Elegant ‘Auntie Peng’ charms her young audience at Hong Kong kindergarten
First lady Peng Liyuan arrives in city wearing a typically elegant striped jacket with a Mandarin collar paired with a beige pencil skirt
Parents of children at a kindergarten in Hong Kong’s upscale Kowloon Tong neighbourhood were in for a surprise when China’s first lady dropped by on Thursday – though some of the young ones were not quite sure who she was.
Yau Yat Chuen School in Kowloon Tong was one of the stops Peng Liyuan made as she joined President Xi Jinping on his three-day visit to the city.
She chatted with the children, and praised and kissed them; they entertained her with a performance, conversing with her in Putonghua, according to video released by the government later.
In the clip, the pre-school children could be seen making paper models of dim sum, a staple of Cantonese cuisine, and introducing the various types of dumplings to Peng.
She also watched a performance by several of the youngsters.
“I really appreciate [the kindergarten’s] education style to achieve all-rounded development in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labour areas,” Peng said in the video. “I feel the children are very smart. Children are the hope of our future. I wish they grow up healthily.”
