This year's Spring Festival, the reporter saw in Jingui Village, Shijing Street, Pingshan District, Shenzhen: In the past, local indigenous villagers had to learn culture and enter the bookstore or library in the city; now, this village has attracted the surrounding city people. They did not come to Jingui Village to see the scenery, but to see the culture of calligraphy.
This stark contrast stems from the natural study room of Golden Turtle Village.
Surrounded by mountains and rivers and shaded by trees, Jingui Village is one of the few Hakka villages preserved in Shenzhen. Because the mountain on which it depends resembles a golden turtle, it is named Golden Turtle Village.
In recent years, relying on the district library, Pingshan District has explored the sinking of public reading space services in the mode of "integration of library and store", so that most of the "urban study rooms" are located in remote ancient villages, focusing on local Hakka culture, humanities and social sciences and other reading experiences.
As one of the 9 "urban study rooms" in Pingshan, the Golden Turtle Natural Study Room came into being.
On February 4th, the Golden Turtle Natural Study Room is holding a parent-child reading activity. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yin Peng
The Golden Turtle Natural Study is a 342-square-meter renovation from an old house, and the exterior wall is painted in yellow and white. It combines "zero waste" and "natural good books", with indoor reading areas, outdoor activity areas, salon areas and other functional areas, as well as public cultural service functions such as natural book reading, art creation, academic discussion, and activity exchange.
On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the sun shines through the glass roof and sprinkles the Golden Turtle Natural Study. In the large study, all kinds of books are arranged in a staggered manner. Shen Long, the store manager, has prepared paper, paintbrushes, reference books, etc., and is waiting for more than a dozen groups of family students to come to participate in parent-child reading and watercolor painting activities. Some of these families come from nearby streets or drive from afar.
Liu Zihan, a fourth-grade child who lives in Futian, the central district of Shenzhen, told reporters that he and his parents rushed over early in the morning. "My mother and I also came here last summer because the books here are very interesting, talking about the various animals and plants in nature, which has helped me a lot to broaden my horizons."
On February 4, several children read books in the Golden Turtle Nature Study. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yin Peng
Different from other study rooms, the Golden Turtle Natural Study Room combines the theme of nature to carry out a variety of reading activities such as "Starry Sky Night Reading", natural science lectures, and handmade parent-child experience. There is also a 1-kilometer-long nature education trail built next to the study, which not only satisfies the reading experience of young readers, but also provides a comfortable reading environment for parents.
"My kids and I love it so much that we stay at least a day every time we come over. Unlike the study rooms in the city, Golden Turtle Village has the kind of kindness and pleasure that nature brings. A parent who was flipping through books said.
Located about 50 kilometers from the central area of Shenzhen, Golden Turtle Village was once close to Taoyuan and far from humanities, and now it has the "most beautiful bookstore in Shenzhen" and has a large number of readers.
In the past two years, Golden Turtle Village has received more than 20,000 reading enthusiasts and carried out more than 100 activities.
For Golden Turtle Village, the natural study room not only brings popularity, but also changes the local atmosphere. "Enjoying the dividends of reform and opening up, most of our indigenous villagers have become landlords, their families have become rich, people have also been idle, and some residents have been addicted to playing mahjong and other leisure and entertainment, and tobacco and alcohol are inseparable." Zeng Yan, a resident of Jingui Village, admitted that there are now more desks and obviously fewer card tables.
"Today in Jingui Village, if you can choose a neighbor, I believe many people are willing to choose the study." Zeng Yan said with a smile. (Reporters Zhou Ke and Yin Peng)
【Error correction】【Responsible editor: Liu Mian】