Spring is just like that, it's time to read. On the occasion of the 29th World Book Day on April 23, various departments, streets, physical bookstores, and cultural spaces in Dongcheng District have successively launched more than 100 activities such as famous book recommendations, on-site book signings, book markets, cultural salons, and store visits, so as to build a warm, in-depth, and powerful "City of Books" cultural ecology, so that powerful and warm texts warm people's hearts, and make it common to love reading, read good books, and be good at reading.
"Go to the Library" series of activities
Readers are invited to enjoy the fragrance of books
On the occasion of the 29th World Book Day and the 36th "Public Library Service Publicity Week", Dongcheng District Library launched a series of cultural activities to benefit the people through the combination of online and offline and the linkage of the main branch library with the theme of "going to the library", so as to promote national reading, create a strong bookish atmosphere, and enhance the popularity and influence of the library.
At the launching ceremony on April 22, the 2024 "Public Library Service Publicity Week" and World Book Day activities were officially launched. With the theme of "Listening to Classics and Tasting the Fragrance of Books", the artist performed on the same stage with representatives of primary and secondary school students and recitation enthusiasts in the district, showing the charm of traditional Chinese culture and the ingenious combination of modern creativity through the form of reading and promoting reading, and dedicated a wonderful audio-visual feast to the audience.
The program "Melodious Rhythm Reading Idioms" performed by students from Fuxue Hutong Primary School showcased the rich rhythm and wisdom of Chinese.
Ren Yaming, a famous voice actor and recitation performance artist, recited the famous article "Farewell to Kangqiao", which made the audience feel the shock of the soul and the resonance of emotions.
The creative "Ancient Poetry Exercises" by the students of the Branch Office Primary School integrated ancient poetry and gymnastics, showing the new vitality of culture.
The "Aerospace Moon" brought by the Primary School Affiliated to Beijing First Normal School combines technology and art, expressing the imagination and exploration of the future.
The launching ceremony and reading session kicked off the prelude to the "Go to the Library" series of cultural activities to benefit the people. The reporter learned that during the World Book Day and the "Public Library Service Publicity Week", the main library of the district library launched four theme sections of "going to the library - tasting books, experiencing traditional culture, listening to lectures, and reciting classics" to attract the public to enter the library and fall in love with reading;
As a sub-venue of this series of cultural activities to benefit the people, in the past few days, the Corner Tower Library has successively held a national style reading garden party, a "reading city action", and a children's book endless market to attract more readers to participate.
The exterior of the Corner Tower Library has the tall image of a Beijing city tower, and the interior also has an antique poetry and book space. At the scene of the national style reading garden party, readers dressed in Hanfu seem to travel through time and space and become peerless literati and ink writers, leaving beautiful memories next to the city platform and courtyard. A variety of traditional cultural activities such as pot throwing, archery, floating paint fan, ligature book, swallow in front of the hall, and Chuantuo allow readers to learn more about Beijing-themed books and knowledge, and immerse themselves in the traditional cultural atmosphere.
At the scene of the national style reading garden party, a number of activities led readers to immerse themselves in the traditional cultural atmosphere.
During the "World Book Day", young readers came to the Corner Tower Library to check in and participate in the national style reading garden party.
In the annual "Reading City Action", the Jiaolou Library has always adhered to the concept of "carrying a book, walking a city, and measuring Beijing with reading". This year's "Reading City Action" takes the architecture of Beijing Courtyard House as a clue, and invites Wang Ruiying, the former director of the Library of Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, as the keynote speaker, to lead readers into Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture through a combination of online and offline methods to understand the characteristics of Chinese architecture and the history and culture of courtyard houses.
In order to make books flow, the Jiaolou Library also held a children's book market to encourage children to take the idle books at home to the library to "practice stalls".
The event interacted with the "Boundless Market" of libraries across the country, and newly added stamping and punching cards and a variety of interesting experience activities, adding new experience and fun.
The Dongzongbu Branch of the District Library invites professional teachers to combine music with picture books, interpret classic picture books with world famous songs, use games to interact with music for music enlightenment, and enrich the reading experience with the rhythm of music, so as to bring a different picture book reading experience to children's readers' families.
It is worth mentioning that during the World Book Day and the "Public Library Service Publicity Week", the district library also launched a series of activities of "going to the library - going out" to further extend the service radius and service form. It is reported that in order to build a "library without walls" and deepen library services into enterprises and campuses, the district library will reach a strategic cooperation agreement with Hanlin Academy and Fuxue Hutong Primary School to establish a "mobile library".
