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From the Hump Route to Yunnan Rice Noodles, the Love Is Longer
On November 15, Yunnan Daily published a full page on page 6 entitled"From Camelback Route to Yunnan Rice Noodles, Longer Love"The article focuses on the enduring friendship between the Flying Tigers and the people of Yunnan over the Hump Route.The friendship between Yunnan and the United States has extended to various fields of people-to-people exchanges such as culture and food, moving from history to the future.
On September 12, President Xi Jinping replied to Green, Chairman of the US-China Aviation Heritage Foundation, and Flying Tigers veterans Moyer and McMullen, pointing out that the healthy and stable development of Sino-US relations in the new era requires the participation and support of the Flying Tigers in the new era. It is hoped that the spirit of the Flying Tigers can be passed down from generation to generation between the people of the two countries.
From November 2 to 4, a delegation from the U.S.-China Aviation Heritage Foundation, composed of Chairman Green and Flying Tigers veterans Moyer and McMullen, visited Yunnan.Looking back on the past, the feeling of fighting side by side established by the Flying Tigers and the people of Yunnan as a result of flying over the Hump route remains everlasting.Looking at today, the friendship between Yunnan and the United States has extended to various fields of people-to-people exchanges such as culture and food, moving from history to the future.
Rice noodles are one of the delicacies that Yunnan people warmly entertain their friends. This kind of rice food is shaped like a long thread.The most representative way to eat it is: Crossing the Bridge Rice Noodles.From the hump route to bridge-crossing rice noodles, the word "bridge" contains the beautiful wishes of Yunnan people: love is longer than the line, bridges connect the world, and family is like a family.
On the afternoon of November 2, Green, Chairman of the US-China Aviation Heritage Foundation, and Flying Tigers veterans Moyer and McMullen visited the Kunming Municipal Museum to visit the Flying Tigers Memorial Hall.Photo by Yunnan Daily reporter Huang Xingneng
Four generations of a family: Connected by love and inherit the friendship between China and the United States
In the 1940s, a group of young American pilots came to Kunming to help the Chinese people fight against Japanese fascist aggression.Their fighter jets had a large shark pattern painted on their nose. The Yunnanese mistook the pattern for a tiger and affectionately called them the "Flying Tigers."
Flying Tiger Tower, Flying Tiger Avenue, Flying Tigers Memorial Hall, Flying Tigers-themed restaurants... The people of Yunnan have never forgotten the Flying Tigers, and today Yunnan still retains many of the Flying Tigers' imprints.
In 2004, Yunnan explorer Jin Feibao ran an adventure travel agency. Many European and American travelers emailed him to inquire about traveling to Yunnan.One day, an American named Greg Millett sent an email expressing his wish to take his granddaughter on a trip to Kunming and hold a photo sharing party.When he saw the photos sent by the other party, Jin Feibao realized that they were a batch of old photos with great historical value.After questioning, he learned that the photo was taken by Greg Millett's father, Clinton Millett, in Kunming from 1944 to 1945.
Photo courtesy of Clinton Millett Jin Feibao
Clinton Millett was a military doctor in the Flying Tigers. From 1944 to 1945, he took more than a hundred pictures of Kunming's cultural streets and the life of the Flying Tigers in Kunming during his spare time, which became the earliest color photo materials of Kunming.Ham, mutton, roast duck, pea flour, modern cakes... Clinton Millett's photos contain many true records of Kunming's delicacies at that time.
With Jin Feibao's active contact, in May 2004, Greg Millett came to Kunming with more than a hundred old photos left by his father, and held the "China·1944·Colorful Kunming" photo exhibition at the Yunnan Provincial Museum. The exhibition attracts many visitors every day.At the exhibition, a photo of the "Yongfangyuan" roast duck restaurant taken in Jinbi Square evoked the memories of many old Kunming people.As a traditional delicacy in Kunming, roast duck is roasted in an adobe-style stew oven and colored with honey to enhance the flavor. The skin is crispy and not burnt, and the meat is fragrant and soft, sweet and tender from the bone.The descendants of "Yongfangyuan" recognized their own shop and brought the preserved "Yongfangyuan" plaque to the site to participate in the exhibition.
Clinton Millett (right) and son Greg Millett (left) Photo courtesy of Jin Feibao
"These photos are full of humanistic color, and they have also become a link, allowing the story of the Flying Tigers and Kunming to continue to this day." Jin Feibao said that since then, Flying Tigers veterans and their relatives have visited Kunming many times, and Greg Millett has visited Kunming 6 times. Returning to Kunming, he became close friends with Jin Feibao and other Kunming people, and helped to establish a sister city relationship between Skoneckeddy and Kunming in the United States.This friendship is recorded in detail in the book "Impressions of Kunming by American Veterans in 1945" edited by Jin Feibao.Later, Clinton Millett's grandson Jesse also came to Kunming and fell in love with the city and decided to settle here.Now the fourth generation of this family also lives and goes to school in Kunming, becoming the latest witness to the friendship between China and the United States.
