2018 RCI Seniors Lantern Festival Activities

Zhongtian Haoyueming is everywhere in the world

On February 24, 2018, as the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival is about to usher in, the Hongye Cultural Association Recreation House held an activity to celebrate the Lantern Festival at Tansley woods Community Activity Center. The event consisted of a replay of the "Recreation Home Spring Festival Activity Video", wonderful performances, prize-winning puzzles, and a thank you dinner. There are eight large round tables in the hall, full of seats, and it is very lively.

At the beginning of the event, the host Ms. Song Ruzhu first asked Zhang Lei, the head of the Hongye Cultural Association to make a brief summary of the "Spring Festival Gala", and then watched the short film "Review and Prospect of Hongye Cultural Association's Five-Year History" and some performances of the Spring Festival. Then, the elderly performed on stage one after another. There were sweet and warm duet between boys and girls, "Aobao Meet" and "Hongyan"; there were cheerful and high-pitched girls singing solo; there was a long-distance male duet singing "Sky Boundary"; and there were different styles of violin. , Harmonica, erhu solo; elegant and graceful classical fan dance; funny tongue twisters and allegro; and "Yuanji dance" showing the healthy posture of the elderly. There was applause in the venue, and the cheers continued.

In the prize-winning guessing session, the designer, Mr. Tian, first explained the purpose of the question. First, it is closely related to the theme of the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival. Under the colorful wall of riddles, the heads were crowded, and the elders guessed with interest "Couples", "New Year's Greetings", "Happy Days", "Fresh and Fresh", "Farming Years", "Belt and Road", and "February spring breeze is like scissors" "Wait 28 riddles. Surprised again and again, the scene was enthusiastic!

After all the fun, Kangle House provides the elderly with traditional Chinese delicacies such as chicken, beef, pot stickers, fried noodles, vegetables and mochi. The elders savored, chatted and laughed happily. Each smiley face is full of joy; each greeting contains affection; each blessing is looking forward to the future.

During the Lantern Festival in a foreign country, although there is no big scene of lion dancing and watching lanterns, our celebration party can be said to be the heat of performance, guessing, and dinner. Lively, prosperous, happy and happy. Three hours later, the elders had a wonderful holiday time together in the Recreation Home. Saying goodbye to the cold winter, spring girls come to us. Congratulations on the prosperity of the Kangle Home, every elderly friend is safe and healthy, happy and happy!

                                    Contributed by Zhang Jinhua
                                        February 24, 2018