Keep this strategy of enjoying flowers in Qingyuan. It’s time to meet romantic spring.

The sun is shining, and everyone’s desire to go out and enjoy the flowers is unbearable. Spring is always expected. Where do you want to go most to start a brilliant trip to enjoy the flowers?

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When the sun is getting warmer, it belongs to Qingyuan’s spring, which officially begins, and it will live up to the warm sunshine. Qingyuan is not far away, and it is beautiful. It is the ceiling of Guangdong’s mountains and rivers. It is a good time in spring. Let’s go to Qingyuan to feel the nature together!

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In this vibrant spring, bathing in the warm sunshine and having a romantic date with spring, let’s start with a walk to enjoy the flowers ~ put away this Qingyuan walk to enjoy the flowers, it’s time to meet the romantic spring!

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Tianye Lvshijie

In the field green world, there are 1,000 mu of cherry blossom forests, and six kinds of cherry blossoms bloom in season. Don’t miss the cherry blossom viewing in the field. In the most beautiful cherry blossom season, it is full of pink and tender, and the air is full of cherry blossoms, making it easy to shoot large cherry blossoms.

Address: Xiaotan, Longnan, Shijiao Town, Fogang County, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province

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Huang Jin he que Hua base

Sparrow is the city flower of Qingyuan, and Sparrow Base is the flower viewing base of Qingyuan. There are more than 1 million Sparrow covered with branches, a series of floral waterfalls, fragrant, dense vegetation, rich exotic flowers and plants, and small animals such as peacocks can be seen in the base, and the scenery is very beautiful.

Address: Located in Jiangbu Jeans Frame, Dongcheng, Qingyuan, Guangdong.

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Lianzhou Underground River

Lianzhou is the hometown of peach blossoms, where you can see the peach blossoms all over the mountain, and there are tens of thousands of peach blossoms planted on the hills beside the river. It is the largest peach blossom viewing place in Guangdong, with blooming flowers in spring, and the rape blossoms and romantic pink peach blossoms in Chengcheng Huang are very delicate and charming, so you can meet romantic peach blossoms with your family.

Address: Dadong Village, Dongbei Town, Lianzhou City, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province

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Ying Xi feng Lin townlet

Walking into Fenglin Town, Yingxi, watching the sea of flowers bloom, 30 acres of rape flowers are in a sunny park. The sea of rape flowers in spring comes as scheduled, strolling in the fields, shuttling through the super-healed sea of flowers, and feeling the beauty of spring.

Address: Yanxia Village, jiulong town, yingde city, Qingyuan, Guangdong.

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Feng Lin Xiao town

Yingxi Peak Forest has the title of "Small Guilin, Guangdong Province". In FengLin Xiao Town, it has the most beautiful scenery in spring. The sea of rape flowers is about to appear, and there are golden oceans and a small train in online celebrity, which seems to have entered the fairy tale world and come to a romantic off the charts flower sea!

Address: Lin Xiao Town, jiulong town, yingde city, Qingyuan, Guangdong.

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The weather is getting warmer and warmer. Let’s go for an outing in Qingyuan.

The breeze warms the sun, blowing the breeze, and coming to a romantic face value, off the charts’s flower sea appointment ~

The broken code of Love Myth: "Social Happiness" naturally flows in this city.

