(Reporter Bao Yuchan, correspondent Bi Peng, Wang Li) "A hundred family banquets in the community, a hundred families sit at one table, and a hundred families become a family!" In the lively opening speech, a hundred family banquets carrying good hopes to welcome the New Year officially opened in Nantingfang Community, Changqing Street. In order to promote the traditional virtues of neighborly harmony, solidarity and mutual assistance, and promote the construction of community harmony. On the morning of February 5th, the General Party Branch of Youfanggang Community, Changqing Street, Baohe District, Hefei, Anhui Province, and the Grassroots Committee of Baohe District of the Democratic National Construction Association invited the elderly, lonely and widowed elderly, and families in difficulty to the banquet to feel the strong flavor of the New Year together.
Hundred family banquet activities (photo by Yang Fengwen from CCTV).
It's time to serve! With a loud voice, the little housekeepers and volunteers served plates of steaming braised pork trotters, rice noodle meat, glutinous rice balls, brown sugar cakes and other traditional delicacies. The 100 family banquet does not specify ingredients and cuisines, and the dishes are provided by catering companies, community workers, volunteers, and red butlers. Residents chatted with each other, sat around and tasted food, and the praise of "delicious" and "really fragrant" was endless, and the neighborhood continued to enhance in a warm and harmonious atmosphere.
This hundred family banquet made me go back to the past in an instant, and every Chinese New Year, I would take a bite of this house, and then take a bite of that family. The feeling of being full without having to eat at your own home is familiar and intimate. Resident Zhou Yuying said.
Flute performance (photo by Yang Fengwen from CCTV).
Lu opera performance (photo by Yang Fengwen from CCTV).
Not only was the audience lively, but the performances on the stage were also wonderful, such as the Lu opera performance "Qin Xuemei's View of Paintings", the flute performance "Whip Urging Horses to Transport Grain", the display of the special police detachment's capture actions, and the anti-fraud songs composed by community workers, etc., so that residents could taste the food at the same time, but also learn more about traditional Chinese culture, which won bursts of cheers and applause. "The activities in the community are very good, we seniors are very happy, today's food is delicious, the scene is very lively, and the New Year's flavor is very strong. Resident Peng Kerong said.
Baijia banquet is an ancient traditional culture and folk customs, which was originally a prayer ceremony held within the clan, aiming to "gather clan relatives, business clan affairs, pray for a good harvest, and keep peace". Nowadays, the residents gather together to taste food and chat about homely cooking through the Hundred Family Banquet, showing the new social trend of good neighborliness and friendship, living and working in peace and contentment, so that the traditional virtues of respecting the old and caring for the young continue to be carried forward, and the Hundred Family Banquet has also become a new practice of prospering community culture and enlivening the lives of residents.
Nan Tingfang is a relocation community, residents are very familiar with each other, before the Spring Festival to hold a hundred family banquet activities, invite everyone to gather together for a lively Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but also hope to make the good atmosphere of neighborhood harmony, unity and progress stronger, to lay a solid foundation for building a harmonious community. Wu Aiju, Secretary of the General Party Branch of Youfanggang Community, Changqing Street, Baohe District, Hefei, said.