“Friends of Kuliang” co-plant a tree as a symbol of friendship and taste spring delicacies

The Sino-foreign exchange event “Coming Home: Renewing the Kuliang Friendship” kicked off in Kuliang, China on March 10. “Friends of Kuliang” traveled across oceans to review what has happened in Kuliang and co-plant a tree symbolic of friendship.

On the noon of March 10, Mu Yanling, Marie, Amanda alongside Yan Tao, director of the Administrative Committee of Kuliang Tourist Resort, co-planted a golden osmanthus seedling in the “Sino-US Youth Friendship Forest” in Gu Ling Yuan to symbolize close bonds. “I’ve collected some poems about Kuliang. Later we can have these poems inscribed on stones here.” Mu Yanling suggested.

On March 16, a bustling scene unfolded in the front of the China Fuzhou Kuliang Family Stories Museum, where a press conference and the “Coming Home: Tasting Spring Food in Kuliang” event were held. Mu Yanling, a “Friend of Kuliang, Ann Bullis and Thomas Anthony, descendants of Edward Bliss, and professor Wang Yonggang from the University of Arizona, who travelled across oceans for a culture and food trip, gathered together to review what happened in Kuliang over one century ago, taste spring delicacies.

In the event for Kuliang spring delicacies, there were dedicated areas for making and steaming dumplings stuffed with wide-bladed chives, attracting a great many visitors to try by themselves. Residents in Kuliang and foreign guests sat together to make dumplings and spring rolls stuffed with wide-bladed chives, immersing themselves in spring vitality and tender feelings stemming from reunion.

The “Coming Home: Renewing the Kuliang Friendship” event is reported to last one month, participated by 11 representatives from “Friends of Kuliang”, experts and scholars.

( Text by Lin Shuying and Wang Guanghui, Photo by Shi Meixiang)