Recently, the famous writer Zhu Yong's most special new book, "Zhu Yong's Literary Notes", officially met with readers. Launched by Liaoning Publishing Group Liaohai Publishing House, the book is a hundred beautiful passages carefully arranged and selected from Zhu Yong's outstanding works in his creative career for more than 30 years, arranged in the form of poetry, full of humanistic spirit and historical and cultural thickness, with elegant words, full of emotions and profound thinking.
Famous writers, cultural scholars, and documentary filmmakers are Zhu Yong's multiple identities known to the public. The "Forbidden City" series of works he created set off a boom in the "Forbidden City" as soon as it came out; the large-scale documentary "At the Foot of the Tianshan Mountain" of which he served as the general director was selected as "100 Collected Works of Documentaries in the Seventy Years of New China" and won numerous awards.
As a cultural communicator of the Palace Museum, Zhu Yong has been committed to writing the allusions and legends of the Forbidden City. Using the writing technique of space and time, he constructed a Forbidden City in the political sense of the dynasty, and also showed a forbidden city in the cultural sense of the essence of gardens, calligraphy and painting, books and crafts. In the "Zhu Yong Forbidden City Series" books, Zhu Yong continued his unique writing style, placing the seemingly isolated cultural relics in the museum in a broad historical background, restoring vivid historical scenes for readers and giving new life to these antiquities with words. The "Six Hundred Years of the Forbidden City" launched in 2020 is another effort by Zhu Yong to promote the culture of the Forbidden City and tell the story of the Forbidden City. In addition, he served as the chief screenwriter of the cultural program "Shangxin Forbidden City", guiding Deng Lun, Zhou Zhouwei and other "Developers of Innovative Literary Products of the Forbidden City", choosing to cut from the "unknown perspective" of ordinary people, achieving excellent ratings and bringing a large number of young fans to the Forbidden City circle.
The newly published "Notes on Zhu Yong's Literature" is Zhu Yong's review of his literary journey of more than thirty years. From the text of the book, we can "spy" the direction and style of Zhu Yong's more than eighty works; from the pictures of the whole book, we can see a writer who "chooses one thing and lives a lifetime", and becomes more and more calm and focused in the passage of time for decades. In this book, he looks back at himself and examines himself, and Zhu Yong finds that he has spent most of his years in the study, reading, checking literature, and writing, which have become the main theme of his life. His honest labor has allowed him to create a literary world that is solid, solid, and highly recognizable. A good writer is a king who runs through the world of words. This is his ideal country and his home.
This book is a collection of Zhu Yong's literary works. The entire content of the book is taken from Zhu Yong's works, classic anthologies, short and beautiful, simple and abundant. In more than thirty years of creative career, the literary world created by Zhu Yong is more like a river that has never frozen and never stopped. It comes from the deep and consistent love of Chinese culture. As Tong Lixia, the editor of this book, said: "What is selected in the "Notes on Zhu Yong Literature" is only the waves that rise from time to time in this river, and there are so many such waves, it may be a paragraph, it may be a sentence, it may be related to culture, it may be related to architecture, it may be related to history, it may be just a special text expression. I follow the footsteps of words and the passage of time, see certain paragraphs, certain sentences, I can't help but stop, with a cup of coffee time, slowly dissolve the thinking or beauty brought to me by these words. Such words were selected by me to form this book. Yes, good words are powerful. It makes people hear the voice of thought, and makes people feel the slight drunkenness of beauty. ”
This book is a record of light and shadow in the depths of Zhu Yong's time. The whole book is accompanied by full-color pictures to record Zhu Yong's creative career. The book is interspersed with many precious personal photos of Zhu Yong and the books and pictures in the book he has written, in addition to the text, it also presents Zhu Yong's growth process from a literary newcomer to an essayist. In the frames of old shadows, Zhu Yong walks in the southern country, walks in the classics, walks between antiquities, this is his journey to find his literary hometown. The reader can see the passage of time and also see the fruits of time. Different people and things come and go in Zhu Yong's old shadow, but the only constant is his intoxication with Chinese culture. This is "the drunkenness of the nine years of Yonghe", through a pen handed by the ancients from the depths of time, to write a splendid article.
This book is a holographic chronology of Zhu Yong's literary creation. Chronologically, the panorama includes the core information of his published works, editor-in-chief works, and film and television works. For many readers who like and study Zhu Yong's works, this is a rare "guide". Open this book, the content of both literary quality and beauty plus rich pictures give readers a light and comfortable reading experience. These colorful passages from different eras and different books, because they come from the same matrix and from the same heart that loves Chinese culture, have similar genes, presenting the undefeated beauty of the years, and they are connected from end to end, and they are interesting. Never before have they gone so far as they do now to the readers who accompanied them. Zhu Yong wrote in the preface to this book: "As a word lover, I want to try to write good words and leave good texts", treat creation with "sincerity", and treat readers who like him with "sincerity". "Matching the content, the book is beautifully framed and well-crafted. There is a letter sleeve on the outside, and the cover hardcover is supplemented by a bronzing process, which is elegant and does not lose temperature. The text is made of 130 grams of colorful and elegant paper, and the image is superior, the texture is natural, and the feel is soft. The use of thread-mounted bare ridges, easy to open and close, easy to read. Books themselves are beautiful things. It's a beautiful book that should look like it.
As a writer from Shenyang, Mr. Zhu Yong has a deep attachment to his hometown of Shenyang. He once wrote in his book: "The so-called hometown is hidden in the depths of the heart, unconsciously, the emotions that can be suddenly touched at a certain point in life, the old time that will emerge at a certain time, and the background of our lives." We can alienate, we can forget, but no one can resist" "My connection with the city has not been severed, it has only been covered up at some stage. The city had been lurking in my heart and had never left. That's part of my life, my muscles are skinny."
Zhu Yong worships words, loves literature, and writes all the way down, without distraction. He felt deeply rich in the vast, deep, and magnificent world of words he had created.
"Zhu Yong's Literary Notes" is the opening work of the "Everyone's Notes Series" of Liaohai Publishing House, and also the phased achievement of Liaoning Publishing Group's implementation of brand strategy and boutique projects. In the future, there will be more celebrities in literature, art, science, education and other aspects who will enter our reading horizons in a "special" way. Let us hope that more writers and scholars will tell people about the love of this book with more innovative ideas.