Modern Express Reading is the best thing about this spring. On the morning of April 23, after the opening of the 18th Jiangsu Reading Festival and the 27th Nanjing Reading Festival, the highlight of this year's reading festival, "Shuxiang China Reading Lecture Hall for All", was held in Jinling Library, and Xu Yan, honorary president of the Chinese and Foreign Reading Research Association, image ambassador of "Shuxiang Jiangsu" and professor of Nanjing University, gave a lecture on the theme of ""Respecting The Paper of Words" and "Deep Thinking on Reading" - The Continuation and Opening of the Chinese Reading Tradition". In view of the current decline in the reading rate of paper books, Xu Yan pointed out that the "learning family" and "scholarly campus" based on "book fragrance" are the cultural cells of building a "book society", and in the work of promoting reading for the whole people, we should pay attention to family reading guidance and the promotion of excellent reading materials.
Modern Express + ZAKER Nanjing broadcast the "Shuxiang China Reading Lecture Hall" live, and clients such as Xinhuayun, Today's Toutiao, Niuka Video, I Su, sina Weibo and other clients were also broadcast simultaneously. On that day, more than 2.2 million netizens spent this reading event together on the "cloud".
"The fragrance of books" is "the fragrance of knowledge" and "the good fashion of reading"
"The most is that the fragrance of books can go far, and the belly has a poetic and bookish atmosphere", since ancient times, reading has always been a way of life and spiritual pursuit that people respect. At present, the in-depth promotion of reading for the whole people and the construction of a "book society" have become the consensus of the whole society. "Why, in the Chinese context, did the ancients associate 'shuxiang' as a beautiful label with reading and learning?"
Originally, "book fragrance" refers to the fragrance emitted after the "rue herb" was placed in the ancient book. Xu Yan explained that "rue herb" is a perennial herb, which was sandwiched in the leaves of the book by the ancients to prevent silverfish from biting and eating moth erosion books, and it was mixed with the aroma of paper and ink. "'The fragrance of books' is the adjective of 'the fragrance of knowledge' and 'the fashion of reading well'. Therefore, 'Scholarly Family', 'Scholarly Family', 'Scholarly Inheritance' and 'Scholarly Campus' are very noble and elegant comments. The praise of 'fragrant knowledge' and 'fragrance of knowledge' expresses people's admiration for writing and paper, advocating learning, and attaching importance to education and culture and the pursuit of spiritual civilization. ”
In Xu Yan's view, the edification of the fragrance of books has a major role in the growth of individuals: "Lin Yutang said that today's people reading books are equivalent to 'Shangyou ancients', and those who write books and speak must be temporary talents, and the ancients travel unconsciously by its smoke, and finally reap the merits of changing temperament, the realm is high, the mind is wide, and the face naturally reveals a mellow and refreshing atmosphere, which is nameless, and the name is 'book volume qi'. At the same time, it is naturally lofty in terms of conversation. On the other hand, if people do not read, what is the matter, probably trapped in the dust of the world's net, trapped in the locks of fame and fortune, burning and covering, distressed and troubled, naturally abominable, and able to speak with taste? ”
When everyone improves their cultural quality through reading, then "the fragrance of books" can be pervaded in the whole society and become an upward force, "let the 'fragrance of knowledge' and 'fragrant knowledge' brew the spiritual positive energy of reading, so that the 'ideal of life' and 'ideal life' can be inserted into the wings of the fragrance of books, which is the fundamental meaning of 'book fragrance China' and 'reading for all', and it is also an important concept that every family, every child, every student, every Chinese should adhere to." Xu Yan said.
Attach importance to family reading guidance and the promotion of excellent reading materials
Reading starts from the doll, how to raise a good reading child? Xu Yan's answer is that building a scholarly family is the most important thing.
He believes that the construction of the Shuxiang family is the most basic link in the construction of Shuxiang China, and "building a demonstration family that takes pleasure in reading is an important vision for the whole people to read." Because the cell of society is the family, only the shuxiang home can make 'Shuxiang China' have a solid social foundation. ”
To build a bookish family, parents must personally set an example for their children and build a learning family, "Only learning families and learning parents can grasp the 'reading for all' from the doll, and implement the concept of 'reading for all' to thousands of households and thousands of households." "Of course, to build a book-scented family, we must also pay attention to family reading guidance, so that children can be educated in the promotion of good reading materials and grow up in family reading guidance."
