Shaoyang Daily, Yun Shaoyang client, February 12 (reporter Yuan Guangyu, correspondent Yan Fuye) "I really want to thank our 'Peach Blossom Dance Team', they have held the Spring Festival Gala in the village since February 7, and insisted on performing for two hours for the villagers and guests to the village every day, which brought endless fun to everyone, and many children also put down their mobile phones and rushed to watch their programs!"
Weng Taohua, who was born in 1966, married from Group 12 to Group 9 of Mazi Village, and is a native of Mazi Village. In 2017, Mazi Village, with more than 2,400 people, was lifted out of poverty, and everyone thanked the party and the government for their targeted poverty alleviation policies, and had a strong desire to sing and dance. It was in this year that Mazi Village decided to hold the first "Village Evening".
Weng Taohua, who was 51 years old at the time, was entrusted by the "two committees" of the village to serve as the training of the village dance team. Weng Taohua followed her husband to work hard in coastal cities for many years when she was young, and has been "dancing" for more than 10 years. She organized the elderly over 50 years old in the village, and intensively taught fan dance, long skirt dance, Yangge dance, folk dance, etc., the first "village evening" of that year, the dance team she led became popular, the audience applauded thunderously, and the "Peach Blossom Dance Team" became famous.
"Sisters, we have been practicing dance for so long, can't we just show up under the 'village evening', we give everyone a voluntary performance until the sixth day of the first lunar month, okay?" "Okay!" all the dancers supported.
Since the Spring Festival in 2018, the "Peach Blossom Dance Team" has been performing for 7 consecutive years during the Spring Festival. With the expansion of its fame, the Weng Taohua Dance Team usually accepts invitations to commercial performances outside the village to raise funds and ensure the normal operation of the dance team.
"Our Mazi Village is located at the junction of Wugang, Suining and Chengbu, and in recent years, our performance footprints have traveled all over the border villages. Weng Taohua happily introduced.
While constantly updating the type of dance, Weng Taohua also led everyone to use song and dance to widely publicize the knowledge of anti-drug, anti-fraud, anti-drowning, safe production, traffic laws, food security, etc., which was loved by the masses and supported by local party committees and governments at all levels.
"Our 'Peach Blossom Dance Team' participated in the Wugang City and the town's art performances, and won the first prize many times!" Deng Xinxin said.
There is a woman in Mazi Village who has become a mother-in-law, who was originally keen on playing cards, and the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was very intense. Since participating in the "Peach Blossom Dance Team", she seems to have changed as a person, not only no longer touching cards, but also seriously tutoring her grandchildren whenever she is free, and her grandchildren are both excellent in character and learning, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has become very close.
"When I have time, I will join the 'Peach Blossom Dance Team' like my mother-in-law!" said the family's daughter-in-law.