On October 17th, Li Jingze, vice chairman of the China Writers Association, a famous writer and literary critic, visited the "Tianfu Literature and Art Forum" of the Sichuan Provincial Library, focusing on the theme of "Tang Monks, Landscapes, Magpies and Tones - Talking about the Life and Literature of Chinese", analyzing the Chinese outlook on life and literature, and sharing his reading and thinking with readers.
The scene of the event
As a literary critic, senior literary editor, and vice chairman of the China Writers Association, Li Jingze has a three-fold identity and has authored many anthologies such as "Yong and Return", "Blue Bird Story Collection", "Color Name" and so on. He has a deep foundation in traditional culture, is good at obtaining nutrition from traditional classics and historical depths, and integrates ancient and modern times, forming his own unique views.
In the lecture, through a series of historical anecdotes, he connects the Tang monks, landscapes, magpies, and tones, these four seemingly unrelated keywords, and tells the Chinese outlook on life and literature revealed behind it. His humorous and humorous expression and in-depth explanation make readers deeply immersed in the wonderful literary and artistic world he outlined.
Li Jingze believes that people like the Tang monks in ancient times walked with great glory to an external world full of unknowns and wildernesses, a world of mountains and rivers. Looking at the Tang monks, there is a great and long tradition of agricultural civilization. This tradition allows us to establish intimate, familiar relationships with the world around us, and to expand and change our perceptual structure as history evolves.
"At the moment, we are facing a whole new world, and our sensory structure seems to be able to grasp the details of this world in an all-round way. We can even use scientific means to observe a stone on Mars, as if the world had no secrets to us. Li Jingze mentioned that this sense of familiarity makes us stuck in a familiar tone, but in fact, our literature, including ourselves, needs to re-see ourselves and see the world with the eyes of a stranger to a certain extent. On this basis, there must also be a stranger's language and intonation, and strive to write out and express this strange world. In Li Jingze's view, this is literature, or this is the perceptual structure and spiritual gift that literature can bring us, "It's like I set up a telescope in our house and zoomed in to see the magpie, and the magpie is actually both familiar and strange to me." Whether facing the far or the near, literature may always need to maintain such a passion, to maintain such an ability, that the world is always new before our eyes, always strange before our eyes. ”
At the end of the lecture, he concluded that the literature of this era still has a broad world, "The literature of this era still needs to use its own powerful writing to help each of our readers to establish and expand our perception and feelings about the world, so that everyone has a broad, sensitive, and powerful perceptual structure." ”
Li Jingze (Photography Li Qiang)
It is understood that the "Tianfu Literature and Art Forum" aims to strengthen literary and artistic work in the new era and help Sichuan literature and art move from the "plateau" to the "peak". The pulpit is different from the traditional sense of forums and lecture halls, positioned as literary and artistic, popular, into a series of intellectual lectures, through the "online + offline", "live + on demand", "famous artists to tell + interactive questions" and set up "special topics, series" way, invite domestic literary and artistic masters and experts and scholars to give lectures in the Sichuan Provincial Library.
Red Star News reporter Qiao Xueyang Zeng Qi
Edited by Li Jie
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