Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
The Beijing Winter Olympics will make this February look very different. Whether you are a sports fan or not, as long as you glance at the screen, you will inevitably be attracted by the light and fresh charm. Coinciding with the cold early spring in the northern hemisphere, watching athletes fly in the blue spring, the audience's hearts and minds will also be displayed, and the air breathed will suddenly feel long and clear. Ice and snow seem to have become human wings. Height and speed give athletes the freedom to fly with spectators.
The description of 18-year-old genius girl Gu Ailing is very vivid and vivid, "I like to ski, because when skiing, when a bird, it flies up and then lands." "When soft, grainy snow flows under my snowboard, it makes me feel like I can do anything." Exceeding the limit under extremely cold and extremely cold conditions is the concentrated embodiment of the winter Olympic sportsmanship: fighting against cold, against gravity, against time, is a more thorough transcendence of the limit. Science fiction writer Han Song lamented that "short track speed skating, ramp chase, ramp obstacle skills, figure skating many actions are not like humans can do." The appendage armor resembles Le Guin's Winter Starman. Ice and snow sports have a sense of loneliness..."
Compared with the Summer Olympic Games, the artistry of the Winter Olympic Games also makes the sports that were originally "martial" exude the charm of "wen". Figure skating makes sports, dance, music, etc. perfectly combined, bringing lightness and beauty, "like fluttering like the snow of the wind", not like a competition, more like an artistic performance, come with pleasure, and return home with pleasure. What remains most deeply in people's hearts is no longer the medal ranking, but the posture of flying with the wind.
The Olympic Games are a competition, a competition, a story of friendship, a symbol of peace. In times of uncertainty, it is rare that people have the opportunity to cross borders and gather together in the name of sports, compete with each other and express friendship. More importantly, although not everyone can participate in the Olympic Games, the Olympic spirit is something that everyone can share. For example, the courage to challenge, the heart of not being afraid of failure, the open-mindedness to express kindness and applaud others can help us do our best in our own field and do better.
Ji Cheng, a postdoctoral fellow in the Humanities and Sociology of Sports at Beijing Sport University, reminds us in his monograph "A Brief History of the Winter Olympics: A Humanistic Interpretation of the Winter Olympic Movement" that the Olympic spirit can eventually shine into our daily lives, "just as Olympism clearly points out that the Olympics is a philosophy of life, and we will get different benefits from learning and understanding the Olympic Games." The Olympics guide us to explore the limits of our bodies and minds. Most of us are ordinary people, but the Olympics give us a chance to face up to and reflect on life, so that ordinary us reject mediocrity. ”
In this month's book list, "Habitat in Beijing: Awakening Industrial Heritage", "Yusheng Knotted Strings: The Road of the King", "A Brief History of the Winter Olympics: Humanistic Interpretation of the Winter Olympic Movement" and so on, all help us understand the spirit of the Winter Olympics, the relationship between the Winter Olympics and urban construction from different perspectives. This February, the Winter Olympics are the focus of attention, but it is not the whole of cultural life. About nature, about hometown, about literature, there are still many good works appearing. For example, a popular TV series "The World of Man" on CCTV has also driven many readers' interest in reading Liang Xiaosheng's original novel.
Spring water is just born, and the sun is shining. Valentine's Day, choose to read a few good books, let the soul be more abundant, have the strength in the heart, and go to love the world.
"A Song of Ice and Fire" from a Steel Park to a Winter Olympic Venue
Habitat for Beijing: Awakening Industrial Heritage
Author: Shan Jixiang
China Encyclopedia Press
Many people will notice that the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics freestyle ski women's big jumping competition venue is located in the Beijing Shougang Park. The old Beijing Shougang factory has been transformed from a leading steel industry into a multi-functional cultural park, and has been transformed into an office area of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games Organizing Committee and one of the venues for the Winter Olympic Games. In this book, Shan Jixiang focuses on the excellent case of combining the protective reuse of industrial heritage represented by Shougang with the construction of urban culture. In Shan Jixiang's eyes, from the steelmaking plant where steel splashes and the molten steel flows, to the winter training center with ice-making refrigeration and cold overflow, the transformation and development of New Shougang has played a moving "song of ice and fire".
The Winter Olympics is not only sports, but also humanities
A Brief History of the Winter Olympics
Author: Ji Cheng
Beijing United Press
The first Winter Olympics of 1924 opened in Chamonix, France. Since then, the Winter Olympic Games and the Summer Olympic Games have walked side by side on the stage of the world Olympic Movement. From the source of ice and snow sports to the holding of the first Winter Olympics, from the interruption and recovery of the Winter Olympics to the prosperity and development of the Winter Olympics, to the Beijing Winter Olympics, the book clearly presents a spectrum of the Winter Olympics spanning a hundred years in front of the reader. The author Ji Cheng is a postdoctoral fellow in the Humanities and Sociology of Sports at Beijing Sport University, specializing in winter Olympic teaching and scientific research. He has ten years of experience in literary studies. In his view, the "Winter Olympics" is a natural general education topic that encompasses all aspects of humanistic society. Therefore, the core of his book is the Winter Olympic Movement, and at the same time, it also opens up many fields such as culture and environment, displays the history of the Winter Olympics with a broader vision, and highlights the value core of the humanistic spirit of the Winter Olympics.
How the "phenomenon" level figure skating teenager was refined
Feather Knot: The Way of kings
Author: Mie Noguchi
Publisher: CITIC Press
Translators: Wang Jing, Liu Jian
CITIC Publishing Group
Yu Sheng, although he did not win a medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics, his spirit of daring to challenge the technology and the artistry of figure skating performance made him a phenomenon-level presence out of the circle. Too many people, encouraged by his spirit, attracted to his performances, think he's "the kind of guy who makes you feel really good in the same era as him." The author of the book is a veteran sports journalist who has tracked and reported on Yusei's knots for more than a decade, leaving behind a lot of valuable information about all the important games and transformations he has played in the past decade. Layer by layer, the book peels off Yusheng's "coat" that has been deified by the outside world, showing readers the path of a living, crying, laughing, and skating teenager. In Noguchi's view, Yusuke Habu has many faces, "both the side of being fully engaged in performing like a monk, the gentle and lovely side of being a teenager, and the side of always being grateful for the people and things around him and behaving calmly." ”
A book that gives Gu Ailing great spiritual strength
Brutal Evolution
Author:Tim S. Grover; Sally Lesse Wink
Translator: The Dust
Guangdong People's Publishing House
Some media have interviewed Gu Ailing, she revealed that she changed the screensaver of her mobile phone to this sentence: How bad do you want it (how eager do you really want to succeed)? This proverb was born in the book Savage Evolution. The author of "Brutal Evolution", Tim S. Grover, an authority on spiritual motivation, sports competitions and physical recovery training, began his role as Michael Jordan's personal trainer in 1989 and played an irreplaceable key role in Jordan's six championships and two comebacks. Within 20 years, Tim Grover has rewritten the fate of many players, including Jordan, Kobe and Wade. Only 20% of their training is physical and technical polishing, and 80% is the tempering of the mental level and the forging of spiritual strength. In "Savage Evolution", Grover revealed for the first time the "13 Laws of Savage Evolution", deciphering the "13 Laws of Savage Evolution", teaching people how to strengthen their intuition until the goal is achieved, how to control the environment, and detect the weaknesses of opponents and give a fatal blow.
A literary edition of "Fifty Years of Chinese People's Life History"
"The World"
Author: Liang Xiaosheng
People's Literature Publishing House
Taking the life trajectory of a commoner surnamed Zhou in the northern provincial capital city as a clue, the whole book writes from the 1970s to today after the reform and opening up, and describes the great changes in Chinese society and the ups and downs of the people's lives in multiple angles, in many directions and at multiple levels, which can be called a "life history of the Chinese people in the past fifty years". The author is good at tapping into the kindness, integrity, responsibility and integrity that flash in the characters. Even if life is hard, we must compare our hearts to our hearts and think about others; even if we are in trouble, we must help each other and stand on our own two feet.
"A book of affection for Dongting Lake and yangtze river wetlands"
Great Lakes News
Author: Shen Nian
Beiyue Literature and Art Publishing House
How should a person write about his homeland? Shen Nian, a young writer in Hunan, has returned to the wetland of Dongdongting Lake and the yangtze River where his hometown is located more than a hundred times in the past ten years, leaving a large number of records of observations and thoughts. The reality of the survival of people in the lake area, elk, migratory birds, finless porpoises, fish, poplar forests and various plants, the fate of people and land intersects, allowing us to see the richer existence of "Dongting Lake" than the textbooks see. There are many small villages in the lake area, with plants and trees, insects, fish, birds and animals that you know or don't know. He had borrowed money in a fisherman's house and had spent the night on a lake that was empty in winter. In those days, he saw a lake that was different from his previous cognition, and saw a broader disposition and heart in people than the lake. Those who have experienced the wind and waves also get the life force in the current. This is a book of affection for Dongting Lake and the wetlands of the Yangtze River, and a book of laughter and forgetting about the survival of the children of the "rivers and lakes".
Comprehensively consider the glory and dilemma of medicine
The Cambridge History of Medicine
Roy Porter Editor-in-Chief
Translator: Zhang Daqing et al
Yilin Publishing House
From the rational beginning of medicine in the ancient Greek period, to the scientificization of medicine promoted by the Renaissance and the scientific revolution, to the major progress in cytology, bacteriology, immunology, psychoanalysis and so on in the past two hundred years, the progress of medicine is beyond doubt. But after hundreds of years of rapid progress, is there also a problem and dilemma in medicine? In fact, medicine has never been far from controversy and crisis. In recent years, under the influence of the epidemic, the details, history and purpose of medicine have attracted more and more attention. Is medicine only related to science and technology? These questions, which previously did not seem to be a problem, are still being answered. The Cambridge History of Medicine not only sorts out the glorious course of the development of human medicine for thousands of years, but also sharply understands the dilemmas and crises facing modern medicine, is not afraid to uncover the contradictions and challenges of medicine, and faces the complex relationship between medicine and war, ethics and power. For the general public, reading the Cambridge History of Medicine is a great opportunity to gain general knowledge of the medical profession and cultivate deep thinking.
"Immerse yourself in the Far East and experience the migration from a long winter to spring"
"The Earth Still Winters Under the Quilt"
Author: Vladimir Ivanovich Kolyberi
Translator: Chen Shuxian
China Youth Publishing House
"The starlight shines like all people, and the years pass by like birds, allowing us to find the spirit of nature and gain peace of mind." It is a book of nature about forests and rivers, but also a book of poetry. The Amur River is a distant place where the two major rivers in northeast China, the Heilongjiang River and the Ussuri River, flow out of the river, and the final destination is the Sea of Okhotsk. Forests and rivers contain the endless secrets and poetry of nature. The subtitle of the book is Notes on Russian Nature. From this we can see the rotation of the four seasons of the Amur River, like being in the Far East, experiencing the migration from the long winter to the spring. In the midst of the slight changes, we hear the sound of the cold ice cracking when the grass and trees turn from dry to green. Flipping through this book, it is like hearing the sound of feet stepping on the snow, and you can feel the natural atmosphere everywhere.