Cover news reporter Xun Chao
"Let Chinese characters last forever, and let good stories live forever." As the earliest mature script discovered in China so far, the oracle bone script is the source of Chinese characters and the root of China's excellent traditional culture. As a literary and artistic form in the new era, online literature has attracted many readers around the world with its magnificent imagination, wonderful stories and strong sense of substitution.
On January 5th, the theme conference of "Oracle Promotion Public Welfare Project" held in Tianjin aims to use the literature and art of the new era of online literature to activate ancient Chinese characters, make Chinese excellent traditional culture an important source of literary and artistic innovation, combine new technologies and new means, stimulate creative inspiration, enrich cultural connotation, express ideas and emotions, let online literature collide with traditional culture, help the splendid and long-standing Chinese culture to revitalize in modern society, and make good stories come alive.
Before the press conference, "Awakening the Ancient Words of Oracle" was officially launched on January 1, and 60 micro-stories were excerpted from the excellent works of the theme essay campaign of "Everything is Tangible, Oracle Bones Can Speak", which attracted attention. In these works, there are both science fiction themes about the frontier future and mythological stories from ancient China, both the historical feelings of the family and the world, and the realistic themes that reflect the present.
For example, the post-90s writer "Dansheng" of "Walkers Have Three", with the oracle bone "Dan" as the core, uses the myth and legend of "Houyi Shooting Sun" to tell the story of the first rise of the sun; the post-95 writer "Seeing the Sword of Different Thoughts" works "Family Mirror", starting from the oracle bone "Ruo", depicts the ancestral and grandchildren of modern society; "Chinese New Year's Eve Night of the Outpost" created by "Shui Qingzhu" draws inspiration from the oracle "Ji" and depicts the selfless love of border guards to protect the territory.
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, I whitedest, far pupil, etc., also collectively update the Easter egg badge with oracle bone in the serial works, attracting many readers to read the punch card. Yang Chen, vice president and editor-in-chief of Yuwen Group, said: "Telling the Chinese stories of each era well is the spiritual coordinates of online literature in cultural inheritance. He hopes to use cultural innovation in the digital age to let more excellent traditional culture enter the context of contemporary young people with new faces.
At the "Cross-Millennium Convergence of Oracle and Internet Literature" dialogue salon held at the press conference, Zhao Aixue, head of the Jinshi Group and deputy research librarian of the National Library of Ancient Books, said that the ancient characters collided with the network literature more than 3,000 years later, and collided with a satisfactory spark, which was gratifying, "We hope that the ancient characters containing the wisdom of the ancestors 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. ”
The famous internet writer "Xiao and 2" also said: the combination of oracle bones and online novels is a collision and exchange between ancient characters and modern literature, "the Chinese civilization described by the oracle bones has been inherited to this day, and promoting 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 short story he created, "The Beginning of Home", is inspired by the oracle bone "home", combining 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.