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A love act: 90-year-old painter's family reunion dinner


Around 120 security guards and elderly empty nesters, parents whose grown-up children work and live in other Chinese cities or abroad, in SIP Dushi Garden community gathered and enjoyed the warm family reunion dinner on Jan 12. Residents in Dushi Garden all know that this "family reunion dinner" was entertained by Zhang Jixin, one of the residents of Dushi Garden, who has hosted this "standard event of Spring Festival" for 13 years.

Zhang, 90, a painter of Wu School, had the idea of entertaining the property management personnel at festivals when he moved to Dushi Garden 13 years ago. Ever since, the social workers would assist him to arrange the family reunion dinner and the issuance of festive goods. A few days ago, Zhang gave 20,000 Yuan to his daughter Zhang Xiaoqin and asked her to help arrange the dinner to treat the security guards and volunteers.

Besides dinner and festive goods, this year he also gave away a popular science book on health to each of them and hoped they would acquire more knowledge on health care.

Zhang's philanthropic care has moved and warmed many people.

A security guard named Sun said that Zhang not only has the family reunion dinner with them at Spring Festival, but also gives them zongzi (a kind of glutinous rice dumpling wrapped in reed leaf) at Dragon Boat Festival and mooncakes in Mid-Autumn Festival every year.


Source:Suzhou Daily
January 14, 2017