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A company culture is the values and practices shared by the company’s employees. Company culture is important because it can make or break your company.  Corporate culture is proven to be a powerful force that drives business excellence and long-term success. So today I would like to say something about company culture of Y & G.

As a company with more than 10 years’manufacture of inflatable products, outdoor playgrounds and other amusement equipments, Company culture will change over time. As employee leave the company and replacements are hired the company culture will change. If it is a strong culture, it may not change much. Y&G has a strong company culture. Credit and honest is the first to consider. They will be open in giving, accepting and sharing ideas, knowledge, help, advice and constructive challenge.

How to access your company culture? The easiest way to assess is to look around. How your employees do? What they do? Listen to your employees, your suppliers, and your customers. Pay attention to what is written about your company, in print and online. These will also give you clues as to what your company’s culture really is. In Y&G, every employee collaborates to achieve common goals through mutual respect, openness and flexibility. This is teamwork. They will always strive to deliver what we have committed to do, on time and to the highest standard. Provide the best service is their aim. At the same time they will encourage individuals and teams to generate new ideas, share knowledge, and adapt business practices to be the best in our industry.

A comfortable company environment is very important. As it can build work atmosphere. It can improve enthusiasm of employees. Let them put into active attitude to work. Y&G provides a pleasing environment to staff. Clean office, bright light, complete facilities and so on. You can image if we work in this environment, it is certainly improve our work efficiency.
So do you want to design and change culture to your company? Before you can change the company culture, you have to decide what you want the company culture to look like in the future. Different companies in different industries will have different cultures. Look at what kind of a culture will work best for your organization in its desired future state. Review your mission, vision and values and make sure the company culture you are designing supports them.

This is company culture of Y&G. It is going forward for its goal.

Kiddie rides are coin-operated rides for small children. Kiddies rides commonly appear in amusement parks, arcades, malls, hotel game rooms and outside supermarkets and discount department stores. Less commonly, they may also appear in other venues such as restaurants, food courts, grocery shops and auto dealerships. When activated by a coin, a kiddie ride entertains the rider with motion, depending on the ride type (miniature Ferris wheel, miniature carousel, track ride or stationary platform ride). Most rides include sounds and music, and some feature flashing lights, pedals, and buttons. Commercial kiddie rides often use simple but colorful equipment, with the driving mechanism usually hidden under vacuum formed plastic covers.

Many very old rides do not feature music. Also, some vehicle rides may favor engine sounds instead of music. However, on rides that do feature music, early rides (and many cheap modern rides) are equipped with simple ICs that play back one melody in repeat or a set of melodies in sequence before repeating. These have also seen evolution in the sense that the earliest musically-enabled ride played back only a single monophonic melody repetitively, while later ones play back multiple polyphonic melodies and may even include short sound/speech samples. Later rides may play back music from a tape deck, while the latest may have a solid state audio playback device akin to flash-based MP3 players. Usually the music chosen are generic children songs, while on licensed rides, the theme song for the character licensed would be used. However, in rare cases, rides that play standard pop music have been found, and for private rides, the owner may request a custom song of sentimental value to be programmed into the ride.

Many modern rides are programmed to play multiple melodies, alternating music each time the ride is used. The logic behind this is to prolong the interest of the child on the ride. The same logic applies to tape deck installed rides and solid state audio playback rides. However, some modern rides, in particular licensed character ones, are usually programmed to play a single piece of melody or song which is usually the theme song of the character’s show. The reason behind this is that the theme song is usually associated with the character and that the ride may lose its appeal if the song cannot be associated with the character. There also exists some exceptions where there are non-licensed rides that play only one particular tune (however the tune may be matched to the theme of the ride, for example a song about cars on a car ride), or a licensed ride playing a totally unrelated music piece (usually because the operator replaced the musical source of the ride with a generic musical source due to unavailability of a replacement musical source of the same kind).

There exist certain rides that does not emphasize the music, but plays a running narration or a story instead. They usually have a generic instrumental music piece running softly in background while the story is being told, however.

The jungle gym, also known as monkey bars or climbing frame, is a piece of playground equipment made of many pieces of thin material, such as metal pipe or, in more current playgrounds, rope, on which children can climb, hang, or sit. The monkey bar designation was for the resemblance that playing children had to the rambunctious, climbing play of monkeys, though the term nowadays often refers specifically to a single row of overhead bars designed to be swung across.

The large, metal, cubic-shaped jungle gym was once common on playgrounds, but it led to injuries when children hit their heads on the bars or swung on them improperly, causing bruises, sprains, and fractures. It is more common now to find rope constructions similar in function, or wooden platforms with ladders and railings around the outer edges.
The first jungle gym was invented in 1920 and patented by lawyer Sebastian Hinton in Chicago. It was sold under the trademarked name Junglegym. The term “monkey bars” was first documented in 1955, though Hinton’s initial patent of 1920 appeals to the “monkey instinct” in claiming the benefits of climbing as exercise and play for children.Hinton’s chief goal, however, was to enable children to achieve an intuitive understanding of 3-dimensional space through a game in which numbers for the x,y, and z axes were called out and each child tried to be the first to grasp the indicated junction. Thus the abstraction of Cartesian coordinates could be grasped as a name of a tangible point in space.

One common type of jungle gym is a row of overhead bars, high enough for a child to hang from them but not so high as to cause serious injury in a fall. A child can “walk” hand-over-hand from one end to the other.

To reduce the risk of injury from falls, jungle gym areas often have a thick layer of wood chips or other impact-absorbing material covering the ground; the National Safety Council recommends that playgrounds have at least 12 inches (30 cm) of such material

There are many different beliefs about the origin of the Lantern Festival. But one thing for sure is that it had something to do with celebrating and cultivating positive relationship between people, families, nature and the higher beings they believed were responsible for bringing/returning the light each year.

