Cover news reporter Zhang Jie Intern Jiang Ruiyao
Looking back at the origins of World Book Day, we will find that the full name of World Book Day is "World Book and Copyright Day", also known as "World Book Day". Its purpose is to promote more people to read and write, to respect and thank the literary, cultural, scientific and ideological masters who have made great contributions to human civilization, and to protect intellectual property rights.
In 2022, the upcoming day of World Book Day, the atmosphere of discussion and reading has suddenly become stronger. The world is not at peace, and meeting a good book and reading an excellent work brings people healing power and highlights the irreplaceable role.
Zhou Zuoren once said that it was dangerous to show his study to others, because he was afraid of being seen in his own mind. What a person values, what his spiritual source is, can find clues in the books he reads. Interviewees came from different industries and shared their desk books very sincerely and said their feelings after reading.
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Shared by: Wang Yonglei
(Librarian of Zhejiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, person in charge of the archaeological excavation site of Shi'ao Site)
Why China: A Picture of the Central Plains in 2000 BC
Xu Hong, Life, Reading, and Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore, May 2016
This is a small book about the birth of China written to the public by Mr. Xu Hong, the head of the Erlitou archaeological team. Although Teacher Xu did not say that Erlitou was Xia, he was sure that it was the earliest China. Archaeology excels at grand narratives with thick lines, and is prone to powerlessness in the face of specific historical events. There is no curiosity in the book, he tells the story of the 2000 BC chasing deer in the Central Plains in his heart from the perspective of archaeology, so that everyone can clearly see how to reshape our ancient Chinese history from the perspective of archaeology. ”
"Going to School"
He Zhaowu Oral Narration written by Wen Jing People's Literature Publishing House, May 2018
This book is a personal oral history of the famous scholar Mr. He Zhaowu. Born in 1921, Mr. He attended primary and secondary schools in Beiping, university and graduate students at Southwest United University for seven years, read four departments, and then taught at Tsinghua University. Mr. He used the ideological background of the history of philosophy and the history of ideas, with a humble and frank scholarly posture, with the memories and feelings of historical witnesses, to tell the story of the youth and ideals, knowledge and elegance of a generation in the special era, especially in the flames of the War of Resistance. "What impresses most is his definition of happiness. Happiness is that individuals feel that the future has a future, and the other is that the prospects of society are getting better and better. The intellectuals of their generation all pursued the prosperity and strength of the country, and where to go after the country became rich and strong was a question that each of us needed to think about. Wang Yonglei said.
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Shared by: Wang Di
(Distinguished professor, historian and writer of the University of Macau, whose representative works include "The Tea House", "Brother Robe", "The Tea Shop on the Corner", etc.)
"From Witch to Ritual Interpretation"
Li Zehou, People's Literature Publishing House, April 2022
This is the work of the philosopher Li Zehou in his later years, written when he was 84 years old, and recently published by the People's Literature Publishing House in the latest revision. For Chinese cultural thought, Li Zehou has written three books on the history of ideas, namely "The History of Modern Chinese Thought", "TheOry of the History of Ancient Chinese Thought", and "TheOry of the History of Modern Chinese Thought", which had a great response in China's ideological circles and academic circles in the 1980s and 1990s. "From Witch to Ritual Interpretation of Rites to Guiren" was written before Confucius. Before Confucius, there was a long tradition of witchcraft. Wu is found all over the world, chen Mengjia, Zhang Guangzhi and other scholars have also conducted research, Li Zehou rake combed through the Classical Chinese literature and "Guodian Chu Tomb Bamboo Jane" and other materials, put forward his own insights, he especially studied the etiquette of witchcraft. He believes that the combination of wu and emperor in ancient China is the wu emperor. The Zhou metric system of ceremonies created ceremonies as the norms of the daily life of the nobility. Confucius is the one who interprets the rituals. Ren is based on parent-child affection as the main axis, and has become a general term for interpersonal psychology with love as the core. Confucius demanded that benevolence be implemented in daily life, behavior, speech, and posture. ”
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Shared by: Zhang Manling
(Writer, director, representative works include "There is a Beautiful Place", "Memories of Peking University", "Apocalypse of Southwest United University", etc.)
