Shuttle through the bookstore
A mobile readership
Meet good books and readers who are obsessed with good books
Meet the bookstore hidden way to open
Meet unexpected life stories
In a mixture of random and fortuitous encounters
CCTV-9 documentary
"Bookstore, Meet You"
Will take you through it once
special
"Stranger social" experience
Trailer for "Bookstore, Meet You"
The journey begins in Beijing
You will walk into 6 bookstores in 5 cities
You will find
E-books and online shopping are convenient
But visiting a brick-and-mortar bookstore is fun
......
meet:
Personality like Qingwen's "red fan"
I met this "red fan" on a rainy Sunday afternoon, a week before the Wuhan Baicaoyuan Bookstore closed.
The mother took her 9-year-old daughter all the way to the bookstore with an umbrella, and while running, she loudly introduced her daughter: "This is the legendary Baicaoyuan Bookstore." ”
In front of the bookshelf, she looked for books in a hurry, afraid that good books would be snatched away by others.
Picked a bunch of books and settled the bill. Outside the bookstore, she told her daughter playing in the rain the story of "rootless water"...
She said that when she was young, she felt like Qingwen in "Dream of the Red Chamber" and acted spontaneously.
More than ten years later, re-reading the Red Chamber, she wrote down a different feeling, "I also envy the 'post-95' kind of 'boss disobedience, I will leave' courage, but obviously, people in middle age and 'lack of mines', only to live, become life itself, is the real 'Ren is ruthless and moving'..."
Keep returning to the world in the book, keep going inside yourself—that's probably why we keep opening the same book.
Meet: Prepare for the third time
The "Desperate Samurai" of the Judicial Examination
I met him at the 24-hour book bar in Shenzhen Book City. There was a cup of coffee on the table, which had been drunk, and a jar of Red Bull. On the ground, there are three large bottles of mineral water. He kept drinking water.
A group of people in the film crew walked around in the book bar, but he was very focused.
A few years ago, he noticed that his financial industry was in a slump and decided to switch to being a lawyer. He had already taken two rounds of the judicial exam before, and this year was the third.
In order to prepare for the exam, he quit his job and spent 100,000 yuan to sign up for the training class. During the day, I go to the teaching point of Shenzhen University to take classes, and in the evening, I come to the 24-hour book bar to stay up late to review. He prescribed to himself that he should not sleep more than 4 hours a day.
"Seeing that I am slowly approaching the age of 35, I am actually very panicked, I have been working for so many years, and then I think that the road has become narrower and narrower..."
During his preparation time, his lover who works in an insurance company bears most of the financial and life pressures of the family.
This made him feel a little guilty, "My plan is to get the certificate this year and let her rest for a while." I'm going to run the money well. ”
The bookstore late at night hides the exhaustion and dreams of many people.
meet:
Rural left-behind elderly people who love to read
Met him at Xinhua Bookstore in Shichi, Henan. This small city in the Central Plains of 300,000 people is an important source of Chinese civilization - the place where Yangshao culture was first discovered.
The old man is 74 years old and is a regular visitor to bookstores. I especially love to read red classic novels. The last time I came to the bookstore, I was going to buy "Red Rock", but when I checked out, I accidentally found a copy of "Song of Youth", and as a result, I bought "Song of Youth" home.
This time, he decided to read "Red Rock" in the bookstore, and he did not buy it, because he thought the book was expensive.
The old man lives in the countryside, more than 30 miles from the county seat, and every time he enters the city, he takes a bus to and from the city. Round-trip tickets cost 10 yuan at a time, and the government gives 30 yuan a month to the elderly ride card. So, every month, he came to the county town 3 times.
The wife died 20 years ago, the daughter married to a foreign village, the son worked in Shanghai, and the daughter-in-law lived in the county with her grandson. Today, in the vast courtyard, he lives alone.
The old man said that he often felt bored, and when he was bored, he read at home. Sometimes when I miss my grandson, I take a car into the city and stop by Xinhua Bookstore to read books.
He said that the city is crowded and lively, and the bookstore clerk is also very good to him, and he likes to go into the city.
Meet: I like to stay in a rental house
The "post-95s" who studied the world's military and political history
His name is Yiran, after 95, he finished college abroad and returned to China to work.
YiRan liked old books, mainly because he wanted to see the annotations of his predecessors. "For example, 'On monarchs', you know that there is a version of 'Monarchs', called 'Napoleon's annotated version'. Napoleon read it four times, made four annotations, and each time it was different, which is equivalent to communicating with Napoleon of the four periods. ”
He says it's a challenge to really understand a book with depth. He loves to challenge the difficulty — just as he usually does, but also likes to challenge the high intensity — every night, he strapped 6 kilograms of sandbags to his legs and ran a big circle around east lake. The average person can't stand it.
But now he couldn't do it either. Because not long ago, he was diagnosed with a rare disease called "syringomyelia", and recently, muscle atrophy has been very serious. The disease is very slow, the course of the disease is very long, it will make him feel that the strength is dissipating a little bit.
But he told the crew: "I don't feel stuffy in the house at all. Inside the house, there was Lenin, there was Plekhanov... They're all with me. You think it's lively outside, and I'll tell you, it's only inside my room. He said with a burning eye.
The bookstore is really a magical place
Probably people subconsciously think
We walked into the same bookstore
Or have read the same book
It's the "fellow traveler."
A moment of brief rendezvous
By reading this little thing
inadvertently
Just chew out the taste of life