【Cultural Analysis】
According to recent media reports, starting from the summer vacation of 2020, Han Chao and Shi Xingyu, librarians of the Historical Documents Department of Nanjing Library, "translated" the "Suiyuan Food List" by Yuan Mei, a literati and food critic of the Qing Dynasty, into lively and fragrant stories. The dishes have attracted many readers to "chasing more".
Although Yuan Mei's research on food is widely known, most of the public's understanding of him is at the level of the text of ancient books.
Through the vivid restoration, we can not only see the daily dining of the ancients with our own eyes, feel the taste of time travel, but also deeply appreciate the charm of traditional culture.
The Chinese nation is a great nation with a long-standing cultural tradition of more than 5,000 years. China's soft power is rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, especially the ideology based on ancient books and classics.
Through the study and reading of ancient books, traditional culture can be passed down from generation to generation.
However, our emphasis and research on tradition should not be limited to words only.
In fact, traditional culture has many material carriers beyond the plane dimension, including food, music, clothing, architecture, etc.
The more life-like the dissemination and promotion of traditional culture, the more amiable and amiable effects can be achieved.
How to further expand the application scenarios and let the splendid culture contained in ancient books continue in daily life is an important topic worthy of research and attention at present.
In the Spring Festival of 2021, Henan Satellite TV's Spring Festival Gala program "Tang Palace Night Banquet" stood out among the "Hundred Flowers Blooming" and was highly praised by audiences of different ages; It is becoming more and more common. Some people describe that the flower viewing season has become the Hanfu travel season. Classical poetry has also entered the screen from literature and books, and has entered the public in a vivid and novel way. The popularity of variety shows such as "Chinese Poetry Conference" is very representative. sex.
The occurrence of the above phenomenon is not accidental.
On the one hand, they confirm the public's strong interest in and love for traditional culture; on the other hand, they also remind us that the promotion of traditional culture should be closely integrated with the changes of the times and society, especially the renewal of the media .
In a fundamental sense, the value of traditional cultural classics that have been passed down to the present is not only for scholars to study, but also for the public to read and learn, so that the public can obtain spiritual nourishment.
Seriously examining, supplementing, and studying ancient books is of course an important task for relevant national experts and scholars, but no matter what kind of ancient books, their essential significance must lie in interpreting and promoting the spirit of traditional culture, so as to achieve the purpose of making them popular among the public.
In other words, no matter how profound and broad the content of ancient books is, if they cannot directly reach the daily life of the common people, the effect of dissemination will be greatly reduced.
Only by finding the "integration point" between traditional culture and the public, finding the "cultural soul" that the common people like to see, and letting the cultural spirit enter the living space, can the spiritual resonance be finally formed.
Of course, the "lifestyle" that we want to emphasize is by no means blindly popularized and entertaining, but more types of experiences such as poetry and song creation, traditional folk experience, and diverse interactive exchanges to achieve a deeper extension. .
Only in this way can the traditional culture in ancient books have more audiences and radiate new vitality.
(Author: Li Qinyu, a media commentator)