On the weekend of spring and warm flowers, if you want to avoid the crowd of flower-viewing people and pursue quiet, it may be a good choice to go to the library for a dip - on March 1, the upstream news reporter learned from the Chongqing Library that the "menu" of the march redraw free public lecture has been released. From special planning for Women's Day to historical, cultural and non-fiction literature, a number of knowledge sharing sessions brought by industry veterans will meet with a wide range of readers on time every Saturday.
According to the staff of Chongqing Library, this month's free public lectures will all be held in the multi-functional hall on the fourth floor of Chongqing Library, covering the upcoming March 8th Women's Day, the popularization of the Civil Code in our daily lives, and historical and cultural stories.
Among them, at 2 p.m. on March 5, women's day special planning "One Flower, One World: The Beauty of Oriental Flower Arrangement Art" will take the lead in meeting with everyone. At the scene, Li Chaohui, a member of the Oriental Flower Road International Association, has participated in large-scale flower road exhibitions for many times, and teaches oriental flower arrangement at the University for the Elderly, government training projects, and floral art training schools, which will bring the origin and development of oriental flower arrangement, the difference between Eastern and Western flower arrangement, the characteristics and basic skills of oriental flower arrangement, and the appreciation of oriental flower arrangement works.
On the afternoon of March 12, the theme of the lecture will shift to the field of history and culture, and Luo Gaoli, LL.M., Southwest University of Political Science and Law, will start with Lu Zuofu, a patriotic industrialist who is well known to countless chongqing people, and tell in detail his Chinese dream as a patriotic industrialist, educator, thinker, social activist and pioneer of rural modernization.
As a visiting professor at the China (Lu Zuofu) School of Private Economics at Southwest University, Luo Gaoli has been studying Lu Zuofu for more than ten years, published a monograph "Lu Zuofu's Chinese Dream", and previously gave more than 200 lectures at Tsinghua University, Southwest University, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, and Chongqing Federation of Industry and Commerce, with an audience of more than 100,000 people.
▲ Luo Gaoli's "Lu Zuofu's Chinese Dream"
Next, Li Yanyan, a writer who had just been elected vice chairman of the Chongqing Writers Association at the Fifth Congress of the Chongqing Writers Association that ended last month, will also join in, bringing the sharing theme of "The First Encounter between Non-Fiction and the Civil Code - "My Voice, Call You Back". Li Yanyan will bring her long-form documentary literature "My Voice Calls You Back- A Story of Women's Rights and Interests Associated with the Civil Code" to the scene.
In this work, Li Yanyan blends her own non-fiction literature with the Civil Code. Through nine consensual case stories, the book shows the fate of nine women; and through the rights and interests protection laws linked by these stories, it hopes to awaken the respect for women's rights and interests in the new era of rule of law society. The work previously won the 2021 "Best Popularity Award" from the well-known literary journal Woodpecker.
▲ Li Yanyan's "My Voice Calls You Back: A Story of Women's Rights and Interests Associated with the Civil Code"
In addition, Lu Xin, a health knowledge popularization expert of the Chongqing Science Communication Expert Group and a member of the expert database of the Chongqing Association for Science and Technology Debunking Platform, will also bring a lecture on "Self-Rehabilitation of Common Pains of "Sedentary People" in the "Health Lecture Hall". According to reports, the on-site explanation and practical operation will be presented to the reader synchronously, so that everyone can master the daily prevention and self-rehabilitation methods, and provide help for everyone to solve pain problems and understand their health status.
Upstream journalist Qiu Jinyi