On January 5th, the National Library of China and the Reading Group jointly held a press conference on the theme of "Oracle Promotion Public Welfare Project" at the Tianjin Jinwan Cultural and Creative Center of the National Map, and the two sides will deepen strategic cooperation and jointly promote the dissemination and popularization of traditional Chinese culture represented by Oracle.
More than 2,200 people participated in the creation of Oracle stories
The New Year keywords presented by Oracle were spread on social platforms, the text changhe exhibition starting from Oracle made a stunning appearance in Tianjin, the 60 micro-novels created for Oracle were assembled and launched, and the online article festival updated with Oracle received hot reviews... At the beginning of the new year, the "Oracle Promotion Public Welfare Project" has attracted countless fans in a novel form and rich content, making Oracle one of the most "hot" cultural IP at the beginning of 2022.
On January 1, "Awakening the Ancient Characters of Oracle" was officially launched at the starting point of reading and QQ reading under the reading group. The 60 micro-stories are excerpted from the excellent works of the theme essay campaign of "Everything is tangible, oracle bones can speak", and each micro-story is about 500 words.
The essay campaign attracted more than 2,200 participants, about 70% of whom were post-90s and post-00s creators, and the creation of the younger generation gave Oracle a new interesting story. Among the 2571 essay works, there are both science fiction themes about the frontier future and mythological stories from ancient China, both the historical feelings of the home country and the world, and the realistic themes that reflect the present. In a story that blends modern imagination and historical heritage, every ancient text is endowed with spirituality and temperature.
Born in 1992, the "Dansheng" created by the writer "Dansheng" takes the oracle bone "Dan" as the core and uses the myth and legend of "Houyi Shooting Sun" to tell the story of the first rise of the sun; the work "Home Mirror" of the post-95 writer "Seeing the Sword of Different Thoughts" starts from the oracle bone "Ruo" and depicts the ancestral and grandchildren of modern society; "The Chinese New Year's Eve Night of the Outpost" created by the great god writer "Shui Qingzhu" draws inspiration from the oracle bone "Ji" and depicts the selfless love of border guards defending the territory. The three writers all said that starting from the beauty of oracle bone writing, the beauty of the story of online literature is created, and the traditional culture represented by ancient characters is becoming the source of inspiration for good stories.
At the same time, the two major platforms of starting point reading and QQ reading also launched the "Oracle Promotion Public Welfare Project" small Easter egg activity. Squid who loves diving, talking elbows, eagles eat chickens, blood red, Xixing, squeak, pure drop dragon, Black Mountain old ghost, I whitedest, far pupil and other 10 reading platinum god writers collectively updated the Easter egg badge with oracle bone in the serial works, attracting many readers to read the punch card. Many young readers said that the form of easter egg medallions has brought oracle bones closer to ordinary people, and the beauty of traditional culture has greatly shocked people, making people more interested in exploring the stories of ancient texts.
The cross-millennia of oracle bone and online literature
"Traditional culture is the root of the imagination of online literature, and online writing also gives back to tradition with fresh vitality", Xu Miaomiao, a professor at the Aesthetic Education Research Center of Capital Normal University, believes that the commonality between oracle bones and online texts lies in the close relationship between words and media, "as the most advanced writing medium in the Shang Dynasty, tortoise shells and animal bones faithfully inherit history; and as the most powerful media today, the Internet effectively serves the public." The two are the epitome of each other's times, the condensation of imagination in the most advanced medium. ”
At the press conference, the National Library of China and the Reading Group also held a dialogue salon on the "Cross-Millennium Intersection of Oracle and Online Literature". Zhao Aixue, head of the Jinshi Group and deputy research librarian of the National Library of China' Ancient Books Library, and "Xiao He 2", a platinum writer of the Reading Group, discussed the flow of words and stories.
Zhao Aixue believes that the collision of ancient characters with online literature more than three thousand years later, and the collision has produced a satisfactory spark, which is gratifying, "We hope that the ancient characters containing the wisdom of the ancestors can go to the public in a vivid and interesting way." The Internet has provided various possibilities for the spread of oracle bone culture, and online literature is one of them. ”
As a representative of online literary writers, "Xiao and 2" also said that combining Oracle and online novels is a collision and exchange between ancient characters and modern literature. In this regard, he created a short story "The Beginning of Home" for the "Oracle Promotion Public Welfare Project". This story is inspired by the oracle bone "home", combined with the content of the "four winds" oracle bone, so that the wind and wind gods in the four directions of the east, west, south and north are reproduced in the network text.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Enjie
Editor/Ying Qiao