China News Service, Beijing, July 21 (Reporter Ying Ni) In order to discover and reward outstanding poets, carry forward Chinese excellent traditional culture, and promote the high-quality development of Chinese poetry creation, China Writers Publishing Group, Zhejiang Writers Association, and the Propaganda Department of the Wenzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China , Wenzhou Development and Reform Commission, Wenzhou Literary and Art Circles Federation and other units jointly initiated and established the Xie Lingyun Poetry (Biennial) Award.
At a press conference on the 21st, Cao Lingyun, a member of the Wenzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles Party Group and Secretary-General, introduced that the Xie Lingyun Poetry (Biennial) Prize, named after the poet, is a national award that is selected and awarded every two years for the purpose of discovering and rewarding Writers (poets) who are committed to the creation of Chinese poetry (including ancient poetry and prose poetry), and who have made outstanding contributions and outstanding achievements, as well as newcomers (including ancient poetry and prose poetry) who have formed a unique style in the field of Chinese poetry.
The awards will be recommended by units and experts. After three stages of initial evaluation, re-evaluation, and final evaluation, two awards will be set up, namely 2 outstanding poet awards and 3 outstanding poet awards, and each session will be awarded to 5 writers ( Poets), with a bonus to encourage poets' time and thought for long-term writing.
Song Xiangwei, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and deputy director of the Management Committee of China Writers Publishing Group, said that China is a big country of poetry, and Chinese classical poetry, as an important part of Chinese traditional culture, has deeply participated in the shaping of national spirit and cultural values.
It is believed that the establishment and selection of the Xie Lingyun Poetry (Bi-annual) Award will surely produce positive effects for the prosperity of poetry creation in the new era, further strengthening the dissemination of excellent poetry works, promoting the high-quality development of literary undertakings in the new era, and promoting Wenzhou to build a cultural highland in the new era. influences.
Xie Lingyun was a poet and traveler in the Jin and Song Dynasties. He is known as the originator of Chinese landscape poetry. Together with Tao Yuanming, he is called "Tao Xie".
Xie Lingyun wrote a large number of landscape poems in his life, especially during the period of Wenzhou, he handed down 26 landscape poems, famous lines such as "spring grass grows in the pond, and willows in the garden change into songbirds", which depicts the beauty of Wenzhou's natural and cultural scenery.
It is reported that the first Xie Lingyun Poetry (Bi-annual) Award is expected to be awarded in late October 2022, and related literary activities such as Xie Lingyun academic seminars, lectures on literary and artistic creation, and literary and artistic styles will also be held.
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