Every year around the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, the Yeyuan Group of Lotus Village, Jinshen Town, Tongcheng City, will have a unique "banquet for the elderly".
It is understood that the Ye Yuan Group has held such a banquet for five consecutive years. The young people of the villager group spontaneously donated, provided venues, and organized activities to feast the villagers over 60 years old in the villager group, and held a warm tea party for them to enhance the feelings between neighbors and inherit filial piety and love.
At the tea party, the villagers of the Yeyuan Group gathered together to enjoy the sumptuous dishes and talk freely, with a smile of satisfaction, joy and happiness on their faces. The villagers exchanged their life experiences and insights with each other, the elderly told about the past, and the young people humbly asked for advice and listened to the stories of the elderly. At this warm moment, a splendid theatrical performance also added color to the tea party. The songs and dances, operas, sketches and other programs written, directed and performed by the villagers demonstrated the unique charm of rural culture and won bursts of applause. The elderly watched with relish, laughed constantly, and the atmosphere became more and more harmonious.
After the tea party, the villagers took a group photo to record this unforgettable moment. Everyone said that such activities not only made them feel the atmosphere of traditional festivals, but also enhanced their feelings with each other. "The show was very exciting, the old people had a lot of fun watching it, and everyone got together to chat. Bao Youmei, secretary of the general party branch of Lianhua Village, said that young people are usually busy with work and go out all the year round, and rarely accompany the elderly, and organizing such activities can not only enrich the lives of the elderly, but also make everyone more familiar with and understand their neighbors, and guide the villagers to respect and love the elderly. In the next step, the village will gradually promote such activities to increase the nostalgia of young people and enrich the lives of the elderly. (Liu Yun, Wang Liang).