With the rise of national reading as a national development strategy, Songjiang has further promoted the construction of "Scholarly Domain", and the good habit of loving reading, reading good books, and being good at reading has become a common practice among the masses, which not only highlights the degree of urban civilization and cultivates cultural character, but also provides surging spiritual strength for forging ahead and building a modern new Songjiang with high quality.
Everywhere is full of books, creating a "scholarly domain"
New Songjiang District Library
On the bank of the drunken white pool, the new library of Songjiang District Library, located in the Yunjian Hall, is like an open book, undulating, reflecting the profound historical and cultural heritage of Songjiang. Readers walk up the stairs and enjoy the fragrance of books in the palace of books, which can contain up to 900,000 books; near the Dongjing Tang Bridge, the private second-hand bookstore "Xiaozhu Bookstore" has settled in Yunbao Future City, and the white-haired shopkeeper Zhu Fengtao has set up a brand-new book market while curating books...... From the reborn Nancun Yingxue and Duoyun Academy to the shell pages and Kuanhua in the alleys of the market, from the all-encompassing district library to the neighborhood library and community library close to the doorstep, book lovers of different ages and backgrounds meet tacitly, and the encounters between people and people and books can be seen everywhere.
Duoyun Academy
At a time when fast-paced and fragmented electronic reading is becoming more and more popular, libraries and physical bookstores scattered in the corners of the city support a quiet place to open books and meet friends with books, and also adhere to a city's love and cultivation of culture. "E-reading is becoming more and more convenient now, but I still like to grab a book in the bookstore and sit for an afternoon. Citizen Xiao Yang told reporters. In Songjiang, Xiao Yang's preference for the romance of encounters with books has long been embedded in the daily life of citizens. With the continuous optimization and upgrading of the network composed of multi-level public libraries, more and more citizens are accustomed to walking into the library at their doorstep, and the gray-haired elderly and parent-child families in the community have a convenient place to read newspapers, and the physical bookstore that integrates multiple scenes such as books and coffee has increasingly become a "third space" where young people can socialize.
Yueyang Street Library
At the same time, Songjiang continues to improve the construction of reading infrastructure, and has built a public library system covering the whole region with "all-in-one card" service as the basic one, so as to empower the survival and development of traditional reading places such as physical bookstores. Under the vigorous advocacy of the government, cultural landmarks with brand effect and favored by the public, such as Zhongshuge, Duoyun Academy, and Nancun Yingxue, have been deeply integrated with the local humanistic characteristics of Songjiang, driving the mellow fragrance of books to overflow like water, and cultivating a good ecology of reading for the whole people. In addition, new forms of reading, such as electronic reading and audio reading, are also organically embedded in reading infrastructure such as libraries, providing citizens with a variety of choices for reading. The new fashion of reading is becoming more and more abundant and the city is full of books, and the picture scroll of "the domain of books" is warm and comfortable.
All people love to read and enjoy reading, and make a "city of reading"
Every traditional festival, the "Little Songguo Reading Club" of Songjiang District Library will issue an invitation, inviting the "Little Songguo" who love reading in the district to go to the "Elegant Collection" to learn traditional folk culture and feel the fun of reading in reading. In various communities in Songjiang, the "Little Doudou Dream Book House", which is based on the reading of classic picture books, has been touring to bring a lively, interesting and intimate reading experience to interested parent-child families.
In order to create a strong reading atmosphere of loving reading, reading good books, and being good at reading, Songjiang District has successively held 14 sessions of the "Reading Festival" and "National Lifelong Learning Activity Week" activities around the theme of reading and self-cultivation, mobilizing various lines, towns, communities, schools, enterprises and other entities to organize various forms of reading activities, such as reading clubs, poetry recitations, book rafting, and humanistic walking, so as to attract many citizens to participate in the promotion of national reading.
"Little Beanie Dream Book House" course
According to statistics, as of December 23 last year, there were 120107 valid holders of "all-in-one card" reader cards in Songjiang District, and in 2023, 1.539 million copies of "all-in-one card" in Songjiang District will be borrowed and returned, and 264,000 people will be borrowed and returned. Among them, the circulation ranking of teenagers ranks among the top three all year round, and the urban reading atmosphere is strong. In addition, Songjiang has also launched activities such as the "Scholarly Domain" National Reading Award Program to organically encourage and guide more citizens to develop a good habit of loving reading, reading good books, and being good at reading. In addition to the rich and colorful reading festival activities, each street and town also combines regional characteristics to create national reading civilization practice brands such as "Red Maple Station", "Reading + Lecture Hall" and "Nancun Lecture Hall", and carries out various "small and beautiful" reading brand activities throughout the year to build a "City of Reading".
Poetry may not be in the distance, but also in the near and everyday. This spring, poets from the Egret Poetry Society and the Huating Poetry Society met to come to the small courtyard of Maotian to enjoy poetry, drink tea and chat, and share spring feelings with sitting and reciting poems in a verdant field scenery. At present, with the deep infiltration of the new trend of national reading, more and more Songjiang citizens are accustomed to nourishing their body and mind with reading, appreciating the beauty of poetic dwelling in ordinary life, and cultivating Haoran's spiritual strength.