"Source of this article: Wen Wei Po"
The film "Love Myth" became a phenomenal work that many people commented on at the end of the year and the beginning of the year. A "Shanghai Piao" director and a group of Shanghai actors, using Shanghai dialect to interpret a painting of magic capital customs, not only brought a new batch of online celebrity punch cards, but also set off a textual research fever about love, women, urban life and the customs and culture of Shanghai.
Yesterday, the producer of "Love Myth" and the creative team walked into No.52 Yongfu Road to talk with cultural celebrities in Shanghai. It is the former site of the Literature Department of Shanghai Film Studio and now the location of the creative center of Shanghai Film Studio. In the places where directors Xie Jin and Wu Yigong worked in the past, everyone started from the film art and discussed what kind of urban life experience had nurtured this vivid film story. What kind of creative process and social aesthetic emotion finally contributed to the word-of-mouth "out of the circle" of this "Shanghai-style boutique" that shows a corner of Shanghai life.
Shao Yihui, the director and screenwriter of the film, said: "Everyone likes this film because they like Shanghai." After living in Shanghai for six or seven years, the post-90 s woman wrote a story about her daily observation of her neighborhood and friends around her. In her eyes, "this city has given me creative inspiration. The Shanghai culture I understand is inclusive and diverse, and truly respects people themselves and is people-oriented. "
Starting from people, writing about the vividness of specific people and accepting different attitudes towards life is just one of the broken codes of Love Myth.
Based on Shanghai, we can also jump out of Shanghai and hit the universal "social happiness theory"
To tell a story about the life of a contemporary Shanghai city in the whole process of Shanghai dialect, Xú Zhēng described it as "just thinking about it is very exciting".
As this series of restrictions shows, the incision of Love Myth is very small. There is no landmark of Shanghai in the frame of the film. It draws a radius of two kilometers around Wuyuan Road, and frames the action track of people in the film in the road that will never be widened, the houses hidden by phoenix trees, and the alleys that are compatible with galleries and shoe repair stalls. Coupled with the interpretation of Shanghai dialect, if Shanghai is the sea, Lao Bai’s story is just a drop of water.
However, it is by no means "narrow-minded", as can be seen from the constant stream of film reviews. Movies that make people want to say something will eventually resonate with some people.
Liu Haibo, a professor at Shanghai Film Academy of Shanghai University, said: "Shanghai dialect is of course the carrier of Shanghai culture, but only if it is a good film with beautiful characters and culture can everyone love me, love my dog." The specific projection of the "cultural beauty" expressed in the film includes the right sense of distance when people get along with each other, including Lao Bai’s respect for women, who are independent.
Shen Yifei, an associate professor at Fudan University and an expert in social and cultural anthropology, used the theory of "social happiness" to explain the considerable discussion caused by Love Myth. "Everyone is talking about Shanghai culture. In fact, Shanghai culture has a feature, that is,’ no judgment’. " When the director "does not judge and present truthfully", and does not generally classify Lao Bai, Lao Wu, Miss Li, Gloria and Beibei as positive or negative, real life will naturally flow. As a result, "in the movie, I saw the temperament of Shanghai residents who are stable and run their own lives. This kind of life is in line with our imagination of social happiness at present." It can hit the social aesthetic mood, and the film has a starting point for ripples.
WeChat official account’s "abnormal writing style" is famous for promoting Shanghai dialect. Zheng Jian, the author, also believes that "Love Myth" is based in Shanghai, but it can also jump out of Shanghai. "The sadness and joy expressed by the film are interlinked with many people". It is not limited to "Shanghai Special Offering". On the contrary, people who have run wildly in contemporary urban life may be hit by a fragment in the story, which is "broadcast" rather than "narrow broadcast".
In fact, creation itself is a process of getting out of the "narrow crowd". Xú Zhēng admits that when he got the script for the first time, he was amazed that it was actually written by a post-90s Shanxi girl.
Liu Haibo believes that when a city with all rivers running into it embraces new Shanghainese, more and more new Shanghainese look at Shanghai with a head-up view. As one of them, Shao Yihui’s head-up vision allows her to accurately capture the "this drop of water" in Shanghai, which reflects people’s pursuit of a better life state and more comfortable interpersonal relationships under the illumination of life luster.
"Don’t try hard", telling stories in the form of life flow and prose poems
In those days when Ma Yili played Miss Li, she often felt tangled and even tormented, because it was not too laborious to play. "Actors will get used to investing in the creation of a certain role. Usually, the characters will have great joys and sorrows and strong plots, but "Love Myth" does not. Miss Li seems to be the life stream itself. " Ma Yili was caught in some kind of war between heaven and man, while doubting that he was "not serious" because he didn’t exert himself during the performance. Another voice said, "I can’t exert myself any more, so I can only act like this".
Proper limit, permeating Miss Li’s behavior, also exists in the details of Love Myth. Zhou Yemang, who plays Lao Wu, compares the script to prose poetry, "It’s the same as poetry. Nothing is deliberately carved, but the artistic conception will naturally flow, and the group of pictures and pictures is a smooth poem. "
Zhang Zhihua plays Lao Bai’s mother, a respectable Shanghai mother. The first scene when she joined the group was that the mother and son broke up in discord. Laobai asked her mother’s back, "Have you eaten?" Her mother just waved her hand and didn’t even look back. The performance of "not much" was immediately praised by the director, and the image of an elderly person who was not hysterical also warmed the actor for a long time. "It is an opportunity for middle-aged and elderly people to return to the cinema to watch movies."
Not hard, not much, like a poem, the film comes from the accumulation of life. Love Movie just goes through the angle of genre film, digs out the small and beautiful "diamond" shining in urban life with a particularly peaceful mind, and then polishes it well.
The intuitive feeling of the creator has been recognized by scholars. Mao Jian, a professor at East China Normal University, said: "It is a very advanced grammar to film in the form of prose, and this grammar is almost absent in contemporary movies." In the tradition of film creation in Shanghai, there is no shortage of prose poetry-like films. Wu Yigong’s Old Things in the South of the City and evening rain are all the same. It is a way of story structure that breaks away from the framework of western genre films.
Mao Jian regards "Love Myth" as a very good text demonstration. "We can compete not only in China, but also in the world movies, whether in the form of life flow or prose.".
As one of the film producers, Wang Jianer, the chairman of Shanghai Film Group, introduced that since last year, Shanghai Film Group has launched the "Newcomer’s New Work Plan". "Young directors like Shao Yihui who can go deep into life and reproduce their lives are the goals pursued by Shanghai Film Group’s Newcomer Plan. At the same time, excellent filmmakers like Xú Zhēng, Ma Yili and Zhou Yemang are also needed to help young filmmakers grow and mature. "
Author: Wang Yan
Editor: Jiang Fang
Editor in Charge: Fan Xin
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China’s first "village gas platoon" was held in Changtai, Fujian Province, where hundreds of teams from 15 provinces competed on the same stage.

People’s Daily Online, Zhangzhou, November 25th (Su Haisen) On November 25th, 2023, China Changtai Country Volleyball Open (hereinafter referred to as "Village Volleyball") was held in Changtai District, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province. This is the first "village gas platoon" in China. 910 people from 101 teams from 15 provinces including Beijing, Zhejiang and Guangdong participated in the competition.
On November 25th, the first "village gas exhaust" in China started in Changtai, Fujian. Photo courtesy of Changtai District Media Center
Gas volleyball is a mass sport that integrates sports, leisure and entertainment. Compared with traditional volleyball, it has the characteristics of light weight, soft texture and easy control. Under the upsurge of national fitness, this sport, which is easy to play and use, has a high safety factor, and is both interesting and competitive, is deeply loved by sports fans of all ages. At the 13th National Games in 2017, balloon volleyball officially became a mass sports event.
The competition lasted for 3 days and nearly 230 games were arranged. Photo courtesy of Changtai District Media Center
The competition lasted for 3 days and will last until November 27th. There are 3 competition venues and 10 venues, which can accommodate up to 3,000 spectators. Set up four groups: young men’s group, young women’s group, middle-aged men’s group and middle-aged women’s group, arrange nearly 230 games, adopt the system of group round-robin preliminaries and cross-elimination finals, each group takes the top eight, and the winning team will receive double rewards of agricultural special products and bonuses.
In recent years, "village BA" and "village supermarket" have produced good effects of setting up a stage for sports, integrating cultural tourism with agriculture and singing opera economically. The first "village gas platoon" in China settled in Changtai District, aiming at promoting the development of grass-roots sports through sports events and achieving the effect of "boiling a city with a ball" and empowering rural revitalization through sports.
The performance of the opening ceremony of the competition is mainly entertaining and mass, which organically integrates local folk customs with balloon volleyball. Photo courtesy of Changtai District Media Center
The performance of the opening ceremony on November 25th was mainly entertaining and mass, which organically integrated local folk customs with balloon volleyball. During the competition, the "Flower Zhangzhou" Carnival was held to display traditional special foods, special agricultural products and cultural and creative products full of Minnan cultural charm. With the mode of "sports+cultural tourism+agriculture", sports events, special agriculture and rural cultural tourism were closely combined to accelerate the promotion of agricultural efficiency, farmers’ income and rural prosperity.
Zhangzhou City is the home of China Women’s Volleyball Team and the "cradle of champions". Since the national training base was formally established in Zhangzhou City in 1973, China Women’s Volleyball Team has been training locally for 49 consecutive times. Influenced by the spirit of women’s volleyball, Zhangzhou vigorously develops mass sports activities, especially balloon volleyball, and creates another beautiful sports card after the "women’s volleyball family".
There are 3 competition venues and 10 venues in this competition, which can accommodate up to 3,000 spectators. Photo courtesy of Changtai District Media Center
As the venue of this event, Changtai District has a broad mass base of balloon volleyball and a strong atmosphere of the event, with balloon volleyball fans accounting for more than 15% of the total population, forming a long-term development pattern and system of "small leagues in villages and towns and finals in the whole region". Since 2013, Changtai District Air Volleyball Team has won 121 trophies, including 33 national champion trophies. In March 2023, it won the championship of men’s middle-aged group, women’s middle-aged group and men’s youth group in the Super Cup National Air Volleyball League finals.
The tournament was directed by China Volleyball Association, co-sponsored by Fujian Provincial Sports Bureau, Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Fujian Rural Revitalization Research Association and Zhangzhou Municipal People’s Government, and co-hosted by Fujian Provincial Volleyball Association, Zhangzhou Municipal Sports Bureau, Zhangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Changtai District People’s Government and Zhangzhou Wenlv Kangyang Group Co., Ltd.
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Ministry of Education: The National Adult College Entrance Examination will be held on October 23rd and 24th.

