Who said that the elderly can't "tide"?"Rock Grandma" band sang youth with music

The "Rock Grandma" band is in rehearsal.

I want to fly higher, fly higher, and dance like the wind ... "The protagonist of singing this passionate song is a band with an average age of nearly 70 years. Among them, a grandma played particularly in investment. She It is Dong Yunrong, who is the band's sponsors and is known as the "Rock Grandma".

The 78 -year -old Dong Yunrong was thin and charming with a smile. But when she was thin, she picked up the guitar and started playing, but she could make a different momentum. For more than ten years, the melody flowing between her fingers not only brought enjoyment to the audience, but also merged into public welfare, turning music power into greater energy, helping more vulnerable groups to feel the beauty of life.

A few days ago, Dong Yunrong was selected by the Eighth China Ci Xiao Culture Festival in 2022 as "2022 Chinese Ci Filial Filial Filial Person/Group". Establishing bands, participating in public welfare, and passing positive spirit, she "surf" in the trend of the times with the rhythm of rock, and has become a model for practicing happy pensions with the "tide people" style.

"Rock Grandma" band took a group photo.

From lyric to rock music pass love

In 2007, in order to resolve the sorrow of her husband, Dong Yunrong regained his hobbies of the two when he was young and began to learn guitar. A person's "playing music" was a bit lonely. She pulled her classmates in the guitar class of the elderly university and began to "play band".

Two years later, the band established the Hangzhou Fenghe Guitar Band in the name of "Qu Yuan Fenghe", one of the ten scenic spots in the rehearsal place.

Dong Yunrong told reporters that the band had only four or five people at first, and then grown all the way, now there are more than 20 people. "But our members are always dominated by the elderly, and now the average age is close to 70 years."

As the band fame rose, they appeared on the TV show. The program formed band tries to a younger route. As a result, grandparents changed the lyrical tunes of the past.

After hard work, the face and clear rock rhythm of the wind and frost can be perfectly integrated together.

"At first I didn't know much about rock music, and then slowly found this taste." Dong Yunrong said that in order to fit the rock style, the band joined the new instruments such as the drum, electric guitar, bass and electronic piano. "Now we often look at how young people play rock and learn from them."

Whether it is lyric or rock, Dong Yunrong loves music as always, and loves the life of playing music. "My guitar is on the bedside." She said that the first thing she woke up every day was to practice the song first, because at this time, she had better memory, and she always felt refreshing after playing.

The charm of music also infected with other family members, and the whole family supported Dong Yunrong to form a band. Dong Yunrong said that she would also teach her son and daughter to sing. The granddaughter first learned the guitar and singing. She also accompanied her grandmother to participate in the performance.

Persist in participating in public welfare and often pregnant with great love

"There is no floral fragrance, no tree height, I am a little grass that no one knows ..." Recalling the experience of participating in the public welfare activities for the first time, Dong Yunrong couldn't help but beat him. " Although she has passed on the past 11 years, she is still vivid.

At that time, Dong Yunrong and the other two members of the band were invited to a blind school in Hangzhou for a public welfare performance. She also brought her little granddaughter. The classroom was very quiet until the granddaughter started singing, and the blind students in the audience suddenly became excited and sang with the guitar.

The blind students' love and desire for music deeply touched Dong Yunrong. For the first time, she really felt the inner strength of music. "After that performance, I learned that playing guitar singing can also help others."

Since then, Dong Yunrong and the band members have "out of control" and insist on participating in public welfare activities. They brought the guitar to the community, welfare home, orphanage, and brought comfort for the anti -Japanese war veterans and dementia. Since last year, the "Rock Grandma" band also cooperated with the "Blue Vest" volunteer team to collectively create "Song of Blue Vests" to help more elderly people learn to use smartphones.

"In the process of volunteer services and public welfare activities, I feel sometimes forgotten the age." Dong Yunrong never believes that the elderly are a group that can only passively wait for the service. "I think the elderly should keep up with the trend of the times, so while we do this ourselves, we will also help other elderly people."

"Surfing" in the times practice happy pension

Living in Hangzhou, where the digital economy developed, Dong Yunrong's life also collided with the Internet.

As early as the beginning of the guitar, Dong Yunrong began to record the singing process and uploaded it to the video website. This habit remained to this day. Later, she was willing to try one by one on social platforms such as Weibo and circle of friends and used it as a joy to share life.

"Now is an online society, we must conform to the trend of the times." At the same time as "surfing" on the Internet, Dong Yunrong also noticed that many elderly people still did not use smartphones, which was slightly confused in the tide of the times. Therefore, she and the band extended their smartphones to the elderly, and hoped that her experience would make more elderly people see the diversity of a better life.

In Dong Yunrong's view, cultivating friends who belong to their own hobbies and interaction with the same way are greatly beneficial to the elderly. This kind of self -fun life is the ideal state of the elderly. At the same time, children encourage their parents to develop their own hobbies and support them to maintain a happy mood of sunshine is also a kind of filial piety.

"We are happy, our children are at ease; we are healthy, and the country reduces the burden." Through music and public welfare, Dong Yunrong not only harvested a healthy physique and happy life, but also assumed social responsibility and created greater social value.Her happy attitude of life is an excellent manifestation of the concept of piety in the new era.Source: China News Network

Edit: Zhou Yulu

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