China News Service, Yiyang, April 22 (Zhou Yunfeng and Zhou Yi) "Happy birthday to you..." In the cheerful and melodious singing, 70 elderly people from Dongshan Village, Dafu Town, Anhua County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province gathered at the Village Service Center on the 21st. Participate in the collective birthday activities prepared for them by the two village committees and the working team in the village.
These old people are all 60 to 90 years old this year on their tenth birthday.
Dongshan Village is a remote mountain village in Anhua County.
Since the village revitalization team of the Organization Department of Anhua County Party Committee entered the village last year, it started with the establishment of rural civilization, paid close attention to the construction of mass spiritual civilization, and led the new trend of rural civilization.
Since March, the whole village has carried out special rectifications to curb human misunderstandings and foster new civilizations, advocating new marriages, simple funerals, and nothing else. Through in-depth propaganda and mobilization, themed party days and party classes are held, and the village rules are revised. Measures such as civil pacts have effectively curbed the tendency to hold banquets and have received positive responses from the villagers.
The event kicked off with the laughter and laughter of the old birthday stars. The person in charge of the working team in the village read out the list of 70 birthday stars. The representatives sent blessings and gifts to the 60-year-old, 70-year-old, 80-year-old and 90-year-old birthday stars respectively. .
The elderly make wishes, blow out candles, cut cakes, and share the joy of birthdays with everyone.
In the special planning part of the group birthday party, "The Moment of Warm Confession", the blessing videos recorded by children and descendants living in the world were played in turn, and the warm words moved the elderly to tears.
"This is the first time to celebrate a birthday in a group. It's fresh and lively, and it feels very warm." Ning Zhihui and Ning Wusong's daughter is a migrant worker in Shenzhen, and has not been home for two years. The sincere blessing makes the old man feel Caring for distant children.
Ning Zhigen, secretary of the Party branch of Dongshan Village, said that the new method of "collective birthday celebration" eliminates the bad habit of comparing each other and doing big things. The traditional virtue of loving one's relatives realizes the desire of the masses to hold birthday banquets for the elderly, and promotes the new civilized fashion of diligence and thrift, housekeeping and strict economy.
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