The cold snap of winter suddenly came without even saying hello. On weekends, I went to the library as usual, doing the same boring things. I turned over one essay after another, offending and stealing the fine sentences of my predecessors. Open a page. The time flowing through your fingertips has brought you lines of shy and wonderful words. With these similar words, when there is nothing to write in the future, you can plan anything at will.
Time will not stand still because of my inner peace, and the sky will be darker and hazy. At dusk, the library broadcast came a warm reminder that the library was closed. It is extremely difficult to give up. Pack up your schoolbag and put the book back on the shelf, like a farewell couple who won't put it down for a long time.
On the cultural square outside the library, there is a dance music "The Most Dazzling National Style". Echoing the prestige, in the center of the square, a group of people are dancing on the chic and gorgeous stage. Jump out of the wonderful and dance out of health! The eye-catching slogan is called "Dancing Forest". I happened to meet the Shunde Square Dance Competition, and today's exhaustion was not in vain.
Square dance is nothing more than entertainment for middle-aged women, but how can young people be willing to give in if they want to compete and dance? An old woman is a work of art that needs to be processed in the eyes of a skilled makeup artist. A buttock of pink, a touch of rouge, and a few paintings with thick eyebrows and red lips are fascinating. Girls in the flower season or Lori don't need too much carving. Apply a few strokes of light makeup blush and remove tender breasts. Elegant and beautiful, the audience salivated.
Speaking of square dance, I have to say a few more words. Participants in the square dance are mostly middle-aged and elderly people, most of whom are women. The scene of the throngs of aunts dancing to the music has become a beautiful landscape in various cities. However, some people love it as honey, while others hate it as arsenic. Dynamic dance steps have injected a lot of vitality into the city, and the high decibel noise that followed is also terrible. However, the residents around us are increasingly dissatisfied with the square dance, throwing dung, throwing water bags, shooting, and even putting Tibetan mastiffs and high-pitched guns. Aunties want to enrich their lives and residents want to have a quiet environment. How to have the best of both worlds has aroused heated discussion.
Whenever night falls and the lights are on, the squares in every corner of the city usher in the most lively moment of the day. Countless aunts and grandfathers flocked to some empty places in the city. During the day, they are engaged in various jobs or lose themselves in housework. At night, as long as there is an open space and a big enough stereo, they can enjoy their happy nightlife.
No society will stop people from singing and dancing, let alone in this era of national fitness. When personal desires conflict with public interests, there is never a lack of discussion on finding solutions. Some people propose a total ban on square dance, some suggest legislation, and others think it is bound by the convention.
There are many such attempts. In a certain district of Jinan, dancing aunts carry wireless headphones, which neither disturb the people nor immerse themselves in music; Beijing Jingshan Park signed an agreement with the dance team to adjust the volume of audio and sound reinforcement equipment to below a certain decibel; There is a "Square Dance Self-discipline Association" in Changsha, where aunts agree to abide by a fixed time and place to eliminate interference with community residents; Changchun hired community sports fitness coaches to monitor the noise of square dance; From 22: 00 every day to 6: 00 the next day, it is forbidden to use musical instruments and tweeters in Guangzhou Park ... Perhaps the controversy caused by square dance will continue, but this does not seem to affect the enthusiasm of participants and the cold eyes of opponents.
In the square near my work place, I occasionally stop by for a minute to appreciate the vitality of my aunts. The sunset is like red. Look, the music is playing, waving, swinging legs, sliding ... The aunts are doing every movement in an orderly way, and the fashionable young people say a few disapproving complaints and rush by. Although I am in a hurry, I never complain. Because I hope my parents can, like them, put down the family burden that they have carried for most of their lives and jump happily. Jump out of their long-term immersion passion and dance out of their health.
To outsiders, square dance is just a boring nuisance. However, for the participants, it is "the whole entertainment life". Middle-aged and elderly people always worry too much, act too little and have a heavy burden. They dare not spend money and have no time. Most of the aunts and grandmothers who dance in the square dance are still taking care of their grandchildren. Only when they have a short free time every morning or evening will they come out to steal time. "Dancing is actually more like many lonely old people holding a group to keep warm." Tian Yang, an assistant researcher at the Institute of Population Studies of Shandong Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the phenomenon of empty nesters is becoming more and more serious, and square dance has become a way for them to communicate and comfort each other.
It has been found that the activity places of middle-aged and elderly people in China are not only very limited, but also unevenly distributed, short of facilities and low utilization rate. For activities that require cultural, technical and economic conditions, such as playing Tai Ji Chuan, playing ball, painting and calligraphy, and learning computer, the participation rate of the elderly in urban and rural areas is less than 10%. In this case, the simple and easy-to-learn square dance is naturally loved by middle-aged and elderly people.
In the face of questioning the voice of square dance, perhaps we should think about why urban planning and design did not leave a sufficient and reasonable public space for people to meet spiritual and cultural needs. Why is the city's infrastructure service not enough to support a mass activity? As some commentators have said, there is nothing wrong with the square dance itself, except that it is danced in the wrong place. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds if we could give them a reasonable space without disturbing the people and enriching their spare time?
The sky was hazy, so I looked back at the slogan, thought about it carefully, and walked back slowly. "Jump out of the wonderful and dance out of health." Because my stomach has been spoiled, I have no choice but to bid farewell to the unfinished rehearsal before the game. I only hate not having the chance to see the wonderful Saile fighting dance. I hope I can still have my stage when I am old!