爱与支持超越世代，不分国界印尼华人女孩创作抗疫视频感动世界

视频由冯嘉文提供

Video courtesy of Feng Jiawen

读完英文《深圳日报》昨日（3月3日）头版新闻报道—— “《我们都是战士》演讲视频背后的故事”后，76岁的老归侨李更强非常激动，立刻联系英文《深圳日报》，推荐由他11岁的侄孙女在印度尼西亚创作的抗疫音乐视频。

李更强是一名英语爱好者，1983年来到深圳。 “这么多年来我一直看Shenzhen Daily。今天我看到‘Story behind popular video’非常激动，因为我前几天正好收到雅加达的侄女发给我的视频，是她11岁的女儿冯嘉文（印尼名字：Hitadewi Abhassara）自编自演的。”

在李更强看来，一个11岁的孩子做出这样的视频，很不简单。而这个视频也让他回想起当年在印度尼西亚时对祖国的满腔热情。“当年我在印尼的时候看到祖国的一些新闻也有的激情，尤其听《我的祖国》的插曲我们非常激动，她就是以这种激情来自编自演这个视频的。”

1966年底，文革期间，李更强的哥哥回到中国。“回来以后他没有像我那样上大学，而是自愿到海南岛农场当割胶工人。“李更强回忆道。”但他七几年又因为一些家庭原因回印尼了。”

“他回印尼后心里一直不愉快，觉得当年回国的热情没能实现，所以立志教育好自己的孩子，让他们有一天可以回国，所以从小教他们汉语，”李更强回忆道，并补充告诉记者，当时印尼政府关闭了所有华文学校。

李更强的哥哥有三个孩子，他们一起创办了一个华文教育机构，每年送印尼的华文学生来中国学汉语，其中不乏土生土长的印尼人。

“我都觉得有点突然，没想到嘉文对祖国那么热爱，自己关在家里3天创作这个歌曲，当然也有老师和乐队的帮助，就制作了这个歌曲视频。”李更强说道。

触动李更强的是，通过这个视频，他哥哥从另一种意义上实现了当年回国的愿望。“不是他自己实现的，而是由他孙女实现的，他孙女表达了对祖国这种深厚的感情，而且曲子被世卫组织转载，在国内不少微信群也获得认可。”李更强跟英文《深圳日报》的记者说道。

冯嘉文的妈妈Linda Li介绍说，当冯嘉文看到关于疫情的新闻，包括病人、医生、护士，以及离开家人被隔离的人们的消息时，她很伤心。”她说她没有能力去帮助什么，但通过她创作的这首歌，她想给大家传达一点鼓励。”Linda Li说道。

“起初，她对这首歌没有信心，因为这是她创作的第一首歌。但是我的想法跟她不同，我觉得那是一首非常优美、简单的歌。所以我鼓励她在老师David Cadlum Saraza的帮助下改进那首歌。最终，歌曲终于制作完成并可以与大家分享。”Linda Li说道，此外，她认为歌曲也反映了女儿坚强的性格。

李更强也帮忙翻译了歌词的中文版本，以便让更多的中国人理解这首歌。

爱与支持超越世代与国界。在深圳工作生活的巴西足球教练Juliano da Silva（大家也叫他Juca Grajaú）也跟英文《深圳日报》分享了他与其他五人一同创造的音乐视频。

“我看过一个视频，视频里人们在各自家里对外喊‘加油加油’，我瞬间被打动了，我相信所有看过这个视频的人都会动容。那一刻我很想哭，很想为这里的人们做点事情。”Juliano da Silva说道。

Juliano da Silva相信，自己能够做到的，就是通过音乐来鼓舞大家。“这首歌通过节奏和旋律表达了我对中国这个美好的国家的鼓励，以及我对它的尊重和感激之情。”

除了Juliano da Silva，其他参与该音乐视频创作的五个人分别是：Jaqueline da Silva、Marçal Silva、Jorge Barra Viegas、张伟和高婧。

AFTER reading report "Story behind popular video" published by Shenzhen Daily today, 76-year-old Li Gengqiang, a returned overseas Chinese, was so excited that he immediately got in touch to recommend music video “I Will Fight Like a Knight” produced by his 11-year-old grand-niece in Indonesia in support of the COVID-19 fight.

