In 2022, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics central axis application office planned to launch the "reading central axis" series of activities. At the launching ceremony of the First National Reading Conference And Beijing Reading Season and the theme activity of "Light Up the Reading Lamp", Chen Mingjie, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics, released the "Reading Axis" series of activities.
On the day of the event, the organizers announced the first batch of 8 kinds of "Reading Axis" book list, including the popular "Central Axis" (Beijing United Publishing Company), the humanistic "Beijing Central Axis Cultural Travel Classic" (Beijing Publishing House), the children's "Beijing: City on the Central Axis" (21st Century Publishing House), the graphic and text category "Beijing Central Axis Centennial Image" (Beijing Daily Publishing House), the novel category "Painting the Jingji" (People's Literature Publishing House), the academic "Yao Feng Shunyu: Yuan Dadu Planning Thought and Ancient China" (Life · Reading, Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore), the art category "Entering the Forbidden City to See the Cultural Relics and Calligraphy Museum" (China Women's Publishing House) and the specially recommended "Atlas of Ancient Buildings in the Central Axis of Beijing" (Palace Publishing House).
What are some of the wonderful central axis-themed contents of these books? Which one do they focus on? Let's take a look at the following introduction.
Popular Category: "Central Axis"
Introduction: The book is divided into three chapters, which tell the life culture, architectural development and urban history of the central axis of Beijing. It not only shows the changes in different historical periods, but also explores the concept of the construction and development of China's capital city as shown in the central axis of Beijing.
Publishing unit: Beijing United Publishing Company
Humanities: "Beijing Central Axis Cultural Tour"
Introduction: The author of "Beijing Central Axis Cultural Travel Classic" interprets the central axis of Beijing from multiple levels in plain language, answering the question of what the central axis of Beijing is, how it is produced and how it evolves, how to protect and manage the central axis of Beijing, how we should view the central axis, and so on.
Publisher: Beijing Publishing House
Children: Beijing: A City on the Central Axis
Introduction: From south to north, the author uses meticulous brush strokes to depict the four seasons and changes of the times on the central axis of Beijing. "Beijing: A City on the Central Axis" shows that the three halls of the Forbidden City, the center of Beijing, are particularly shocking. Through the explanation at the end of the volume, you can learn more about the structural aesthetics and architectural art around the central axis.
Publisher: 21st Century Press
Graphics: "Beijing Central Axis Centennial Image"
Introduction: The book "A Hundred Years of Images of the Central Axis of Beijing" truly reproduces this ancient urban axis with high-definition and precious historical images, from Yongdingmen in the south to the Bell Tower in the north, and the left and right symmetry of the cultural relics landscape along the line.
Publisher: Beijing Daily Publishing House
Fiction Category: "Painting Kyoji"
Description: An eight-kilometer-long majestic central axis that runs through the north and south of Beijing; an unprecedented "Ridge of The Capital" - the theme of Beijing's central axis application initiated by folk enthusiasts; an ancient sect that has been passed down for 23 generations; a pair of brothers and sisters who have been reunited after many years because of their paintings. An accident involved the young cultural relics conservator Wei Yu in the "Ridge of the Capital" activity, and the sisters of the same school and the brothers of the same door became his competitors.
Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
Academic: Yao Feng Shun Yu: Yuan Dadu Planning Thought and Ancient China
Introduction: Yao Feng Shun Yu: Yuan Dadu Planning Thought and Ancient China
Based on ancient Chinese classics and Chinese astronomical archaeology as the research method, this book traces the origin of Chinese civilization from the Qi Zhenglou in the Yuan Dynasty, showing the origin and continuation of Chinese civilization.
Publisher: Life, Reading, and New Knowledge Triptych Bookstore
Art: "Entering the Forbidden City to See the Cultural Relics and Calligraphy Museum"
Introduction: "Entering the Forbidden City to See the Cultural Relics and Calligraphy Museum" selects 50 calligraphy works, and strives to reproduce the splendid and brilliant history of calligraphy development in ancient China. The collected works began in the Western Jin Dynasty and ended with Wu Changshuo in the late Qing Dynasty, in addition to the commentary of the works, accompanied by high-definition pictures, so that readers should be able to understand the essence of Chinese calligraphy.
Publisher: China Women's Publishing House
Special Recommendation Category: "Survey Atlas of Ancient Buildings in the Central Axis of Beijing"
Introduction: "Beijing Central Axis Ancient Buildings Survey Atlas" This set of atlases includes a total of 22 groups of buildings (building complexes) on the central axis of Beijing, and the guide booklet provides a rigorous text introduction to 87 of the single buildings according to the order of the measured drawings, from the building volume to the decorative details.
Publisher: Palace Publishing House
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Enjie
Editor/Cui Wei