Wearing a knee-length dress, a pair of dark flat shoes, and holding a sheet music in his hand, Lin Jiezheng and his classmates sang the song "Heavenly Edge" over and over again in the multi-functional room, doing the final rehearsal for the next literary and art entering the community.

With everyone's cadence singing, from far away, you can hear the singing drifting into your ears, pushing the door and entering, everyone sings vigorously and is enjoyable to listen to.

69-year-old Lin Jie signed up for the elderly school in Wanli Street, Jiujiang District, Wuhu City, Anhui Province as early as 6 years ago. She is not only the oldest student, but also the most enrolled student. There are classes every day.

Every time I talk about senior schools with my family, I joke that I work at the school. "It makes people feel like they are still in school." Lin Jie said bluntly.

Located in Huaqiang Community, Wanli Street Senior School was founded in 2015. It offers a number of courses including dance, painting and calligraphy, guzheng, piano, tea art, opera, etc. It provides professional expertise for middle-aged and elderly friends in 6 communities in Wanli Street. Cultural and artistic education services.

Here, Lin Jie and other classmates started from scratch, persisted for many years, and gradually turned from a layman to an expert in chorus, so that the elderly can live with dependence, learn, and enjoy themselves.

Lin Jie was either a participant or a witness to all the performances in the senior school. Because of her age and her love for "mixing", she was affectionately called "Secretary-General" at the school.

"If you have a good mentality and good health, wherever you see chorus in the park or dancing in the square, you can't help but step up to give guidance. Having fun with everyone should be the life of our elderly." Lin Jie said.

In the Huaqiang Community of Wanli Street, it used to be a typical suburban fringe. Among the 3,300 households with a resident population of 6,800 people, there are more than 2,800 elderly people over 60 years old.

Aging is becoming more and more obvious. How to make "silver-haired people" have more sense of gain and happiness, and change from "old-age" in the traditional concept to "enjoy the old"? It has become the primary problem to be solved by the street community.

In 2015, Wanli Street took the lead and invited professional teachers and professional teams to set up a school for the elderly by purchasing services, allowing more elderly people to learn new knowledge, make new friends, and find new fun.

According to Zan Zhiwei, Secretary of the Party Committee of Huaqiang Community, the original intention of the school for the elderly is to use culture and art as a carrier to bring the elderly together. Everyone is of similar age and interests, and there are many common topics. Through the platform of the elderly school, in addition to being able to fully Showing yourself, but also enriching the retirement life of the elderly.

Tao Dailan, 60, was an employee of the Wuhu Printing and Dyeing Factory before retiring. When I was young, I liked to sing and dance, but I never learned it systematically. After coming to the senior school, she enrolled in dance, vocal music and waist drum classes in one go. For several years, she has never stopped attending the school.

Before class, she is always the first to arrive; after class, she is keen to share what she has learned with more people, and her changes have also become an "admission advertisement" for senior schools. No, under her influence, his wife Tao Yunhai, who usually doesn't like to talk, also joined the senior school, and she became not only an old couple, but also an old classmate.

"I don't have time when I go to work, and I don't have this condition. Now I retire and make up for it later. It's a fulfillment of my youthful dream." Tao Dailan told the Anhui Channel of People's Daily Online. on!

As the executive principal of the Wanli Street Senior School, Xue Lei watched the school come step by step. At the beginning of its establishment, there were only a few dozen students, but now there are nearly a thousand students, the oldest of whom is 83 years old and the average age is 56 years old.

"I deal with uncles and aunts every day. After the senior school became popular, the chess and card rooms around the community were closed one after another." Xue Lei joked that coming here to take classes, study together, and buy vegetables together, the big guys don't feel lonely at all, and I didn't feel left behind.

At present, Wanli Street Senior School has set up 16 characteristic cultural and sports teams for the elderly, with more than 1,200 hours of free teaching hours throughout the year, and nearly 30,000 people participating in training in various subjects throughout the year. To its credit, the school was also rated as a model school for the elderly in Anhui Province.