He Linfang's double dragon performance, which has been passed down for more than 200 years, has a spectacular scene. Correspondent Bian Weiliang Photo
This newspaper (Reporter Ma Daojun) For the elderly, the Spring Festival of family reunion is their most anticipated festival of the year. Affected by the new crown epidemic, this year's Spring Festival, more than 280 nursing homes in our city enjoyed tens of thousands of elderly people who had their old age chose to "stay in the hospital for the New Year." The family members "visited" through video, and the hospital also prepared a sumptuous "New Year's Eve dinner" and performed a wonderful program to make the elderly happy to celebrate the New Year.
On New Year's Eve, the reporter visited many nursing homes such as Yuehua Yuekang Nursing Home, Happy Time Elderly Apartment, Longtan Street Nursing Home, etc. Each of them was filled with a strong festive atmosphere: big red lanterns were hung in front of the door, and festive windows were pasted on the windows of each room.
At 3 pm, on the 3rd floor of Yuehua Yuekang Nursing Hospital in Qinhuai District, 90-year-old Grandma Wang was on a video call. "I'm pretty good here, there's a New Year's Eve dinner later. You guys have a good New Year's Eve, don't have to come." The old man said loudly.
"I meet and chat with my children on my phone every day. If I don't go home during the Spring Festival, I will spend the time in the yard. We eat well, sleep well, and have so many old friends around us who can chat with me, so I'm not lonely." Grandma Wang told reporters.
The staff of the hospital told reporters that Grandma Wang’s family was very cooperative and said they would try not to visit the house, and wish the elderly a happy new year through video "visiting" and other methods.
According to statistics from the civil affairs department, on New Year's Eve, tens of thousands of elderly people in our city celebrate the New Year in nursing homes. The nursing home organized a party and provided a free New Year's Eve dinner to make them have fun.
Grandpa Zhao, 92 years old this year, passed away early and moved into Happy Time Senior Apartment 4 years ago. The old man told reporters that his children are all in other places and are usually very busy. This time during the Chinese New Year, his son invited him to Beijing for the New Year, but due to the epidemic, he decided not to go and celebrated the New Year in the nursing home. On New Year’s Eve, many elderly people here don’t go home, and it’s great to “group together” for the New Year.
At 5 pm, the warm reunion dinner began. While eating the sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner prepared in the nursing home, the elderly were asking about their well-being, talking and laughing, and the scene was lively and warm.
"There are nearly 260 elderly people in the nursing home, and only 17 people chose to go home this Spring Festival. Considering the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, we did not invite family members to attend, and the New Year's Eve dinner was also held in advance. The dinner party was the elderly and staff members of the nursing home. Everyone ate dumplings, chatted about homework, and watched the show..." Chen Yi, director of Happy Time Elderly Apartment, emotionally described the scene to the reporter.
On New Year’s Eve, such warm scenes abound. The fragrant old hen soup , fresh prawns, the seductive lion head ... In the nursing home in Longtan Street, Qixia District, looking at the table full of sumptuous meals, more than 50 elderly people were all smiling.
The 94-year-old Li Xinglin has lived in a nursing home in Longtan Street for more than ten years. He said that the streets care about the five-guarantee elderly people like him and are very concerned about them during festivals, which makes them feel very pleased.
Zhou Xinhua, director of the Elderly Care Service Department of the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, said that no matter whether the elderly go home for the New Year or not, they cannot change their desire to reunite with their relatives during the Spring Festival. "This Spring Festival, families can call more and have a video ‘meet’ to let the elderly spend a happy, peaceful and safe Spring Festival."
7 consecutive years
They received the "Love New Year's Eve dinner"
This newspaper (Reporter Xiao Fan, Correspondent Zhou Shuying) The table of delicious food is fragrant, and laughter is flying all over the hall. On New Year's Eve, Yang Zhengfang, who lives in Qinghe Xinyu Community, Jiangdong Street, Gulou District, tore open a vacuum-packaged beef, took out half of salted duck , steamed two meat buns, and with a "ding" from the microwave, dishes such as assorted vegetables , smoked fish were served on the table. She is 87 years old this year and is inconvenient, with her disabled son, and the two have a simple and sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner. These dishes are a loving New Year’s Eve dinner from the community, and it is the seventh consecutive year she has received them.
At 7 a.m. a few days ago, more than 20 people from Qinghe Xinyu Community staff, party member volunteers, co-construction unit staff, and Jinling Huiwen School students gathered in the community's "kitchenette" to discuss this year's "big events"."This year, I made 8 dishes, including chicken, duck, fish and meat; then 4 vegetables and 2 snacks." Yuan Xuefen, secretary of the community party committee, held paper and pen, skillfully guided everyone to prepare separately.
