China News Service, Beijing, January 3rd (Reporter Ying Ni) A few days ago, People's Literature Publishing House joined hands with the Memorial Hall of the Early Revolutionary Activities of the Communist Party of China in Beijing to present a large-scale event for readers at the Red Building of Peking University, the witness of China's century-old literary development. Public welfare live broadcast of literature welcome: "100 Celebrities Welcome to Read - 2023 Literature Chinese New Year's Eve Ceremony".

According to incomplete statistics, the number of views on the entire network that night exceeded 12 million, and the topics of "2023 Literary New Year's Eve" and "Hundred Celebrities Welcome New Years" read nearly 10 million.

　　The location of the live broadcast is located in the 36th classroom of the Red Building of Peking University - Mr. Lu Xun gave lectures to students more than a hundred years ago.

The welcome reading is presented in a combination of "online + offline, on-site + online", with writers, translators, artists, cultural scholars, publishers, media professionals, overseas sinologists, film and television sports celebrities as the main body to form a hundred celebrities A strong lineup will appear in the five-hour cultural feast as the host, online leader, on-site guest leader, and online guest leader.

　　"Loving Life" in "Morning Blossoms in the Evening"

　　The first theme of the first half of the 2023 Literary China New Year's Eve Ceremony is "Collecting Blossoms in the Morning and Evening in the Evening".

In the cloud, the readers brought the audience excerpts from "Xiaoyaoyou", "Will Enter the Wine", "Hometown", "Puqiao Collection", "Firefly", and "Hometown of Eight Hundred Meters", looking back at this past from literature. For one year, we will taste the beauty and eternity in time together.

　　Dong Qiang, a professor of the French Department of Peking University and the dean of Yenching Academy, Wang Yuewen, a famous writer, and Shi Hang, a senior screenwriter, were the guests of the first half, and they had a dialogue around the theme at the scene.

Dong Qiang said, "Reading literature allows us to immerse ourselves in the memories that are closely related to life. As Proust said, this kind of memory constitutes life, which is particularly beautiful."

　　Wang Yuewen read passages from the new book "Home Mountain" on the spot, ""Home Mountain" is written about the first fifty years of the 20th century. It is impossible for people of our age to overlap with the first fifty years of the 20th century. Through literature, we have established a certain connection with that world, with that time and space.”

　　Shi Hang has unique views on literature.

The "Hometown" read by Pu Cunxin made him sigh: "Mr. Lu Xun's short paragraphs have already traveled our whole life." No matter when and where we are, we can always find deja vu in literature. soul, discovering that he is not alone.

　　Li Er, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, as the first live broadcast guest, brought everyone a leading reading of an excerpt from Shi Tiesheng's "Sick and Broken Pen".

Because that day was also the twelfth anniversary of Shi Tiesheng's death, he said emotionally: "Shi Tiesheng's novels and prose directly confront the difficulties we encounter in our lives—difficulties in the body and in the soul, but he still has a way to overcome and overcome these difficulties. courage. So today we read Shi Tiesheng, rethink his meaning, and think about the relationship between him and each of us, which has a special meaning.”

　　The second theme in the first half is "love life".

Huang Zhijian, Chairman and Party Secretary of China Publishing Group Co., Ltd. opened this part with a song "Motherland, My Dear Motherland" by Shu Ting.

More than 20 readers shared passages about life in Chinese and foreign literature such as "Morning Glory", "A Stranger in the World", "To the Oak Tree", "I Will Be a Rapid", "Biography of Celebrities" and "Long Time".

　　Writer Bi Feiyu participated in the live connection.

Looking back on 2022, he believes: "Literature is a kind of companionship and a kind of comfort, but I think literature is first of all a memory, it is a personal memory, and finally it can become a memory of the times and a nation. Human nature is eager for us to forget as soon as possible. The human heart demands that we keep in mind."

　　"Believe in the future" when "embracing the world"

　　The second half of the New Year's Eve Ceremony opened with "Embracing the World".

　　Chinese and foreign leaders shared classic literary passages such as "Standing the Storm", "Notre Dame de Paris", "The Daughter of Fire", "Notes from Underground", "I Want to Live with You", "The Old Man and the Sea" around "Embracing the World". It has created a galaxy of literature, reflecting an inclusive and open literary vision.

　　Zhao Baisheng, professor of Peking University and director of the World Biography Research Center, Wen Zheng, professor of Beijing Foreign Studies University and director of the Italian Teaching and Research Office, and young writer Shi Yifeng, as the guests of the second half, listened to these wonderful "cloud" readings together with the audience, and unfolded A fascinating conversation about literature embracing the world.

　　Zhao Baisheng shared his experience in teaching world literature for decades: "We have two major misunderstandings in the process of understanding the world, one is single-line, and the other is one-sided." What he has to do now is to break through These two misunderstandings guide readers to understand the world more comprehensively.

　　Wen Zheng, who has been engaged in Italian translation and research for many years, expressed his respect for translators and lamented that although artificial intelligence translation is developing rapidly, "literature has warmth, but machines have no warmth, no matter how far it develops, We also have to write with writers—they write, we translate, and spread to the world.”

He also led a reading of the nineteenth-century Romantic poet Leopardi's works in Italian, because "we can't stop imagining, and the best way to help us imagine is literature."

　　The second theme of the second half is "believe in the future".

　　The famous writer Wang Meng recited the preface poem "Long Live Youth" in a firm and enthusiastic tone, expressing his yearning for the future with "the golden thread of youth and the wreath of happiness".

More than 20 readers also shared Chinese and foreign literary works such as "Looking at the Lushan Waterfall", "A Visit to Snow in Harbin", "In the Haze", "Swallow Food", "If Life Deceives You" and "Gitanjali". Co-wrote the song "Believe in the Future".

The young writer Di An took the new work "Dear Honey", accepted the live connection and shared the leading reading - Shu Ting's poem "This Is Everything".

　　With the support and comfort of literature, the scene ushered in the first bell of the new year.

The live broadcast came to an end. The host Zhang Zequn, as the last reader of the New Year’s Eve ceremony, invited the guests to read the work "Believe in the Future" by the poet Index Finger with full enthusiasm as the end of the event: "Friends, firmly believe in the future , Believe in indomitable efforts, believe in the youth who can overcome death, believe in the future, and love life", marking the end of this event.

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