China News Agency, Chengdu, March 26, by title: Visiting the Chengdu Tea Room and Mahjong Pavilion after the Lifting of the Ban: The Returning Fireworks
Author He Yan list Peng Wang Peng
The blue iron plates of "suspended business" were withdrawn to the side, a row of copper teapots were neatly arranged in front of the tiger stove, and the bluestone slabs mopped by the mop were still dry ... On the 26th, more than a dozen female workers were present in Chengdu People's Park The tea set is cleaned in the Heming Teahouse with a history of nearly 100 years. Mei Hongqiong, a staff member of Heming Tea Club, introduced that the tea club will resume business the day after tomorrow. Before the official business, everyone still has a "big project"-putting hundreds of bamboo chairs and wooden tables piled up in the yard.
In Sichuan, whether it is Chunxi Road, a busy street, or a residential area between ordinary alleys, tea and mahjong have already become a part of people's lives.
On March 25, Sichuan issued an announcement to terminate the provisions of "suspending the opening of business places such as mahjong pavilions, tea rooms, and Internet cafes with cross-contagion risks" and "suspending the organization of group dinners" during the epidemic. Since the outbreak, the mahjong pavilion and tea room have returned to the sight of people.
Xu Hui, a 50-year-old citizen of Chengdu, is a regular visitor to Heming Teahouse. Since the tea house is temporarily closed, he brought his own teapot and cup, and sat on the bamboo chair of the tea house to enjoy the quiet time of spring day. As soon as someone passed by, Xu Hui would take out the camera to capture a close-up of a tourist at Heming Tea House. "I have been taking photos here for two years, and I have taken tens of thousands of photos." Xu Hui said that as a native of Chengdu, about three or five tea friends who have made bowls of morning tea and put on the Longmen array (Sichuan dialect "chat") have become him. Lifestyle.
In Sichuan, it is often difficult to separate the mahjong hall from the tea room. Most mahjong halls are named after the tea room, and most tea rooms also include mahjong entertainment. Just entering the Baiheju Tea House located outside the city wall of Chengdu North School Field West Road, you can hear the sound of Mahjong in the private room. A waiter hurriedly passed a few cups of jasmine tea on a tray.
"We are open early, middle, and late, but our business is only half of what it was in the past." Bai Heju Tea Shop owner Su Ke introduced that his tea shop has resumed business for a week. After getting community business approval, he contacted a professional cleaning company. , Thoroughly disinfect the walls, doors and windows, glass, floor, curtains, and also provide customers with medical disinfectant.
In fact, before the announcement of the "lifting of the ban" was announced, some areas in Sichuan had "unbundled" mahjong pavilions and tea houses. Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Health and Health Committee Party Secretary and Deputy Commander of the Provincial Emergency Response Command for New Coronary Pneumonia Rooms, farmhouses, swimming pools, gyms and other indoor sports fields and recreational venues.
Chen Ke runs a small mahjong hall with a capacity of only 5 tables outside the South Third Ring Road in Chengdu. A few days before the mahjong pavilion's "unban" announcement was issued, the mahjong enthusiast had approved normal operations through the community. "Before the epidemic, there were no problems with two or three tables a day, and now sometimes we may not have one table a day, everyone is still more cautious." Chen Ke said that rent is the main cost of the small mahjong hall. During the epidemic, the landlord has reduced some rent. Although the business is deserted for the time being, but the Mahjong-loving one is still ready to continue business.
"At present, the risk of local epidemics in Sichuan is very low. It is mainly to prevent foreign imports. The possibility of encountering a source of infection in the Mahjong Pavilion may be lower than winning a lottery." Professor of Epidemiology, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Provincial Health and Health Commission Luan Rongsheng, deputy leader of the epidemic prevention and control group of the Leading Group for New Coronavirus Pneumonia, said that Sichuan currently proposes to terminate the business ban on mahjong halls, tea rooms and other places, but the relatively closed business places should still be orderly on the premise of good killing open.
According to Liu Lu, a professor at the School of Economics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, drinking tea and playing mahjong are long-term gathering activities. They are also an ordinary, subtle, and pyrotechnic part of people's lives. "Written in the government announcement reflects the government's confidence in the prevention and control of the epidemic. It also means that more and more people in Sichuan are returning to their daily lives. They should eat, drink, and play. (Finish)