At the same time, campus reading promotion also plays an important role. "One of the cultural functions of campus reading promotion is to use various creative activities to guide teachers and students to become 'readers', to pay attention to, awaken and then read these excellent books in an open book, and to give full play to the effects of knowledge, culture and spiritual civilization." Xu Yan said, "You can use the way of recommending books and the way of refining and selecting good books to let the classics among famous writers in ancient and modern China and abroad emerge and give play to the effect of knowledge culture and spiritual civilization." Let everyone draw spiritual strength from reading. ”
In the practice of reading promotion, Xu Yan summarized the selected reading lists of Chinese literary masterpieces that can improve the reading and writing ability of the mother tongue into a smooth sentence: Tang poems and ancient texts tour the Red Chamber, three cities, two white and one world - "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty", "Ancient Literature Guanzhi", "Journey to the West", "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Old Events in the South of the City", "Border City", "Siege of the City", "Baiyangdian Chronicle", "White Deer Plain", "Ordinary World". He said that he should use the recommended bibliography to guide students and let the open book action activate good books.
Use the "sextant method" to promote the practice of reading for all
In 2021, the reading status of the whole people in Jiangsu Province shows that the reading volume of paper books and paper newspapers and periodicals of Jiangsu residents has declined, and Xu Yan also pointed out that at present, in libraries and bookstores, there are many good books that have been sleeping for a long time and in large quantities, and have not been discovered by readers. How to break the game? Xu Yan proposed a countermeasure - the "six-point method" of reading for all.
In recent years, Xu Yan, together with Mr. Zhu Yongxin, the "Image Spokesperson for Reading for the Whole People", vice chairman of the Central Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy and deputy secretary-general of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, has co-edited the second series of books in the "Reading Promotion Series for the Whole People": "Graded Reading: Reading Enhances Happiness", "Branch Reading: Reading Materials Increase Talent", "Focused Reading: Reading Materials Nourish the Mind", "Time-sharing Reading: Pleasant Temperament of Reading Materials", "Classified Reading: Optimizing the Temperament of Reading Materials", and "Reading in Different Places: Reading Materials Connect the Context". The concepts of "grading", "branch schools", "focus", "time sharing", "classification" and "geographical" reading proposed in this series of books give different "reading menus" for the reading needs of different groups.
Xu Yan used "focused reading" and "time-sharing reading" as examples to explain the pertinence of this series of books. "We often call good books knowledge nutrition and spiritual food, and different minds need different spiritual food, so the concept of 'focused reading' tells us that when reading is promoted, we must consider different objects and different groups, just like teachers lecturing students at different academic stages, taking into account the problems of 'people-oriented' and 'focused needs'." Xu Yan said, "Parents know that when a child's brain is most awake in the morning, he should be allowed to get up in the morning to read. In different time periods, the learning efficiency and knowledge acceptance status are not the same. Through the arrangement of different times of the day, through the different time arrangements of a week, a month, and a year, the reading material can please your mood, improve your disposition, enhance your emotional intelligence, and optimize your temperament. ”
"Reading healing" draws spiritual energy from reading
At the end of the lecture, Xu Yan especially proposed that the promotion of reading for the whole people should be combined with the characteristics of the times and social needs, and when people are facing the epidemic and major challenges in life, reading can provide a "healing" effect, so that readers can absorb spiritual energy in reading.
"After every reader and every student encounters negative emotions in self-identification, life growth and career development, how to adjust themselves and how to deal with various interpersonal relationships? How to face the loss and death that life will inevitably face? How to solve these challenging propositions in these difficult moments of life? Xu Yan called for the current challenge of the epidemic and other problems, the promotion of reading for all can bring "reading healing" into schools, families, and society as a new starting point for reading for all.
What is "Reading Healing"? Why does "reading healing" help people get through the troughs of life? Xu Yan believes that setbacks in life are the biggest challenges and tests to a person's common sense, knowledge, knowledge, insight, and courage, and "with the help of 'reading' other people's past life experiences, objectively understand the confusion and grinding brought by heaven, earth, and human beings... Learn from the experience that can be used for imitation, or get the inspiration and understanding of the heart, or even find a path out of difficulties, in order to change the bad mood and uneasy consciousness, and then adjust to a peaceful and stable state of mind. This process of emotional transformation is the process of "healing."
Wanting to achieve the purpose of "healing" through reading, reading biographies can best improve life and provide readers with experience, Xu Yan suggested, "If the reader belongs to the diligent or inferior type, the theme of the reading can choose to recommend self-encouragement, cooperation, struggle, and success; if it belongs to the self-awareness confusion type, the theme of the reading can choose to recommend survival, self-encouragement, growth, friendship, and struggle; if it is a stagnant career development type, it can choose to recommend historical, social, family, philosophical, religious reading materials, etc." ”
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