Look, time flows on paper...
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Guangming Daily reporter Han Han
The years are gone, the old years are gone.
The passage of time is an eternal trend. However, there is always a way to stop time and even flow back. This is the way to write—when a book is written, the knowledge and experience of different eras come from ancient times or the future, converging into the present, condensing the fire of thought, allowing people to re-understand their traditions and the world in which they live.
Looking back on the book fragrance of 2021, it seems to be inseparable from time units such as "one hundred years", "thousand years" and "future". Books, as the "gatekeepers" of various kinds of complex information, carefully sort out and accumulate and pass on the spiritual wealth of the human world.
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The past hundred years have been precipitated on paper
2021 is a full century before the birth of the Chinese Communist Party.
In the past hundred years, the wind and thunder have stirred and the sparks have burned.
Therefore, the most important task of the publishing industry this year is to follow the vein of time and trace the source of strength of the century-old great party from its birth to becoming the backbone of the country.
The book "Tinder", as its name suggests, begins with the deep national crisis of the early 20th century and ends with the Gutian Conference in 1929, dissecting the ups and downs of China's land in the past 30 years, revealing how the Chinese Communist Party has stood out like a "tinder" among many political forces and led China out of the dark wilderness.
"Cradle of Light", deep ploughing in one area - analysis of How Shanghai in 1921 was a surge of advanced ideas, the rise of the working class, convenient land and water transportation, developed communication systems, perfect social organizations, and concessions that could be used, and finally a "groundbreaking event" was born in Shikumenli.
"The Revelation of the Spark" looks at the overall situation -- the situation in the revolutionary base areas in the three periods of the agrarian revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War of Liberation is continued into a coherent history, and the fire of the stars is examined how the spark of the stars burns the plains.
In 1937, the famous "Red Star Shines on China" was published in London, and it read the goals and beliefs of the Chinese Communists for the first time through the perspective of the American journalist Edgar Snow. Many years later, "1937, Yan'an Dialogue" was published in Beijing. This is also a documentary work after an in-depth interview in Yan'an. Thomas Bisson, a former political and economic adviser to the U.S. government in East Asia, once again takes the reader back to the eve of the victory of the Long March and relives the original intention of the Chinese Communists by recording his own observations and conversations with the leaders of the Red Army.
Since revolution is a cause, revolutionaries are always needed.
Who, in his youth, bid farewell to his beloved relatives and friends, forgot his own safety, and threw himself into the revolutionary cause without hesitation? Who is it that, on the occasion of the Southern Expedition and the Northern War, did not forget to write a family letter to his wife? Who, at the end of his life, held a wedding at the execution ground, and sacrificed his blood with flowers to live up to the short-lived Shaohua? All of this can be found in the reportage book "The Revolutionary".
"Wandering the rivers and lakes reminiscing about the old travels, the old life and death are thousands of autumns", the writers wrote history with poetry, and eventually wrote history into poetry.
Xianzhe Yao once warned his heirs: "The calendar of heaven is in Erzhu and is allowed to cling to it." The four seas are poor, and the heavens will never end. That is to say, only with the people as the center can the cause of a political party flourish and the people become the backbone of this party.
The book "Backing the Mountain" presents a vivid scene in which the masses of the people in the revolutionary war years enthusiastically supported the front and lived and died with the Communist Party of China.
From 1921 to 2021, the wheel of time traveled a hundred years.
What is the proof of a hundred years of history?
Serious historical documents, of course, can. "A Hundred Years of Party History in documents" takes the historical development of the Communist Party of China in the past hundred years as the preamble, and selects an important document of the party every year to present the major events of that year. In the end, a hundred pieces of literature string together a history of the party's unremitting struggle over the past century, a history of theoretical exploration, and a history of self-construction.
Tickets with a chronological function are lightweight perspectives. "A Hundred Years of Party History in Stamps" selects thousands of classic stamps with special commemorative significance and historical value, and shows the course of the Communist Party of China in the past hundred years with the classic moments recorded by the stamps.
Since 1921, what kind of face does the Chinese Communist Party, which is now a hundred years old, look like?
The book "The Greatest of the People" tells us that the original intention of the century-old party is still there - the concept of "Jiangshan is the people, and the people are the Jiangshan" is becoming clearer.
The book "The Centennial Party is Young" tells us that the centennial party is full of vigor and vitality - it is good at finding opportunities in danger and breaking the situation in distress.
Readers flip through new books in bookstores. Guangming Daily reporter Han Han photo / Guangming pictures
The distant millennium is awakened by writing
Also 100 years ago. In the middle reaches of the Yellow River, Yangshao Village, located in Shichi County, Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, ushered in an archaeological team that relied on modern technology for scientific excavations, and the beautiful and simple faience pottery broke through the soil, gradually laying out a splendid picture of prehistoric civilization in front of the world - from which modern Chinese archaeology began.
However, the history that has been awakened and recorded in the books by archaeologists one by one is not more than a hundred years?
Oracle bones are famous all over the world, for more than 120 years. The Shang Dynasty script inscribed on the oracle bone is 3100-3400 years ago. How did our ancestors sacrifice, how did they farm, how did they conquer? The book "Yin Xu Oracle Bone Science Dictionary" shows the picture of the life of the ancestors one by one through the entries analyzed in different pieces. The formation of Chinese civilization is also like the multi-shaped oracle bone in the book, with multiple points originating and eventually converging into a big river.