  CCTV News:According to the website of the Ministry of Education, on September 2, the general office of the Ministry of Education issued a notice on doing a good job in the enrollment of adult colleges and universities nationwide in 2021. The relevant work requirements are hereby notified as follows.

  Fully ensure the safe and smooth implementation of adult college entrance examination

  1. Step by step compaction test safety responsibility. Adult college entrance examination is a national education examination. All localities should fully understand the significance of ensuring the safety of national education examinations, further strengthen organizational leadership, compact safety responsibilities at all levels, and make every effort to ensure the safety and stability of adult college entrance examinations. The provincial college admissions committees are responsible for organizing the adult college entrance examination, managing the examination environment, rectifying the examination style and discipline, and maintaining the examination safety within their respective administrative areas, and the main responsible comrades are the first responsible persons; The main responsible comrades of the provincial education administrative department, the responsible comrades in charge and the main responsible comrades of the admissions examination institutions are directly responsible; Colleges and universities are responsible for the examination and enrollment work of our school. The principal responsible comrades are the first responsible persons, and the responsible comrades in charge are the direct responsible persons. Colleges and universities all over the country should strictly implement the eight basic requirements of college entrance examination and enrollment management, and make decisions on major issues in a timely manner to the provincial party Committee and the provincial government, and report to the Ministry of Education.

  2. Strictly implement epidemic prevention and control measures. Colleges and universities all over the country should study and plan ahead of time, conscientiously implement the relevant requirements of national education examination group examination and epidemic prevention work under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control in COVID-19, further refine and improve the epidemic prevention work plan of adult college entrance examination group examination in combination with the actual situation of local universities, strengthen epidemic prevention and control measures in all aspects, and ensure the life safety and physical health of the majority of candidates and examination staff. It is necessary to do a good job in monitoring the health of candidates and staff, equip each test center with an assistant examiner for epidemic prevention as required, set up necessary isolation examination rooms and facilities, and equip them with sufficient epidemic prevention materials, conscientiously implement measures such as entrance temperature detection, comprehensive disinfection and ventilation of the examination room, and keeping a distance, formulate and improve emergency plans for epidemic prevention emergencies, and strengthen epidemic prevention training and emergency drills for examination personnel. It is necessary to improve the work methods of candidates’ registration and qualification examination, actively adopt online and other off-site methods, reduce the gathering and flow of people, and resolutely hold the bottom line that the epidemic will not spread due to examinations.

  3. Strict examination organization and management. All localities should conscientiously implement the requirements of the organization and management of the national adult college entrance examination, strictly implement the security and confidentiality system, take various measures such as civil air defense and technical defense, strengthen the safety management of test papers, realize the supervision of the whole process of making, transporting, keeping, distributing, testing and marking papers, and ensure the absolute safety of test papers. Strengthen the work training of examiners and improve the ability of invigilators to perform their duties. Strictly implement the examination management regulations, strengthen the entrance inspection of candidates, and prevent candidates from cheating by taking the test and carrying high-tech tools such as mobile phones. Give full play to the role of the inter-ministerial joint meeting mechanism of the unified national education examination, strengthen the coordination of departments, continue to promote the comprehensive management of the examination environment, and severely crack down on all kinds of illegal and criminal acts related to the examination according to law. Adult college entrance examination must be arranged in standardized test sites, and all relevant schools should conscientiously implement the obligation to undertake the examination and do relevant work as required to ensure that standardized test sites can be used and used.

  Comprehensively strengthen the standardized management of enrollment.

  4. Strengthen the qualification examination of candidates. All localities should strengthen the qualification examination in strict accordance with the "Measures for Enrollment of National Adult Colleges and Universities in 2021" and the registration conditions determined by this province (autonomous regions and municipalities), and jointly with relevant departments, focus on strengthening the qualification examination of candidates who apply for examinations in different places, apply for relevant care policies and enroll without exams, and resolutely prevent intermediaries and units from organizing large-scale personnel who do not have learning conditions to apply for examinations, enroll and study in different places. It is necessary to publicize candidates who apply for relevant care policies and exemption admission in strict accordance with relevant regulations. Candidates who have not been publicized and failed in publicity are not allowed to enjoy relevant care policies. It is necessary to make full use of information technologies such as the Internet, strengthen the sharing of government information resources with relevant departments, actively implement online verification of candidates’ identities and registration qualifications, and further improve work efficiency and service quality. All localities should strengthen the overall planning of work, and in principle, complete the registration procedures for all kinds of exemption admission and individual examination candidates before the end of September.