The first Dongcheng District Primary and Secondary School
The series of activities of Reading Month begins
On the occasion of World Book Day, Dongcheng District has been carrying out the "Dongcheng District Primary School World Book Day Theme Activity" for nine years and upgraded it to "Dongcheng District Primary and Secondary School Reading Month Series Activities". The activity is carried out for primary and secondary schools and vocational education schools in the district, and the "big articles" of quality education are written with reading "small incisions".
When Chinese classes meet music classes and science classes, an interdisciplinary reading course was displayed in Beijing No. 171 Middle School at the first Dongcheng District Primary and Secondary School Reading Month series of activities. Teachers and students from Beijing No. 171 Middle School, Beijing Hongzhi Middle School, Primary School Affiliated to Beijing No. 1 Normal School, Qingnianhu Primary School Affiliated to Beijing No. 171 Middle School, Shijia Hutong Primary School in Dongcheng District, Beijing, and Fangjia Hutong Primary School Affiliated to Beijing No. 5 Middle School Branch Branch brought 7 wonderful reading lesson demonstrations. These courses cover interdisciplinary reading of Chinese and music, language and science, reading of whole books, and thematic reading of history, physics, biology, English and other subjects.
Teachers and students demonstrate the results of interdisciplinary reading education.
"Reading is a kind of culture, a kind of inheritance, and a kind of guidance in Dongcheng. According to the relevant person in charge of the Education Working Committee of the Dongcheng District Party Committee, nine years of persistence have made the theme activity of World Book Day in Dongcheng District Primary School successfully selected as the "2023 National Excellent Case of Youth Student Reading Action". The first series of reading month activities for primary and secondary schools in Dongcheng District advocates the "1+3+N" reading action, that is, an action plan, three action goals, and N school-level reading activities, so as to achieve new results in work and form a new brand of reading with organized reading, so that every teacher and student in Dongcheng District can become a "research reader", "beneficial reader" and "happy reader" of scholarly China.
At the same time, Dongcheng District launched and released a series of poetry and culture activities of the "Poetry Jinghua" Dongcheng District Education System. A series of activities will run throughout the year, and will carry out the activity of "Famous Scholars Talking about Classics" for primary and secondary schools and vocational schools in the district, invite well-known experts and scholars from the School of Literature and Literature of Beijing Normal University to come to the campus and give lectures; compile the "Dongcheng District Poetry Reader" to create a Dongcheng poetry reading system that meets the characteristics of teachers and students of different ages; hold a district-wide poetry competition to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of students in primary and secondary schools and vocational schools in Dongcheng District to learn classical poetry and related cultural knowledge; hold poetry display activities and build a platform for the display and exchange of poetry learning achievements in each school. Through the "Poetry Jinghua" activity, we will create a poetry culture education ecology in Dongcheng District with school participation, everyone reading, and learning from time to time.
In addition, 16 primary and secondary schools in eight school districts in Dongcheng District have been listed as the first batch of "Beijing Experimental Schools for Adolescent Students to Promote Reading". Dongcheng District will rely on the "Beijing Primary and Secondary School Students' Reading Ability Grading Guide (Trial)" to promote more standardized and comprehensive reading guidance in experimental schools.
On the occasion of World Book Day, a group of illustrated original English book recommendation tabloids appeared on the campus of Beijing No. 166 Middle School, attracting the attention of many teachers and students. These tabloids are all student entries in the first English Original Book Recommendation Contest held by the school.
The competition attracted the participation of nearly 1,500 students from four grades of the school, and the students used their spare time to carefully read the original English books and carefully produce recommended tabloids. Man Zixin, a first-year senior student at the school, said: "I don't usually read English books, but by participating in this competition, I insisted on reading the famous book "To Kill a Mockingbird", and I also felt happy in the process of making a tabloid." ”
Students watch the original English book recommendation tabloid produced by their classmates.
After selection, a total of 20 works won the first prize, 20 works won the second prize, and 40 works won the third prize. "These tabloids not only reflect the students' interest in reading the original English books, but also their ability to use the English language, and at the same time provide more reading lists for students who love the original books. Mr. Zhang Jinming, the head of the school's English teaching and research team, said that the competition has stimulated students' enthusiasm for English learning, and in the future, the school will hold more competitions and activities to continue to provide a platform for students to show their English ability.
Featured reading activities
Enrich the spiritual life of citizens
Featured book fairs, book exhibitions, themed reading clubs...... On the occasion of World Book Day, a series of book-related activities were held in various streets, units and cultural spaces in the district, enriching people's spiritual life and forming a strong atmosphere of "reading more, reading good books, and being good at reading" in the whole district.