"Neutral"
Roland Barth (France) translated by Zhang Zujian, Chinese University Press, June 2010
"This book has always been on my usual bookshelf. Because it's important. Roland Barthes was the philosopher who had the greatest influence on the West after Sartre. His philosophical contributions are considered to have surpassed Sartre's. I prefer Roland, who has influenced and helped me a lot. As a philosophical concept, 'neutrality' is somewhat similar to the Chinese 'middle way'. As a sign of observation and description, and enumerating many of the conventions of everyday life in the book, Roland tells us what kind of description is neutral and in place. This is also consistent with what Chinese said about 'too much to live'. The best role of the philosophical thinking of 'neutrality' is that people can remove those 'added value' colors, peacefully maintain their relationship with history, and try to find its original appearance. In the expression of writing, 'neutral' can also logically help people get a clean style, writing some words that are not out of the limelight, but are attractive and can stay. This book is a lecture handout for a college lecture, so you don't have to read it, read it to a third, it's almost enough. Roland spoke highly of Japanese haiku. Haiku is only two or three sentences, point to a certain scene, do not pursue the ultimate, can move people, can be circulated. In fact, this is also a realm of art, such as Chinese landscape painting, free brush and ink, not carved. ”
"The Endless Waste of Fame"
Chen Jianjun by The Commercial Press January 2022
The character and article characteristics of this person are not rubbing the mainstream, indifferent, always thinking about some issues that are different from others, and having a sharp point of view. This book focuses on the use of historical materials and is well-founded. The abolition of the name is the first person to reflect and question the cultural achievements of the May Fourth New Culture Movement, in fact, this is also a spiritual source of the May Fourth New Culture Movement. Therefore, he is an important supplement and another side of the May Fourth spirit. The arguments in the book are sufficient for such an outlined proposition, but there is no constitutive logic in the whole book. Perhaps, this is where it comes alive and clever. In Hu Shi's words, how much evidence says how much. There is no need to build a huge system. This is also the style of the abolition name himself, so the author Mr. Chen Jianjun understands the name. Defamation is a realm. He talked about Lu Xun: He was very lonely to write "Autumn Night", "Autumn Night" was an essay, and he wrote prose very casually. ...... He said that there were two trees in his yard, and then he said what kind of trees these two trees were, one was a date tree, and then he thought that one was also a date tree, so he wrote an article. This is a psychological process, and the result becomes the non-mediocrity of the sentence, which is also the non-mediocrity of others.
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Shared by: Convex
(Poet and novelist, published poetry collections "Long Live Labor", "Water House", novel "Koshiba Field", etc.)
"Mu Lu's Memories: Memoirs of Wang Shumin"
Wang Shumin by Zhonghua Bookstore, September 2007
"Mu Lu's Memories: Memoirs of Wang Shumin" specifically records mr. Wang Shumin's different life experiences from childhood to adulthood in chronological order: fleeing from childhood, entering school at the age of seven, following his father Jincheng, learning guqin for the first time, studying in central China, entering Lianhe Middle School, studying at Sichuan University, accompanying his wife Guining, Sichuan University Yichang, Peking University enrollment... This is a memoir written by Mr. Wang Shumin, which I have read many times, and this time I have read it again. I've found that whenever I'm anxious and depressed, reading this book has a therapeutic effect. Mr. young genius, poetry and book love and three tastes, arrogance and pride. Later, he studied under Fu Sinian and Tang Yongtong, studied in the body, studied in the case, wrote and so on, and eventually became a generation of Chinese scholars. Mr. was born in a chaotic world, drifting overseas, falling leaves back to the roots, life expectancy ninety-four and the end, a lifetime experience such as the text in "Mu Lu Reminiscences", not alarming, simple and unpretentious, and time to talk and laugh. ”
Fourteen Poets
Huang Xiaodan by Beijing United Publishing Company July 2019
