"Happy New Year 2022"...
In the New Year's Eve party of a group of main stars,
People's Literature Publishing House
The first literary New Year's Eve live broadcast——
2022 Literary New Year's Eve Gala Live,
The total number of views on the whole network exceeded 10 million times.
In an age of information explosion, why do we reread the classics? How has writing changed the fate of writers, and what does reading bring to life?
Recently, the People's Literature Publishing House for the first time to open the literary New Year's Eve live broadcast, eighteen writers and scholars gathered in the name of literature, through 18 mainstream network platforms for the national readers to present a 5-hour long "Literature China - People's Literature Publishing House 2022 Literary New Year's Eve Festival" live broadcast, the total number of views of the whole network exceeded 10 million times, known by netizens as "Literary Spring Festival Gala".
The literary festival held dialogues with the four themes of "the power of literature", "the charm of classics", "the feast of reading" and "the hope of youth", and nearly 50 people, such as Mo Yan, Feng Jicai, Yan Jingming, Alai, Ge Fei, Su Tong, Dong Dong, Dong Qing, Ma Weidu, ge Liang, etc., sent New Year wishes in the form of videos.
The first topics to start were Zhu Yongxin, member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the national image spokesperson for reading for all, Li Jingze, vice chairman of the China Writers Association and critic, Liang Xiaosheng, writer, and Cao Wenxuan, winner of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award. Li Jingze shared the importance of literature from the unique perspective of the Chinese character "wen": "'Wen' means that we have imagination and the ability to create a world for ourselves and build a world of meaning. In this sense, literature is indeed important, and in this 'literature' literature is particularly basic. ”
Liang Xiaosheng shared how he began to embark on the road of literature by being a "truant ghost" under pressure at home, because of an accidentally published essay, "Composition gave me the dignity of my first child, in order to keep this confidence and dignity, I prefer to write essays, and I ask myself to write better... So I read a lot of books, which became a nutrient for the later path of literature, or the original literary vitamin. ”
Cao Wenxuan said: "Ideological education, knowledge education, aesthetic education, and emotional education are all education. In the face of this situation, the best way or the only way is to read literary works, because literature is 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.
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. When asked about the significance of people reading classics today, Kang Zhen, a professor at the College of Literature of Beijing Normal University, took Li Bai's poem as an example to answer: "Since there is a natural phenomenon such as a waterfall in the world, there will be writers 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. ”
Chen Geng, the winner of the fourth season of the "Chinese Poetry Conference", shared the significance of classic literature for her: "We often say that reading history makes people wise, and classics are the warmest, most fascinating, and 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. ”
Li Er, winner of the Tenth Mao Dun Literature Award and deputy director of the Museum of Modern Literature, shared the "Notes of the Southern Court" written by Li Boyuan in the Qing Dynasty: "It said that when the Qianlong Emperor conducted the palace examination, only one candidate answered correctly. We can't understand the heart of the Sacred One, but you can see Qianlong's understanding of human feelings and sophistication, and he has his perspective on problems. ”
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. ”
Netizens actively participate in literary dialogues, interactive guessing, and the bullet screen "did not hear enough" and "must continue to do it next year" and so on. "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. Zang Yongqing, president of the People's Literature Publishing House, and others sent New Year greetings for 2022 with He Qifang's poem "How Vast Life Is".
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Wu Bo
Photo/ Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng reporter: Wu Bo
Video/Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng Reporter: Wu Bo
Correspondent: Li Ran
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Li Yani