On the occasion of the Chung Yeung Festival, 75 70-year-old "birthday stars" from various branches of the Yueyang Street Senior Citizens Association gathered in the community elderly canteen in the street community to participate in a special birthday banquet to celebrate their own special festival.
In addition to the birthday banquet, Yueyang Street also carried out a variety of activities, the old people competed to answer questions to win gifts, and recounted the friendship of the years in a lively atmosphere. Luo Weiqiang, a resident of Songshiyuan Community, who loves literature and art, shuttled through the banquet, played the saxophone on the occasion, and set off the festive atmosphere with sweet and melodious golden songs. "Everyone is an old friend who has known each other for many years, and it is really happy and happy to get together on such a special day!" Zhu Qizhong, a resident of Fenghuang Community, told reporters excitedly.
In Yueyang Street, where the aging situation is more prominent, how to make every community resident who has entered the elderly live in peace? In addition to focusing on difficult issues such as meal assistance for the elderly, home and community care, barrier-free renovation, and "suspension" of going up and down the stairs, the street continues to increase the optimization and improvement of the service quality and institutional mechanism for the elderly, and more and more elderly people have become the backbone of the active community. "I'm 70 years old this year, and I'm about to retire for the second time. But as long as I can do it, I will continue to do it, and use my little effort to do something for more elderly people who live alone. After retirement, Song Jianwei, a birthday star who has been engaged in volunteer services such as good neighbors and helping the elderly in the Jingdelu residential area for a long time, said firmly and affectionately.
It is understood that it is an old tradition that Yueyang Street has adhered to for many years to hold a birthday banquet for the elderly in Chongyang, so that the elderly people in different communities who do not come and go on weekdays to gather together and celebrate the festival. The Street Association for the Elderly also prepared cakes, bedding and other gifts for the elderly to celebrate the Double Festival, so that everyone could celebrate the festival with joy.
Text: Li Shuang
Photo: Li Shuang Courtesy of the interviewee
Editor: Zhou Yuwei