"This is a book written by the talented woman Huang Xiaodan, which is almost different, there are essays, there are papers, there are philosophies, there are poems, there are autobiographies, there are novels, there are essays, there are reading notes... Mixed and mixed, it is really difficult to name, if you have to have a statement, it should be regarded as an intellectual essay. This book is not only interesting in terms of content, but also in her creative approach to the selection of topics. The whole book revolves around the experience of spring 'imagery' and 'youth', and presents the contradictions and infinite possibilities of life with seven pairs of ancient poets, corresponding to the emotions and images of friendship, loneliness and separation. ”
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Shared by: Jiao Dian
(Post-95 writer, Doctor of Literature)
Handbook for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin by Wang Aiyan Translated by Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House September 2021
"The story in the Handbook for Cleaning Women is real and realistic. There are some so-called real-life works that are like garbage trucks, pouring reality on us. But Lucia Berlin is a female knight, and she uses tenacity, humor, and superb literary martial arts to open the way for us to go deeper and deeper into life. ”
The Gale
Mo Yan Original Xiao Zhen Adaptation Zhu Chengliang Painting 21st Century Publishing House August 2021
"I've always liked to read picture books, and some people may think that picture books are childish, not profound enough, etc. But I don't think it's, that kind of pretending to be profound, pretending to be vicissitudes is childish. Recently, a picture book that impressed me more was based on a novel by Teacher Mo Yan, "Gale". What struck me the most was that after the strong wind, the grass cut by my grandfather and me in the story was blown away. I said to Grandpa: Grandpa, there is only one grass left. Grandpa said: It's dark, let's go. Sometimes frustrated, I would open the book and look at the strong wind and tell myself: Go, the wind will always blow. ”
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Shared by: Zheng Zaihuan
(Post-90s novelist, published novelists such as "Kill the Enemy All Night Tonight" and "Zhumadian Sad Story Collection")
"Wang Nenghao"
Wei Sixiao by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, March 2022
"'Wang Nenghao' is the novella of Wei Sixiao's 'New Countryside Trilogy'. Lu Xun wrote a biography for Ah Q in order to extract a kind of archetypal character, or to extract a personality in the body of each Chinese person. Wei Sixiao's good biography for Wang Neng is to restore a single stick that no one loves to hate and fail, and to argue in the crowd why some people have fallen to the point of dislike and failure and no one loves. ”
Revenge on the Lawn
Brautigen by Xiao Shui/Pan Qiyang Translated by Guangxi Normal University Press, January 2022
"This collection of short stories is especially suitable for the spring meadow, if we can still lie on it, idle to read a paragraph, squint at the sun, put on a pergola and look into the distance, pick up branches to tease the puppy, and maybe reassemble the poetry of life that should be there." Brautigen was a full-fledged poet, and every line he wrote was lightly poetic. His attention is on lawns, streams, fish and homemade drinks, the most ordinary things in life, and he gives these ordinary things a childish poetry with a small story. ”
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Shared by: Watanabe
(Born in 1999, Young Writer, Winner of the 6th Chinese Young Writers Award "Gemini Award for Short Stories")
A Song of Ice and Fire
George Martin, Qu Chang, Hu Shaoyan, Translated by Chongqing Publishing House, October 2013
The series focuses on a series of interconnected court battles, battlefield battles, adventures, and confrontations with magic on a fictional medieval continent. Watanabe said that he "recently went to bed reading 'A Song of Ice and Fire', Grandpa Martin wrote it so well, and I liked the characters he created. ”
"The Heavens of the Heavens"
Jiro Asada by Chang Xiaohong, Hunan People's Publishing House, February 2010
This is a classic best-selling historical novel by a Japanese literary giant who interprets the political situation in china's late Qing Dynasty. The author examines the eerie history of China in the late Qing Dynasty with a foreign perspective. "There is a character here is Li Chunyun, a poor boy who has succeeded Li Lianying, who likes him very much, and he is a very warm person." Watanabe said.