23 April is the 28th World Book Day.
Books have become a refuge for us to carry with us.
Books can help us eliminate our inner anxiety and seek a moment of peace.
How long have we not finished reading a book?
In impetuous times, most people tend to be intimidated by tomes and make books a gesture of alienation from life.
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Make a ladder for reading, so that the "book of heaven" becomes "human speech"
Recently, chasing famous books on short video platforms has become a new fashion standard, and self-media blogger Li Yanfei has also become unexpectedly popular.
Li Yanfei, ID number "Observer 1379", was born in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, he has been quiet since he was a child, and he likes to read very much.
As early as his college days, he finished reading the book "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and found that the names in it were long and winding, and the relationship between the characters was complicated, which was difficult for ordinary people to read.
After coming into contact with the short video, a thought popped into his mind: "Do famous books must be obscure?" ”
Therefore, he decided to turn his favorite books into short videos for more people to see.
In order to understand this book, he repeatedly read this book five or six times, and it took 4 months to combine his reading experience to draw a map of character relationships, and the 260,000-word "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was condensed into an 80,000-word verbatim manuscript by him, producing 30 episodes of cartoons.
Image source: "Xinhua News Agency" video high number of likes commentary
Because the short video content is vivid and lively, it has helped fans read this difficult world masterpiece, attracting more than 300,000 netizens to watch and follow the drama, and this series of short videos has also been played 7.8 million times on a short video platform.
Through his vivid interpretation, the "Book of Heaven" became "human words", which accidentally cured the "phobia of famous books" among netizens and made more and more people fall in love with reading famous books.
"Observer No. 1379" is the guardian of earth civilization, and the trisolaran person in Liu Cixin's novel "The Three-Body Problem" asks Ye Wenjie to "not answer".
Li Yanfei took this screen name in the hope that he could become the propagator and guardian of civilization, a "ladder of reading", so that everyone realized that famous books are not far away from each of us.
He said: "The long night of eternity, the bright stars, does not necessarily change the direction of the tide, but you can try." ”
Reading classic books can glimpse the spiritual genealogy of the author of literary works, you can talk to literary people from an eye-level perspective, reading can beautify the soul, the easiest way to walk when reading, and the least expensive road to the better world.
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The pure land of reading becomes the antidote to impetuous cities
We live in an era of loss of reading, and physical bookstores as the context of a city are "poetically dying".
With the advent of the era of electronic reading, buying books online has become a mainstream way to buy books.
In their spare time, people also prefer to brush short videos and play video games as the first choice to kill time, and no longer use books as the main way to broaden their horizons and learn knowledge.
In the current fast food culture, some short videos summarize the main content of a book in a few minutes, and most people choose to use short videos and or listen to books to understand the content of a book, rather than using their brains to read a book quietly.
In addition, bookstore operators often do not have a good business model and business model, blindly expand the scale, and the high maintenance cost of physical bookstores and other comprehensive reasons have also led to a huge crisis, and in recent years, physical bookstores have ushered in a wave of mass closures.
In the past two years, Internet celebrity bookstores have begun to become popular in major cities and become landmarks, but because most people are just sightseeing and checking in, rather than buying books sincerely, Internet celebrity bookstores have also closed their stores because of their low conversion rate.
Nowadays, even at a loss, most of the people who insist on opening a bookstore are for the sake of feelings, and there is a stubbornness that the times cannot change.
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In the era of e-books and short videos, what is the future of physical bookstores?
In the impetuous big city, the bookstore is a special existence for most people, which can allow anxious and confused people to stop and take a nap and enrich their inner self by reading books in the store; The bookstore is also a place to relax, where people seek peace and tranquility, buy a book, order a cup of coffee and tea, and enjoy the leisure time to read alone.
These experiences are irreplaceable by electronic books, physical bookstores have become the living room of human spirit, the continuation of the flame of urban civilization, and physical bookstores will not die in the future, but continue to exist in new forms.
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Short videos are popular, how to make children fall in love with reading?
Nowadays, mobile phones, games, and various electronic devices are everywhere, and there are so many temptations, how can you easily take children to put down mobile phones and electronic products, fall in love with reading, and easily enter the world of reading?
There are several good ways to get hooked on reading, and by cultivating interest, children can always be in a state of constant retention, not only with excellent academic performance, but also because of UBM Qiangji as a "walking library", through reading to see the bigger world.
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First, the graded reading method is adopted, allowing children to read step from easy to difficult.
When children are young, they can start reading picture books and comics, can apply for the reading card of the picture book library, the picture book museum will generally organize a monthly reading ranking, to rank the number of books read by the child per month, and will regularly organize activities such as storytelling and reading sharing, which effectively help children improve their interest in reading.
The second is to set up a family reading day for high-quality companionship of children.
Parents should lead by example, teach more than words, put down the mobile phone and read with their children after work, at first they can use their fingers to read to their children and tell their children the stories in the book. Take your child to visit libraries and bookstores often during holidays to cultivate his interest in reading.
The third is to recommend more classic books to children.
Treating classic books as a reward or birthday gift for your child's good performance is much more meaningful than giving a toy.
Fourth, encourage children to share and explain the content of the book.
He can share with friends in the form of voice, short videos, slides and mind maps, often take his child to reading clubs, and further understand the content of the book through sharing and communication, so as to improve his sense of achievement in reading.
Fifth, build a reading environment.
Set up a reading corner and a small family library at home, and put books suitable for children at the child's bedside, desk, etc., so that he can get books that can be read anytime, anywhere.
Sixth, cultivate the micro-habit of reading.
Using daily reading clock-ins and writing reading notes and book reviews, etc., can help children publish book review articles, turn output into output, and cultivate his strong interest.
Image source: Screenshot of the comment on the high number of likes of the Xinhua video
World Book Day, let children love reading. Through reading, you can expand the vast experience of life and bring nourishing richness to the soul. Those who are rich in heart, they are also outstanding in solitude.
At the end of the article, the "2023 Must-Read Recommended Books" compiled according to Douban's annual high-score list is attached for parents to screen.
Recommended books to read in 2023
"One Hundred Years of Solitude"
"Anna Karenina"
"Gone with the Wind"
"Jane Eyre"
"Pride and Prejudice"
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"La Traviata"
"Literary Memoirs"
"You Should Be Like a Bird Flying to Your Mountain"
"When the Stars of Mankind Shine"
"The Road Less Traveled"
"Living the Meaning of Life"
"The Wisdom of Life"
"The Courage to Be Hated"
"Cognitive Awakening"
The Pyramid Principle
"Those Things in the Ming Dynasty"
"Steel Guns and Germs"
"The Little Prince"
"Fifteen Years of Wanli"
"The Temperature of History"
"Ordinary World"
"Alive"
《Life》
"Lychee of Chang'an"
"Plants and Trees on Earth"
"It's Orange-Yellow-Orange-Green"