What do you imagine old age is like, taking a walk? play cards? Do the dam dance? There are elderly owners in such a community. They carry out dozens of activities such as T-stage shows, photography exhibitions, poetry sharing classes, dance exchanges, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, chorus performances, and musical instrument performances, making their lives more colorful than young people.
On June 19, the first Art of Living Season of China Railway Renzhi Health City ushered in the closing ceremony. At the closing ceremony, the intoxicating singing of the chorus, the graceful dance of the cheongsam show on the runway, and the accompaniment of the accordion... The elderly owners on the stage presented a wonderful artistic feast for everyone.
This living art season lasts for 42 days. In addition to the performances at the opening and closing ceremonies, there are also cultural and art weeks, music and dance art weeks, visual art weeks, living art weeks, and singing Friday theme weeks. It is worth mentioning that the behind-the-scenes directors of this Art of Living Season are 21 elderly art societies in Health City, and all event design and stage performances are planned by them.
The Elderly Art Association exhibited hundreds of outstanding works in this Living Art Season, attracting 7 external cultural teams and a number of big names in the arts and performance circles to share and exchange. In the past 42 days, they have vividly displayed the folk cultural life, healthy life, harmonious life and happy life of China Railway Renzhi Healthy City.
The first elderly art club in the community was the China Railway Renzhi Health City Chorus Club, which was initiated by Tan Jianmin, a teacher who used to teach at the Chongqing Children's Palace. Later, due to different hobbies, age levels, and activity time, 20 art clubs were successively extended. Covering singing, dancing, painting and calligraphy, runway show, photography, table tennis, piano, cucurbit flute, etc., it attracted nearly 600 seniors, ranging in age from their 50s to their 90s. It is understood that during the art of living season, the community has also newly established a literary club and a male model team.
"I used to retire and didn't know how to pass the time, but now I feel that I don't have enough time. There are various activities here, and daily life is very fulfilling. Moreover, the cultural environment here has completely changed me, and I feel like I'm growing in reverse." China Railway Renzhi Liu Changming, a member of the Health City Literature Club, said that in the past, he was a house girl. He only knew two families in the community where he lived for 12 years. When he came to China Railway Renzhi Health City, he made hundreds of friends in less than a few months. Now she has joined the painting and calligraphy club, the literary club, the vocal music improvement class and other clubs, and her retirement life is very fulfilling.
The organizer of the event, Yang Bin, general manager of China Railway Tenth Bureau China Railway Health Care Industry Investment and Operation Co., Ltd., said that for the elderly, it is better to encourage them to "enjoy the old age" rather than let them "retire". As early as 2014, China Railway Tenth Bureau, on the basis of traditional elderly care services, integrated health management services and cultural elderly care concepts, etc., to explore a road for the construction and operation of "active retirement communities" suitable for China, and to build "medical care, health care, intelligent The eight-in-one new home-based elderly care model of "Juleyou" allows the elderly to "reserve the elderly at all stages" in the community, and truly realize that the elderly can be productive and enjoy themselves.