Li Bai and Whitman's "spirit of the times", Alai said that the new landmark of cultural tourism should be able to stimulate emotional resonance

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Cover news reporter Yang Fan

A river rushes together two cities, and the two cities create a new future together. On the morning of November 18, the chairman of the Sichuan Writers Association and the famous writer Ah Lai appeared at the award ceremony of "Chengdu-Chongqing Cultural Tourism New Landmark", and in his opening speech, he recited Li Bai's famous poem "Climbing the Jincheng Scattered Flower Building", one of which was interpreted by him as "Twilight rain to the Three Gorges, Spring River around the double stream" was interpreted by him. Ah Lai said that he was very happy to participate in such a selection activity, "The previous cultural tourism landmark selection was Sichuan itself. This year, Chengdu and Chongqing stand on an outlet, which is the outlet of the times, and it is very meaningful for the two cities that were once separated to reconnect in another way. ”

Alai believes that it is also of great practical significance to build a Chongqing economic circle from such a small entry as the selection of the landmark of the Twin Cities Cultural Tourism. He said: "From a worldwide perspective, our impulse and desire to establish cultural tourism landmarks has always existed. However, the specific implementation of this matter is not easy, and it must be closely related to cultural development and material prosperity. He believes that China is today in such a great, vigorous and hopeful era, so after overcoming many difficulties, the selection of Yuxin Landmark is also a kind of opportunity.

There is no doubt that the spirit of the times in China is to take reform and innovation as the core. "Behind the selection of the new landmarks of Chengdu-Chongqing Cultural Tourism is first of all ecological development, and then the improvement of the material living standards of the people." In my own understanding, or in the world's appeal to landmarks, landmarks refer to the cultural information and zeitgeist contained in landmarks. ”

Speaking of this, Ah Lai talked about a poem written in Chengdu by the great Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai more than 1,000 years ago, in which in this poem called "Dengjincheng Scattered Flower Building", Li Bai wrote: "The twilight rain flows to the Three Gorges, and the spring river flows around the double stream." Ah, Li Bai was not in shuangliu nostalgia, but he stood on the scattered flower floor next to Huanhua Creek and wrote it. In Alai's eyes, the Scattered Flower Building was a landmark in Chengdu in Li Bai's time.

Seeing the micro-knowledge, Alai talked about the Eiffel Tower in Paris from the Tang Dynasty Scattered Flower Building. "As soon as the Eiffel Tower was built, the city of Paris had a clearer recognition and recognition than in the past, and the city relied on the power of capital and technology to make the world's eyes focus on this tower."

For this "new" word in the new landmark of cultural tourism, Alai said with feeling: "So today we must shape landmarks that conform to China's own aesthetics, have the spirit of the times that China has today, and then integrate into our cultural accumulation." I hope that there will be more buildings with new materials and new aesthetics around us, and these newly emerging new landmarks will also meet the cultural needs of the public. Because the new landmark must also have another nature, that is, it must be connected with the emotions of each citizen. ”

How to make the new landmarks of cultural tourism resonate with personal emotions? Alai also has his own unique understanding. "I suddenly remembered an American poet, Walter Whitman, who also wrote landmarks," he said. In the poem "I Saw an Evergreen Oak Growing in Louisiana," he saw a growing green tree, a seemingly lonely tree that raised the recognition of the wilderness, and this sudden sensation of towering and majestic had a profound significance. ”

Alai believes that Whitman lived in the era when the Eiffel Tower first appeared, an era full of upward spirit. "Today we're talking about the zeitgeist, and we'll be able to find more landmarks. Perhaps we can concentrate on excavating the spiritual heritage accumulated by traditional culture, but we are more looking forward to new landmarks full of the spirit of the times, those new buildings with new aesthetics, appearing in our urban center, appearing in the intercity and skyline in the vision of each of our urban citizens. ”

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