".
"Overcoming the difficulties together" is a term used by the news organization in recent years, and it is said to report news about the fight against the "5·12" Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan. A word that appears in. It means to overcome current difficulties together. It is a more popular abbreviated word-making method. However, "time hardship" is sometimes useful in classical Chinese poetry. Southern Song Yan Yanzhi "Congjun Xing": " The expeditionary man worked hard and worked hard. "
"Watch and help each other" comes from "Mencius·Teng Wengong" during the Warring States Period: "The villages and fields are in the same well, going in and out of each other, watching and helping each other, and helping each other with illness, and the people will be in harmony. "It means that people accompany each other when they come and go to work, help each other when resisting robbers, and take care of each other when there is an illness, so that the people are friendly and harmonious. The modern Chinese dictionary of
explains "watching each other" is to defend against foreign aggression. Neighboring villages coordinated to watch the watch and help each other in the case of the police. In the face of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, China and Japan are neighbors separated by a strip of water. You and me are in the same weather, and I and you are watching and helping each other.