  5. Reasonably arrange the enrollment plan. All localities, departments and universities should accurately grasp the orientation of running adult higher education, combine economic and social development, strengthen the analysis and prediction of the demand for adult higher education in their own regions and industries, comprehensively consider social demand, school conditions, the number of applicants and the expansion of higher vocational colleges in 2021, further optimize the enrollment professional structure, and scientifically and reasonably arrange college enrollment plans according to different learning forms such as full-time, amateur and correspondence. All localities, departments and colleges and universities should complete the planning and other work on time in accordance with the "2021 National Adult College Admissions Work Arrangement".

  6. Strictly implement the enrollment policy. Colleges and universities all over the country should implement the enrollment work in accordance with the requirements of "the school is responsible for the recruitment and supervision", strictly implement the enrollment policy, and strictly abide by the enrollment work disciplines such as "ten prohibitions" and "30 prohibitions". It is forbidden to transfer the responsibility and power of enrollment in any form, and it is strictly forbidden to entrust any intermediary agency or individual to recruit students. Strengthen the supervision of correspondence stations, strictly implement the annual filing system, and may not hold correspondence education without the filing of relevant departments. Scientifically define the minimum admission control score line, improve the quality of talent selection, and ensure that the admission of new students meets the training requirements of receiving a higher level of education. Seriously investigate and deal with false propaganda, illegal promises and other acts.

  Further strengthen the service for candidates and the review of freshmen’s qualifications.

  7. Strengthen enrollment publicity services. Colleges and universities all over the country should make full use of mainstream media and new media, vigorously publicize the enrollment policy of adult colleges and universities, and remind the majority of candidates to fully understand the national enrollment policy on unifying the reform of legal professional qualification examination, promoting the employment and entrepreneurship of veterans in the new era, and related majors such as medicine, art, sports and foreign languages. Vigorously carry out publicity and education on integrity examination, and carry out targeted early warning and publicity in combination with criminal law and judicial interpretation of the two universities to remind candidates to enhance their awareness of the rule of law and consciously abide by the law. Strengthen the monitoring of online public opinion, find out early and effectively deal with false propaganda and malicious speculation to prevent the spread of harmful information.

  8. Strict review of freshmen’s qualifications. All localities should guide local colleges and universities to seriously carry out the re-examination of freshmen’s admission qualifications, compare and verify the materials such as admission notice, ID card, extra care and exemption admission qualification certificate required for freshmen’s registration with the enrollment roster and electronic files one by one, and prevent imposters through technologies such as "witness identification". Those who do not meet the conditions for entering the examination or who practice fraud or violate discipline and fraud will be disqualified from entering the school according to the relevant provisions, recorded in the "integrity files of candidates’ examinations" and notified to the provincial entrance examination institutions where they are located for investigation and accountability.

  Seriously investigate and deal with violations of discipline.

  9. Strictly investigate violations of discipline and discipline. Colleges and universities around the country should conscientiously implement their supervisory responsibilities and promptly investigate and deal with violations of rules and regulations in adult college entrance examination enrollment. Units and individuals who violate the relevant provisions of the examination shall be dealt with severely according to the Measures for Handling Violations of National Education Examination (Decree No.33 of the Ministry of Education). Units and individuals who violate the relevant provisions of enrollment shall be dealt with severely according to the Interim Measures for the Handling of Illegal Enrollment in Colleges and Universities (Decree No.36 of the Ministry of Education). Suspected of a crime, transferred to judicial organs for legal responsibility. Those who violate the rules and regulations of public officials will be dealt with severely according to the rules and regulations.

  In 2021, the national unified entrance examination for adult colleges and universities will be held on October 23rd and 24th.. The examination is based on the proposition of the 2020 edition of "National Adult Colleges and Universities Enrollment Review Examination Outline".

  The provincial education administrative departments are requested to forward this notice to all adult colleges and universities in the administrative area as soon as possible.

  Timetable of National Adult College Entrance Examination in 2021

  (a) the starting point of senior high school, junior college examination schedule

  (two) the starting point of the college entrance examination schedule

A table of reunion dinner is the most homesickness.


Original title: A table of reunion dinner is the most homesickness.

semi-fermented dough shape

Fried pile

Northeast new year’s eve dinner

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What does Chinese New Year mean to you? Is it a mouth-watering fried pile under hot oil years ago, or a bowl of sweet dumplings in the new fifteen years later? Is it the lingering firecrackers in my ears on New Year’s Eve, or the constant nagging of my mother for years? Are you happy to receive a red envelope, big or small, or are you happy to raise your glass and tell each other? The Year of the Dragon is just around the corner. Listen to the small editors talking about the customs of their hometown.

Text/Guangzhou Daily All Media Reporter Liang Qianwei, Lin Lin, Lin Jing, Wang Haoyu

Figure/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Wang Haoyu, Li Bo and Liao Xueming

Video/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Cao Teng and Zhang Yu

Column Coordinator/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Cao Teng and Zhang Yu

It’s time for every household to pack oil angle fried piles again.

When it comes to the taste of Guangzhou, the word "eat" is indispensable, and most of them are "meaningful". Years ago, when the wok was opened, every household fried piles, oil angle, scattered eggs and dates with a smile, which meant that the fire would fry oil and the descendants would prosper. On the eve of New Year’s Eve, there must be "Italian dishes" on the table: lucky strike with red roast suckling pig, steamed fish with original strips, lettuce with oyster sauce, and fat geese full of gold and silver … On the Lantern Festival, a bowl of glutinous rice balls is essential. If you don’t eat it, it will lose some flavor this year.

Many Chinese New Year foods are not easy to make. Take the seemingly simple "sugar ring" as an example. Although the whole process is just "take a piece of noodles and fry them"-this piece of noodles is first made of glutinous rice, sticky rice and clear water. After kneading, it is divided into small pieces and boiled in boiling water. Then take the rice flour and sugar to mix, knead it into dough, press it into sugar rings, and fry it with low fire before you can eat it.

Being oil angle is more troublesome. When I was a child, when I was a oil angle, I often needed my whole family to go out. One person makes skin: one layer of "oil" skin and two layers of "water" skin, which are stacked together and rolled repeatedly to ensure the success of "crisping". At the same time, another person is responsible for preparing the stuffing: peanuts are ground, sesame seeds are undressed, and sugar is mixed. All the fillings must be fried first, and then they will be delicious. Oil should be prepared before oil angle is wrapped and fried. Vegetable oil is not as fragrant as lard. Therefore, people who pay attention to it will buy fat one day in advance, wash and cut it, and it will take a lot of effort. However, just because the process is complicated and requires everyone’s concerted efforts, it will also increase a lot of fun.

