"Lao Li, are you going to participate in the community to welcome the Spring Festival today? I heard that there are Spring Festival couplets, window flowers, and dragon decorations, which is very ......lively." Residents Pan Yongjing and Li Houzhen are discussing going to the community to welcome the Chinese New Year.
In order to carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture and enrich the spiritual and cultural life of residents in the district, on January 25, the Tongxin Volunteer Service Team of "Yi" Road, Majiazhai Community, Fuxing Street Street, Helan County, carried out the theme activity of the Yinchuan Civil Affairs Bureau's 2023 Community Public Welfare Venture Capital Project "Our Festival•Spring Festival - Writing Spring Festival Couplets, Cutting Window Flowers, Inheriting Folk Customs and Welcoming the New Year", and 40 teenagers and elderly people in the jurisdiction gathered together to celebrate the New Year and feel the festive and lively festival atmosphere.
Hanmo is fragrant, and the wonderful pen sends blessings. At the scene of the event, the ink fragrance is overflowing, the atmosphere is warm, the elderly calligraphy enthusiasts explain to the children the traditional customs of pasting the Spring Festival couplets and the word "Fu", hand in hand to teach the children the penmanship and skills of writing, everyone while communicating, while writing, with the pen or or Yang, "the dragon and the tiger roar to welcome the New Year, the phoenix dance Luan song celebrates the harvest year", "wishes to become a prosperous family, and the fortune and fortune are sweet" and other auspicious Spring Festival couplets "freshly baked", the audience also lined up to choose their favorite Spring Festival couplets to take home. "I am very happy to write Spring Festival couplets for you today, we gather together to discuss calligraphy and learn skills, it is very rare, I wish you a happy New Year in advance!" said Pan Yongjing, a calligraphy enthusiast.
Skillfully cut window flowers, inherit the folk New Year's flavor. An ordinary piece of red paper, with the flying of scissors, actually turned into a magical and wonderful paper-cut pattern. At the paper-cutting scene, there were bursts of exclamations from the children. A piece of red paper, a pair of scissors, accompanied by the crisp sound of the scissors clicking, in the flexible operation of the fingers, the paper-cutting masters with skillful hands for the children to demonstrate how to cut out the "lantern", "blessing", "spring" and other window flowers full of New Year's flavor. Under the guidance of the paper-cutting teacher, the children each selected their favorite patterns, picked up scissors and red paper to operate, and when the simple window grilles were formed, the children danced happily.
Fun handicraft, skillful decoration of the happy year. "I put eyes on this mighty dragon, and this New Year's ornament will be completed...... Liu Rui said proudly with the New Year's ornament in his hand. Community volunteers distributed handmade material kits to the children, and under the leadership of the volunteers, DIY handmade materials were carried out in an orderly manner. All kinds of handmade ornaments contain children's whimsical ideas, and after a while, the material bags have become festive ornaments symbolizing "blessings" and "happy new year".
This activity shortened the distance between the community and the residents, and made the residents feel the strong warmth on the eve of the Spring Festival. Everyone took a group photo with a pair of red Spring Festival couplets, blessing characters and window flowers symbolizing auspiciousness, leaving this beautiful moment. In the new year, Majiazhai community will continue to adhere to the guidance of party building, carry out more colorful community cultural activities, and strive to build a civilized and harmonious community and a warm and happy home.