In Australia, there are about 5,000 Chinese and Russian descendants. Their parents had similar experiences. They had come to China from Russia in the early years. Some of them had never returned, and some had gone to other countries. Let us approach them and listen to their stories.
Every Tuesday night, the Cabramatta Community Centre produces beautiful Soviet music. The songs were sung by Chinese and Russian descendants living in Sydney. Some of them are the first generation of Chinese and Russian hybrids, some of which are second or third generation. And the organization they met every week was a fluent Chinese, a Russian named Renia.
He began studying Chinese at the age of 17, and his wife was from China, and the children were of Chinese and Russian descent. He is currently a doctoral student at the university of Sydney and is studying “the comparison between Chinese and Russian descendants in Australia and China”. Last year, Mr. Renia said he Shared his thoughts with a group of Chinese and Russian descendants who lived in Sydney when he was working on his doctoral thesis. Therefore, the Australian Russian-Chinese Heritage Society was established to preserve and promote the culture of China and Russia.
He said he was able to find Russian characteristics from a group of Chinese and Russian friends, both in customs and in expressions and expressions. But because of historical reasons, Chinese and Russian descendants have lost many of the characteristics they once had, and language is one of them. Some of them are also confused about identity.
Renia tells us that there are many such Chinese and Russian descendants in Australia. Their parents had similar experiences, from Russia to China in the early years, some never to return, some to other countries. A song called “eternal memory” is also circulating among Chinese and Russian descendants, describing their parents’ experience of coming to China from Russia. The lyrics read:
I can’t remember which day I came here.
How many happy dreams are given to you.
Goodbye mom, goodbye my brothers and sisters,
I bid farewell to my homeland where my homeland raised me
Hallelujah, thank you for your courage.
Followed my sweetheart
I came and settled here…..
PS: Renia is nickname, his full name is: Evgueni Singatouline (weChat Name: Xinjatulin)
