The opening ceremony of this competition. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
The opening ceremony of this competition. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
Yu Kewen, former vice chairman of the CPPCC of Henan province and chairman of the Provincial Sports Association for the elderly, announced the opening of the competition. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
Match site. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
Match site. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
Match site. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
Match site. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
Match site. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
Match site. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
Match site. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
Match site. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
Match site. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
Kevin took a group photo with representatives of the winners. Photo taken by Deng Xiaoqiang
Yushi network Changyuan, December 26th(Reporter Deng Xiaoqiang) on the evening of December 25, “the new era welcomes the 70th anniversary of China and the new image shows the new style of sports for the elderly” The finals of the second senior square dance competition in Henan province ended in the stadium of Changyuan city, 438 elderly square dance enthusiasts from 24 units in all provincial cities and direct counties (cities) participated in the competition, showing the healthy and progressive style of the elderly in Henan in the new era and pursuing excellence.
The former vice chairman of the CPPCC of Henan province, the chairman of the Provincial Sports Association for the elderly, Wang Shuyi, the vice chairman of the Provincial Sports Association, Zhang Zhenzhong, the deputy inspector of the provincial sports bureau, Zhang Tong, Xia Zhizhong, Yan Lei, li Yi and other leaders attended the event and presented awards to the winning team.
It is understood that the second square dance competition for the elderly in Henan province was hosted by Henan Sports Bureau and Henan Sports Association for the elderly. It is divided into four stages. The first three stages are all townships, towns and towns in the province from April to May, the street office trials, the county, city and district trials from June to July and the provincial and municipal trials from September to October, are hosted by Changyuan Municipal People’s Government, Changyuan Municipal Sports Management Center, Municipal Sports Association for the elderly, the final co-organized by the Municipal Sports Federation is the fourth stage. According to statistics, after being fully launched and widely carried out, this year, 18 provincial cities, 9 directly managed counties and cities, and provincial authorities organized 351 trials on Sports Institute of old people, with a total of 5974 teams and more than 13960 participants participating in the competition, it has led to the extensive development of square dance activities for the elderly in the whole province.
This Finals set up two projects: prescribed routine and self-selected routine. The participating teams all represent the highest level in all regions and are a big gathering, display and communication among the elderly Square dance lovers in the whole province. During the competition, each team was full of spirits, showing the demand of the elderly to actively “be healthy for fitness” under the guidance of Sports Institute of old people in the province, showing the positive and upward trend of the elderly in Henan in the new era, pursue a beautiful image of recreation.
65-year-old Wang Feng from Xixia County Bauhinia Art Troupe led the team to represent Nanyang city in this competition. They entered the Nanyang City trials with the first place from more than 40 teams in Xixia county, he entered the finals with the first place from 25 teams in the city. In the interview, he said happily, “We are dancing” China backbone “, which has a clear theme and greatly increases the backbone and ambition of Chinese people, but we should combine square dance with Beijing Opera, it is very difficult to have both beautiful movements and full charm, but we jump very seriously and work hard, and the competition also jumped out of the spirit of our grassroots elderly fitness. Thank the province for setting up a stage for showing our old people. Square dance does exercise the old people’s body, and regular dancing can also make people happy physically and mentally. Most of the comrades in the team used to have obesity, cervical spondylosis, and body pain, but now they have disappeared.”
Yang Heyan, the chief referee of the finals of this competition, said that the programs of this competition not only include folk dance, but also ballet, jazz dance, Latin dance and so on, with various forms and extensive contents, the choice of background music can be closely linked to the theme of “the 70th birthday of New China in the new era and the new image exhibition of new sports for the elderly”, keeping up with the pace of building a strong sports country and a healthy China, especially the self-selected routine, from the level of arrangement, according to the display effect, the overall performance is much higher than that of last year. Although we require not to wear performance costume, the overall display still reflects the appreciation and fitness, and the elderly dance with elegant demeanour, dance out of self, dance out of health, dance out of happiness!
Square dance is an indispensable part of promoting the implementation of National Fitness Strategy and the construction of “healthy China”. In recent years, it has developed rapidly in our province, its unique charm has become one of the most popular fitness programs for the elderly, and more and more elderly people join the square dance team.
In recent years, Changyuan city has firmly established the concept of “big sports” and “big health”, actively complied with the new expectations of the masses for a better life, and made great efforts to promote national sports and national fitness, more than 40 events are held annually, and more than 100 national fitness activities are held. The number of participants is more than 50000. Sports and fitness are common, and sports charm is constantly highlighted. National fitness, national sports, national participation has become the most dynamic rhythm and beat of Changyuan. The successful holding of this activity will certainly play a positive role in promoting the national fitness campaign in Changyuan city, prospering the fitness culture for the elderly and creating a “sports business card. (Finished)