Communication: Writer Deng Jiugang "catches the fashion" and uses new media to dictate the history and "nostalgia" of a city

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China News Network Hohhot, April 26 Title: Writer Deng Jiugang "Catches the Fashion" and Uses New Media to Dictate the History and "Nostalgia" of a City

China News Network reporter Li Aiping

Deng Jiugang, who has a full beard, is 74 years old, but he still feels "young" because he likes new media.

On a video number titled "Writer Deng Jiugang," he intermittently recorded 35 episodes of small videos about the more than 2,000-year history of his hometown of Hohhot, ranging from 7 minutes long to 5 minutes short.

"There are more than 1,000 fans and 200,000 traffic." Although it is difficult to match the "Internet celebrity" mentioned by the times, this well-known person with honors such as national first-class writer, vice chairman of the Wanli Tea Ceremony Cooperative (China), and the 2013 Chinese Culture Person of the Year is still full of curiosity in the new media.

On April 26, Deng Jiugang unveiled the mystery for reporters, all in order to let more people remember the history and "nostalgia" of the city, and wanted to do a little bit for the spread of culture.

The "inspiration" triggered by a fire sale

Deng Jiu just got excited to do the video number, but it was because of a roast sale (Hohhot snacks). Speaking of this slightly humorous paragraph, Deng Jiugang laughed loudly.

Deng Jiugang has two daughters, both of whom work in Beijing. Last winter, Deng Jiu just went to Beijing to reunite with his daughter, and in the process of eating and selling, the two aunts not only consulted the history of Deng Jiugang's roast sale, but also talked about the history of Hohhot. One of the daughters who works in the media had a clever move, "These materials dad can record videos." ”

Hearing this, Deng Jiugang felt that "it is a good idea", but there were also doubts, he did not know anything about new media, but his daughter dispelled his concerns: "We understand, the rest of the matter does not have to be taken care of." ”

"When I talk about the history of my hometown, I was going to write this book, but when I got older, I couldn't write it." Deng Jiugang said that he began to cooperate with his daughter's initiative, using oral history.

Oral history also requires "lesson preparation"

As a native hohhot native of his hometown, in the past 40 years, Deng Jiugang's works such as "Dashengkui Shanghao", "Taking the West Exit", and "The Road of Tea" have all been related to the city.

In a sense, the history of the city Deng Jiugang can come with his mouth open, but for the sake of safety, he still lists key information such as personal names, place names, and ages on a piece of paper before recording, in order not to mislead the audience.

Even in order to meet the needs of new media, he also made an outline at the beginning of the lecture, and in order to make more people accept, he used the easy-to-understand column "My Hometown My City".

In the recording of the first issue, Deng Jiugang said affectionately, "From today onwards, I will talk to you about those things in Hohhot in this series of short videos..." "Due to my personal experience and limited cognition, I welcome everyone to criticize and correct." ”

"I didn't expect everyone to accept this way"

If it were not for Deng Jiugang's narration on the video number, few people would know that Hohhot has had the historical changes of 5 ancient cities, and the city has long been an international city.

"More than 2,000 years in Cloud City, more than 1,500 years in Shengle City, more than 800 years in Fengzhou City, more than 440 years in Naturalization City, and more than 200 years in Suiyuan City." On the 26th, Deng Jiugang said for the reporter "science popularization" of the history of hohhot city that many local people who listened to the video number also said that it was the first time they knew.

In Deng Jiugang's oral history, some local streets, temples, bridges, vegetable markets, commercial travel, snacks, etc., are also interspersed through small stories, and many people say, "After listening to Teacher Deng's oral history, I truly understand that Hohhot is really the common home of all ethnic groups." ”

What makes Deng Jiugang excited is that his videos have attracted the attention of many international friends from the United States, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia and so on.

Deng Jiugang also received greetings from an American friend and praised his cultural form of dissemination, who liked to listen to his talk about "Hohhot's international trade exchanges with Russia and Mongolia".

In addition to "remembering nostalgia", I want to do a good job in cultural dissemination

Spreading local culture and allowing more people to remember the historical story of Hohhot as part of the Wanli Tea Ceremony is the "mission" set by Deng Jiugang as the vice chairman of the Wanli Tea Ceremony Cooperative (China).

Over the past few years, he has been "three sentences away from the line" in writing and lecturing, as well as attending various conferences related to the "Tea Road".

Deng Jiugang admitted that in this new media video narration, he still spends more time telling the history related to the "Tea Road", because this is an international topic with different significance.

In fact, a few years ago, he repeatedly gave media interviews on topics such as the "Belt and Road" and "Tea Road", hoping and calling on all sectors of society to pay attention to Hohhot.

But now, he said, with the blessing of new media, he is very confident in doing a good job in spreading Hohhot culture, and he is still very "young" and must keep pace with the times.

"Now there are 35 episodes, for a total of 142 episodes." Deng Jiugang said that as a person living in Hohhot, he only wants to do something for his hometown and leave a thought for his descendants. (End)