The power of reading has always been together| returning to the heart, sorting out the self, listening to Fan Deng and Wang Lan recommend books

Under the epidemic situation, travel presses the "pause button", but reading at home and meditating will not stop.

Under the guidance of the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, the Shanghai Municipal Federation of Social Societies, Century Publishing Group and Wen Wei Po Specially planned the theme activity of "The Power of Reading , Always Together", which was launched on April 1, inviting Shanghai scholars and writers to make "1 + N" recommendations for readers - you can recommend an excellent book, you can also recommend a song, a movie, or even a good article, share the experience of reading and watching, and jointly highlight the confidence and hope of reading with the power and the same heart to the spring. The event will run until World Book Day on 23 April.

Today, Fan Deng, chief content officer of Fan Deng's Reading APP, recommended "Walden Lake" and the movie "Truman's World", and Wang Lan, president of the Shanghai Yanhuang Culture Research Association, recommended the book "Jingde Meteorology: An Aspect of Chinese Culture".

Fan Deng's recommendation: A book of spiritual comfort to help you fight anxiety and regain peace

In the late spring, the epidemic is raging, and the fight against the epidemic is at home, which is a difficult day for many people. Then I think of this classic that can make the heart find quiet and return - "Walden".

The first time I read Walden was in my early twenties, and I repeated it several times in the middle, until I was about thirty years old, when I found it good, and when I went to a place anytime and anywhere, I opened it and read it, and I would feel healed.

For a long time, we have become accustomed to a fast-paced life, receiving a lot of information every day, and people have become impetuous. When the epidemic has made life choices less and the pace slowed down, perhaps it is for people trapped in their homes to open up an opportunity to simplify their lives and organize themselves, so that we no longer rely on finding fun from the outside world. Just like more than two hundred years ago, Thoreau went alone to the shores of Walden Lake, sitting and watching the grass and trees wither, the four seasons changing, without too much socializing, without the need for chinese clothes, the awakening of the soul is the real dawn, the body and spirit are the first and last temples of a person.

Thoreau wrote this book in the hope that people would be their own Columbus, explore new directions, and everyone could try to live a completely different life.

So today, when everyone is stuck in the footsteps of the epidemic and more and more anxious, the appeal of Walden will become stronger and stronger.

Everyone should be familiar with this movie, it is actually a paradox of "Locke's Chamber of Secrets".

What is Locke's Chamber of Secrets? For example, I was invited to a café today. As a result, after coming in, I found that this café had everything I liked: the people I liked were also in this place, the books I liked were also in this place, and the things I wanted to eat were also in this place, and then I was not willing to leave this café. But then someone quietly locked the door of the café. That is to say, if I want to leave this café, I can't go, I'm stuck in this café, I'm locked up here. I became a prisoner of this café, but I subjectively had no intention of leaving it.

So let me ask you: Am I free or not? Everyone is welcome to think together during the movie.

Wang Lan's recommendation:

Affected by the epidemic, this body was grounded for the first time. While the movement is limited, the thinking is extremely active, including thinking about the living conditions and life choices of urban people. I remembered my college classmate and Jiangxi reportage writer Hu Ping's new work "Jingde Meteorology: An Aspect of Chinese Culture" that I read not long ago, and I would like to share it with friends who love to read.

Hu Ping's writing on Jingdezhen began eight or nine years ago, and unlike the first edition of "Porcelain on China" in 2014, this time, the focus of his writing is no longer on the history of Jingdezhen's "thousand-year kiln fire" and the artifacts that have been passed down through the centuries, but on the diverse people who are active on this side of the water and soil, especially today's "Jing drift" family. The author writes about their different ways of life and lifestyle from other "drifters" such as "North Drift" and "Shanghai Drift", and writes about the interaction and spiritual resonance with them in the days of living in the Three Treasures Porcelain Valley in Jingdezhen.

Hu Ping's "Jing Drifters" include craftsmen, independent artists, creative workers, craft designers, non-hereditary inheritors, and business operators... There are local "jing drifts" from all over the country, and there are also "yang jing drifts" from abroad, and their common point is to pursue the "heaven and earth clear sound" that integrates landscape and humanities, art and life. They are a group of "free and interesting souls", and Jingdezhen is "a place where any dream can be accommodated", and together the two have made an ideal urban sample of contemporary Chinese heritage and innovation, modernity and grassroots.

Hu Ping said: "Day after day, the 'Jingdezhen time' that has been stopped, its creation, production space and living space are highly unified, reflecting one of the important characteristics of the post-industrial lifestyle - if we can't change the environment, we can change the mood... Compared with the sense of drift and passivity contained in the 'drift' of the North Drift, the 'drift' of the Jing Drift is like a spiritual return. ”

At the moment of the suspension of Shencheng, re-reading "Jingde Meteorology: An Aspect of Chinese Culture" believes that it will help reflect on the issues related to human life and living conditions, and will help us "return to the spirit".

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Editor: Xu Yang

Editor-in-Charge: Fan Xin

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