Whenever Chinese New Year food is made, the corridor is often full of excitement. Neighborhood, visit each other to help, exchange production experience, many people simply open the door, convenient for neighbors in and out-the owner wrapped oil angle and took it to the west to fry; Water chestnut cake, who steamed the radish cake across the hall, will send it to you conveniently, so everyone can have a taste.

In this tedious process, the taste of the year has gained a sense of ceremony; In the sound of blessing from door to door, it is infected with human feelings. So year after year, connected to the blood, connected to the tip of the tongue. (Liang Qianwei/Guangzhou, Guangdong)

The taste of the year is mom’s hot meal and nagging.

On New Year’s Eve, the family drove to the old house in the countryside. Under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village, there was a piece of red firecrackers, bypassing the crowds gathering everywhere and crossing a long ditch, which was the old house. There are three small houses and a long narrow alley, and my father’s brothers also come back with their families. The houses and alleys are full of people: daughters-in-law who go in and out of the kitchen to kill geese and marinate them, brothers and visiting villagers who have tea and chat in the hall, children who are running around everywhere, firecrackers sounded from time to time, and occasionally there was a choking smell of gunpowder, mixed with the mouth-watering smell of brine.

The night of New Year’s Eve is getting deeper and deeper in the sound of firecrackers. I sleep on the pillow with new clothes neatly placed next to me until I am awakened by the sound of firecrackers in the alley-the New Year is here! Put on new clothes, and be careful not to step on the threshold. After you walk out of the door, you should say "Happy New Year" to all the busy adults one by one. After you get the red envelope, you should give it to your mother, and her mother will increase the gift carefully and politely. This is a day when mothers have no time to take care of themselves. Partners can run wildly in the countryside. When they hear that there is a God Tournament or an English Song Team in the village, they rush to join in the fun. The children know that even if this day is too naughty, they will not pull down their faces and punish them for the sake of face and good luck, and I am too happy to think about whether there will be second guessed.

At that time, the year was a great event, a family reunion, a summary of the year and the beginning of a new year. The taste of the year was a familiar fragrance, a worry-free and a joy. Now, 2008 is a busy year, pulling my luggage home, hugging my mother’s shoulder who came out early to wait at the gate of the community, and saying, "Don’t come out when it’s cold." "The luggage is not heavy, I have the strength." On TV, watching the lively and gratifying customs around Chaoshan, the taste of the year is my mother’s hot meals and nagging, which has accumulated a year of fatigue and grievances and disappeared without a trace. (Lin Lin/Chaozhou, Guangdong)

Eating a table of "reunion dinner" has a special satisfaction.

The Spring Festival is a rare holiday for people to work hard for a year, so it is more grand. As soon as we entered the twelfth lunar month, people began to prepare for the New Year. Towns and villages organize rehearsals for cultural programs, tie up lamps, practice folk songs and dances such as dragon lanterns, dry boats, bamboo horses and cars. Every household buys new year’s goods, clothes, utensils, preserved preserved chicken, duck, fish and other preserved foods. On the 25th and 26th of the twelfth lunar month, steamed buns, steamed buns, fried steamed buns and all kinds of vegetables began to be steamed. However, frying food cannot be carried out on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and there is a taboo of "frying seven without frying eight".

New Year’s Eve falls on the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month. On this afternoon, every household should stick up the door gods and Spring Festival couplets to welcome the kitchen god. On New Year’s Eve, every family hangs red lights, sets off firecrackers, lights candles, burns incense and paper, and worships ancestors and gods. The whole family get together and have dinner together, which is called "Group Year", also called "Group Year Dinner". People in Zaoyang are also particular about eating New Year’s Eve. Usually, a few cold dishes are served first, such as pork liver, hoof flower, preserved beef, preserved pork belly, preserved sausage, etc. Of course, cold dishes will not be eaten directly, and people will dip in a bowl of balsamic vinegar with chives and sesame oil, which is especially delicious. Cold dishes are hot dishes, generally including braised fish, red-cooked chicken, meatballs and lotus root clips. Hot dishes are steamed vegetables, generally steamed fish, steamed ribs, steamed lotus roots and so on. After the steamed vegetables are served, it is soup. There is a unique soup in Zaoyang called sour soup, which contains day lily, fungus, sliced meat, lotus root, etc. When these samples are cooked together and vinegar is added, it smells sour and fragrant, which makes people particularly appetizing. Soup is the staple food. Generally, fried buns, meat buns, etc. are served first. Of course, jiaozi is the finale. Eating this table of "reunion dinner" really gives people a special satisfaction. During the "Year of the League", farmers should give their cows a bowl of rice to show their respect for their hard work. Therefore, there is an agricultural proverb that "hit a thousand, scold ten thousand, and eat a bowl of rice at thirty nights". On New Year’s Eve, the whole family stays up all night, chatting and entertaining, and stays up all night, which is called "keeping the old age". (Lin Jing/Zaoyang, Hubei)

The custom in Northeast China is to eat jiaozi on New Year’s Eve.

It’s cold in winter in Northeast China, and there is no worry about meat spoilage. Before the Spring Festival, every family will buy a lot of pork and beef, soak the bought meat in cold water, put large pieces of meat into a cauldron, pour in chopped star anise, fragrant leaves and cinnamon, add rock sugar, cooking wine and soy sauce, and add some soybean sauce in Northeast China. Then simmer slowly, and the meat with sauce can be sliced directly and served. There is another way to eat it. Slice the sauced pork elbow into large pieces, sprinkle some dried dried seaweed and chopped green onion, pour some good soy sauce on it, and steam it on the drawer until the fat is slightly melted, which is a good dish to accompany wine.

