Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Zhang Jinhua
Chen Danyan's close-up.
"The travel writer is born to be the dove that is released to observe the world, and whether it can bring back an olive branch determines whether people want to get out of the shelter and return to the world."
When the world changes dramatically, do we want to go out and take a look?
At the end of 2021, she was still busy in the studio in Shanghai, making a short "writer's film".
She told reporters, "The short film I am shooting is a film of how a travel writer can live with his own worldview during the new crown period, inheriting the vast world thinking in front of the writer's desk that began in my first feature film "The Direction of Savoy Flow", which is a short film that shows the distant world that the travel writer cares about in a small café in Shanghai. ”
This travel writer is None other than Chen Danyan.
On the occasion of the New Year's Eve activity of "Welcome to the New Year" for another year, Chen Danyan will bring us a world to go global.
Travel writer on the road.
Chen Danyan, a famous Shanghai female writer, has been regarded by everyone for many years as a spokesperson for contemporary urban culture. She was also the first Chinese writer to go abroad, and since 1990, she has traveled to a wide range of places. Over the years, she has written as she goes, and these words are the true meaning of travel literature presented to the reader by a writer who is obsessed with walking.
It is said that her real travel began at the age of 33. And when she was a young girl, because she loved to read European literature, Europe became her spiritual homeland. Later, there was her long journey through European literature. For 30 years, she has insisted on writing while walking, and her travel texts have both soft and timeless warm temperatures and the calm thinking and consideration of a professional writer on issues such as history and reality, and the eternity of time. In addition to the famous "Shanghai Wind and Snow Moon", "Shanghai's Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", "Shanghai's Red Face Relics" and "Shanghai Trilogy", over the years, her representative works have "Coffee Is Not Bitter", "My Travel Philosophy", "Dream Hunting Town", "Chi Xiang Day", "Northland, Go to Northland" and other "Chen Danyan Travel Hui" series. Her travel experience of more than 30 years has not only gained ten travel books, but also her own films as a director, "Where Sava Flows" and so on.
Inadvertently, she is like a pigeon that flies out, spreading the seeds of Chinese culture, and bringing back the cultural geography of distant places with her own personal experience, so that domestic readers can understand the external world.
Under the shroud of the new crown epidemic, home and safe places have almost become the "refuge" in people's minds, but Chen Danyan has always regarded the identity of a travel writer as an ancient mission, which still shines like a vocation to the present. No matter what the world becomes, she says, I still want to see it. That's what I think inside.
Chen Danyan, a travel writer, said, "Even if the world is no longer discovered and no longer undertakes the mission of conveying those distant cultures and geographies to readers, travel writers are still the first messengers of human beings to fly to the unknown world and explore with their bodies when they face a world that has changed dramatically." ”
In 1990, Chen Danyan's first stop when she crossed the country was to go to Japan. Since then, she has been out of control, and she has happily thrown herself into the arms of the world and become a "citizen of the world". Her first book was translated into Japanese. But in 1990, Chinese banks did not allow citizens to hold private foreign exchange. So the Japanese publishing company invited her to Japan and opened a bank account for her. "All of a sudden, I had the money to travel," she said. I feel very lucky. “
Chen Danyan is indeed one of the lucky few who first went out to see the world, and her father was a manager of an ocean company in Shanghai. In China at that time, there were only two types of visas – work visas and student visas. Most people don't have the opportunity to go abroad and see the bigger world. Chen Danyan also took the opportunity to go abroad to do reading sessions and visiting scholars, so that she could walk on the road and contact people from all over the world.
Gradually, with the pace of China's reform and opening up, her footsteps of going abroad began to go more and more, and she became bigger and bigger.
The world is beautiful,
This is the footprint she has walked around the world —
In 1992, I went to Russia. She had just finished a long trip to Europe, canceled her ticket back from Warsaw, and instead took a train to Moscow, where she and her husband Chen Baoping went deep into the newly dissolved former Soviet Union.
Between 2007 and 2013, she travelled to Ireland four times with her thick three-volume Ulysses.
Since 2014, because of Milorad Pavic's novel "Khazar Dictionary", Serbia has become the other side of Chen Danyan, and she has traveled again and again.
In November 2016, the Serbian National Tourism Administration announced the appointment of writer Chen Danyan as serbia's tourism ambassador.
From 2017 to 2019, she made a movie, wrote 13 copies of "Chen Danyan's Travels", and the last one that ended was "Snow White's Resume", which is a long novel. In 2019, her trip was to Japan to complete the final chapter of Snow White's Resume, and then learn puppetry with a pure glass humanoid master in Tokushima, Japan.
In 2020, after the world "closed", she went to Chenshan Botanical Garden to become the cultural director of Chenshan Botanical Garden, and used her travels and the world famous works that made her travels to write stories for the Yueji Garden of Chenshan Botanical Garden. She wanted to make the Tatsuyama Botanical Garden into a world literary garden.
There are many, many dreams about traveling.
Chen Danyan said, "I have loved to read European novels since I was a child, and I began to yearn for the other side of the world at that time, and I have many, many dreams about travel. I have also witnessed how Chinese go abroad. I watched how Chinese quickly became the number one traveler in the world. ”
Along the way, flying back and forth, she had drunk tea poured to her by people in many parts of the world, and she had friends all over the world, so that a Chinese had communication with the world, and that kind of exchange between people of different cultures seemed to her to be wonderful.
Chen Danyan was born in the 1950s. She confessed that her curiosity about the world is still very strong, especially for the relics of idealism. In the stop-and-go process, she saw not only a landscape, a building, but also the past, present and future of the place. Knowledge and aesthetics give her travels a deeper meaning and allow her to peer into the heart of a nation. Now she is still very interested in things with idealistic colors, warmth, and she will still be very interested in people who have experienced idealism, and will explore their hearts.
"The world is so beautiful." She said. Chen Danyan's dream came true.
Biography
Chen Danyan, Shanghai writer, writer of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Literature Gold Medal, recipient of special allowance of the State Council. In 2008, at the International Polar Year, the Arctic Insights of Writing became the Polar Year China Project, in 2016 he became the serbian national tourism ambassador, in 2019 he held the "Chen Danyan on the Road" travel exhibition, in 2020 published twelve Books of Chen Danyan's travel literature series, and in 2018, he filmed and produced the first co-production film between China and Serbia, "The Direction of Savoy Flow". He is the author of the Shanghai trilogy such as "Shanghai's Wind, Flower and Snow Moon", "Peace Hotel", "Dream Hunting Town" and so on.
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