Zhang Shanshan: Let the elderly live out the style of the new era

Dong Dabin Ao Yonggui

"When you are old, you must also be beautiful into a scenery!" This is the motto of the catwalk students led by Zhang Shanshan, a teacher of the catwalk class of Hulunbuir University for the Elderly. Zhang Shanshan, teacher of Hulunbuir University for the Elderly, national second-level actor, senior art model trainer and judge. She is confident, elegant, beautiful, and smiles. Under her leadership, the trainees interpreted the style of the elderly in the new era with intellectuality, maturity, calmness, calmness and elegance. Wherever they go, they bring beauty there, and with their elegance, they win the admiring eyes and applause of others.

Regain youth love life

Under the leadership of Zhang Shanshan, the students of the catwalk class wore cheongsam, the style was outstanding, with melodious music, taking elegant steps, holding their heads up, enthusiastically rehearsing the qipao catwalk program, with a feminine posture and optimistic attitude, happily wandering in the study and life, as if they had found their lost youth.

There are more than 200 students in the catwalk class, which is the most popular class in Hulunbuir University for the Elderly. The students in the class, the youngest in their fifties, the oldest in their seventies. After a period of study and training, the elderly trainees have a straight posture and a young mentality, dreaming of youthful freedom and writing a happy old age.

Li Xiaohua, a student in the catwalk class, because she had to go to Beijing to take care of her grandson, hugged Zhang Shanshan like a child and cried very sadly when she left. She was reluctant to walk the catwalk class, and she was even more reluctant to teach her to regain her self-confidence.

"I am very fortunate that I joined the senior university catwalk class after retirement, and in the past few years I have not only exercised my body healthier, but also met excellent teachers and a group of like-minded classmates, which made my old age life colorful." "Learning to walk the catwalk is the happiest time since I retired, I cherish it, and I want to continue to walk happily." "Thanks to the teacher's hard work in training for a year, I never dreamed that such a person without a little literary and artistic cells would come out of such a good posture." The catwalk students praised Zhang Shanshan. The catwalk also makes them more and more confident, living more and more young.

Looking at the amazing changes of the students, Zhang Shanshan said: "I am happy, because the students have brought me happiness and pride. Zhang Shanshan also secretly resolved to pass on happiness, health and beauty to every student, not to let a student be left behind, and strive to lead them to move forward happily on the road of elegance and beauty.

Step out of the confidence show style

Zhang Shanshan often said to the students: "Use your beautiful heart to step out of your confident dance steps, without fear of age growth, and never give up the pursuit of beauty." After retiring, Zhang Shanshan dedicated all her enthusiasm to her students.

In recent years, the catwalk class of the Municipal University for the Aged has won many awards in various performance tasks and competitions such as "Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China". At the "I Love You China" 2019 Grassland Art Conference, the catwalk class performed "Ink Lanting" won the gold award; in July 2019, the catwalk class participated in the 4th Global Cheongsam Queen Championship Team Competition with the newly compiled catwalk program "Qiushui Yiren" and won the runner-up trophy. At the end of the same year, Zhang Shanshan led 27 people in the catwalk class to participate in the "2020 "I Want to Go to the Spring Festival Gala" (Xiamen Station)" National Regional Excellent Program Audition Competition and the 2019 Xiamen 23rd "Chinese Dream Sunset Beauty" National Middle-aged and Elderly Art Competition, which was personally choreographed and directed by her, and the "Book Fragrance Elegant Rhyme for Love Bloom" catwalk program stood out in the competition of more than 1,000 people from more than 90 units across the country, won the gold medal of the competition, and she also won the best choreographer award of the catwalk program. This successful participation, the catwalk class students showed the outside world the infinite charm of the elderly in Hulunbuir.

Walking the catwalk is also self-cultivation

"We practice our bodies with our teachers, and we also cultivate our own hearts." The students of the catwalk class commented on Zhang Shanshan's teaching.

Zhang Shanshan likes to hear the voice of praise from the students, and never hesitates to praise her students, which is the way they encourage each other. She said of her students: "They work hard to cultivate and cultivate their minds on the road to becoming beautiful, and after a period of training, they can see that they are obviously becoming confident, elegant, happy and healthy. ”

Zhang Shanshan has a great passion for the dance catwalk career, and she sincerely likes the catwalk career. She said: "Along the way, the catwalk class has encountered many difficulties, but seeing the students continue to improve, become beautiful day by day, regain confidence, find happiness, all my hard work is worth it." ”

The trainees showed the style of middle-aged and elderly people in the new era with dynamic steps, and showed the self-esteem and self-confidence of middle-aged and elderly women. While they pass on beauty to the society, they have also inspired many elderly friends to pursue the desire of beauty, so that more and more elderly people who are keen on the art of form, catwalk and dance have entered the catwalk classroom of the Municipal University for the Elderly.

In the face of these elderly people who pursue a better life, Zhang Shanshan feels that she has a heavy responsibility, but she said: "I will use the most advanced teaching concepts to actively lead the fashion trend of the elderly to walk the catwalk, to promote the high-quality development of hulunbuir's elderly education, contribute their own strength, so that more elderly people usher in a new old age life with confidence and beauty." ”