The New Year’s Eve dinner is the most grand, and there must be a fish in this meal, either braised or simmered, which means "more than one year". Stewed mushrooms with chicken is also a good dish. Pay attention to killing live chickens now, cut the whole chicken into pieces and stew with good hazelnuts, so that the meat is delicious and the soup is fresh. Some people will also stew oyster meat, chicken, sea cucumber, scallops, prawns, sauerkraut and pork belly in one pot. It is a custom in Northeast China to eat jiaozi on the night of New Year’s Eve, and the Manchu people call it "boiled cake". Bao jiaozi is a big job, and the whole family should play together. There are two kinds of classic jiaozi in Northeast China, one is jiaozi with three fresh fillings, with leeks, pork and shrimps as fillings, and the other is pork stuffing with sauerkraut. It is the custom in Northeast China to wrap a large number of jiaozi in New Year’s Eve, and put the extra raw jiaozi on the "curtain" made of sorghum stalks, and cook it as you eat.

Red envelopes are given to the elders at home, especially hundreds of thousands of dollars, to show respect for the elderly. Setting off firecrackers and fireworks is more interesting. At about nine o’clock in the evening, a group of "half-grown boys" led a large group of children and went out with firecrackers, flowers and guns on their shoulders. Pick a good place during the day, then clean up the snow, pile it into several large snowdrifts, and insert fireworks into the snowdrifts to light it. Amid cheers and laughter, colorful fireworks lit up the velvet dark night sky. (Wang Haoyu/Shenyang, Liaoning) (Liang Qianwei, Lin Lin, Lin Jing, Wang Haoyu)

The real estate sector broke out! Individual stocks have a daily limit.

The A-share market fluctuated at a low level this morning, with the main indexes falling to varying degrees, and the real estate sector soaring, setting off a wave of daily limit and becoming one of the biggest highlights of the market in the morning.

New shares continue to be strong, and Xuchang Smart, a new share listed today, once rose more than 100% in the morning session.

The real estate sector rose sharply and set off a wave of daily limit.

The A-share market fluctuated at a low level this morning. As of the close of the morning, the Shanghai Composite Index fell slightly by 0.38%.

In terms of industry sector and track, the real estate sector rose sharply, with the intraday increase exceeding 3%. Individual stocks in the sector set off a daily limit, and Shahe shares, Pudong Jinqiao, China Communications Real Estate, Waigaoqiao and other stocks had daily limit.

In the news, Xiao Yuanqi, deputy director of the State Financial Supervision and Administration, said at the press conference of "High-quality Development of Financial Services Economy and Society" of the State Council Office that recently, we have actively cooperated with industry authorities and local governments to comprehensively implement policies from the supply and demand sides of the real estate market and continuously increase financial support. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the People’s Bank of China and the General Administration of Financial Supervision have made clear the housing credit policy of "recognizing housing but not loans". The People’s Bank of China and the General Administration of Financial Supervision issued "16 financial measures" to support the stable and healthy development of the real estate market, and studied and established the dynamic adjustment mechanism of the first home loan interest rate policy, lowered the lower limit of the second home interest rate policy, and guided banks to reduce the interest rate of the first home loan. These policies and measures have played and are playing an active role in providing real estate financial services, stabilizing the reasonable financing demand of the real estate market and promoting the stable and healthy development of real estate.

Xiao Yuanqi said at the press conference of the State Council’s "High-quality Economic and Social Development of Financial Services" that in January this year, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the General Administration of Financial Supervision jointly issued the "Notice on Establishing a Coordination Mechanism for Urban Real Estate Financing", requiring cities at and above the local level to establish a coordination mechanism for real estate financing, build a communication platform between government, banks and enterprises, and promote the accurate docking of housing enterprises and financial institutions.

Xiao Yuanqi said that at present, banks mainly have several channels for real estate financing: first, development loans to real estate enterprises and personal housing loans (mortgage loans). Up to now, the balance of development loans and personal housing loans is 12.3 trillion yuan and 38.3 trillion yuan respectively. In 2023, 3 trillion yuan of development loans and 6.4 trillion yuan of housing mortgage loans were issued respectively, which add up to nearly 10 trillion yuan, which is still very large. Second, banks invest in real estate corporate bonds. At the end of last year, the balance of bonds purchased by banks from real estate enterprises was 427.5 billion yuan, and the amount of bonds issued by banks investing in real estate enterprises was relatively large, which increased by 15% in 2023 compared with 2022. In addition, in 2023, banks also provided real estate enterprises with M&A loans and stock extension loans, which add up to more than 1 trillion yuan.

In terms of Baojiaolou, Xiao Yuanqi said that we actively cooperated with the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the People’s Bank of China to provide financial support. By the end of 2023, most of the special loans of 350 billion yuan for "guaranteed delivery building" have been put into the project, and commercial banks have also provided corresponding commercial supporting financing to ensure the completion of the task of "guaranteed delivery building".

Xiao Yuanqi said that the General Administration of Financial Supervision will guide financial institutions to make full use of the existing financial support policies, continue to do a good job in real estate financial services, maintain the overall stability of real estate credit, meet reasonable financing needs, and contribute to the stable and healthy development of the real estate market.

In addition to the real estate sector, media, building materials, light industrial manufacturing, environmental protection and other sectors also rose in the top.

The concept of "Chinese prefix", which rose sharply yesterday, surged in the morning session. The Wind Chinese prefix central enterprise index once rose by more than 1%, and then the increase was significantly narrowed.

In terms of trading stocks, Shenzhen China A rose 8.13% in the morning, and once again had a daily limit. If today is included, the stock has touched the daily limit for 14 consecutive trading days.

Last night, Deep China A issued an announcement on the reply to the letter of concern of Shenzhen Stock Exchange. According to the announcement, as of January 25, 2024, the closing price of the company’s A shares was 13.53 yuan/share, and the short-term change of the company’s A shares deviated greatly from the Shenzhen A-share index in the same period, which was higher than the increase of companies in the same industry in the same period. There may be irrational speculation risks. Investors are advised to fully understand the trading risks in the secondary market, make prudent decisions and invest rationally.

According to the announcement, after consulting the website data of CSI Index Co., Ltd., as of January 25, 2024, the latest rolling P/E ratio of textile, apparel and jewelry in the CSI industry classification 2530 of the company was 15.57 times; The latest rolling P/E ratio of C37 railway, shipbuilding, aerospace and other transportation equipment manufacturing industry, which belongs to the CSRC, is 29.49 times. The current P/E ratio of the company’s A shares deviates significantly from the industry average. Investors are advised to pay attention to trading risks, make prudent decisions and invest rationally.

