Text collation / Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Huang Zhouhui
1◆ Spring Festival: The National Library of China released 21 pairs of "Spring Leagues in Ancient Books"
On January 18th, the release of "Spring League in Ancient Books" and the spring link writing activity were held at the National Library of China, and the 21 pairs of "Spring Leagues in Ancient Books" released on the spot were all from classics and had profound meanings.
This year, the National Library of China planned to hold the exhibition "Chinese Year in Classics", selecting 26 kinds of rare books, taking the traditional Chinese "subset of classics and history" as the outline, and vividly telling the historical stories and ritual folklore related to the New Year customs in the classics through the combination of pictures and texts.
At the same time, 21 pairs of excellent and auspicious Spring Leagues were selected from 15 kinds of ancient books and documents. Among them, there are the First Chunlian "Sanyang Shibu; The First Opening of the Four Orders" in the "Dunhuang Testament", and the famous lian "New Year Nayuqing; Jiajie Changchun" selected from the "History of Song".
Experts also excavated from the collection of documents in particular the couplet "壬妁宸六符, 允征 auspicious omen; 寅恭五服, mutual encouragement and heartfelt" related to the year of "壬寅" year.
2◆ Intangible Cultural Heritage: Look for the new year flavor in Guangdong Intangible Cultural Heritage
On January 22nd, the festival "Sigh" Intangible Cultural Heritage - Intangible Cultural Heritage Market Was held at the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Center (Guangdong Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center). This market, which brings together the characteristics of Guangzhou, Foshan, Zhaoqing, Qingyuan and other places, sends a New Year cultural feast to the citizens.
The scene of the event in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Market (Photo provided by the organizer)
The Intangible Cultural Heritage Market is divided into four major areas: the New Year Goods Area, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Handicraft Area, the Spring Festival Blessing Area, and the Game Interactive Area. Citizens can not only buy Guangdong Intangible Cultural Heritage New Year goods, taste intangible cultural heritage food, receive New Year greetings from calligraphers, but also experience traditional pot throwing games and Foshan woodblock New Year painting printing.
3◆ Watch the village night: From the cloud of "village night" to welcome the Winter Olympics, too big Year
Recently, the "5G direct access to the most beautiful town" - Guangzhou Conghua Cloud "Village Night" series of exhibition and performance activities were held.
This event is one of the 2022 national "village evening" demonstration point display activities, with the theme of "Happy New Year, Welcoming the Winter Olympics - Our Beautiful Life", held simultaneously in 4 characteristic towns of Conghua in Guangzhou in the form of 5G linkage, displaying programs with different characteristics such as traditional culture, intangible cultural heritage, sports projects, etc., and presenting the transformation of the rural living environment in Guangzhou and the fruits of rural revitalization.
Conghua "Village Evening" live performance (courtesy of the organizer)
The event was hosted by the Department of Public Service of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The video of the event is scheduled to be broadcast on media platforms such as the National Public Culture Cloud on January 25.
4◆ Archaeology first: In 2021, the mainland will implement 1388 capital construction archaeological projects
On January 17, the National Conference of Directors of Cultural Relics was held in Beijing in the form of a teleconference. The meeting pointed out that the systematization of cultural relics protection management has continued to improve.
31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps announced the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics directories, published the "Overview of the Chinese Revolution Memorial Hall", issued the regulations on the declaration and selection of key cultural relics protection units in the country, the regulations for the collection of state-owned museums, and completed the filing and review of 28,000 sets of first-class cultural relics.
The State Administration of Cultural Heritage promoted the implementation of the "archaeology first, then transfer" system, and implemented 1388 capital construction archaeological projects throughout 2021.
Li Qun, vice minister of culture and tourism and director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, said that in 2021, 241 active archaeological excavations will be carried out in various places, 6 major projects of "Archaeology China" will be launched and 18 achievements will be released, and important archaeological discoveries such as Sanxingdui, Hanwen Emperor Baling, and Piluo ruins will attract much attention.
