It's been two years, two years since the first season of "The Everyday life of Literature" aired.
Two years ago, at the dawn of the pandemic, this documentary focused on literature came out, smoothing out many of our anxieties and confusions with wise and excellent views and affectionate light and shadow narratives.
At this time, the epidemic is fiercely fighting back, and it has returned with the power to heal people's hearts - from April 21, the second season of "Literary Daily" jointly produced by Southeast Satellite TV, Straits Satellite TV and Youku Video has arrived.
The film is healing from the beginning. Musician Hong Qi sings on the vast grasslands of Xinjiang, and sitting next to him is Liu Liangcheng, who is known as "the last Chinese essayist of the 20th century" and "village philosopher". The writer, who started his life in 2014, will tell you in the vegetable garden he cultivates to learn to eat in the mountains and which can be eaten; whether it is grass or dogs and animals, as long as the creatures in the places where he can see are closely related to people. In the barren desert he could also notice the small life activity, and in the saline land where the poplar forest grew, he could feel the vitality surging under the virtual soil.
Liu Liangcheng said: "Writers want to live into their hometown. ”
"Pyrotechnics" can be said to be the buff that director Wang Shengzhi is best at, from "Breakfast China" to "The Daily Life of Literature". In these 150 seconds, the breath of literature and the smoke of fireworks intertwine, making people feel warm.
Chen Yan, a writer who pays attention to the life at the bottom, together with Chen Xiaoduo, chief soprano of the China Opera and Dance Theatre, walked into xi'an's urban villages and Muslim streets to understand the origin of works such as "Xijing Story", "Loading Stage", "Protagonist" and feel the power of literature "stepping on the earth".
Chen Yan said: "People (working people) rely on labor to gain dignity, why do you say sympathy, you are not qualified, right?" ”
Coming out of the crowd, the novelist Shuang Xuetao, who "broke free" from ordinary life, and together with his friend Shi Hang, began a journey of self-search and spiritual retracement. In the "I and the Temple of Earth" café, Shuang Xuetao listened to Shi Tiesheng's original voice, recalled his initial love for literature, and collided with Shi Hang's point of view, and found that the "hometown" he constantly wrote had always been there, and he was more determined to become a novelist.
Shuang Xuetao said: "Writing is to exchange yourself for constant friction with the world." ”
The second season of "The Daily Life of Literature" ushered in Yu Jian, who was also named "Avant-Garde Writer" like the first season writer Ma Yuan. "Life" in Jianshui Yu Jian and his friend Hu Liangcan freely enter the hustle and bustle of the slag street, the secret Quiet Lu, talk about divinity, and eat a lot.
Yu Jian said: "This epidemic is the return of uncertainty, and the world has found that we still live in uncertainty. ”
The physical distance that a person can cross is limited, but the pilgrimage of the mind is an irrepressible journey. "Hubei's youngest collaborator" Li Xiuwen and his friend Han Songluo found the heart of the naked child, walked through the Hexi Corridor that runs through ancient and modern times, through the fog of history and literature, and looked for the inner "temple".
On the vast Gobi, Li Xiuwen sighed: "The writer is the drummer in the temple of a voice. ”
We care for ourselves and connect with the world. Born lonely, in the information cocoon and social platform incubated by modern technology, shouting out loud to their voices, but also want to hear responses in the island. Writers are lonely, and there is a danger that serious literature will not be able to read and resonate.
Li Er, a writer who is considered to be a niche in the industry, knows this very well, and he wrote "Flower Cavity" and "Ying Wu Brother" instead of pleasing readers, but from the possibility of aesthetic expression between knowledge and daily life, he has been lonely and brave to walk on a different path from traditional writing. Li Er and his friend Zhang Qinghua chose to collide and converse in the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature in the second season of "The Daily Life of Literature". Li Er's knowledge has been integrated into daily life, not to drop the book bag and show off skills, he sincerely and bravely declares to the reader:
"A writer finishes it, and the work is not finished. It meets the reader, it meets the critic, it can be called a work. ”
In just two and a half minutes, we meet the Great Beauty River and Mountain, meet the philosophical thought, meet the poetry, and meet the humanities. So, are you ready for the encounter with The Everyday Life of Literature?
Edit | He Jiayi
Editor-in-Chief | Zhang Sugui
Producer | Wang Shengzhi