The announcement also stated that from January 9, 2024 to January 25, 2024, the cumulative increase of the company’s A-share price was 202.68%. Since the company’s current fundamentals have not changed significantly, the recent share price increase does not match the company’s fundamentals. The stock price may be influenced by multiple factors such as macro-environment, market environment, industry development, company operation and investors’ preferences. Investors are advised to pay attention to trading risks, make prudent decisions and invest rationally.

At the same time, the company also faces the risk of price fluctuation of main raw materials, the risk of intensified market competition and the risk of falling market demand.

Xuchang Smart, a new stock, once rose more than 100% in the morning session.

Today, there is a new stock listed in the A-share market, which is Xuchang Intelligent. The stock once rose more than 100% in the morning session.

According to the prospectus, the main business of Xuchang Intelligent is the research, development, design, assembly, sales and service of intelligent power distribution products and new energy products and systems, as well as the general contracting business of power engineering. The main products and services include: high and low voltage switchgear and intelligent switchgear, distribution automation equipment, intelligent distribution system and intelligent components, rail transit power equipment, power engineering general contracting business, new energy solutions, processing services and others. The company has the ability to provide integrated solutions such as intelligent power distribution products and systems, urban rail transit power supply, "one-stop" power general contracting, smart community, energy cloud platform, electric vehicle charging and replacing, data center, energy efficiency management system, microgrid energy storage system, and integrated optical storage and charging system.

The company’s products are widely used in municipal engineering, rail transit, energy and electricity, data communication, industrial and mining enterprises, real estate, low-carbon parks and other fields, in the State Grid Smart Grid Research Institute, Beijing Metro, Shijiazhuang Metro, Zhengzhou Metro, Nanchang Metro, Zhengzhou East Railway Station, Chongqing West Railway Station, Beijing Daxing International Airport, Zhangbei Scenery Transmission and Storage Demonstration Project, Beijing World Expo, Beijing Winter Olympics, Guodian Pingtan Comprehensive Smart Energy Demonstration Project, and China Construction Seventh Bureau.

Editor: Zhu Yumeng

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Please collect! "Guide to the Treatment of Tooth Injury" that must be learned before skiing.

With Harbin’s "going out of the circle" this winter, many southern friends have plans to go skiing. We can’t ignore the risk of injury caused by ice and snow sports. Falling on the snowy road can easily cause tooth trauma, which will cause many adverse effects if it is not handled in time.

How to prevent tooth trauma when skiing?

Before skiing, you should fully warm up. When skiing, you should wear protective equipment such as helmet and protective denture correctly to minimize the risk of tooth injury. In addition, it is best to be accompanied by professionals when exercising.

Sports protective denture

I dislocated my teeth while skiing.

Do it at the scene!

In case of tooth dislocation during skiing, please find the tooth as soon as possible. If the tooth is dirty, it can be washed gently with milk or normal saline, or soaked in the patient’s saliva. Then hold the crown, don’t touch the root of the tooth, put the root into the alveolar fossa, and gently bite the posterior molar.

If the child has a tooth injury and refuses to put the fallen tooth back into the mouth, please don’t wrap the tooth with paper or dry it, but soak it in milk.

After tooth dislocation, go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.

After the basic emergency treatment, please go to the nearest hospital for treatment, grasp the golden treatment time, and replant the teeth within 15-30 minutes, which can greatly improve the success rate of treatment. The specific diagnosis and treatment process is as follows:

1. Film inspection:X-ray examination is needed after tooth dislocation, and oral CBCT(Cone Beam CT) is taken if necessary to check whether there is alveolar bone fracture.

2. Treatment of dislocated teeth:Dislocated teeth generally need to be reset under local anesthesia, fixed elastically for 2-4 weeks, and taken orally with antibiotics if necessary.

3. Precautions after treatment:

During elastic fixation, patients should pay attention to maintaining oral hygiene, brush their teeth with a soft toothbrush after meals, and use mouthwash if necessary.

Avoid eating too cold to stimulate the teeth, and brush your teeth with warm water.

Soft food for two weeks, don’t bite hard objects with your affected teeth (apples can be cut into small pieces and chewed with your back teeth).

Avoid taking part in antagonistic sports.

Follow the prescribed time for follow-up. (The article comes from: "Nanjing Stomatological Hospital" WeChat WeChat official account)

Financial asset investment companies welcome China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission to support the new regulations for docking asset management in the trillion-dollar debt-to-equity swap ma

  With the introduction of new regulations on asset management business of financial asset investment companies, the trillion-dollar debt-to-equity swap market will also usher in many changes. On May 6th, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission issued the Notice on Matters Related to the Asset Management Business of Financial Asset Investment Companies (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), which clarified the matters related to the asset management business of financial asset investment companies (AIC) from the aspects of fund raising, investment operation, registration and custody, information disclosure and submission, which also marked a breakthrough in the realization system of asset management business of financial asset investment companies.

  Financial asset investment company is the implementation institution of bank debt-to-equity swap, which has emerged as a new financial format since June 2018. According to the Notice, the debt-to-equity swap investment plan of a financial asset investment company can apply for registration as a shareholder of the target company of debt-to-equity swap according to law. Insurance funds and pensions can be invested in the debt-to-equity swap investment plan according to law. When conducting asset management business, a financial asset investment company shall abide by the principles of calculable cost, controllable risk and full disclosure of information, and pay investors income according to the agreed conditions and actual investment income, without guaranteeing the principal payment and income level, and investors shall bear the investment risks and obtain income.

  "In fact, this is a part of the unified asset management policy. All kinds of asset management institutions can issue asset management products to qualified investors." According to the analysis of the asset management industry, this new regulation should be mainly aimed at aligning with the new asset management regulations for institutions such as financial asset investment companies, unifying standards, and further enriching the sources of funds for debt-to-equity swaps.

  Liao Yuanyuan, deputy director of China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission Innovation Business Supervision Department, pointed out that the overall idea and main contents of the Notice are consistent with the core principles of the new asset management regulations. At the same time, the Notice focuses on solving the realistic needs of market-oriented fund-raising of financial asset investment companies, and puts forward more targeted regulatory provisions in combination with their own characteristics of asset management business, combining unified supervision with differentiated supervision, which not only ensures that asset management business can better support the implementation of debt-to-equity swap projects, but also has a significant role in promoting the healthy and orderly development of asset management business of financial asset investment companies.