A taste: connecting the future across mountains and seas
Yunnan’s local delicacies and restaurants related to the Flying Tigers are very popular among diners, and Yunnan cuisine continues to go out of Yunnan, abroad, and into the United States, allowing more Americans to taste the unique charm of Yunnan’s taste.
The father of Yunnanese Geng Liheng came to the United States in the 1980s and opened a small shop called "Yunnan Flavor Garden" in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in cross-bridge rice noodles.In recent years, Geng Liheng has followed in his father's footsteps and embarked on his own journey of spreading Yunnan cuisine, opening the "Yunnan" restaurant near New York University.In addition to Crossing the Bridge Rice Noodles, Geng Liheng's restaurant also offers Yunnan specialties such as steam pot chicken, bean curd rice, and copper pot potato rice.Compared with his father's restaurant, the decoration of "Yunzhinan" is more modern and fashionable, and the dishes also have many innovations, mainly attracting young consumers.
Photo provided by Geng Liheng interviewee
As Yunnanese, the Geng family and his son are spreading Yunnan food culture in the United States; at the same time, in Xizhou Town, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Lin Deng, a "foreign village chief" from the United States, is practicing his own way and sharing Dali food with friends from all over the world, such as, Bai three-course tea, Dali hot and sour fish, fried milk fan...
Lin Deng and his family founded Xilinyuan in a Bai folk house in Xizhou. Through the renovation and conservation model of ancient buildings that were restored as old as they were, the old house was given new vitality.
In Linden's view, Xizhou, as an important Bai ethnic minority settlement, is like a museum. The daily life of local people such as the morning market in the ancient town, breast fans, and Xizhou Baba vividly demonstrate the local culture and people's love for life.
Today, Dali has long been Linden’s home. Xilinyuan and local villages continue to integrate and develop, and its operation has become increasingly mature, forming a comprehensive platform integrating accommodation, catering and cultural exchanges. It has also become a window for friends from all over the world to understand China.
Continuing the story of Flying Tiger
"Flying Tiger" is a memory that travels through history and a hope that spans the Pacific.
Inherit the spirit of the Flying Tigers, get to know each other and walk hand in hand.Today, the story of the Flying Tigers is becoming known to more and more people in China and the United States, and is being told and promoted by more and more young people.
103-year-old Flying Tigers veteran Moyer (third from left) plants a Sino-US friendship tree at Kunming Foreign Language School.Photo by Yunnan Daily reporter Huang Xingneng
Clifford Long, Jr., descendant of Flying Tigers veterans and vice chairman of the U.S.-China Aviation Heritage Foundation - Creating a Better World
On November 2, a delegation from the US-China Aviation Heritage Foundation came to the Flying Tigers Memorial Hall of the Kunming Municipal Museum.Clifford Long Jr., a descendant of Flying Tigers veterans and vice chairman of the US-China Aviation Heritage Foundation, looked at the photos of his father when he was young on the photo wall and was filled with emotion and choked with tears."My father came from a small town in Pennsylvania. At that time, he was 19 years old. He had never flown on a plane or even left his hometown. But he volunteered to participate in the recruitment and flew halfway around the world to China." Clifford Jr. Lang said that his father often told the story of the Flying Tigers to his family."He was very proud to have helped the Chinese people. This experience also made him develop a deep relationship with the local people. He was proud of it throughout his life."
Among the members of the US-China Aviation Heritage Foundation delegation is Jackson Long, the grandson of Clifford Long Jr.This trip to China allowed 15-year-old Jackson to truly understand the story of his great-grandfather, and was moved by the warmth and friendliness of the Chinese people.
The U.S.-China Aviation Heritage Foundation is committed to friendly exchanges between the United States and China and has implemented the "Flying Tigers Friendship School and Youth Leadership Program."Clifford Long Jr. said he hopes more American teenagers will participate in the "Flying Tigers Friendship School and Youth Leadership Program" in the future.“The younger generation will create a better world if they know and care for each other.”
A delegation from the U.S.-China Aviation Heritage Foundation visited Kunming Foreign Languages School.Photo by Yunnan Daily reporter Huang Xingneng
Jane Bernard Scott, a member of the US-China Aviation Heritage Foundation delegation - hopes that the spirit of the Flying Tigers will be passed down from generation to generation
In November this year, Jane Bernard Scott, the daughter of Flying Tigers veteran Stephen Berner, came to Kunming as a member of the US-China Aviation Heritage Foundation delegation.Recalling the time she came to Kunming with her father, she had mixed feelings."My father loves China very much. I am very happy and touched to be able to witness and share my father's experiences when he was young here."
