Appropriate

Ten years ago, my aunt married from Guanlan, Shenzhen to Singapore. This is not only a heart-warming story about cultural adaptation and personal growth, but also an affectionate conversation across the strait about "where is home?" She took life as a boat and finally arrived at an inner home that was broader than her hometown and more intimate than a foreign land. When the mellowness of Hakka tea fruit meets the strongness of Bak Kut Teh, when the fireworks of Guanlan Old Town collide with Singapore's sense of order, my aunt is groping forward in the collision of the two cultures. From the adaptation of taste to the integration of language, from the acceptance of rules to the reconstruction of identity, she turned nostalgia into a bridge to understand foreign lands, and completed the transformation from "foreigner" to "dream builder" in ten years.