The National Library of China launched the Oracle Promotion Public Welfare Project, using online texts to write stories for Oracle

On January 5, the National Library of China and the Reading Group released the "Oracle Promotion Public Welfare Project", which aims to revitalize ancient Chinese characters with online literature, combine new technologies and new means, and revitalize Chinese culture in modern society and make good stories come alive.

On January 3, 2022, Tianjin Guotu Jinwan Cultural and Creative Space held the Oracle Creative Exhibition, where a visitor used his mobile phone to photograph the Oracle hanging sculpture. China News Service reporter Tong Yu photographed

Online literature revitalizes traditional culture

On January 1, "Awakening the Ancient Characters of Oracle" was officially launched at the starting point reading and QQ reading. 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.

"Telling the Chinese stories of each era well is the spiritual coordinates of online literature in cultural inheritance", Yang Chen, vice president and editor-in-chief of Reading Group, said that he hopes to use cultural innovation in the digital age to let more outstanding traditional culture enter the context of contemporary young people with new faces.

The writer "Walker Yousan" was born in 1992, and the "Dansheng" he created took the oracle bone "Dan" as the core and used 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 reading writer "Seeing the Sword of Different Thoughts" started from the oracle bone "Ruo" and depicted the ancestral and grandson family affection of modern society; "The Chinese New Year's Eve Night of the Outpost" created by the writer "Shui Qingzhu" drew inspiration from the oracle bone "Ji" and depicted the selfless love of border guards guarding 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, 10 platinum god writers such as squid who love diving, talking elbows, eagles eat chicks, blood red, Xixing, Squeak, Pure Drop Dragon, Black Mountain Old Ghost, My Whitest, Far Pupil and so on collectively update the Easter egg badge with oracle bone in the serial works, attracting readers to read the punch card.

In contemporary online literature works, there have been many masterpieces that explore the innovative expression of traditional culture, not only emerging a number of important categories such as history, martial arts, immortals, and fantasy, but also innovative attempts to integrate traditional cultural elements such as embroidery, traditional Chinese medicine, tea ceremony, ceramic techniques, and antique restoration into good stories. The "Oracle Promotion Public Welfare Project" will once again expand the creative space of online literature.

Dialogue among civilizations across the river of time

At the press conference, the National Library of China and the Reading Group 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 between ancient characters and online literature more than 3,000 years later is gratifying, "We hope that the ancient characters containing the wisdom of the ancestors to create words can come 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 the combination of oracle bones and online novels is a collision and exchange between ancient characters and modern literature, "The Chinese civilization described by oracle bones has been passed down to today, and carrying forward the excellent traditional culture represented by oracle bones is an important topic that experts, scholars, literary creators and ordinary people should pay attention to at present." ”

"The Widow and the 2" created a short story "The Beginning of Home" for the "Oracle Promotion Public Welfare Project". Inspired by the oracle bone "home", this story combines the content of the "four-square wind" 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.

Zhang Jun, deputy director of the National Library of China, said, "I hope that through this activity, we will further expand the dissemination of ancient script culture, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, and show the influence, cohesion and appeal of Chinese culture." ”