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Forget Politics, War and Hatred On 5.20 “Wo Ai Ni”, Take Off, Go Make Love.
By Mihar Dias
(C) Copyright May 2022
Recently China Press reported, Tiandi No.1 Beverage Company in Beijing gave its employees a day off on May 20th to pursue their romantic love.
May 20th or 520 sounds like “wo ai ni” in Mandarin or I love you in English. A day meant to be something similar to Valentine’s Day, an annual celebration of love in the Western tradition but this one is only for Tiandi’s employees, not the whole of China.
This 520 idea at Tiandi might yet start a movement that could rekindle a feeling of the 60s all over again, where hippies with flowers in their hair were seen making love on the ground in an open-air concert in places like Woodstock or San Francisco with signages calling on the world to “Make Love Not War”.
Scott McKenzie also suggested through his celebrated song, “If you’re going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair… Summertime will be a love-in there”.
But May is just the beginning of Spring in Beijing where Tiandi is located. Alfred Tennyson knew a long time ago that “In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love”.
Tiandi’s management must have had the same idea. Someone on the executive board must have read Tennyson or heard of recommendations made by McKenzie of the 60s flower power movement for free love and a hippy happy lifestyle.
Yes, why not celebrate 520 romantically over dinner or “roll in the hay” with someone whom you want to be with for the rest of your life, on company time.
Tiandi told its employees to go all out on 520 to build a family with the love of their life.
Tiandi was serious and drew its employees to the nation’s aspirations, “If you don’t marry, who will carry on the family’s legacy? If you don’t bear children, who will take on the nation’s revival?”
Its Human Resource (HR) Department said that it was a “company benefit for workers to enjoy some personal time with the hope the paid leave will help boost satisfaction at work and happiness among its employees”.
However, we are hoping it would spread throughout China like the aspiration expressed by Scott McKenzie, for “All across the nation; such a strange vibration; People in motion; There’s a whole generation with a new explanation” about love for each other in the world that is full of conflicts and hatred between nations.
Stop the wars and make love instead!
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