Bronze first appeared in China, more than 4,000 years ago. The book "East Asian Bronze Tide: Millennial Changes in the Pre-Oracle Era" combs through the archaeological materials from the late Longshan Period to the early Shang Dynasty, and outlines a map of the source of Chinese bronze civilization. "Compared with the magnificence of later human civilizations, the remnants of the earliest metal civilizations seem to lack visual impact, but the origin is often the most fascinating." Xu Hong, an archaeologist and author of the book, said so.
The faience pottery excavated from the Yangshao site has unveiled a mysterious period of Prehistoric Chinese culture dating back 5,000-7,000 years. So, are they the earliest faience pottery in China? The meticulously edited and published Complete Works of Chinese Unearthed Faience pottery tells us: "No. "Since about 7000 BC, in the early days of the Shangshan culture in the Puyang River Basin, red-clad pottery with plants as the material has appeared. They are the earliest faience pottery found in China, and probably the earliest known faience pottery in the world.
As mentioned above, they are all combing the genes of Chinese civilization from ancient artifacts. What about archaeological civilizations and symbols themselves, and those famous dynasties?
"Silkworm bushes and fish, the founding of the country is at a loss!" Erlai is forty-eight thousand years old, and is not inhabited by Qin Saitong. "From Sanxingdui to Jinsha - The Amazing Discovery of Chinese Civilization" contains the secrets of the ancient Shu civilization. It tells the world that the Chengdu Plain had an ancient civilization as brilliant as the Central Plains Dynasty during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties or even earlier.
"China in Symbols" selects more than 100 symbols that can best represent China in the literature, archaeological excavations and folk beliefs - dragon, phoenix, Hongmeng, Zhu Rong, Taiji, Bagua, Hetuluo book, etc., and carefully examines the generation process, development flow, current influence, allegory and application of each symbol. Nearly 300 color pictures tell the history and core spirit of cultural China.
"Tang: The Golden Age of Chinese History" focuses on the golden age of unprecedented prosperity and magnificence in Chinese history, and presents the political civilization, material life and aesthetic customs of the Tang Dynasty one by one on the basis of absorbing archaeological discoveries and academic research results in recent decades.
"Song: Ten Aspects of Elegant Aesthetics", like the Song Dynasty with great visual and spiritual beauty, weaves the aesthetic guide for the life of the literati of the Song Dynasty from the ten sides of national strength, science, calligraphy, Song painting, Song ci, Song porcelain, famous objects, tea affairs, and elegant collections.
After thousands of years, the stars and rivers turn, what is constant?
One is the bright moon above our heads, which illuminates us and illuminates Li Bai and Su Dongpo; the other is the simple and gentle beauty precipitated by books, which can be like the moon, through time, showing us the picture of a thousand years ago.
The fate of the future is presented in speculation
The charm of books lies not only in looking back at the past, but also in predicting the future. Moreover, when the reference of books transcends national borders, the more obvious the characteristics of human beings as a community of common destiny become more and more obvious.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been haunting the world for two years. Thinking about related issues such as diseases has gone beyond the technical level to philosophical thinking.
"The wheel of history is often diverted by inadvertent pebbles; disease, perhaps, is the little pebble that is most often encountered." The book "How Disease Changed Our History" explores the impact of disease on the course of history and even ancient thought, starting from major plagues and epidemic prevention measures. Taking history as a mirror, perhaps we can explore our own future from it.
The development and improvement of vaccines is an epic of human anti-epidemic and a legend of the close integration of science and industry. When vaccine research and development is successful and is to be further promoted to a wider range, it will inevitably be integrated with a society's political system, medical system, natural environment, regional culture and even religious beliefs, which will also bring about issues such as global cooperation.
"The Epic of Vaccines: From the Rampant Smallpox to the Death of Vaccines" is from the perspective of virologists, in addition to reviewing the process of human beings to overcome rabies, polio, hepatitis B and other viruses step by step, but also focuses on responding to controversies such as vaccine manufacturing, vaccine composition and concurrent diseases that vaccines may cause.
"Vaccines: The Greatest Savior in the History of Medicine and Its Controversy" is the perspective of media people, speculating about the struggle behind vaccines.
"Strong Medicine: Creating a Driving Force for Drug Development for Neglected Diseases", from the perspective of the Nobel Laureate in Economics, focuses on the dilemma that low-income countries are plagued by infectious diseases, but due to limited financial resources, related vaccine research has been scarce; developed country pharmaceutical companies may not advocate the development of new vaccines because of the fact that the benefits may not cover the cost of research and development. The authors propose a "vaccine commitment mechanism" that they hope to stimulate medical research on the treatment of infectious diseases for the poor.
The world is big, with five continents and four seas. The world is small, and it is like a village. The flight of a butterfly can cause a hurricane that crosses the ocean.
How will humanity deal with a common climate change crisis when the world faces? "The Balance Problem", "Managing the Global Community" and "A Warming World" point out that the key to solving this problem lies in global cooperation to reduce carbon emissions through policy design. In the future, how to determine the "discount rate" through scientific methods to achieve a dynamic balance between the cost of emission reduction and the benefits of emission reduction is the author's strength as an economist.
Poverty is also a common problem facing the world.
China's achievements in poverty reduction deserve to be well written about. Books such as "Global Poverty Reduction Case Collection", "Chinese Rational Road for Human Poverty Reduction", and "Education and Poverty Reduction in Rural China" are different reflections from the sociological, economic and educational circles.
Carefully taking stock of the books published in 2021, I found that one side of the paper and ink was so powerful. Because behind the paper and ink, there are countless economists, sociologists, scientists, philosophers, historians, writers... In the way they write, they constantly transmit the light of reason and wisdom.
May books always give people the power to be quiet and composed.
Guangming Daily ( 2022-01-01 05 edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily