On the night of April 23, the Dahua City Performing Arts Center in Dongdan was crowded with people for a feast of books, and passers-by on the street curiously looked through the floor-to-ceiling windows at the people waiting to enter the venue. This is the fifth "423 Breaking 10,000 Volumes Festival" held by the App, and the first "Readers' Choice Award" was awarded that night.
For the six award-winning books and six award-winning authors, the award ceremony lasted almost three hours. In the opening remarks, the founder Luo Zhenyu left a dialogue with his 7-year-old son, "Dad, what is the purpose of reading" and "Reading is to live a few more lives", and he also talked about the selection criteria why the six books stood out, "It is a book that will shock you".
The six award-winning books of the first "Readers' Choice Award" include "The Depths of Everyday Life", "My Life Hangs by a Thread, I Don't Let Go", "The Queen Mother Runs West", "Children in the County", "Supply Chain Offensive and Defensive Battle", "The Great Change: Fifty Years of Reform in the Late Qing Dynasty", in fact, these "shocking" books refer to the reading data of 1.56 million e-book members in the past year, and have been submitted by 47 publishing institutions, recommended by 41 experts and scholars and many colleagues in the publishing industry.
One by one, the authors of each of the award-winning books took the stage to tell stories about their painstaking work. Bo Shining, a critical care physician and author of "My Life Hangs by a Thread, I Don't Let Go", recalled a touching moment 19 years ago, when an old professor could not accept that his wife's life was in danger, and often used the local method he heard from nowhere to direct the doctor. Once, when he asked to sing a song for his wife, he sang the last song to his wife with his hands hanging down his legs like a schoolboy. In the past 19 years, Bo Shining has experienced tens of thousands of life treatments, and he has also continued to understand life, "Not letting go is not only for healing, sometimes it is for love." In addition, Wang Xiaowei, author of "The Depths of Everyday Life" and associate professor of the School of Philosophy of Chinese University, shared the touching aspects of daily life, and Tan Musheng, author and scholar of "The Queen Mother Runs West", shared his own journey of writing books......
What is the value of a good book, Luo Zhenyu constantly touches on this commonplace topic. In his opinion, although some books do not provide answers to questions, or even ask questions that people can use, "but they pile up in front of people, pushing the questions that may exist in this world to people, so that people can answer and feel, and this is the value of books." ”
When talking about the original intention of setting up the "Get Readers' Choice Award", the relevant person in charge of the App said that up to now, the e-book has established cooperation with 245 publishers, and has accumulated more than 100,000 e-books on the shelves. In fact, the "423 Breaking 10,000 Volumes Festival" has been held for five consecutive years, and the annual recommended book list will be released every year, and this year's annual book list, "Why Greatness Can't Be Pland", "My Life Hangs by a Thread, I Don't Let Go", "Children in the County" and other 15 books were selected, these books have the gaze and thinking of front-line ICU doctors on life and death, the free exploration of goals and innovation by artificial intelligence scientists, and the real records of education scholars on the state of education in the county, covering history, education, science and technology and other industries. The winners of the Readers' Choice Award are selected from the annual book list.
It is worth mentioning that the "423 Breaking 10,000 Scrolls Festival" lasted from March 26 to April 26, in addition to online activities, it also launched a variety of offline activities, such as "knowledge cars" flowing in Wangjing SOHO, INDIGO, Chaoyang Park and other prosperous areas, aiming to spread the value of World Book Day through mobile book stations.