Retired soldiers and social workers in Jiaodong community took turns to recite "The Awakening Age" and relive the historical story.
Jianguomen Street pursues the red footprints, and "Reading Cultural Classics" World Reading Day Party Building and Young Workers Joint Reading Activity.
On the morning of April 20, the square in front of the Snow Lotus Bright Cultural and Creative Park was filled with a strong fragrance of books, and the "Spring Time Book Market" hosted by Chaoyangmen Street attracted many reading lovers. At the scene, more than a dozen publishing institutions and brand bookstores, such as the People's Literature Publishing House, Beijing Daily Publishing House, China Bookstore, Hanfen Building, and May Youshu, set up booths, and fashionable young people, elegant old people, and cute children interacted with these "book-making people" in front of the bookslet.
With the opening of the "Spring Book Market", the "Spring Book Appreciation Season", a scholarly cultural brand in Chaoyangmen Street, has also officially kicked off. It is understood that the "Spring Book Appreciation Season" activity includes three sections: "Chaoyangmen Book Market", "Chaoyangmen Walk" and "Chaoyangmen Link", connecting the three major topics of block development exploration, traditional culture promotion and cultural consumption vitality. During the event, each special space in the jurisdiction will prepare its own event with a book as the theme, such as the Shijia Hutong Museum, which uses Tagore's "Flying Birds" as the theme, because it was here that Tagore visited Beijing, where he shared with the cultural celebrities of the time and left precious photos. The relevant person in charge of Chaoyangmen Street introduced.
The activity will also take the "Time Scroll" used book tour as a clue to carry out special contents such as "Chaoyangmen Community Reading Map", "N Possible Book Drifting Plan", "Chaoyangmen Flash Mob", "Reading in Progress", "Different Reading in Public Space" and so on.
Chaoyangmen community reading map.
"Chaoyangmen Flash Mob" activity.
The central axis of Beijing is not only a straight line of geographical coordinates, but also carries the Chinese civilization. A few days ago, the "Scholarly Central Axis - Telling the Story of Ancient Buildings on the Central Axis" staff reading meeting held by Jingcheng Group was launched in the ancient temple Tsinghua Temple, focusing on the group's main business and key projects of ancient building restoration, leading everyone to dig and share the stories on the central axis, and feel the historical precipitation and cultural heritage through reading.
"The Most Beautiful Central Axis - The People's Text of the Central Axis Inscription", "Sixty Records of the Temple of Heaven", "The Palace of the Forbidden City", ...... During the event, readers from 17 secondary enterprises combined the story content of the ancient buildings on the central axis to read the original works in turn, and shared with everyone the meaning, feelings and gains of reading the original works on the spot. Li Wenhui, chairman of the labor union of Chongxi Company of Jingcheng Group, shared Mr. Lao She's "Camel Xiangzi", and she was deeply impressed by the scenes of life in old Beijing on the central axis depicted in the book. "The place where I work is near the central axis, and every time I look at the Temple of Heaven, I feel a sense of interlacing between history and reality. As a grassroots worker, I want to spread the culture to the pipeline section team and the production line, arouse the sense of identity of the majority of employees, unite as one, and contribute to the high-quality development of Dongcheng. Li Wenhui said.
Walking into the Beijing Guardian Art Center, the 3rd Guardian International Art Book Fair is refreshing. More than 15,000 kinds of books were brought by 100 exhibitors, and three special areas were set up: art collections, original books, and high-quality used books, as well as eight special topics and ten categories of good books.
At the Book Fair, the book binding exhibition "100 Books of the Republic of China" jointly organized by Guardian Library, the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature and the National Library Publishing House was particularly eye-catching. The exhibition focuses on the historical changes of modern and modern Chinese book binding, and displays 100 kinds of books designed by well-known book binding designers, publishers and painters in the Republic of China around the theme of "book clothing". Here, the audience can enjoy the classic works of well-known writers such as Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Guo Moruo, etc., as well as the unique book binding design of that era.
Citizens visit the 3rd Guardian International Art Book Fair.
This year's Guardian International Art Book Fair will last until April 28, and a series of reading activities will be held during the book fair, including theme lectures, salons, book sharing, etc.
Curator: Gao Ming
Text: Li Ying, Wang Huiwen, Zhuang Rui
Pictures: Wang Huiwen, Qiao Jian, Xu Peng, Chaoyangmen Street, Jiaodong Community, Dongcheng District Library, Dongjiao Impression, Beijing No. 171 Middle School, Beijing No. 166 Middle School, Jiaolou Library, Beijing Dongcheng District Library, Dongzongbu Branch, Jingcheng Group, Guardian Art Center