The Spring Festival is a day of family reunion, but because of the epidemic, some people need to spend the New Year in centralized isolation points. In Tianjin, a group of enthusiastic elderly mothers learned that the nearby hotels in the community had become quarantine points, and they volunteered to send warmth to those who could not go home for the New Year.
At the Guhaili Community Neighborhood Committee in Tianjin's Hexi District, a Dumpling for the New Year is being made. The grandmothers who make dumplings are members of the "Old Mother Service Team" in Hexi District, a team of more than 20 people, whose average age is more than seventy years old. This dumpling, they are not wrapped for the family, but the quarantined people in the centralized isolation point. For more than 20 years since its establishment, the service team has Chinese New Year's Eve every year to let people who cannot be reunited with their families eat dumplings, which is also the tradition of old mothers.
Zhang Zhenping, captain of the old mother service team: People who are isolated can't go home, reunion can't be reunited, dumplings are a habit of our Tianjin people, and we all eat dumplings for festive reunions, so that they feel that someone is worried about him, and we wrap this love in dumplings. Don't look at the isolation point, just like at home, you can eat hot dumplings.
Cabbage, fennel, dumplings wrapped in authentic Tianjin stuffing, especially cabbage, and the meaning of hundred wealth. Most of the quarantined people in the isolation point are locals, and their homes are close but they can't go back, and the old mothers feel that the taste of their hometown can not only soothe everyone's stomach, but also comfort everyone's heart.
Luo Shuhua, a member of the old mother service team: The three favorite dishes of Tianjin people are fennel, one is leeks, and the other is cabbage. Cabbage is a "hundred fortunes", but also to keep safe, let them find the feeling of home.
In addition to the local flavor, the old mothers also decided to make the dumplings more colorful. Peanuts, which symbolize the occurrence of good things, happy pistachios and sweet brown sugar every day, are wrapped in dumplings, and the random luck becomes a warm wish.
Luo Shuhua, a member of the old mother service team: Brown sugar and pistachios, just like when we were young, when Chinese New Year's Eve er made Chinese New Year's Eve meals at night, parents occasionally put some money in each dumpling, who eats who is lucky. This is a good sign that you want to eat this in so many dumplings, how happy you are for a lifetime.
In order to encourage a person to celebrate the New Year, in addition to dumplings, old mothers also use letters to convey care for quarantined people.
Zhang Zhenping, captain of the old mother service team: Child, although you are isolated inside during the epidemic and can't go home for the New Year, we all miss you. Personally wrap you thirty warm dumplings, after you eat the dumplings, there is a taste of the New Year, there is a taste of home, I wish you a happy new year.
Reporter: I also drew love
Zhang Zhenping: Painted love, love them, your loved ones mother.
Reporter: Why is it the mother who dropped the money?
Zhang Zhenping: Although I am not with my mother, at the isolation point, after eating the dumplings, I feel that my mother is still around, and I eat the dumplings that my mother packed.
Out of the pot, boxed, set off... The old mother personally sent the dumplings to the isolation point, and the staff sent them to the 18 quarantined people in the isolation point according to the procedure.
Because she is a close contact and there is no home isolation condition, Wang Liyao has been in the isolation point for 15 days, which is the longest quarantine person. The old mothers dialed Xiao Wang's video phone, looking forward to seeing each other's happy appearance when they ate dumplings. Xiao Wang also agreed with his aunts that when the epidemic ended, he must wrap dumplings together.
Quarantine person Wang Liyao: In the isolation point, you can also eat the dumplings wrapped by your aunt, this dumpling also has a special taste at home, I hope to be able to end the isolation, you can make dumplings with your aunts.
(Reporter Yang Yu, Bi Bochao, Meng Xiangyun)