Cover News Reporter Zhang Jie, Wu Deyu, Zhou Bin, Hangzhou Photo Report
The most beautiful April day in the world, let alone on the shore of West Lake.
On the afternoon of April 19, the 12th Spring Breeze Reading List Annual Award Ceremony was held in Wenlan Theater, Zhijiang Hall of Zhejiang Library. Wang Meng, Mo Yan, Li Jingze, Bi Feiyu, Qiao Ye, Yang Nianqun, Chen Xiaoming, Ouyang Jianghe, Xichuan, Luo Weizhang, Shen Hongfei, Qin Ming, Lin Xiaoying, Yi Xiaohe and other dozens of writers and poets from all over the country were present, in addition to presidents, editors-in-chief and editors from many publishing houses across the country, as well as heads of relevant film and television platforms.
There are not only winners of the Mao Award and the Lu Award, but also best-selling authors, both literary celebrities and Internet reading celebrity bloggers.
Group photo of the guests
"Post-90s" Wang Meng: I am willing to use literature to promote the spirit of the "strong".
"Long Live Youth", "The New Young Man in the Organization Department", "This Landscape", ...... In his creative career of more than 70 years, Wang Meng, the "People's Artist", has always maintained his enthusiasm for life and the feelings and glory of walking with the times.
Wang Meng delivered an acceptance speech
In his old age, Wang Meng is still working hard, and will launch a new work "Xia Mantian" in 2023. In "Xia Mantian", he takes the nursing home as the entry point, and uses the "old" as the experience to retrospectively portray the image of Cai Xia, an intellectual woman who has remained elegant, brave and bright despite the hardships, and she has turned the "days of prostrate on the ground" into an ideal life of "standing up and looking into the distance". The sentences as bright as the sun ignite the passion of life, and sing about the inevitable setbacks and tribulations in life. The object of this year's Spring Breeze "Annual Tribute" is the author of "Xia Mantian" and the famous writer Wang Meng.
At the scene, the famous literary critic Li Jingze, as a professional judge, mentioned when praising the "Spring Breeze Reading List" that this award has achieved "a tribute to Mr. Wang Meng, a 'post-90s' writer who 'long live youth'".
"Post-90s" Wang Meng
In "Kasumi Full Sky", the protagonist's experience is tragic. Wang Meng said on the podium, "I'm actually talking about such a serious topic as 'human destiny'. I can't help but think of a story in which a reporter from the French newspaper Le Mile once asked a great German writer: "Why do you write?" The writer replied, 'Because I haven't done anything else.'" I think what he said was a joke and a bit of humor on the surface, but in fact it was a bit bleak. I've quoted this story before and there has been some resentment, as if I wanted to belittle literature. But I don't mean to belittle literature, but I think that there are indeed many people who engage in literature without accomplishing many things in their lives. This is especially true for novelists. As far as I am concerned, although I have many things that I have not done well or have not done, on the whole, I am still willing to sing the praises of the 'strong'. The reason why a person is 'strong' is not because of the smooth fate of his fate, but precisely because of the difficulty of his fate. Therefore, I am willing to use literature to promote the spirit of a 'strong'. ”
"New playwright" Mo Yan:
Writing is when a writer goes through the vicissitudes of life in a story he or she has made up
As a novelist who has been famous for a long time, Mo Yan has come up with convincing texts in self-expansion and self-innovation. In 2023, Mo Yan's work "Crocodile" by Mo Yan as a playwright has received a lot of praise since its publication, and the stage play of the same name will also start a national tour in May. 12 years ago, the first Spring Breeze Reading "Annual Salute" was Mo Yan, who had just won the Nobel Prize. 12 years of spring breeze is still the same, and now, Mo Yan, who is called a "cutting-edge playwright" by critic Li Jingze, won the highest award of this year's Spring Breeze Reading List - "Spring Breeze Platinum Book Award" with "Crocodile".
Mo Yan won the award for his new work "Crocodile".
