Phoenix City is as bright as a rainbow: October Celebration

Phoenix City is as bright as a rainbow: October Celebration This year’s Double Ten National Day is the centenary ceremony of the Republic of China. It has just turned one century and has come through the ups and downs. It is especially worth cherishing. In Taiwan...

Phoenix City is full of energy: October Celebration. This year’s Double Ten National Day is the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China. It has just turned one century and has come through the ups and downs. It is especially worth cherishing. A grand celebration was held in the capital of Taipei, where the government is located. Current President Ma Ying-jeou came to host the program, and overseas Chinese at home and abroad actively participated. The overseas Chinese community in Phoenix also organized a large group to attend the appointment. After the celebration, they went to Vietnam. It was really lively and enjoyable! I returned to Phoenix from Vietnam in September, and many of my friends thought I was rushing to attend the October celebrations. Since there are many grand festivals in October of the Gregorian calendar, it is no wonder that they made this association. And I was able to participate in the wonderful centenary celebrations of the Double Ten National Day just in time, just by chance. However, I do have an October celebration. I received a red invitation letter from the Phoenix Chinese Senior Citizens Association: "Hello! This month is your birthday month. I will hold a birthday celebration party at our association on Friday, October 7 at 10:30 am." The letter read "Happy Birthday" across the letter, and was signed by Cui Zengqi, chairman of the Senior Citizens Association, and Li Kaiquan, chairman of the center. Therefore, I participated in the birthday celebration at the Senior Citizens Association on October 7. On that day, the Guangdong Singing Group was in charge of the entertainment program. They sang a birthday song with beautiful old voices and melodious music, which made the birthday stars happy. There will also be separate solo and duet performances. Because I guest-sung "Laughing and Watching the Storm" at Cai Jialiang's "Laughing About Life" dinner a few months ago, I was asked to perform one more song this time. For the sake of everyone's entertainment, I couldn't refuse and let this banquet add to the joyful atmosphere. To be honest, my return at this time has nothing to do with the October celebrations, but is purely to deal with family matters, because my second son’s Chinese-style wedding has been chosen to be held on Friday, November 11, 2011, at the Doubletree Paradise Valley resort in Scottsdale, Greater Phoenix. The wedding ceremony will be held and a banquet will be held for relatives and friends. I will help send invitations in advance and read the roster in order to arrange the wedding banquet. At the same time, Guofeng purchased a house for the wedding and completed the decoration and construction. He symbolically celebrated the completion of the new building. He invited some relatives and friends to visit and entertained them with a simple meal. The parents were also busy. It would not be a bad idea if these activities were included in the October celebrations. Having said that, among the real October celebrations, the one that is most easily mentioned by the Chinese and the one that takes the most attention is of course the Double Ten Day of the Republic of China on October 10. It was the Revolution of 1911 led by the founding father Sun Yat-sen, which successfully overthrew the Manchu Empire and established the first democratic government in Asia. The Double Ten National Day has spread to the world. It has been celebrating a hundred years now. It is worth cheering, celebrating and remembering. Another thing that makes the Chinese happy is October 1st, the National Day of the People's Republic of China. In the past Cold War years, when the two major camps of the United States and the Soviet Union were at odds with each other and the anti-communist sentiment was strong, overseas Chinese would not celebrate this day. However, times have changed, and today is different from the past. The CCP has actually given up the dictatorship of the proletariat, no longer calls for workers to be the masters of the country, and has chosen local areas to build so-called "special economic zones." Republic of China location. Therefore, in the past, the martyrs who "descended to freedom", the fighters of the "Anti-Communist Alliance" in the past, and the associations that held high the red flags of the blue sky and white sun on the ground, now see the wind blowing, and they have erected five-star red flags, fluttering in the wind, and shouting "Long live the People's Republic of China"! From the perspective of the Republic of China, in addition to the National Day Ceremony on October 21st, there is also the Overseas Chinese Festival on October 21st, which is the overseas Chinese's own festival. The Chinese in Vietnam had organized celebrations before 1975, but they were canceled after the reunification of the Communist Party. I have lived in Phoenix for fourteen years, but there seems to be no celebration; in Los Angeles, California, I still see the overseas Chinese organization conference, which should be the 59th this year. The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar usually falls between the eighth and ninth months of the lunar calendar, so it encounters two major festivals in folk customs, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Double Ninth Festival. In October 2009, the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion and the Double Ninth Festival were celebrated successively. Last year and this year, only the Double Ninth Festival was celebrated. Some rural customs in Guangdong changed mountain climbing to visiting mountain tombs, and sweeping tombs in the same way as Qingming Festival, which is called the Spring and Autumn Festival. The Double Ninth Festival is also called the Respect for the Elderly Day, which means respecting the elderly. Since 1991, the United Nations has designated October 1st as the International Day for the Elderly. On this day, we hope that everyone will remember the existence of the elderly and respect the silver-haired people. However, in recent years, we Chinese have been busy celebrating the National Day of the People's Republic of China on this day. The country is busy traveling during the Golden Week holiday, and foreign countries are busy organizing National Day, so the International Day for the Elderly is often ignored. October celebrations are not only held in China, but also in foreign countries. The United States has Columbus Day and Halloween; Canada's Thanksgiving Day is in October. In the past, communists mentioned the October Revolution in Soviet Russia most often. The Republic of Vietnam's Day was also held on October 26th. I heard that Germany celebrated its reunification on October 3rd in recent years. Of course there are more, but we just didn't pay attention. October is October, October is truly full of celebrations!