The countryside is so big that you can only play mahjong?

When I returned to my hometown not long ago, I found that there were several more mahjong parlors in the village, and most of the people who played mahjong were the elderly left behind. The owner of the mahjong parlor said that the old man usually had nothing to do at home, so he came to play mahjong and relax.

Playing mahjong itself is a way of leisure, villagers get together, as long as it is not gambling, entertainment to communicate feelings, there is nothing wrong with. However, playing mahjong has become the mainstream or even the only leisure activity, but it may not be what the elderly want. Some old people expressed their helplessness: they wanted to play table tennis, but they had no equipment; the village also had a reading room, but the books on the shelves were dusty. "I really don't know what to play without mahjong."

This phenomenon is actually quite common. According to statistics, by the end of 2014, there were more than 200 million people over the age of 60 in China, more than half of whom are in rural areas. With the increase of migrant workers in cities, the proportion of empty nesters in rural areas has increased significantly, and their desire for spirit and emotion and the demand for cultural life are more urgent than ever. In the face of fellow villagers who have endured hardships all their lives, whether they are the government, social organizations or their children, they all need to think about how to give more care to the left-behind elderly and how to do more practical work to enrich the cultural life in rural areas.