Standing on the podium, Mo Yan said, "Today is the valley rain in the 24 solar terms, and the valley rain is the meaning of rain giving birth to a hundred grains." I think the Spring Breeze Reading List is actually a spring rain once a year, which will give birth to countless seeds of reading and countless seeds of literature. With such a spring rain, literature will flourish. Teacher Lin Xiaoying just said that reading is to go through the vicissitudes of life in other people's stories. Then I want to say that writing is actually a writer who goes through the vicissitudes of life in the stories he makes up, and also makes his own fictional characters go through the vicissitudes of life in the fictional stories. This is the beauty of literature, but also the beauty of reading, thank you!"
The fiction and non-fiction categories of the "Silver Book Award" on the Spring Breeze Literary and Art List were won by Sichuan writer Luo Weizhang's "Earthly Trilogy" (including "History of Sound", "History of Silence" and "Hidden History") and "Children in the County" by Lin Xiaoying, associate professor of Peking University's School of Education. In "Children in the County", Lin Xiaoying spent three years, went deep into 6 provinces, visited 25 different schools, and told the story of education through a documentary-style lens, prompting people to reflect and be moved.
Luo Weizhang (middle) receives the award
In the "Earthly Trilogy", Luo Weizhang starts from Daba Mountain and reaches the common situation of mankind, truly showing the history of those souls in the vast earthly world. Standing on the podium, Luo Weizhang said, "There seems to be nothing more to say than thanks." More and more, I feel that writing is indeed something to be cherished more and more. Being able to like and engage in literature already makes me feel that this is a gift of fate. It was a bonus. It is also an honor for me to be able to stand on the podium with my predecessors and new and old friends, thank you. ”
Award-winning poet Nishikawa sang his poems on the spot
There was also a dance to the accompaniment of rock and roll
From ancient times to the present, poetry has been an important literary carrier for people to express their emotions, and in today's fast-paced modern life, people need poetry even more. Yu Xiuhua, the winning poet of the 2016 Spring Breeze Poetry Award, shared "Moonlight Falls on the Left Hand", which was moving. Eight years later, the Spring Breeze Reading List responded to the enthusiasm of poetry and set up this award again.
The winner of this year's "Spring Breeze Poetry Award" is the poet Xichuan's long poem "Giant Beast". This work shows Nishikawa's significant span in writing, epitomizing the transformation and maturity of his poetic style, and exploring the boundaries of poetic language. Standing on the podium, Nishikawa sang a poem of his own in addition to his speech. In the accompaniment of rock and roll music, Nishikawa couldn't help but cooperate with the dance movements, which was full of artistic expression, which caused a warm applause at the scene.
Nishikawa is singing poetry
This year's "Spring Breeze Review Award" was won by Shen Hongfei, the annotator of "Chen Xiaoming's Anthology" and "Flowers: Annotated Edition". The 8-volume 4.6 million-word Collected Works of Chen Xiaoming is the culmination of the critic Chen Xiaoming's decades of research and exploration in the land of literature, which has opened up the frontier of contemporary Chinese literary criticism and made remarkable contributions to the theory and criticism of contemporary literature.
Columnist and gourmand Shen Hongfei used 150,000 words of annotations full of personal style, so that "Flowers: Annotated Edition" further opened the threshold for readers to read on the basis of the original work. Shen Hongfei called his works barrage, and hoped that everyone would read more of these "barrages" in addition to watching short videos, and he humorously said: "It can also be regarded as inheriting some context." ”
Yu Bingxia won the "Spring Breeze Golden Translator Award" for "Endless Jokes"; Huang Chuanhui won the "Zhejiang Edition Good Book Award" for "Looking Up at the Starry Sky: Sun Jiadong, Meritorious Service of the Republic"; and young writers Xue Chaowei and Lu Xiaoyu won the "Spring Breeze Newcomer Award" for "Hidden Words" and "People Under the Water" respectively, once again demonstrating the power of excellent books to readers.
