Chinanews.com, Liuzhou, July 21st, title: No longer "surrounding children and grandchildren", the elderly pursue quality "tide" in their old age

　　Author Zhu Liurong

　　Fingertips dance on the black and white keys, and beautiful notes pouring out. Piano music such as "Jasmine" and "Song of Spring" haunted the home of 93-year-old Zheng Meihua in Liuzhou City, Guangxi on July 20.

　　The player is sitting in front of the piano with gray-haired Zheng Meihua.

"I only started to learn piano by myself when I was 80 years old. The piano was given by my daughter." Zheng Meihua picked up a piano tutorial and introduced it with a smile. She practiced little by little according to the method of reading music, fingering, and music in the book.

The corners of the cover of Zheng Meihua's piano tutorial have been frayed, and the yellowed pages are marked with "30 points, 50 points, 60 points..." These numbers are the records of the length of time she practiced a piece of music each time.

Mossfa is practicing yoga.

Photo by Zhu Liurong

　　Nowadays, Zheng Meihua starts a new day by playing the piano almost every day, then practicing Taijiquan or writing Chinese calligraphy.

"I don't like living with my children and grandchildren. These hobbies make my life more interesting and happier." Zheng Meihua introduced that Tai Chi started practicing before retirement. Calligraphy has been studied in senior colleges for more than 10 years. "Only in good health can I live. A quality life in old age".

　　Zheng Meihua is not the only one who does not turn around "children and grandchildren" and pursues the "trend" of quality in his later years.

　　In a yoga studio in Liujiang District, Liuzhou City, among all female students, Mosfa with gray eyebrows is the only male and the oldest one.

Accompanied by music, the 84-year-old Mosfa stepped on the beats to perform various yoga asanas, supporting the ground with his legs hanging in the air, and a horse... which made some of his young "classmates" feel ashamed.

　　Mosfa said frankly that more than a decade after his retirement, he had been monotonous and lacking "technical content."

"I don't know what to do, every day is fishing." Mosfa said that five years ago his son said he wanted to learn yoga, and he was curious to join him. Later, his son gave up, and he insists on practicing for one hour a day.

"I have no illnesses in my eighties, and I can travel frequently. I can't live without yoga."

　　The results of the seventh national census showed that the population of China aged 60 and over was 264.02 million, accounting for 18.70%.

With the deepening of aging, the pursuit of quality "fashion" life is no longer the "patent" of young people.

　　According to Dr. Cui Juan from the Department of Social Work, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, with the rapid development of social economy and the changing concept of the times, the economic income and living standards of the elderly are continuously improving. They have time to plan, pursue and realize a more quality life in their later years, actively integrate into the trend of social development, and keep up with the development of the times.

　　Liuzhou retired couple Wang Shengcai and Tan Rongfei began to enjoy the "two-person world" after sending their grandson to school every day.

The two stood in front of their mobile phones and took short videos of singing and performance, and then uploaded them to the short video platform.

In the past year or so, the two accounts have posted hundreds of short videos and received more than 100,000 likes.

Wang Shengcai and Tan Rongfei were shooting short videos.

Photo by Zhu Liurong

　　"I used to go to the park every day to listen to people singing, my wife buys vegetables, cooks, and picks up my grandchildren at home." 71-year-old Wang Shengcai introduced. In February last year, his grandson taught them to shoot short videos and gave them a "cloud stage" to show themselves. , "Unexpectedly, the'performance dream' that was delayed when I was young was realized through the Internet."

　　Wang Shengcai and Tan Rongfei are just a microcosm of the elderly enriching their old age through the Internet.

The "2020 Elderly Internet Life Report" shows that the average daily Internet usage time for elderly users over 60 years old reaches 64.8 minutes, which is 16.2 minutes longer than users over 40 years old.

　　Cui Juan said that the high-quality old age life of the elderly is also inseparable from the promotion of services for the elderly. The government, social forces and other institutions for the elderly have provided them with service places and hardware facilities.

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