Preparing for the special day.
Since the second day that I arrived Datian, Me and my partner immediately started to join the activities with other people.
Every morning, we practice playing Bamboo drum (Bamboo is the symbol of Jiaxian) and dancing together with all of the people in the Community Center, all the Elderly and young people joins the performance having a positive and happy atmosphere with a lot of laughing and cheering.
"People in Jiaxian still recover and become strong after the great loss..."
Jiaxian Taro & Bamboo shoot Festival will be organized in bamboo’s season, which is around August and September, is to celebrate the rebirth of Jiaxian people , similar to the bamboo sticks, Jiaxian people still recover and regrow after being cut down or damage. The festival is also an occasion to show other the local products and resources, such as taros, bamboo shoots, plums and others.
We started bringing our products and equipements to the festival area in the early morning on Sunday, everybody arrived very early and all are excited. When we arrived, all join hands and helping each other to prepare and put on the selling products on the display table.
Aims to market taros, bamboo shoots, plums, and various foods produced locally.
We decided to sell Lemons, Noodle, Ginger, Dried fruit, cold Tea and Tumeric powder. All of the produce can be represent the local product of Jiaxian and got provided by the neighborhood and locals. Taro and Bamboo, which are the most popular and the symbols of Jiaxian. Especially Bamboo shoots, meaning of the recover and rebirth no matter what happened and lost of Xiaolin people, as well as Jiaxian.
Joining hand for sharing and caring.
At 11:00Am, We started to give out lunch box for people who came to the festival, they will sign their name and get a coupon, and then use the coupon to exchange for lunch box in the lunch box giving area.
There are many volunteers came to help preparing and giving out the lunch box, as well as many people come from other communities, even far away senior, worker, elderly people will all be able to received their free lunch and enjoying the festival. The lunch giving area is very crowded and full of people came to take their lunch, so even though we had a lot of people helping, the pace of preparing and giving out food was very fast and rushing. But despite all the hot weather, crowded and tired, I still put on my smile and feel great for giving out my work for good deed, do good thing and having fun working together with other nice, friendly people.
In the afternoon, our performance began, everybody started to setting up the stage by bringing bamboo drum and arrange to position. After everything ready, it’s or time to shine on stage! Our performance was awesome, everybody was really happy and enjoy even we still have some part messed up. But it’s not about doing right, it’s about having fun, enjoying working together, practice together, performing together, smile and laughing together. All of us were really happy, all people cheered for us, clapped for us, I can feel the awesome atmosphere, the joy of our Elder and I can see bright smiles are all on our Elderly like it was their happiest day they’ve ever had.
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