The students "bury" them into the bean sprouts and celery piles, responsible for sorting, washing and selecting vegetables; the volunteers rolled up their sleeves, put on their aprons, and cooked vegetables with hot oil pans; the staff of the co-construction unit brought big red gift boxes and placed the packaging boxes one by one... The "kitchen" was busy and orderly.
"The food given to the elderly should be soft, less oil and less salt. Put meat dishes in a vacuum packaging bag for easy storage; use packaging boxes for vegetables, and note the consumption period." Yuan Xuefen said. After 7 hours, the dishes such as beef stewed with radish , gluten stuffed with meat , assorted vegetables, tofu, dumplings and buns were packed, and then they were given to 30 needy residents in the community one after another. "You can eat the ready-made New Year's Eve dinner by sitting at home, which is both heartwarming and festive. This year is a perfect year," said Yang Zhengfang.
Love New Year’s Eve dinner, never lose your appointment every year. This is the seventh consecutive year that the community has sent a love New Year's Eve dinner to poor families such as widows, empty nests, disabled, serious illnesses and single-lost families in the jurisdiction. Yuan Xuefen said that in recent years, the community has regularly carried out the "Love New Year's Eve dinner" activities, and has arranged 30 poor residents through daily visits and the "Love Park" mutual aid platform to send them New Year greetings, enhancing residents' sense of gain and happiness.
Transmission
Transmission has been passed down for more than 200 years, and now we are ushering in the "golden age"
family of three generations dragon dance inheritance
□ Nanjing Daily/Zijinshan News reporter Hu Yinghua
Correspondent Peng Fang
Early in the morning of New Year's Eve, 28-year-old Ganlu and four cousins made an appointment to come to my grandfather's house and asked my grandfather to lead them to repair the dragon body belonging to the family. This is their "compulsory course" before the Spring Festival every year.
"We have the custom of dancing dragons during the Spring Festival, and we can travel from village to village to bring good luck." Ganlu lives in Helinfang Village, Qingfeng Village, Honglan Street, Lishui District. A few days ago, the village had been circulating for more than 200 years of Helinfang's double dragon dance, and CCTV broadcast live, which made this traditional folk custom of Shijiu Lakeside Village famous.
Two dragons dance together, praying for peace and good fortune. On that day, two giant dragons, "One Green and One Yellow", soared up and down the Qingfeng Village Committee Square, sometimes chasing each other, and sometimes advancing in unison. Nearly 200 people cooperated tacitly and danced into two dragons playing with beads, screws and other map formations. The scene was spectacular and shocking, winning cheers.
"The dragon body has 18 sections, and our dragon body is the sixth section of the Huanglong." Ganlu introduced that the dragon-dreaming villagers mainly come from Helinfang and the nearby three natural villages, Xinzhuang and Fangjiadian. Each family each preserves a dragon body. Whenever the dragon dance comes, each family brings the framed dragon body to meet.
In the memory of Ganlu, dancing dragons is a solemn and festive thing. The most ritualistic thing is the "Check Dragon Head" ceremony before the dragon dance. The villagers participated in the bathing and changing clothes. In the early morning, they beat drums and drums to invite the Shuanglong out of the Shuanglong Hall and held the dragon launch ceremony by the lake, which was to clean the traces of the past paper pasted in bamboo dragon to facilitate re-frame. "I have been following my grandfather and dad since I was a child. I have been able to see it through my eyes and see it long ago." Ganlu said with a smile.
Ganlu's grandfather Gan Minghai is 85 years old this year and is one of the villagers who initiated the restoration of dragon dance. He told reporters that the He Linfang dance tradition of double dragons originated from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty and was interrupted for more than 20 years in the 1960s and 1970s. After the country implemented the household contract responsibility system for , all the families were very motivated, so they had the idea of restoring dragon dance. I hope that the two dragons will continue to bless the villagers with good luck and good weather.
Gan Minghai and another villager Shang Chengcai were responsible for the dragon head and the preparation. It took about a year to complete the weaving of the dragon head and the dragon body bamboo, and Ganlu's grandmother was responsible for sewing the dragon ball. During the Spring Festival in 1983, the two dragons officially started dancing, and the leading actors produced at that time have been used to this day.
For nearly 40 years, the custom of dancing the two dragons has been passed down from generation to generation in the local area, from Ganlu's grandfather to Ganlu's father, and now the baton of dancing the dragon has been passed down to Ganlu's generation.
Yesterday morning, Ganlu and her cousin took down the dragon body hanging on the roof and put them in place. They carefully checked for damage. They saw a broken hole. They cut a small piece of paper and rice paper to repair it. After the repair, they asked grandpa to "accept it".
"Dance dragon dance is self-taught." Ganlu said that people in the village seem to be born to dance dragons and can perform directly without learning. After retiring from the army in 2017, Ganlu became a member of the dragon dance team.
