Here you can read while scalding your belly
It is actually the Huxi branch of the Shapingba District Library. It is opened in a hot pot restaurant and has a collection of nearly 10,000 books.
The hot pot restaurant and the library, two things that can't be beaten by one pole, can actually collide!
Recently, a hot pot restaurant in the University Town of Shapingba District has gone viral online, and many foreign tourists will come to "check in"-not because of the unique taste, but because a hot pot restaurant "opened" library!
Those who come are both diners and readers.
In Chongqing, the hot pot restaurant and the library can be integrated without any violation!
Reading while boiling hot pot
Walking into this hot pot restaurant near the university town, it is indeed a bit different. As soon as you enter the door, you can see rows of bookshelves with all kinds of books neatly coded, like a small library.
The books have also been divided into categories, economics, literature, teaching aids, tourism...
The bookshelf is located next to the hot pot table, close enough to scald the belly with one hand and take a book from the shelf with the other.
According to the person in charge of the hot pot restaurant, they are actually the Huxi branch of the Shapingba District Library. There are nearly 10,000 books in the library. Guests can read the books while eating the hot pot. After completing the simple procedures, they can also borrow the books home and read them slowly. .
However, in the scented hot pot restaurant, do anyone really read a book?
At 6 o'clock in the evening on September 24, guests came one after another.
Not to mention, there are really many diners taking advantage of waiting for the dishes to take out books of interest and flip through them.
"This is the first time I have seen it! Very interesting!" Ms. Chen, a foreign guest who came to Chongqing for a meeting, felt very novel about the library of this hot pot restaurant, and took photos and sent them to friends.
She sighed: Chongqing deserves to be the "hot pot capital". Even hot pot restaurants can read a lot of books, which is conducive to promoting reading for all.
The person in charge of the hot pot restaurant said that because the restaurant is located in the university town, many teachers and students usually come to eat hot pot and read books, which is very convenient. They usually lend from dozens to hundreds of books every month.
There are also dedicated staff in the hot pot restaurant for daily maintenance, cleaning, and borrowing records.
After the library moved in, the hot pot restaurant's business has also improved-eating hot pot in a place with the smell of books seems to taste better!
"Social Library" receives 200,000 readers throughout the year
It is understood that the Shapingba District Library currently has 9 sub-libraries directly affiliated to the society, all of which were established through voluntary declaration by social units.
According to Han Xingyun, deputy director of the Shapingba District Library, they began to explore social forces to participate in library construction in 2016. In addition to the library in the hot pot restaurant, there are also cafes, bookstores, cultural hotels, training centers, etc. The library in public places has a collection of more than 15,000 books, with a combined area of more than 900 square meters, receiving nearly 200,000 readers throughout the year, and holding nearly a hundred reading activities every year.
To become a social branch of the Sand District Library, it is not a matter of randomness, such as having a good reading environment and serious and responsible full-time (part-time) management personnel, surrounding citizens have greater reading needs, and even more Dedicated to the concept of public welfare and serving the public.
Han Xingyun said that as the concept of reading for all has taken root in the hearts of the people, more and more social units are actively investing in the construction of public libraries.
Citizens can read for free in 9 social branches in Sha District, and can also enjoy free reading services in 6 24-hour city study rooms and more than 30 collective loan points.
"The Shapingba District Library will continue to build social branches and 24-hour urban study rooms to provide more and more citizens with convenient and efficient reading services."
He believes that although in the eyes of many people, the library in the hot pot restaurant is still a "new thing", but in the future, we will see more and more novel library formats, and hope that more people can develop reading at any time good habits.
Chongqing Morning News·Upstream news reporter Ji Wenling