Li is an English-language lover who settled down in Shenzhen in 1983. “I have been reading Shenzhen Daily through the years. Today when I read ‘Story behind popular video,’ I was very excited, because a few days prior my niece in Jakarta sent me a video made by her daughter Feng Jiawen.”

Feng Jiawen

Li thought the video was quite good considering it was made by an 11-year-old. What’s more, it reminded him of the passion that he had for the motherland when he was in Indonesia. “At that time, when we read news about our motherland in Indonesia, especially when we heard the song ‘My Motherland’ by Guo Lanying, we got super excited. The girl created her music video with the same passion.”

Li’s brother returned to China at the end of 1966 during the “Cultural Revolution." “He didn’t go to university like I did. Instead, he volunteered to work as a rubber tapping worker on Hainan Island,” recalled Li. “But he went back to Indonesia in the 1970s due to some family issues.”

“He was not happy to be back in Indonesia. He hadn’t realized his passion for returning to the motherland. So he made up his mind to do his best to educate his kids so that they could return to the motherland one day and he taught them Chinese from childhood,” recalled Li, adding that it was not an easy undertaking at that time as all Chinese language schools in Indonesia had been shut down by the government.

Li’s brother has three kids who together run a Chinese language institute that sends students to China to learn Chinese every year, including native Indonesians.

“I was surprised by the girl’s love for the motherland. She shut herself in at home for three days to create the song and made the music video with the help of her teacher and a band,” said Li.

What touches Li most is that through the video, his elder brother symbolically realized his dream of returning to the motherland. “Not himself, but through his granddaughter who has expressed her deep love for the motherland. The song has also been shared by World Health Organization,” Li told Shenzhen Daily.

According to Linda Li, Feng’s mom, when Feng first saw news about the epidemic – the doctors, the nurses, and the people put in quarantine – she was overcome with sadness. “She said there’s nothing she can really do. Through the song she composed, she wants to encourage them,” said Li.

Feng (L) poses for a photo with her mother.

“At first she was not confident in the song because it was her first one. But I felt a different way. I felt it was a very nice, simple song. I encouraged her to make it better and better with the help and guidance of her teacher David Cadlum Saraza. Finally the song was ready to be shared with everyone,” said Linda Li, who added that the song really captures her daughter’s tough personality.

Li Gengqiang also helped with the Chinese translation of the song so more Chinese people could appreciate it.

Love and support transcend generations and borders. Juliano da Silva (also known as Juca Grajaú), a football coach from Brazil who lives and works in Shenzhen, also shared with Shenzhen Daily a music video created by him and five others.

Video courtesy of Juliano da Silva

“When I saw the video of people inside the buildings screaming ‘Jiayou Jiayou (Stay Strong, Stay Strong),’ it moved me and I'm sure it moved everyone who had the opportunity to view this video. At the same moment I felt like crying and doing something for these people,” said da Silva.

Believing that the most he could do is give words of encouragement, da Silva used music as a tool to encourage others. “This song demonstrates in rhythm and melody my words to encourage and all my respect and appreciation that I have for this wonderful country that is China.”

Apart from da Silva, the other five people participated in making the video are Jaqueline da Silva, Marçal Silva, Jorge Barra Viegas, Zhang Wei and Joanna.

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印尼华人女孩的故事感动了许多人，一名叫“John”的网友也在英文《深圳日报》微信推文留言中写下了他的故事。John表示，很多国外媒体对中国的疫情报道是缺乏事实根据的，在中国生活的他看到的是中国人团结一致、众志成城，都在为抗疫贡献自己的绵薄之力。他为中国政府和民众的所作所为感到骄傲。