Recalling the past and opening up the memory of Hefei

In order to cultivate children’s love of family and country, remember history, and learn to be grateful, on December 16, Hefei Qilitang Community Spark Party Activity Center launched a charity class with the theme of "viewing old things and recalling the past". They invited Du Shiwen, a resident of Qilitang community, using his own collection of thousands of old objects with historical value, including food stamps, oil coupons, old train tickets, old tickets, old newspapers and other vivid historical materials to introduce Hefei's urban development to children in the district.

"Children, look, this is the old scenery of Xiaoyaojin Park, and our big bell tower..." Mr. Du explained the story of Hefei’s urban development to the children, holding a set of Hefei food stamps in his hand. “At that time, we used food stamps to buy food, cloth tickets to buy cloth, meat tickets to buy meat, coal tickets to buy coal, salt tickets to buy salt, tobacco tickets to buy cigarettes, etc. The root cause is material deprivation." The children listened with gusto and became interested in these colorful tickets. While listening, they asked the teacher about the stories behind the old things. Mr. Du answered patiently one by one, not only showing the children the landmarks of Hefei at the old times, but also vividly introducing a lot of historical background stories.... Surrounded by so many old objects, the children were amazed, as if they were traveling through time and space. It opened up the memory of Hefei, and make them feel that today's happy life is hard to come by.

This activity aims to give children a vivid history lesson, strengthen their understanding of their hometown, cultivate their love of family, the party and the country, and encourage them to study hard in the future and contribute to the prosperity and development of their hometown and the motherland.