To welcome the coming of Lunar New Year, New Taipei City Service Center of the National Immigration Agency (NIA) particularly invites calligraphy professionals of the Xinzhuang Shenshi Organization(新莊紳士協會) to write spring couplets. New residents also feel considerate when seeing "customized" bilingual spring couplets. At the event, cooperating with the Family Education Center of New Taipei City, New Taipei City Service Center also introduces the customs of Lunar New Year to new residents and invites couples to make New Year's decorations together for Lunar New Year that shares the warm atmosphere of the new year.
A Vietnamese new resident, Zhou Yufang, gives impromptu teaching of Vietnamese new year's blessings. She says that the New Year in Vietnam is the same as Taiwan's that is the most important festival of the year. They too hang up spring couplets, having New Year's Eve dinner, giving and receiving red envelopes, and the more special is that
Vietnamese people make square Zongzi that is an indispensable New Year dish. After Zhou Yufang teaching Vietnamese new year's blessings, her husband, Guo Hanling, immediately repeats with a hilarious accent that makes the new residents at the event laugh out loud. " The pronunciation of 'spring' is all the same in Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese!", Guo Hanling found out and says that he would hang up the bilingual spring couplets onto the front door to make his wife happily enjoy this new year.
Director of New Taipei City Service Center, Lin Zhenzhi, states that new residents must be unfamiliar with this new environment, so it is hoped that new residents would integrate into Taiwanese society through the series of Lunar new year activities. New residents and their second generation are indispensable strengthen. Hence, the NIA will be continuing to protect those new residents who came to Taiwan and fight together with them for a better life.