The seemingly simple He Linfang Shuanglong combines traditional techniques such as bamboo weaving, straw weaving, painting, wax making, paper cutting, etc. The candles inside the dragon's body are special candles that will not fall or go out when flying up and down. Good rice paper above the dragon body paste, good toughness and high transparency. To paste and frame the dragon body, various paper-cut patterns must be pasted on the dragon body, including dragons, shrimps, turtles, fish and other water creatures under the rule of dragons, in order to pray for a bumper harvest and good weather in the coming year.
According to previous years, dragon dance dance will be suspended for three years for three years, and the performance will be performed for 3 days in a row. However, after 2017, with the country's emphasis on intangible cultural heritage , He Linfang's Shuanglong ushered in the "golden age" and has been performing for 6 consecutive years. "More and more people like to watch it, and have been invited to perform in , Lishui, urban area many times." Ganlu said that she really didn't expect that this local folk custom was so popular, and she also let the people of the whole country know about He Linfang's Shuanglong through CCTV.
In the view of Ganlu, dragon dancing has become an indispensable New Year atmosphere for the Spring Festival. "In everyone's mind, dragon dancing is a very sacred thing. As long as there is a dragon dancing activity, everyone will actively participate." Ganlu said that as a young generation in the village, he hopes to pass on this tradition.
Customary
No connection can make spring without a couplet, but the spring with couplet is stronger
□ Nanjing Daily/Zijinshan News Reporter Zhu Yan
As the saying goes: No connection can make spring without a couplet, but the spring with couplet is stronger. As the Spring Festival is here, every household should pick beautiful red Spring Festival couplets and paste them on the door to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and add a festive festive atmosphere.
According to "Miscellaneous Thoughts on the Zanyun Tower", "The Spring Festival couplets were set up since Ming Xiaoling . The imperial capital Jinling suddenly issued an order before New Year's Eve: A Spring Festival couplet must be added at the door of the houses of the officials, nobles, scholars and commoners, and the emperor went out to see it to laugh."
According to Gu Kangshun, an expert from Nanjing Studio, during the Ming Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor Taizu, there was a custom of posting Spring Festival couplets in Nanjing. Under the implementation of the Ming Taizu, it gradually became one of the most important New Year customs on New Year's Eve. The predecessor of Spring Festival couplets, Tao Fu, can be traced back to the Song Dynasty.
On the eve of the Lunar New Year, you can see the figures of Spring Festival couplets in the streets and alleys. The words on the Spring Festival couplets write their prospects for the new year and have also become a unique literary work of Chinese tradition. You can see it from the "always replace the old charms with new peaches" mentioned in Wang Anshi "Year Day".
"Miscellaneous Notes of the Sui Shi" says: "The peach talisman is made of thin wooden plates, two or three feet long and four or five inches large. The top is painted with statues of gods, Baize . The bottom is the left and right is the right and Shentu, either writing spring poems or writing prayers. It will be updated in the year of the year." From this we can see that the peach talismans in the Song Dynasty have already had roughly standardized production. And the content seems to have the dual effects of today's Spring Festival couplets and "door god". There are not only hopes and blessings for the New Year, but also images of "door gods" are painted in order to protect family members from outsiders in the new year through "door gods".
This year is the seventh consecutive year Nanjing has held the "City Gate Hanging Spring Festival Couplets and Nanjing Begins in a Good Job" event, creatively integrating the Ming City Wall of the 650s with the intangible cultural heritage such as calligraphy, couplets, and Spring Festival folk customs that have been passed down for thousands of years to create new folk customs and New Year customs with novel forms. Over the past seven years, "Hanging Spring Festival couplets at the city gate and Nanjing has a good start" has been continuously upgraded and innovated. This year, the first time this year, the first time the Han West Gate was added, and the Spring Festival couplets were hung on 13 city gates to welcome the Year of the Tiger.
"Cute" tiger appears on the street
Lunar New Year of the Tiger Spring Festival, there are more tiger elements on the streets, and major shopping malls also place the shape of tiger elements in prominent positions in the store to attract customers and create a strong Spring Festival atmosphere in the Year of the Tiger. The picture shows a cute tiger sculpture on the street in Liuhe District, Nanjing attracting passers-by.
