Spring festival bathed in spring breeze, reunion and celebration of the Lantern Festival. In order to enhance the people's cognition and recognition of excellent traditional culture, enhance cultural consciousness and cultural self-confidence, and strive to create a festive atmosphere of joy and celebration, civilization and peace. On the morning of February 14, the social work point in Suixi County and the inner city neighborhood committee jointly launched the activity of "strong neighborhood feelings, happy Lantern Festival". The activities are mainly carried out in the form of dumplings, celebrating the Lantern Festival, and sending dumplings to civil affairs objects in the household, preparing the warmth of the festival for the elderly living alone, and integrating the care and love into the dumplings.
【Dumplings celebrating lantern】
At the scene of the event, social workers, community cadres and volunteers were preparing intensively, taking out the dumpling skin, dumpling filling and other materials prepared in advance, and showing their skills. Everyone gathered around the table, talking about homely dishes while making dumplings. Through the way of pinching, pressing, and grouping, showing their craftsmanship, in the midst of laughter, dumplings with different shapes gradually piled up on the dinner plate, some like willow leaves, some like crescent moons, and some in the style of small yuanbao. Although the shape of the dumplings is "strange" and "has its own characteristics", it can be seen that everyone's intentions and happiness in the process of making dumplings contain everyone's wishes for the New Year and blessings for the service recipients.
Then, in the boiling water, the dumplings are put out of the pot and waft out of the aroma. After the dumplings are cooked, the volunteers fill and pack the dumplings in bowls, and invite the elderly present to eat the dumplings, this bowl of dumplings, accompanied by steaming hot dumplings, the aroma smells on the tip of the nose, and the delicious taste remains on the lips.
【Dumplings delivered to the household】
Subsequently, the social workers, together with the community cadres and volunteers in the city, took the cooked dumplings into the house to send the warmth of winter to the elderly living alone, so that they could feel the warmth of the party and the masses and the mutual help of the neighbors, and share the festive atmosphere of the festival. This activity passed on the care and warmth to the residents with practical actions, and also carried forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture and created a strong festive atmosphere. The old people who received the dumplings, their faces were full of warm smiles, and they all said: I am very grateful for the care of the party and the community, and I really have a heart!
The dumplings are fragrant and warm. This Lantern Festival activity not only created a good festive atmosphere, but also made the elderly living alone feel the warmth of the community and was highly praised by them. In this warm and harmonious atmosphere, you can feel the charm of traditional culture together, and also enhance the feelings of the neighbors.
(Author: Wu Xiaoxia)