Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
In the New Year's Eve, in the live broadcast activities of various platforms that compete for the beauty of the new year, a live broadcast of literature, like a clear spring gushing and flowing, refreshing the heart, and like a torch, bringing people a warm fire in the cold winter night. At 7:30 p.m. on December 31, 2021, at the special moment when the annual calendar was about to be renovated, the People's Literature Publishing House invited 18 heavyweight guests to get together in the name of literature and held a live broadcast of "Literature China - People's Literature Publishing House 2022 Literary New Year's Eve Festival", presenting a 5-hour long event for readers across the country through online and offline interaction, with the total number of views on the whole network exceeding 10 million times. Although literature, especially pure literature, seems to be niche in real life, through new media technology, literature is also breaking the circle and gaining more acquaintances.
From left: He Chao, Zhu Yongxin, Li Jingze, Liang Xiaosheng, Cao Wenxuan
Writers such as Li Jingze, Li Er, Cao Wenxuan, and Zhi'an, Zhang Qingshan, president of the China Dream Society for the Dream of the Red Chamber, Kang Zhen, one of the main speakers of the "Hundred Pulpits", Chen Geng, champion of the Chinese Poetry Conference, etc. appeared at the scene offline activities, and nearly 50 Chinese writers such as Mo Yan, Feng Jicai, Yan Jingming, Ah Lai, Ge Fei, Su Tong, Dong Dong, Dong Qing, Ma Weidu, and Ge Liang, as well as French writers and Nobel Prize winner Le Clézio sent New Year's greetings to readers across the country in the form of videos. This live broadcast launched a wonderful and profound literary dialogue with four themes: "the power of literature", "the charm of classics", "the feast of reading" and "the hope of youth".
Li Jingze: Through literature, "we have the ability to build a world of meaning for ourselves"
In the theme forum of "The Power of Literature", Li Jingze, a member of the party group and vice chairman of the China Writers Association, a critic, Zhu Yongxin, the "spokesperson for the image of reading for the whole people", Liang Xiaosheng, a writer, and Cao Wenxuan, winner of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award, exchanged views. Li Jingze shared the importance of literature from the unique perspective of the meaning of the Chinese character "wen": "This 'text' means that we have imagination, we have the ability to create a world for ourselves, and we have the ability to build a world of meaning for ourselves. So in this sense, literature is indeed important because in this 'text', literature is particularly and particularly basic, and in all civilizations, literature is basic in the great 'literature'. ”
In Zhu Yongxin's view, literature has an irreplaceable power, "Writers present the scenes of our lives in a literary way, so everyone can find themselves or find people around them... So it's particularly emotional, and its power is unique throughout the humanities. ”
Liang Xiaosheng shared with everyone how he began to embark on the road of literature by a "truant ghost" who was forced to go to school under pressure at home, because of an accidentally published essay. Cao Wenxuan said that one of the forces of literature is to cultivate compassion: "Literature is originally the product of feelings, and literature has always been about the spirit of compassion and compassion. ”
The Humanities Society also specially invited young writers Di An, Jiangnan, Sun Pin and cartoonist Bai Cha to record a short video of "Blind Box of Questions" and participate in the ceremony by asking questions from outside the venue.
Kang Zhen: The most outstanding classical writers will refresh your understanding of nature
Life is always being renewed, and what remains unchanged is the charm of classics. From the ever-changing Tang and Song poems to the four famous works with their own charms, from Shakespeare in the Renaissance to Kafka in the 20th century, classics always make us calm down and listen to our inner voices. Zhang Qingshan, president of the China Dream of the Red Chamber Society, talked about the charm of "Dream of the Red Chamber": "Some people say that a great literary classic like "Dream of the Red Chamber" should accompany you for life like a lifelong lover. "Dream of the Red Chamber" is not tired of reading for many Chinese, it has gone beyond the relationship between ordinary literary works and us, "Dream of the Red Chamber" seems to be the spiritual home of Chinese, so there is such a saying as the endless Dream of the Red Chamber. ”
Kang Zhen (middle) and other guests
When asked about the significance of people reading classics today, Kang Zhen, a professor at the College of Literature of Beijing Normal University, used Li Bai's poem as an example to answer uniquely: "Since there is a natural phenomenon such as a waterfall in the world, there will be literary artists who will continue to write about it, but only Li Bai's "Wanglushan Waterfall" refreshes our impression of the waterfall... The most eminent classical writers will refresh your perception of it, so that you will have new emotions about it. ”
Dong Qiang, head of the French Department of Peking University and chairman of the Fu Lei Translation and Publication Award, believes that literature that can be called classics in his heart has such characteristics: "He is definitely the first person in human history to take a unique vision and use unique words to open up a unique world for you. Such people, such works, are classics for me. ”
Chen Geng shared the significance of classic literature for her: "We often say that reading history makes people wise, and classics are the warmest, most fascinating, most humane history... We must make friends with the best people in the whole long river of history, and by reading the classics, we can look at them across the paper, have a spiritual dialogue with them, and let these classics shine in our hearts... Get yourself out of the tacky and mediocre. Nobel laureate le Clézio also met Chinese readers via video from France, 8,000 kilometers away.
