To celebrate Lantern Festival, also known as Yuanxiao Jie, staff at LN Hotel Five spent much of their Saturday showing support for those who don’t always get the most recognition: sanitation workers.
Sanitation workers in Guangzhou are some of the hardest-working people in the city, and have played a key role in keeping the city clean as the nation takes new measures to combat the novel coronavirus epidemic.
This year, Lantern Festival was celebrated on February 8, the 15th day of the first month in the lunar calendar. The holiday is a time for eating tangyuan (sweet dumplings in soup) and sending lanterns high into the night sky. Since it marks the end of the Chinese New Year period, families spend the holiday together, cherishing their time before everyone’s busy lives resume yet again.
LN Hotel Five decided to take the opportunity of Lantern Festival to show appreciation to sanitation workers around the city, who have done their best in the fight against the epidemic and sacrificed the opportunity to reunite with their families. Eight hotel staff – who are also working around the clock during this trying period – prepared 500 handmade tangyuan, with delicious pumpkin and red bean fillings, to give out to sanitation workers.
From dough kneading and preparing the filling, to cooking and packaging, the tangyuan were made to give city workers a much-needed holiday treat and remind them that we’re all in this together. Staff from LN Hotel Five reached out to the Zhuguang Street Environmental Sanitation Management Station on Yanjiang Lu and personally delivered tasty tangyuan on Saturday afternoon to 120 workers, all of whom decided to stay in Guangzhou to work over the holiday.
During a difficult period such as this, as the country unites in the fight against the novel coronavirus, it’s important to care for each other and show love and warmth.
[All images via LN Hotel Five Guangzhou]
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