  China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission data show that in the past two years, financial asset investment companies have actively and orderly carried out their business, and the amount of debt-to-equity swaps has exceeded 1 trillion yuan. Experts believe that the "Notice" is beneficial to both the capital end and the business end of financial asset investment companies, which is conducive to the better development of debt-to-equity swap business.

  Ceng Gang, deputy director of the National Finance and Development Laboratory, said that broadening the business scope of financial asset investment companies can alleviate the problem of funding sources that debt-to-equity swaps have been facing. Debt-to-equity swap requires relatively diversified funds, appropriate cost and long term, and can introduce more social funds, which is of course meaningful to the sustainable development of debt-to-equity swap.

Central Meteorological Observatory: Cold air is ready to go, affecting most parts of China from the 15th.

According to the website of the Central Meteorological Observatory on November 13, yesterday, cold air went deep into the southern region, and the temperature in many places "dropped". At 14 o’clock yesterday, there was a temperature drop of 6~10℃ in eastern Sichuan, western Chongqing, south-central Guizhou, Guangxi and other places, with the most severe temperature drop in Guizhou and Guangxi, and the drop in Luodian, Guizhou and Donglan, Guangxi exceeded 14℃.

At present, the impact of cold air is coming to an end. From 13th to 15th, the temperature in most parts of central and eastern China will rise. From 15th to 17th, another cold air will affect most parts of China from west to east. The temperature will drop by 4 ~ 6℃ successively, and the local temperature drop will reach 8 ~ 10℃. There are small to medium snow or sleet in parts of central and northern Shaanxi, northwestern Shanxi, central and eastern Inner Mongolia, and northeast China, and heavy snow in eastern Heilongjiang. Please pay attention to the latest forecast information of cold air and adjust the dress in time.

In terms of rain and snow, it is expected that there will be small to medium snow or sleet in parts of northern and eastern Xinjiang, Gansu, northern Qinghai, Ningxia and other places today and tomorrow. Among them, there is heavy snow in Altay area of Xinjiang, Tacheng area and areas along Tianshan Mountain and Qilian Mountain area of Gansu. There are rainy weather in parts of Southwest China, Jiangnan and South China, mainly light rain, and moderate to heavy rain in central and southern Yunnan, western Guangxi and Hainan Island.

In addition, from 13th to 14th, the winds in China’s offshore waters are still relatively strong, and the Central Meteorological Observatory continued to issue a blue gale warning this morning: it is predicted that there will be strong winds of magnitude 7-8 and gusts of magnitude 9 in most of the East China Sea, Taiwan Province Strait, east of Taiwan Province, bashi channel, northern and central South China Sea, and Beibu Gulf from day to night, among which the winds in parts of the Taiwan Province Strait can reach magnitude 9 and gusts of magnitude 10. Ships sailing and operating in the above-mentioned sea areas should pay attention to safety.

Source: website of Central Meteorological Observatory

Editor Hu Decheng

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After giving birth to the baby, I finally have a world of two people! The new photo of Ming Xi He Youjun is so sweet.

On the evening of December 27th, He Youjun took a sweet photo with Ming Xi, posting: Time for Alone! It seems to be "abandoning" the baby to enjoy the world of two people, which verifies the sentence: parents are true love, and the baby is an accident!

In the picture, Ming Xi is wearing light make-up, her face is ruddy, her lips are full, and she looks good. She pulls the neckline, while He Youjun squints and leans against Ming Xi’s head. They snuggle together, which is very sweet!

This should be the first time for two people to enjoy their own world after they got married. They got married too hastily. From He Youjun to Ming Xi to give birth, it seems that in an instant, after having a baby, their lives are more complicated. They are both parents for the first time, and there are many new things to learn. Naturally, they are busier than before, so there is no time for them to get along alone. Many couples have little time to date alone after having children, let alone love. Life is very monotonous, but He Youjun is still very emotional. It’s thoughtful of Ming Xi to give Ming Xi a surprise of dating alone just two months after giving birth to a baby.

Ming Xi can be said to be a great contributor to the family. He gave birth to a son, known as the "eldest son", which won glory for the family. He Youjun proudly said that his son’s name was He Guangshen, because the third word was taken by his father himself, and Ming Xi lived a life like a "lady" from then on, which is no ordinary tycoon.

Ming Xi just gave birth, which happened to coincide with He Youjun’s father’s birthday, and took her son to celebrate his grandfather’s birthday. Such a good opportunity has strengthened her position in any family.

Ming Xi’s relationship with her mother-in-law after marriage is also quite good. Netizens have met Ming Xi, He Youjun and He Youjun’s mothers for dinner many times. Ming Xi and her mother-in-law are talking and laughing, and their relationship is harmonious. Ming Xi is also a smart girl, as can be seen from her sitting position. In front of her mother-in-law, she can’t show her love at all. Taking care of her mother-in-law is the key point.

He Youjun obviously dotes on his son and obeys his wife Ming Xi in every way, so he can be called a "good husband". Ming Xi out of the month, go downstairs to buy things, He Youjun is never leaving. After buying things, He Youjun is carrying them, while Ming Xi is swaggering ahead, so the family status is clear at a glance.

Although He Youjun became a father, he still had a lot of work, and he was often recognized by netizens recently. At my sister’s senior party, He Youjun appeared, but she was faced with handsome guys and beautiful women and didn’t bring Ming Xi to attend.

It is reported that He Youjun is also the president of the Macau E-sports Association, and he also came to the scene to watch the game during the day, wearing a white T-shirt, which is refreshing and handsome. It’s just that there are boys around, and there is no shadow of Ming Xi. It seems that Ming Xi has not integrated into He Youjun’s life.

Seeing He Youjun wandering around, netizens are also worried about whether he is with his wife and children. This is true. Just when netizens questioned him, he quickly posted a photo of the two of them to break all kinds of rumors. It seems that He Youjun, who works during the day, obediently goes home to accompany his wife at night, and is more sensible than the netizens imagined.

On the whole, He Youjun is a qualified husband. On the one hand, it gave Ming Xi enough sense of security, declaring that "Xiao Ming is his favorite woman", on the other hand, it gave Ming Xi enough patience and consideration, and hoped that they could last a long time.