The Overseas Chinese Women Writers Association holds an annual meeting every two years, and this year it is selected in Taipei. Mentally, there is a feeling of going home. Because I like Chinese characters and traditional Chinese characters, I prefer the publishing industry in Taiwan Province Province. When I go to the library or bookstore, I am always persuaded. Taiwan Province Province is small, how come so many good articles and books are published?
The meeting lasted four days. Although my husband and I arrived in Taipei two days earlier, we also took part in a knowledge and cultural tour of Bao Dao after the meeting. After the whole meeting, we want to postpone going back to Shanghai for two days and watch the Taipei International Flower Expo again. We met a Shanghai woman when we changed our ticket at Shanghai airport. She married a lang from Taiwan Province province, so she had to go to Taiwan Province province. She said to me, "Taipei is far behind Shanghai, and its construction is not as good as it is." I can't bear to see you fined for looking at flowers. She didn't change her visa in the end. Even if she had a husband, Taipei didn't make her want to stay.
I went to the 10 1 building that night when I arrived in Taipei. Although people are amazed at this skyscraper with a floor of 10 1, we decided to list it as an after-dinner sightseeing project, having a casual look and having a meal. Commercial buildings are the same all over the world.
The next day, I went to the Forbidden City and Shilin Mansion. Many libraries are a little disappointed because the whole library is closed. In the evening, watch the sunset and eat delicious food in the famous red house in Danshui, and look for the seaside seats that appear many times in that TV series. It's all dull. Seafood is the same all over the world, but the seasoning method is different.
Not far from our hotel is the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. On the third morning, we decided to take the MRT, because many people said that you must take the Taipei MRT. Get off at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Station and get out of the carriage. The station is surprisingly grand and solemn. Step on the elevator and walk upstairs. You have to cross a long and spacious aisle to get out of the MRT station. Suddenly, my husband and I were attracted by the paintings on the walls on both sides. After careful inspection, we all refused to applaud and walked to the end at the exit. I said, "Wait a minute, I want to film it all." This is a wonderful art exhibition! Why are you in the subway? It was framed. No one stole it?
I went back to shoot one by one, and my husband rechecked the four walls in the station. He came up to me and said to me in a very pious tone, "I checked, and there is no advertisement." 」
At this time, we have been moved to silence. Accustomed to advertisements everywhere, we are in a gallery at Taipei MRT station. People live in such a clean environment, there is not a piece of paper and no sputum on the ground; No one cut in line when queuing; When I got on the bus, someone immediately gave up my seat, or even two or three people separated in the carriage, and someone would come to sit with me; Once I asked the way, and then I was carefully found and told me the new situation.
I suddenly thought of that Shanghai woman and what she said about Taipei and Shanghai. I asked my husband, how many years do you think it will take for Shanghai's civilization to catch up with Taipei? He thought for a moment and said that it has not been popularized in the whole country for at least ten years, maybe longer, maybe thirty years.
Ten years later, perhaps the software culture will be improved on the surface, but after traveling all over the island and meeting these gentle and polite people from Taiwan Province Province, I think it may not be Shanghai, but the whole of China, which is incomparable to Taiwan Province Province, because Taiwan Province Province has no fault in cultural civilization, and consciously integrates the essence of civilization into personal physical and mental behavior; How can you tell those people who are blind and arrogant and can't see where the target is? How to get there? How to change it?
I have always loved going back to China, because I love China culture, but sometimes I can't find it in my hometown for so many years. So I was confused, sorry and disappointed, but I met him in a strange Taiwan Province province. Even the daily words expressed in Chinese characters can fully reflect the spirit of gentleness, courtesy and frugality of the people in Taiwan Province Province, thus finding the source of Chinese culture that I still love after crossing the ocean for decades and getting comfort.
Later, I learned that this time it was a female member who saw a poem posted on the carriage of Taipei MRT. In this kind of literature, the poems abandoned by the profit-seeking society have spread to public transportation! She was moved to tears.
After the meeting, we walked south. In Tainan National Taiwan Province Provincial Literature Museum, I was attracted by the classified titles of literary works: dispersion and nailing, hometown and ancestral spirit, disaster and ecology, debate and reconstruction, gender and lust, imprisonment and liberation, anti-colonialism and identity, war and scars, alienation and transcendence, criticism and care. I was deeply moved by their heaviness. In the people I saw later in Taiwan Province Province, I seemed to see that they had lived in tears and struggled for a long time. Powerful colonial rule or autocratic dictatorship did not crush them, just like seeds, they still germinated tenaciously in the soil; Those hard years and tests gave birth to people's self-esteem, self-improvement and self-love in this land.
At the Taipei International Flower Expo, we tired women tried to find the VIP channel and asked our tour guide if there was any way to avoid queuing. The tour guide said, "There are no distinguished guests here. This is a democratic country where everyone is equal. This reminds me of the Shanghai World Expo. In fact, VIP is the code of privilege and class, and it is a symbol of inequality. Accustomed to the huge and unreasonable bureaucracy and the proliferation of privileges, insensitive; If I hadn't experienced it personally, I don't believe that there is democracy in China where everyone is equal, self-disciplined and respects others' self-esteem. The next day, I obediently and calmly went to queue up in the rain. Although I didn't get special courtesy, I didn't complain again.
The night before I left, I was lucky enough to watch the "Song of a Wanderer" in the Yunmen Dance Collection at the Taipei National Theatre, and then read Lin Huaimin's book "It's too cold at the top". When I watched the three and a half tons of golden rice pour silently or staggeringly to the end, I really realized that I was baptized by my heart in the dazzling golden light, and even suddenly felt ashamed of my impetuousness; Thinking about the sacredness of the sun and the land, the preciousness of life and freedom, and the significance of the existence of all things ..., it leaves only a peaceful gratitude and respect for life and nature in my heart.