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Going home, what is it?

01Homecoming is a rite of passage. The traditional Chinese concept of the countryside is y rooted, and everyone can always find the place where their ancestors used to be rooted if they trace back upwards. Homecoming, too, is naturally endowed with a pious feeling similar to religious emotions, and homecoming has become the most sacred ritual in the heart of every faraway traveler.

02Homecoming is a kind of conversion. A person, no matter how far, flying high, have to return to the place called hometown of the starting point of life. In that place called hometown is the home of the soul in the heart of every departed person. Maybe you are facing the anxiety of the upturn, maybe you are in the pain of the downturn, maybe you are full of vigor, maybe you are ready to go, maybe you are bruised, all of which, only home, can really cleanse your mind, home, always for the distant traveler's mind to provide the last conversion.

03Homecoming, is a kind of inheritance. Behind every person there is a strong clan family existence, the family lineage of the flow of endless. Going home is a signal, a carrier that reflects this family heritage. Only by going home can you truly confirm your real existence in the family, only by going home can you truly be accepted and accommodated by the family.

04Homecoming is a kind of faith. In old age, the leaves return to their roots, which is the belief of every traveler, and going home is the concrete embodiment of this belief. Going home is the call of an infinite power in the heart of the wanderer, only going home can call out the endless power of the wanderer.

05Homecoming is a kind of reincarnation. Reincarnation is a Buddhist term, and going home is, in a way, like Buddhist reincarnation. In every cause and effect relationship, the meaning of going home can be found in the arrangement of reincarnation, which has its own providence in the underworld, and it is endless in life and death.