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On June 19, 2026, the Yuanda Stone team put down the sample books, stepped away from the slab racks, and headed to a three-story villa for a full-day Dragon Boat Festival retreat. No client calls, no shipment tracking — just food, games, and the people who make this company run.
We arrived at 9:00 AM and took over the villa until 5:00 PM. Three floors, each with its own purpose: eat, play, sing. The setup was simple but exactly what a stone company team needs after months of juggling quarry visits, container bookings, and client sample requests — a place where nobody talks about slab thickness or FOB pricing for a day.
The villa itself was spacious enough to hold our entire crew without anyone stepping on each other's feet. Natural light filled the common areas, and the layout made it easy to drift between activities without losing the group energy. Some of us hadn't seen each other outside of a factory or office setting in months, and this was the reset we didn't know we needed.
Lunch was the centerpiece. Instead of a catered buffet that everyone forgets by 3 PM, we went all in on the kind of food that makes you lean back and stay at the table longer than planned.
The hot pot station ran non-stop with plates of beef, lamb, shrimp, fish balls, and fresh vegetables rotating through. Right next to it: a goose clay pot that had been braising since morning, a classic Fujian ginger-duck stew that disappeared faster than anything else on the table, and trays of crayfish that required — and rewarded — the kind of two-handed effort that makes conversation inevitable.
There's something about a communal hot pot that breaks down the last bit of formality between departments. Sales sat next to logistics. QC swapped stories with purchasing. Nobody checked their phone because both hands were busy.
After lunch, the villa split into natural zones.
The second floor became gamer territory — an e-sports room with four rigs running League of Legends matches that got loud, and a home theater where a quieter group settled into movie mode. The split worked: nobody had to pretend to enjoy something they didn't, and you could hear the gaming cheers two floors up without it bothering the film crowd.
The third floor was the noise floor by design. A karaoke room that started with cautious solo performances and ended with group choruses of songs nobody would admit to knowing the lyrics to. Next door, the arcade corner drew a steady rotation of two-player matches on classic fighting games. A lounge area off to the side caught the overflow — people who needed a breather between singing rounds or just wanted to scroll through the photos already piling up in the WeChat group.
The morning was unstructured on purpose. Some arrived early and explored every room. Some drifted between floors following the noise. Some parked themselves on the third-floor sofa and stayed there for two hours straight. Nobody rushed anyone — the entire point was that there was no schedule to keep.
At 3:00 PM, everyone gathered for the one organized event of the day: a ring toss competition with actual prizes on the line.
The setup was deceptively simple — a row of prizes at increasing distances, each one harder to land than the last. What started as a casual throwing game turned competitive within minutes. There's something about a ring toss that reveals a person's true character: the careful aimers, the wild overhand throwers, the ones who insisted the rings were defective after three misses in a row.
Winners walked away with prizes that ranged from practical to playful. The real reward, though, was watching the warehouse supervisor and the junior sales rep locked in a sudden-death tiebreak while twenty people yelled contradictory advice. Those moments don't happen in a Monday morning meeting.
As the day wound down, every team member received a Dragon Boat Festival gift box — zongzi, seasonal treats, and a few surprises packed by the HR team. It's a small gesture, but in a company that ships stone across the world, sometimes the most meaningful cargo is the one that travels three feet from one colleague's hands to another's.
We ended with the obligatory group photo — the kind where half the people are still holding crayfish-stained napkins and someone's mid-blink — and then packed up and headed out by 5:00 PM.
The Dragon Boat Festival is about remembrance and community. For the Yuanda Stone team, it was also about reconnecting with the people behind the products. Because whether you're importing Calacatta quartz slabs or discussing a custom terrazzo formulation, you're dealing with real people on our side — and days like this remind us why we show up for each other.
From all of us at Yuanda Stone: we hope you had a wonderful Dragon Boat Festival.
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