In Jane Bernard Scott's impression, her father never talked about the war with his family, but he was willing to share what he saw, heard and lived in China. He often mentioned the friends he made in China."My father brought many books to China from the United States. A Chinese boy who cooked for the Flying Tigers often borrowed books from his father to read. Before leaving, my father gave him all the books, hoping that he would study hard and learn more. See more things and see a wider world.”
Jane Bernard Scott said that this visit to China carries her and her father’s memories of China and also entrusts her hopes for the next generation.She said that the United States and China jointly promote the successful implementation of this visit and educate more children with the story of the Flying Tigers.It is hoped that schools in the United States and China will carry out more education related to the Flying Tigers in the future, so that young people can understand the spirit of the Flying Tigers and contribute to friendship and peace.
Gao Demin, the eldest son of a Chinese female nurse from the Flying Tigers - Let the "Flying Tiger Moon Flower" bloom again
The mother of Kunming native Gao Demin, Huang Huanxiao, is a Chinese female nurse in the Flying Tigers. She is also known as the "Hump Angel".
Huang Huanxiao was born in Xinhui, Guangdong in 1912. When he was 4 years old, he followed his family to live in Macau.After graduating from the Nursing School of Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong and entering the Kowloon Hospital of Hong Kong as an intern, the young Huang Huanxiao witnessed the pain caused by the war to civilians.When she learned from her classmates that the Flying Tigers were helping China fight against Japanese fascism and needed English-speaking nurses to participate in medical work, she decided to join.Huang Huanxiao came to Kunming after many twists and turns, and became a nurse at the 95th Hospital of Kunming, the 14th U.S. Air Force.Later, due to changes in the war situation, she was transferred to the US military hospital in Guilin, and then returned to Yunnan.
During her days working in a field hospital, Huang Huanxiao and her colleagues carefully rescued the wounded every day, and she forged precious friendships with American soldiers.After the war ended, the Flying Tigers members who returned to China often wrote letters and sent photos to her.
Gao Demin said that his mother has always been a cheerful and gentle person, and her children have inherited her optimism and her spirit.In 2003, Gao Demin met Green, the chairman of the U.S.-China Aviation Heritage Foundation. At Green's suggestion, Gao Demin created a long biographical novel "Flying Tiger Moon Flower - Huang, a Chinese female nurse in the American Flying Tigers" based on her mother's legendary life. Laughter".Since then, Gao Demin has actively participated in social activities to promote the spirit of the Flying Tigers, and at the same time created musicals, poems, articles, and short videos to let more young people know the story of the Hump Route and the "Flying Tiger Moon Flower".
"The story of the Flying Tigers carries the ever-lasting friendship between China and the United States. I am willing to spend my life carrying forward the spirit of the Flying Tigers," said Gao Demin.
On November 3, a delegation from the US-China Aviation Heritage Foundation visited Yunnan.Photo by Yunnan Daily reporter Huang Xingneng
Tan Yushan, a student at Kunming Foreign Languages School—taking up the baton of history
On the morning of November 3, Kunming Foreign Language School student Tan Yushan and her classmates came to the school early. She carefully prepared her English explanation.On the same day, a delegation from the US-China Aviation Heritage Foundation visited Kunming Foreign Language School, and she was going to tell the delegation the story of the school and the Flying Tigers.
In 2002, with the joint efforts of all parties in China and the United States, Kunming Foreign Language School was established as the China-US Camelback Airlift Memorial School, and a Camelback Spirit Monument was set up in the school.Tan Yushan said that during recess, students often stop by the monument, and the theme activities such as speeches under the national flag organized by the school often include content related to the Flying Tigers.
Although she already had a deep understanding of the history of the Flying Tigers, Tan Yushan was both excited and nervous when she received this explanation task.She said she never thought she would be so close to the history in the books.On the basis of the preliminary preparation, she checked the information again, wrote an English explanation draft, and practiced on the spot.After the delegation arrived, her smooth and generous explanation won everyone's applause.
On the same day, Tan Yushan also planted a Sino-US friendship tree with members of the delegation and watched the Flying Tigers-themed performance.She said that by participating in this event, she had a deeper understanding of the spirit of the Flying Tigers.The Flying Tigers spirit is a symbol of unity and friendship, and a spirit of working together for a better and happier life. This spirit needs to be passed down and carried forward by more young people from China and the United States.
