This grandpa Changde is amazing! From 2020 to the present, it has insisted on teaching the elderly to play the folk music Hulusi every week, and brought out 100 "students" in two years.

On the afternoon of March 17, 72-year-old Xiong Yong came to the cultural and sports activity room of Hongwei Community, Qiming Street, Wuling District, and quietly waited for the arrival of the students. Since 2020, Xiong Yong has insisted on teaching more than 100 elderly people in the community to play the folk music Hulusi every week.

Xiong Yong is an ordinary retiree. Because of his love for music, he insisted on self-taught Hulusi for many years. In March 2020, a party member volunteer in the Hongwei community proposed to invite him to teach the elderly people in the area to play the national musical instrument cucurbit flute. He immediately bought the cucurbit flute teaching material out of his own pocket and quickly set up a course. For a time, the elderly signed up one after another, and the community colleges for the elderly were crowded. "Your gesture is wrong, you have to do it like this." "The rhythm of this section is a bit fast, it would be better if it was slower." In class, Xiong Yong played the cucurbit flute as a demonstration, and patiently explained the performance skills to the residents. During the two-hour course, the "older" students under the stage played meticulously and studied very seriously.

Xiong Yong told reporters that many elderly people have inflexible fingers and weak comprehension skills. He starts from the most basic knowledge of genealogy. For those with slow progress, he will also "open a small stove". There are often students after class. Ask him about his music knowledge. Under the guidance of Xiong Yong, many students have been able to play dozens of pieces of music independently. Seeing the joy of their peers, they are also full of sense of accomplishment.

"I couldn't play at first, but Teacher Xiong guided me very patiently. Now I can play on stage." Luo Hongbing, a 65-year-old resident, said happily that she has been learning how to play cucurbits with Xiong Yong for more than a year. Time, it turned out that after retirement, I lived a simple life, either in a teahouse or watching TV at home. Since I learned folk music, I have more friends and a better mood. Now I can not only perform for relatives and friends, but also often perform on stage. "There are many older people like me, and we all find some of the little joys in old age here."

According to the relevant person in charge of Hongwei Community, Xiong Yong will come to Hongwei Community every Wednesday and Thursday afternoon to teach residents to play cucurbits for free. At present, there are more than 100 students, the youngest is 51 years old and the oldest is 80 years old . At present, the "senior class" offered by the community also includes vocal music class and smart phone application class. The original intention of opening the senior class is to build a platform for middle-aged and elderly friends in the jurisdiction to learn and communicate. In the classrooms of these community colleges for the elderly, every resident can be a teacher and every resident can be a student, accompany and learn from each other.