5◆ Quick repair: Many CPPCC members called for the repair of the Guanhai Building as soon as possible
On January 19 this year, Mai Shuping, a member of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and many other members jointly submitted the "Proposal on Repairing the Former Residence of Panyu Xiong Shili" at the Fifth Session of the Twelfth CPPCC National Committee of Guangdong Province, calling for the repair of the Guanhai Tower as soon as possible and the declaration of "Guangzhou Historical Building" for its protection and utilization.
In addition, after reading the relevant reports of the Yangcheng Evening News, Zeng Dexiong, a deputy to the Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress, and others also planned to jointly submit the "Proposal on Repairing Xiong Shili's Former Residence" at the upcoming first session of the Sixteenth People's Congress of Guangzhou.
GuanhaiLou Photo / Yangcheng Evening News reporter Sun Lei
On December 10, 2021, a report published in the Column of Lingnan Literature and History of Yangcheng Evening News (co-organized by the Cultural and Historical Committee of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Yangcheng Evening News) about "Xiong Shili once lived in Panyu GuanhaiLou in Guangzhou" attracted widespread attention, bringing the protection of GuanhaiLou into the public eye.
6◆ New Masterpiece: The 35-volume Imperial Emperor's tome "The Collection of the Palace Museum and the Compilation of Calligraphy" was published
On January 17, the emperor's magnum opus, a complete set of 35 volumes of calligraphy from the Jin, Tang, Song, Yuanming, and Qing dynasties, the Collection of the Palace Museum, was published.
"The Collection of the Palace Museum, Calligraphy Compilation" (Courtesy of the Palace Publishing House)
Known as the "Forbidden City on Paper", the "Collection Department of the Palace Museum" has published more than 100 volumes such as painting compilation, calligraphy compilation, sculpture compilation, jade compilation, and rare book special collection.
The Palace Museum Collection of Calligraphy from the publication of the first volume in 2012 lasted 10 years from the end of 2021, and finally ended with a complete set of 35 volumes of calligraphy from the Jin, Tang, Song, Yuanming to Qing dynasties. This is a huge production of the results of the cultural relics inventory of the Palace Museum, and it is also the most complete masterpiece of calligraphy and cultural relics in the courtyard at present, which has added important information to the academic research of Chinese calligraphy and the study of famous artists.
7◆ Up: The book retail market will rise 1.65% year-on-year in 2021
Recently, Beijing Open Volume Information Technology Co., Ltd. released the 2021 book retail market data interpretation report. The report shows that the book retail market in 2021 rose by 1.65% year-on-year, and has not yet returned to pre-epidemic levels. The growth rate of online store channels slowed down significantly, up 1% year-on-year, and the scale of code ocean was 77.48 billion yuan; the physical store channel was driven by theme published books, up 4.09% year-on-year, and the size of code ocean was 21.2 billion yuan.
Judging from the open-volume monitoring data, in 2021, traditional channels are still the main position of book sales, whether it is physical stores or platform e-commerce and self-operated and other e-commerce, the scale of varieties is more than 1 million, and the scale of short video e-commerce is more than 30,000.
8◆ New Style: "Face of the Earth" opened, observing Lingnan in the form of contemporary art
On January 20th, the new Lingnan Cultural Research Exhibition "Face of the Earth" was opened at the Shunde Xun Art Museum in Guangdong.
Feng Yuan, professor and curator of Sun Yat-sen University, divides the "mental basis of the face overlooking the earth" and "the face of the Pearl River Delta spanning 50 years" in the form of "creative curation", in-depth analysis of the changes in the Pearl River Delta in the past 50 years, and tries to provide another way of observing Lingnan in the form of contemporary art.
Scene of the exhibition "Face of the Earth" (Courtesy of Sunda Art Museum)
Feng Yuan said that the exhibition goal of "Face of the Earth" is to review the evolution of human beings and the evolution of the relationship between man and nature in the Pearl River Delta land through various maps or aerial maps. The exhibition will run until March 20. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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