Translators talk about the "feast of reading"
Professor Zhao Baisheng of Peking University, the first professor at Peking University to offer a special research course on African literature to graduate students, talked about the phenomenon of the "African Year of World Literature" in 2021, saying: "When we talk about Africa, the stereotype is particularly high... But I would like to say that South Africa, a country with a population of 52 million, has produced a total of 11 Nobel Laureates, can you think of it? Such an Africa, do you know..." He also introduced five African writers who won the International Literary Awards in 2021 through the big screen.
Professor Wen Zheng of the School of European Languages and Cultures of Beijing University of Foreign Chinese led everyone to review Dante's relationship with Chinese readers: "Dante's Divine Comedy entered the vision of Chinese for the first time, and Mr. Qian Daosun of Peking University was the first to translate the Divine Comedy... But he translated it in The Chu script and published it in the Novel Monthly newspaper that year, a full hundred years. So this year, in addition to commemorating the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, it is also a commemoration of the centenary of Chinese reading the Divine Comedy. ”
The writer and scholar Shi-an recommends to the reader the "Promise" in the detective novel collection written by the Swiss German-speaking writer and playwright Dürrenmatt: "A very wonderful novel is a particularly important thing about human beings that he wrote- when we do something with our hearts, it may backfire, and the harder you try, the more wrong you may be... In my opinion, there is no strict distinction between genre literature and pure literature, and I think this is very high-level pure literature, very beautiful. The books I like to read, the first is very good-looking, and the second is to make us think deeply after reading them. ”
Writers improvise on the same stage on the spot See whose "brain hole" is bigger?
The livestream was praised by readers: magical literature
The "Hope of Youth" dialogue section opens with a brain-opening improvisation game. Xu Zechen, a writer and deputy editor-in-chief of People's Literature, created a wonderful science fiction story based on the three key words extracted: "Li Bai was a Tang Dynasty man, and he also died in the Tang Dynasty, and when he died, he fell from the boat and drowned in the water." But he didn't know it—he fell into the water and fainted, and when he woke up, it was 2122, and he found that he was not on the ground, but in the air, in a place like the Tiangong Space Station..."
Writer Cui Manli's improvisation revolves around the Little Prince: "... So on this day, it was raining in Paris, and the little prince understood one thing, although he did not drink 100 coffees, but if you want to insist on doing a thing, even if the whole earth does not exist, or when no one echoes you anymore, you can still exist, because of the existence of the little prince, so in rainy Paris, there is still a café on the earth. ”
Shi Yifeng, a writer and deputy editor-in-chief of Contemporary, shared the reason for becoming a writer: "When I was a child, I didn't have any career design, I was really confused at that time, my life was confused, and I didn't think about what to do. Being a writer is because I am an editor in a magazine, watching people write, sometimes discussing with others how to change, discussing for a long time, I said that I can do it, I became a writer, probably such a process. ”
This literary feast carefully planned by the People's Literature Publishing House, although it lasted for more than five hours, but because the guests were full of witty words, golden sentences, and there were wonderful links such as literary games and multilingual recitations, everyone listened to literary dialogues, participated in interactive guessing, liked, and left messages. Amazing literature! "We must continue to do it next year!" Wait for the cheers to brush non-stop. Before the end of the event, Zang Yongqing, president of the People's Literature Publishing House, led all the members of the leadership team of the Humanities Society to greet the arrival of 2022 with He Qifang's poem "How Vast Life Is". "How vast life is, life is the ocean... To ignite the fire of others with one's own fire, to discover the heart with the heart... Wherever there is life, there is happiness and treasure. ”
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