With the help of a student project, older couples can celebrate the big day many years after they married, Xu Lin and Zhou Lihua report in Wuhan, 2023.

After being married for 38 years, Zhang Jianjun and Qin Shumei decided it was time to get a picture. Dressed in formal clothes, they are finally ready for their wedding photos. The photographer, lighting operator and makeup artist are all young people. They communicate with the elderly couple to help them overcome nervousness to make sure of good photos.

They are all students from Wuhan University of Engineering Science, in Hubei province, and they are taking wedding photos for those who had no chance to do so when they were young, as a form of community service.

“I’m thankful that I’ve realized my dream to wear a wedding dress,”says Qin, 64, from Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. “Our love is not the intense(强烈的) type, but we believe it’s important to be with each other.”

While young people today like to travel to a famous place to have their wedding photos taken by a professional photographer, the older kept their big day simple—new couples around the 1970s often only took a black-and-white photo to remember the big day.

It was not until the early 1990s that professional wedding photo studios appeared in the Chinese mainland. Based on that reality, Yu Jinwen, 35, a professor from the university, started the meaningful project in 2015.

It is also because of his grandfather. When he passed away in 2010, the family searched for a suitable photo of him but could not find one and had to use the photo on his ID card as a photo for the funeral(葬礼). It became Yu’s greatest regret in life.

“The program has pleased the elderly and helped improve the ability of young students,”   Yu says.“China is an aging society and juniors should pay more attention to seniors, many of whom are too shy to express their needs.”

It was Sunday. I took my daughter Tina to the hospital to visit her cousin Mike. It was the first time for Tina to go to a hospital. She had her teddy Elvis with her. In the hospital, there were many sick children.

“ 【小题1】 ” a little boy asked.

“Elvis. He likes hot chocolate and fruit cakes. Do you have a teddy?”

“Yes. But we cannot bring it here,” a girl said. “It is not hygi…hygia…”

“Hygienic (卫生的) ,” a nurse said. The nurse told Tina the children were too sick to play with a teddy. “ 【小题2】 ” she added.

When we came back from the hospital, Tina was quiet. The whole afternoon, she was busy drawing.

“Mom, can we give these pictures to the children? 【小题3】 ”

“Yes, dear! We can go now!”

Helping others is the best present in the world. An hour later, every child in the hospital had a teddy. The children were happy. 【小题4】

In April this year, we can see lots of bags full of small changes（零钱）at bus stops in Tianjin. They were made for passengers to turn their notes into small changes. And such an idea came from four students from Zhong Bei Middle School, Tianjin. “People will feel worried when they take a bus without coins. We just want to do something to help them,” said Wang Yongcun, 15, one of the four students. The four boys spent their whole weekend making the change bags. After that, they went to see the number of the passengers at each bus stop near their school, and then chose the top six stops to put the bags. Many people think that the four boys really do a good job. But, things didn’t go as the boys thought. Two days later, they found that the money was gone, and that even the bags were taken. It really made them sad but they would not give up. Their classmates and teachers came to help them in time. They put their pocket money in bags again, and the teachers also taught them to make better change bags. They tried their best to do it. The four boys feel very happy because they do something good for the passengers. Their warm hearts are moving. More and more people are beginning to join in the activity.