The Surging News reporter Yang Baobao
"Spring Kunlun, Spring Kunlun, Kunlun Mountain under the four o'clock spring, the foot of the mountain flowers bloom everywhere, brilliant like the sky full of stars..." On March 28, as night fell, the lights on the 3rd floor of the Hengfu Landscape Hall under the plane trees came on, and 77-year-old dubbing artist Tong Zirong recited "Kunlun and the Sea" fondly in the "Lighthouse Study", and the thick voice penetrated the shade of the trees, causing pedestrians downstairs to stop.
Hengfu Landscape Museum is a comprehensive cultural exhibition space of Hengfu Historical Landscape Protection Area, which presents the architectural style, red memory and century-old humanities of Hengfu area, and also provides public services such as tourism consultation and cultural and creative consumption. On March 28th, the day of the Cultural Service Day of the Citizens' Cultural Festival, hengfu landscape hall has incorporated a new function: the "lighthouse study" located on the 3rd floor was officially unveiled, which will provide a more three-dimensional reading experience for citizens and tourists.
Zhao Lihong (second from right) and Tong Zirong (second from left) recited a picture by The Paper's reporter Cheng Qianqian in the lighthouse study
Zhao Lihong and Tong Zirong recited on the spot
At the unveiling event of "Knowledge 'Candle One' Lit" that night, the rooftop outside the lighthouse study was filled with public readers. Excellent red cultural content such as "Red Candle", Ke Ling's "Moon Girl", Xia Yan's "Spring Silkworm", as well as "New Youth" and "Vientiane" magazine were edited into "lighthouse verses", copied and put into candles. In line with the "Earth Hour" global ecological environmental protection activities, everyone turned off the power, lit candles, and turned on the lighthouse to read the time at night with candles.
Zhao Lihong, vice chairman of the Municipal Writers Association, recited the work "箫" from his poetry collection "Pain". He said: "Writing is also writing about life, writing about human nature, writing about my pursuit of life." Because of reading, because of words, because of writing, I have come to this day. ”
"I love the name 'Lighthouse Study', and the process of reading it is like going from darkness to light under the light of a lighthouse." Zhao Lihong also expressed his expectations for the lighthouse study and readers, 20 years ago, the Chinese people's low reading rate, once made him very worried, fortunately, that era has passed, and now we have formed a consensus of the whole people to read, "In the process of our growth, from an ignorant child to an intellectual, it is inseparable from books." There is a Western proverb that says that what books you read will become who you are, and the choice of books is the choice of life. Zhao Lihong hopes that as a book lover, everyone must choose valuable books to read and improve themselves from reading.
"Reading a paper book is a wonderful thing." Tong Zirong recalled his reading memories when he was young, and warned young people to maintain the habit of reading and grow up from books. Nowadays, the way of reading is becoming more and more diversified, and Tong Zirong also mentioned that he hopes to use his dubbing expertise to record some audiobooks to help teenagers enter reading.
At the unveiling event of "Knowledge 'Candle One' Lit" that night, the rooftop outside the lighthouse study was filled with public readers. The surging news reporter Yang Baobao pictured
Let reading enter more public spaces
"Lighthouse Study" is an innovative project in the general branch library system of Xuhui District Public Library, which is a new reading space brand designed by the Natural Force Research Institute, a member of the "Huiyue Reading" Book Alliance, under the guidance of Xuhui District Library.
Located on the 3rd floor of the Hengfu Landscape Museum, the "Lighthouse Study" is located in a small attic in the corner of the roof on the 3rd floor, and although the sparrow is small, it has set up wooden bookshelves along the wall, with a long table and several sofa chairs in the middle. Combined with the characteristics of the historical buildings in hengfu landscape area, many of the book selections are related to Shanghai's old buildings and historical celebrities. Citizens stop here to draw books from the shelves, sit on chairs on the terrace outside the study, and read a story of old Shanghai in the shade of sycamore trees.
Readers excerpted the "lighthouse verses" on the spot and put them into candles, and the surging news reporter Cheng Qianqiantu
Jiang Yan, deputy director of the Xuhui District Bureau of Culture and Tourism, introduced that the Hengfu Style Hall, where the lighthouse study is located, was the living room of Mrs. Fritz, the "Lady of the Flower Hall", nearly a hundred years ago, when this exotic bungalow was known as the "first living room" of the old Shanghai, and received celebrities such as Song Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek, Lin Yutang, Ye Qianyu and so on. In recent years, Xuhui has ceded many excellent historical protection buildings to the people, and the Hunan Road Street Office has also moved out of this old bungalow, making the Flower Hall, which was now only accessible to celebrities, a public cultural space for citizens.
"When we set up the lighthouse study, our original intention is to let reading enter more public spaces, so that knowledge can illuminate every corner like a lighthouse." On the evening of the debut of the lighthouse study, international families and public readers gathered together, Jiang Yan said to everyone: "I think history or coincidence or reincarnation, the grand situation of nearly a hundred years ago appeared here again today, today we also invited friends from different countries and regions, the difference is that this is no longer just a place where celebrities and business friends gather, it has become a place for more readers, so that the people can enjoy space and public cultural services, which also confirms such a sentence: the past has never gone far, The future is hidden in the present. ”
Interior view of the lighthouse study The Paper's reporter Cheng Qianqian figured
Hengfu Style Museum "Lighthouse Study" is the fourth "Lighthouse Study" in Xuhui District, which is another new attempt after Longnan Jiayuan, Leshan New Village and Xujiahui T Station Lighthouse Study Room, injecting innovative reading forms and resources into the "Huiyue Reading" series to help upgrade the service of Hengfu Landscape Museum. Through comprehensive forms such as space creation, media dissemination, creative book document exhibition, and urban reading culture contextualization, the experience of local residents and Chinese and foreign tourists is further enhanced, and the public's new feelings of reading, cultural inheritance and cultural interaction are increased.
Jiang Yan told the surging news reporter that the establishment of the "lighthouse study" originated from the closure and reconstruction of the Library in Xuhui District, hoping to continue the library's reading services in a variety of innovative ways during the closure period, and the "Huiyue Reading" Lighthouse Study is one of them.
Bookshelf in the lighthouse study The Surging News reporter Cheng Qianqian
At present, the four "lighthouse study rooms" set up are not large in size, and they are embedded into different public cultural spaces, and each lighthouse study room combines local community characteristics. The first lighthouse study is located in Longnan Jiayuan Talent Apartment, young people gather, the selected books combined with young people's reading experience, the study room is also set up with multi-dimensional rotating shared book box, Bluetooth headset embedded multi-grid bookcase, etc., providing a flat, audio and video and other dimensions of reading experience. The second lighthouse study is located in Leshan neighborhood, where a lot of foreign population gathered, serious aging, children are more, this lighthouse study and pension, parent-child and other community functions integration, set hand torn pages health books, residents can tear off as needed to take away, but also customized bookcase floor height, middle and high-rise convenient for the elderly to take without bending, the lower floor is suitable for children to read. The third lighthouse study is located in Xujiahui business circle, serving business circle enterprises, young white-collar workers in the building, nearby street residents, past tourists and other objects, featuring the interactive device of the knowledge box, by scanning the two-dimensional code, linking the cultural tourism mini program offline multi-line visit punch card, completing the task to receive free coffee coupons and other forms, so that the reading form is combined with dynamic and static.
"This 'lighthouse study' of Hengfu Landscape Museum, we will hold some rooftop reading activities, small summer terrace theatrical performances here, and in the future, we will also link up with 'building readable', combined with our city city walk micro-trip, to tell the historical and cultural story of the old buildings in this area." Jiang Yan said.
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