Nanjing Daily/Zijinshan News reporter Dong Jiaxun Photo
Strong, guard
There are not many passengers and do not relax the epidemic prevention and control, Nanjing Bus South Station staff stay at their post on New Year's Eve
16:55, sending away the last passengers back home
□ Nanjing Daily/Zijinshan News reporter Feng Xing
html November 31st is New Year's Eve, and the last bus of Nanjing Bus South Station departs from Nanjing to Huai'an Hongze Passenger Station at 16:55. The pre-ticket system shows that only 4 passengers purchased tickets for this train that day, but the staff of Nanjing Motor South Station stick to their posts and adhere to the service concept of "Love Starting Station" to ensure that passengers return home smoothly."Nanjing to Hongze html is more than 62 hours. Every year, those who take this bus basically rush home to have the New Year's Eve dinner. Some passengers may be in a hurry and leave things. We need to make a reminder." There are already few passengers at the passenger station on New Year's Eve, but Wang Ai, the on-duty station, still reminds his friends to do a good job of reminding and guiding services. The main responsibility of the on-duty station manager is to inspect on-site inspections. On the one hand, patrol the appearance and operation standards of passenger station staff. On the other hand, it is necessary to promptly resolve emergencies in the passenger station. It is also necessary to help key passengers such as the elderly, the weak, the sick, the disabled, and the pregnant, according to the situation, such as registering epidemic prevention for the elderly without smartphones, printing tickets, etc.
Wang Ai told reporters that emergencies are inevitable during the Spring Festival travel rush. Two days ago, in the waiting hall, a little girl's crying made Wang Ai "appear immediately". While comforting the little girl, she took her to the service desk and found someone through the radio, helping the little girl find her mother. It turned out that the girl's mother took her and her sister back to her hometown. In the waiting hall, her sister wanted to go to the toilet. The mother took her sister to go to the toilet for a long time. The little girl became more and more scared and started crying.
There is also. Not long ago, an old man was sweating so hard that he could hardly stand up as soon as he entered the ticket hall. Wang Ai and his colleagues quickly helped the old man to his seat. It turned out that the old man was going to his daughter's house in Fuyang, Anhui. Because he was anxious to eat breakfast, he had symptoms of hypoglycemia. Wang Ai immediately brought bread, candy, and brought hot water. He bought a ticket for the old man and called the old man's daughter. Before sending the old man into the car, Wang Ai grabbed a few more candies and put them in the old man's pocket. He watched the car drive away and left with confidence. At around 116:30, the passengers returning home from the last bus on New Year's Eve arrived at the waiting hall one after another. There were only nearly 20 passengers who pre-sale tickets and those who purchased tickets on site. Many of them were packed with big bags and small bags, and they were carrying gifts. The staff still strictly implement the epidemic prevention requirements such as health code inspection, and also sent passengers prepared New Year's lucky bags and New Year's blessings. "Happy New Year! Safe all the way!" The staff at the ticket gate waved to the last passenger who got on the bus, watched the car door close and slowly drove out of the station, Wang Ai smiled and said, "Watching them happily on the bus going home for the New Year's Eve dinner, we are really happy. This persistence is very fulfilling."
Service
During the Spring Festival, many bank outlets in our city open to the public and
Financial services are not closed, and epidemic prevention and control will not be relaxed. This newspaper (reporter Zhang Anqi) During the Spring Festival holiday, can the financial services launched by banks in Ning meet user needs? Yesterday, the reporter visited and learned that during the festival, some outlets of many banking institutions in our city were open to the public and handled personal business. Citizens interested in handling business can learn about the business hours of relevant bank outlets in advance through WeChat official accounts, telephone consultation and other channels. Online channels such as mobile banking provide financial services 24 hours a day.
htmlOn New Year's Eve on November 31, at the branch of Everbright Bank Branch in Yuhuatai District, the reporter showed Sukang Code , entered the bank after temperature measurement, and saw that the hall was warm and orderly. "It is essential to send New Year's money to juniors during the Chinese New Year. To exchange for some new money, the sense of ceremony is more fulfilling!" Mr. Liu, a citizen, told reporters. On that day, many elderly people came to deposit and withdraw money. Grandma Huang, who was ranked in front of the reporter, registered her personal information and entered the hall. She told reporters that she came here to handle deposits, "I saved some more money in a year and saved them all."Dai Junhong, manager of the business department of the Yuhua Branch of Everbright Bank, told reporters that except for New Year's Eve, outlets on the first and fifth day of the Lunar New Year's Day are open to business, providing new money, change, and financial management consulting services. There are also instant noodles, mineral water and some snacks in the lobby for the elderly in need. For the elderly with mobility difficulties, free wheelchairs and door-to-door services can be provided. "We are an elderly-friendly outlet. During the Spring Festival, the financial manager provides door-to-door services and condolences to the elderly in need before the festival, and promptly solve the elderly's difficulties." Dai Junhong said.
Then the reporter came to a branch of China Construction Bank. The lobby manager told the reporter that there had been a significant increase in people coming to handle business before the festival. He specially prepared masks and other epidemic prevention items in the lobby for citizens in need. He also designated a special person to disinfect self-service equipment such as ATM machines, number calling machines, and stand-alone machines. During the Spring Festival, the bank will coordinate epidemic prevention and control and financial services, and ensure the diversified financial needs of citizens through a combination of online and offline methods.
Source: Nanjing Daily