In recent years, platformization, mobility, and digitalization have also made book dissemination more diverse, and social reading has become one of the mainstream ways for the public to read. Since 2020, the Spring Breeze Reading List has set up the "New Youth Fashion Award". This year's "New Youth Fashion Award" was awarded to three new media reading bloggers: "Observer No. 1379" (Douyin), "Novelist Puckio" (Bilibili), and "Early Sight of Qingye" (Xiaohongshu).
"Forensic Qin Ming" won the "Spring Breeze IP Award"
"We will continue to protect the dignity of life through writing"
Literature and video are two completely different art forms, but as more and more high-quality texts are adapted into film and television dramas, stage arts, and even games, the big IP of fans has rightly injected new vitality into literary creation. The winner of this year's "Spring Breeze IP Award" is Qin Ming, the writer who created the "Forensic Qin Ming" series.
Based on his professional knowledge and front-line work experience, Qin Ming created the "Forensic Qin Ming Series", which has a great social influence with its professionalism and authenticity. This year is the 12th year of the best-selling "Forensic Qin Ming" series, and this hot suspense IP has blossomed in full bloom, and has been adapted into film and television drama animation, and has also launched a full-sensory immersive suspense theater, which not only unveils the mystery of forensic work, but also drives more young people to apply for forensic medicine.
Standing on the podium, Qin Ming said: "This year is also my 12th year of writing, in front of all writers and teachers, I am a primary school student, and this award is a great encouragement to me. Thank you to all the creators who have adapted this IP into film and television dramas, digital audio, animation and many other forms to present to the public, it is your efforts to make more people pay attention to our very small professional group, so as to understand and support our forensics, I will continue to protect the dignity of life and protect the warm spring breeze for everyone. ”
Starting from 2023, the "Spring Breeze Women's Award" will be added to the Spring Breeze Reading List, and the first winner, Qiao Ye, the author of "Treasure Water", also won the 11th Mao Dun Literature Award in the same year, becoming the first post-70s female writer to win the Mao Award. This year's "Spring Breeze Women's Award" was won by Yi Xiaohe, the author of "Salt Town". The "Spring Breeze Golden Translator Award" was won by Yu Bingxia, the translator of "Endless Jokes". The Spring Breeze Reading List has a "Newcomer Award" every year, and pays attention to the vigorous new creative forces every year. This year's "Spring Breeze Newcomer Award" was won by Xue Chaowei, the author of "Hidden Words", and Lu Xiaoyu, the author of "Man Underwater". From this year onwards, the Spring Breeze Reading List will start the selection of Zhejiang Youth Literature Star of the Year, giving more attention and expectations to the new forces of Zhejiang literature.
Li Jingze: "Mo flowers bloom, there is a letter in the spring breeze, don't be in a hurry to read slowly"
The theme of this year's Spring Breeze Reading List is "Spring Breeze with Letters". Cheng Shiqing, Dean of Zhejiang Academy of Literature and Director of Zhejiang Literature Museum, took the stage and invited Mr. Li Jingze to serve as the "Consultant of Zhejiang Literature Museum".
Li Jingze delivered a speech
Li Jingze, who received the letter of appointment, delivered a wonderful speech on the stage. "Last year I said on this podium that we were all postmen running to read," he said. To be honest, the postman is busy. Every April 23rd, the postmen are busy promoting reading. Now this reading event is being held on April 18th, and I think it's very good. We can promote reading slowly and calmly. Everyone says that the spring breeze has faith. What is the most beautiful letter in the spring breeze. I remembered that during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Qian Biao, the king of Wuyue, wrote a letter to his wife Wu. The letter said, 'The flowers bloom on the mo, and they can return slowly'. I think Qian Biao is really a wonderful person. His letter is really well written. We love, we look afar, we look forward, we urge, but we don't rush. We can walk slowly, slowly, in the spring breeze, in the mountains and rivers. Because the flowers bloom on Mo, because the world is so beautiful. Reading is such a good thing, why are we in a hurry? Slowly, slowly, towards so many good books, towards so many whimsical ideas and creations in this world, lingering in the spring breeze. Let's remember how happy and wonderful it is to be a human being and to be a reader. ”
Li Jingze's poetic speech resonated
Since 2012, writers, scholars, publishers and reading enthusiasts from all over the country have come to Hangzhou to review the achievements of Chinese Simplified Chinese book publishing in the past year. The award ceremony was guided by the Propaganda Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Zhejiang Daily Newspaper Group, Zhejiang Publishing United Group, and Zhejiang Writers Association, and hosted by Chao News, Zhejiang Xinhua Bookstore Group, and Zhejiang Academy of Literature (Zhejiang Literature Museum).
