In Shanghai, there are many "old-fashioned" artists who "retire without rest" and are keen to participate in public welfare performances. Meng Liying, an 88-year-old Yue opera artist and who played the "Purple Crane" in the Yue opera movie "Dream of the Red Chamber", is one of them. In May 2005, she spearheaded the formation of a "Smile Always Open Art Troupe". In the past 16 years, the art troupe has insisted on performing more than 1,600 times in community welfare homes and nursing homes, and Meng Liying herself has participated in more than 900 performances.
On the evening of October 14th, on the occasion of the 9th National "Elderly Festival" and the 34th Shanghai "Respect for the Elderly Day", the "Shanghai 2021 Elderly Festival Literary and Art Evening" hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Foundation for the Elderly with the theme of "Condensing the Beauty of Time and Paying Tribute to the Century-old Style" was broadcast on the City Channel, and the "Smile Mouth Changkai Art Troupe" stood on the stage to bring opera singing. Meng Liying said: "Doing charity and doing public welfare has always been the 'fashion' of our literary and artistic workers, I like to participate in public welfare performances, as long as my body allows, the old audience orders anything, I will sing."
Most of the performances of the whole evening were performed by the elderly, and Huang Baomei, winner of the "July 1st Medal", and artists such as Ji Qiuxia, Wei Song, Zhou Bingqian, Mao Mengda, Shen Ronghai, Zhang Xiaoling, Hu Qingyun and other artists were invited to participate.
In the metropolis of Shanghai, communities are tailoring a new model of home care for the elderly according to their own characteristics. Some communities encourage the elderly to shine, some pay attention to the combination of medical and nursing care, and some even use artificial intelligence to let the elderly share the fruits of scientific and technological development. At the party, the sketch "Wish You Happiness" presented the story of volunteers helping the elderly cross the digital divide and enjoy a smart elderly life.
For the elderly in Shencheng, in an international metropolis, life after retirement is colorful. For example, the Shanghai Golden Autumn Wind Orchestra is a band composed of retired elderly people. After retiring, the members of the group took the initiative to learn instrumental music in the Golden Academy, which can be described as "learning to blow at the age of sixty". At the scene, they cooperated to perform the representative work of Lu Qiming, the winner of the "July 1st Medal", "Ode to the Red Flag". In Lujiazui Financial City, there is also a "Haishang Men's Dance Troupe" with an average age of more than 60 years old, including teachers, engineers, corporate executives, bank presidents, and overseas Returnees. That night, this group of "fashionable grandfathers" brought the old and young music song and dance sketch "My Grandfather Will Rap". "Vest line grandmother" Chen Jifang led a group of silver-haired fitness experts to the party, with a healthy posture and flexible movements, changing the stereotype of the elderly faltering.
Huang Baomei sang the Yue opera "My Family Has a Little Nine Sisters"
The 90-year-old Huang Baomei also appeared at the party, bringing Yue opera to sing "My Family Has a Little Nine Sisters". Huang Baomei is a witness, participant and devotee of the Republic, and in recent years has become a "net red" lecturer loved by young people. She revealed that she joined the "Broadway Moral Education Lecturer Group" and "Golden Sunset Studio", and recently started to "up lord" in Bilibili to talk to young people about the party history around them. "As long as I can walk, I must continue to tell the story of the party and the story of China!" Huang Baomei said.
At the scene of the party, there were also 3 pairs of Shencheng golden wedding couples appearing. Among them, Wang Yansong and Zhou Xingkui expressed the wisdom of ordinary couples. Liu Zhenglun and Li Xiuyan have known and loved each other on the campus of Peking University, and have been married for 61 years, and the two have participated in the construction of the country's first nuclear power plant, the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, making important contributions to China's nuclear power cause. Wang Fuming and Chen Xuexia are both veterans and married in 1955. Wang Fuming was once suffering from cancer, and at the low point of his life, he began to learn to make silk stocking flowers, and sent the small red flowers that he had done to the courier brothers and medical staff who had served him, and sent more than 6,000 flowers in the past ten years, becoming the "flower grandfather" in everyone's mouth. Chen Xuexia said: "He is 'Grandpa Hua', and I am 'Grandma Hua'. 'Grandma Flower' has followed 'Grandpa Flower' all her life and feels particularly happy. ”
Column Editor-in-Chief: Li Junna Text Editor: Li Junna Photo Editor: Zhu Xuan
Source: Author: Zhang Yi