One legend tells us that it was a time to worship Taiyi, the God of Heaven in ancient times. The belief was that the God of Heaven controlled the destiny of the human world. He had sixteen dragons at his beck and call and he decided when to inflict drought, storms, famine or pestilence upon human beings. Beginning with Qinshihuang, the first emperor to unite the country, all the emperors ordered splendid ceremonies each year. The emperor would ask Taiyi to bring favorable weather and good health to him and his people. Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty directed special attention to this event. In 104 BC, he proclaimed it as one of the most important celebrations and the ceremony would last throughout the night. They clean it all up in the morning.

Another legend associates the Lantern Festival with Taoism. Tianguan is the Taoist god responsible for good fortune. His birthday falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. It is said that Tianguan likes all types of entertainment, so followers prepare various kinds of activities during which they pray for good fortune.

Yet another common legend dealing with the origins of the Lantern Festival speaks of a beautiful bird that flew down to earth from heaven, which was hunted and killed by some villagers. This angered the Jade Emperor in Heaven because the bird was his favorite one. Therefore, he planned a storm of fire to destroy the village on the 15th lunar day. The Jade Emperor’s daughter heard of this plan, and warned the villagers of her father’s plan to destroy their village. The village was in turmoil because nobody knew how should they escape their imminent destruction. However, a wise man from another village suggested that every family should hang red lanterns around their houses, set up bonfires on the streets, and explode firecrackers on the 14th, 15th, and 16th lunar days. This would give the village the appearance of being on fire to the Jade Emperor. On the 15th lunar day, troops sent down from heaven whose mission was to destroy the village saw that the village was already ablaze, and returned to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor. Satisfied, the Jade Emperor decided not to burn down the village. From that day on, people celebrate the anniversary on the 15th lunar day every year by carrying red lanterns on the streets and exploding firecrackers and fireworks.

There are many stories on how this festival was created. One other story is about a maid. In the Han Dynasty, Mr. Eastern was a favorite advisor of the emperor. One winter day, he went to the garden and heard a little girl crying and getting ready to jump into a well to commit suicide. Mr. Eastern stopped her and asked why. She said she was a maid in the emperor’s palace and her name was Yuan-Xiao. She never had the chance to meet her family after she started working at the palace. She missed them so much every 12th lunar month. If she couldn’t have the chance to show her filial piety in this life, she would rather die. Mr. Eastern promised her to find a way so she could reunion with her family. Mr. Eastern left the palace and set up a fortune-telling stall on the street and disguised himself as a fortuneteller. Because of his reputation, many people asked for thei r fortunes. But every one got the same prediction - a severe fire accident on the 15th lunar day. The rumor spread quickly.

Everyone was worried about the future and asked Mr. Eastern for help. Mr. Eastern said, “On the 13th lunar day, the God of Fire will send a fairy lady in red to burn down the city. If you see a lady in red wearing green pants riding a black horse on that day, you should ask for her mercy.” On that day, Yuan-Xiao pretended to be the red fairy lady. When people asked for her help, she said, “I’m the messenger of the God of Fire and came to check on the city and I’m going to set up fire on 15th. This is an order from Jade Emperor. He will watch from the heavens. I will give you a copy of the imperial decree from the God of Fire. You should go to ask your emperor to find a way out.” After she left, people went to the palace to show the emperor the decree which reads “The capital city is in trouble. Fire burns on the palace, and fire from Heaven burns all night long on the 15th.” The emperor of Han Dynasty was very shocked. He called and asked Mr. Eastern for advice. After pondering for a while, Mr. Eastern said, “I heard that the God of Fire likes to eat Tang-Yuan (Sweet dumpling). Does Yuan-Xiao often cook Tang-Yuan for you? On the 15th lunar day, let Yuan-Xiao make Tang-Yuan. Your Majesty will take charge of the worshipping ceremony and you will give an order to every house to prepare Tang-Yuan to worship the God of Fire at the same time. Also, deliver another order to ask every house in the city to hang red lantern and explode fire crackers. Lastly, everyone in the palace and people outside the city should carry their lanterns on the street to watch the lantern decoration and fireworks. If everything goes this way, the Jade Emperor would be deceived. Then everyone can avoid the fire accident.”
The emperor happily followed the plan. Lanterns were everywhere in the capital city on the night of the 15th lunar day. People were walking on the street. Fire crackers kept making lots of noise. It looked like the entire city was on fire. Yuan-Xiao’s parents went into the palace to watch the lantern decorations, and Yuan-Xiao made a big lantern and wrote her name on the lantern. They happily reunited together after her parents called her name. Everybody was safe during the night. The emperor of Han Dynasty had a new order that people should do the same thing every year. Since Yuan-Xiao cooked the best Tan-Yuan, people called the day Yuan-Xiao Festival.

Young people were chaperoned in the streets in hopes of finding love. Matchmakers acted busily in hopes of pairing couples. The brightest lanterns were symbolic of good luck and hope. As time has passed, the festival no longer has such implications.
Those who do not carry lanterns often enjoy watching informal lantern parades. In addition to eating tangyuan, another popular activity at this festival is guessing lantern riddles (which became part of the festival during the Tang Dynasty), which often contain messages of good fortune, family reunion, abundant harvest, prosperity and love.

This article is witten by Amy. a present of Y&G company which is a professional manafacturer of amusement equipment, including outdoor playground equipment, indoor play area, fitness equipment, plastic toys, games machines, merry go round, swing sets, seesaws and so on.