In 2024, the Chunfeng Reading List will gather 50 well-known publishing houses, publishing institutions and Qian Bao Reading Club across the country to jointly select 7 Chunfeng single lists and "66 good books", combined with Zhejiang Xinhua big data and readers' voting results, Li Jingze, A Lai, Bi Feiyu, Ai Wei, Ouyang Jianghe, Yang Nianqun, Qiao Ye, Mao Jian 8 professional judges will open the "final evaluation meeting" in Beijing to select the final winners of major awards.
In 2024, micro-short dramas will become an image force that cannot be ignored in the field of new media audio-visual, and with the improvement of the audience's aesthetics, it is imperative to make micro-short dramas artistic and high-quality production. The cover news reporter also learned at the award ceremony that the relevant parties in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province will build the country's first "high-quality micro-short drama creation and transformation platform" in the Liangzhu Cultural Corridor in Yuhang, sort out and invite famous works to settle in, and lay a high-quality script foundation for high-quality micro-short dramas to tell Chinese stories well. It is hoped that through the production and dissemination of high-quality micro-short dramas, the high-quality novels, especially short stories, created and accumulated by Mao Award writers, Lu Award writers, and previous award-winning writers on the Chunfeng Yue Reading List over the past decades, will be displayed in front of young people in a new way, so as to realize more expressions of modern literature in the micro-short drama sector in the new field of film and television.
Attached is the list of awards of the 12th Spring Breeze Reading List (awarded):
"Spring Breeze Annual Salute":
"Xia Mantian" Wang Meng, Huacheng Publishing House
"Spring Breeze Platinum Book Award":
"Crocodile" Mo Yan, KEY-Can Culture & Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
"Spring Breeze Silver Book Award (Fiction Category)":
"The Trilogy of the World" Luo Weizhang, Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
"Spring Breeze Silver Book Award (Non-fiction Category)":
"Children in the County" Lin Xiaoying, Century Wenjing, Yali Reading & Shanghai People's Publishing House
"Spring Breeze Review Award":
"Chen Xiaoming's Collected Works", Chen Xiaoming, Guangdong People's Publishing House
"Spring Breeze Review Award":
"Flowers: Annotated Edition" by Jin Yucheng / by Shen Hongfei / Annotated by Jiang Qinggong / typesetting, Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House
"Spring Breeze Poetry Award":
"Behemoth" Xichuan, Pure Pura & Guangxi Normal University Press
"Spring Breeze Golden Translator Award":
"Endless Jokes" by David Foster Wallace / Translated by Yu Bingxia, Century Wenjing & Shanghai People's Publishing House
"Spring Breeze Women's Award":
"Salt Town" Yi Xiaohe, New Classics & New Star Publishing House
"Zhejiang Edition Good Book Award":
Looking Up at the Starry Sky: Sun Jiadong, Meritorious Service of the Republic, Huang Chuanhui, Zhejiang People's Publishing House
"Spring Breeze IP Award":
"Forensic Qin Ming" series Forensic Qin Ming, grinding iron & Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
"Spring Breeze Newcomer Award":
"Hidden Words" Xue Chaowei, People's Literature Publishing House
"People Under the Water" Lv Xiaoyu, Dafang & CITIC Publishing Group
"Spring Breeze New Youth Fashion Award":
"Observer No. 1379" (Douyin)
"小说家Puckio" (哔哩哔哩)
"Early Sight of Aono" (Little Red Book)
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