In order to enrich the amateur life of residents and promote the traditional Chinese weaving culture, on the afternoon of February 29, Jianqiao Community, Shidong Street, Wuchang District, together with Nanshan Home Care Center, carried out the "Take a Moment to Twist Happiness" creative DIY handmade activities, and the elderly residents in the community actively participated in it, exerted their imagination and twisted out a beautiful "happy flower".
Volunteers help residents make twisted flowers. Photo courtesy of the correspondent.
As long as you use your imagination and change the shape through the twisting of your fingertips, there are countless ways to play and creativity, which can not only exercise your hands-on ability, but also easily decompress. At the event site, Master Chen Guilan led the students to start creating, picking up twisting rods of different colors, winding, knotting, and cutting. Elderly residents also work together to make skills, comment on each other and share their "artworks".
Handmade products by Master Chen Guilan. Photo courtesy of the correspondent.
73-year-old chef Chen Guilan said: "I like to make handmade products, the process is hard, but the finished product brings a sense of achievement, and I also want everyone to experience the fun of handicraft!" Master Chen is a veteran party member who actively participates in volunteer service activities organized by the community, and the handicrafts she makes are used to participate in the community poverty alleviation and disability charity sale every year.
Elderly residents display twisted flower works. Photo courtesy of the correspondent.
This activity not only enriched the spiritual life of the elderly residents in the community, cultivated the artistic sentiment of the elderly, but also effectively popularized the excellent traditional Chinese culture. In the next step, Shidong Street will further improve the pension service policy system, excavate and popularize excellent Chinese crafts, carry out more diversified forms of literary and artistic activities, enrich the spiritual world of the elderly, let more and more elderly people be willing to show themselves, enhance the sense of social value, and help the elderly enjoy life in self-realization and self-transcendence.