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 reading and viewing experience, and highlight the strength of reading, the confidence and hope of spring travel with one heart. The event will run until World Book Day on 23 April.
Today, Xu Jiangang, vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Federation of Social Societies and executive vice president of the Party School of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, recommended "Shanghai Album: 70 Moments in 70 Years", and Xu Jun, publisher and former executive director of Zhonghua Bookstore, recommended "Gu Suizhi Zhou Ruchang's Collected Letters" and the calligraphy work "Five Words and Laws and Ma Yifu Rhymes for Pan Boying".
Xu Jiangang's recommendation:
Reading books, reading of course is reading words, understanding the abstract truth, looking at images, with intuitive feelings to understand the world. Here is a well-illustrated book, "Shanghai Photo Album: 70 Moments in 70 Years", compiled by the Party History Research Office of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, which is worth recommending.
Shanghai is the first modern city in modern China, and Shanghai has always been a hot topic that cannot be said enough, and all kinds of books about Shanghai are full of sweat. However, on closer inspection, most of them are gimmicks of the so-called "old Shanghai". "A hundred years of China looking at Shanghai", just an "old" word certainly can not reflect the history of Shanghai, but there should be a "new" word, today we live in Shanghai, but also more based on this "new" word. In this sense, Shanghai Photo Album: 70 Moments in 70 Years provides us with a good reading text for understanding how Shanghai has achieved today.
Different from previous Shanghai history books, "Shanghai Photo Album: 70 Moments in 70 Years" is characterized by "new": the time period chooses "new", starting with 1949 and limiting to 2019, avoiding similarities with many publications on Shanghai's historical themes; the content selection "new" not only tells about the events of great significance in Shanghai's development, such as the establishment of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, the completion of the transformation of capitalist industry and commerce, the development and opening up of Pudong, the Shanghai Import Expo, etc., and more closely related to people's lives. And the events that were not too concerned at that time, such as the establishment of the first neighborhood committee in Shanghai, the establishment of the workers' new village, the Shanghai workers' "branch", the first land lease, etc.; the style of arranging "new", the whole book takes the map as the point, the text goes with the picture, the string points are formed into lines, and the selected picture is narrated with a complete story, which runs through before and after, which is a small history of urban life in Shanghai; the picture angle is "new", the historical figures are in the historical scene, which has become the biggest feature of the book, and the selected photos are based on the principle of the historical scene. Highlighting the activities of people living in the city at the historical scene, even if some major historical events, some photos closer to the daily life of ordinary citizens are selected, such as the transformation of Zhaojiabang Road in Shanghai, the boulevard after the completion of the construction, but the scene of the citizens participating in the labor in full swing, such as the establishment of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the selection of many cultural square "hypermarket" scenes in the memory of old Shanghai, and so on.
According to statistics, of the more than 25 million permanent population in Shanghai today, 10 million are "new Shanghainese" who migrated to Shanghai after the 1990s. I think that "Shanghai Photo Album: 70 Moments in 70 Years" is not only a tribute to the people who have contributed to the development of the city, but also provides a new visual reading for the "new Shanghainese" living in Shanghai to better understand the growth code of the city.
Xu Jun's recommendation:
Around the New Year, the office that has been used for nearly 20 years is faced with a room full of books and albums, and it is also touching the sense of life. What touched me the most was the response to an old saying: "Regret not reading for ten years." "Too many books have not been read, not even read, especially for friends who have sent me books from afar. Therefore, since staying at home, I have decided to try to "read the whole book" and regain the joy of reading.
The first book I read in its entirety this year was Mr. Mo Shuyi, an old colleague of my Literary Institute, "Ordinary People's Homes" (Human Publishing House, 2010), a particularly rare family history that I could not stop reading and afraid to finish. I also re-read Mr. Huang Yongnian's "Introduction to the Collation of Ancient Books" (Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House, 2013), which is a review of the work of the past ten years through reading, and also realized the difficulty between the principles and practices of ancient book collation.
What books to read, there are various choices, but also a variety of opportunities. But pick up a book and decide to read it from beginning to end, rather than picking and choosing or dragonflies, trying to understand the meaning. Today I would like to recommend the "Collection of Letters of Gu Suizhi Zhou Ruchang" (Zhonghua Bookstore, December 2021), which I have read in its entirety during this period, "I know that I only have two or three sons left, and I always ask how to write" (Gu Suishi), and the short and long paper between teachers and students that has lasted for decades is amazing. On the study of the past and the present, the taste of the evaluation of you and me, although the letter is written to the other party, but it is not written to oneself! It is precisely because of this that you and I have no distance between us, that there is such a generous comment and personal thoughtfulness.
After reading Mr. Bitter Water's book collection, I found out that I had read Mr. Gu Lin's "Love Book" (Shanghai Translation Publishing House, January 2020) that I had read the year before, and the most touching thing about that generation was those invisible intentions, and the invisible intentions were full of sincerity.
Calligraphy work "Five Words and Laws and Ma YiFu Rhymes for Pan Boying"
Good lake and mountain under the eyes, sit and lie down to watch.
Drag racing half a schedule, endowed with different writings.
Clarify the old Shanghai blasphemy and show this round of turmoil.
Hongqiao is not Jingu, talking about Kanji Shiyan.
In the autumn of the Qing Dynasty, Yugao, Qinghui Minghaidian.
When the chrysanthemums are in place, a hundred bushes of fragrant japonica.
Happy and exhausted, love to the point of forgetting.
The pine windows are warm and the grass path is soft.
Clean up, encourage and cliff streams.
He is full of humor and humor, and the facts are extremely dialectical.
Shen Yinmo's "Five Words and The Law of Five Words and Ma Yifu Rhymes to Pan Boying", in November 1953, Mayor Chen Yi invited To drink hongqiao Villa, sang harmony with Mr. Ma Yifu, and gave the book to Mr. Pan Boying.
Mr. Gu Sui's calligraphy teacher was Shen Yinmo, and throughout his life he only obeyed Elder Mo, and the Collected Letters of Gu Sui to Zhou Ruchang contains his June 1948 letter cloud: "Humble books are better than benefits, and this way only makes demo old."
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Editor: Xu Yang