A home where love and care are paramount

At the exhibition, a painted sculpture titled Dragon Dance, Drum Rhythms, and the Red Sunset attracted a lot of attention. Made of ultralight clay, the work vividly captures the moment when elderly people in splendid attire perform a dragon dance and play drums.

"In communities, such a happy scene is often seen. I myself would join them, so I want to use this work to show the healthy life and spirited state of the senior citizens," says the submitter Zhu Guohong, a teacher at Yiwu Urban Vocational School, who spent two weeks completing the work together with her students. The work won third prize.

A cartoon work titled A Full-Time Nanny Watcher depicts a scene where a gray-haired grandmother is monitoring a nanny who is feeding her grandson. The author Zhao Xuefeng, in his 70s, explained his cartoon, saying that busy with work, young parents hire a nanny to take care of their kid. To avoid burdening their own parents, they install surveillance cameras at home to monitor the nanny. Consequently, the grandparents end up closely watching the surveillance footage to supervise the nanny, he said.

The first prize went to Rehearsal, a cartoon by Shen Miaoliang, also in his 70s. It represents a happy moment at an old people's home; two performers are in the middle of a comedy skit when something goes wrong. One of them scratches his head and says, "I forgot the next line." This results in the elderly people in the audience bursting into laughter.