On the evening of December 31, 2021, the People's Literature Publishing House set a precedent for the first time in the live broadcast of the New Year's Eve of Literature, invited 18 heavyweight guests to gather in the name of literature, and presented a five-hour live broadcast of the "Literature China - People's Literature Publishing House 2022 Literary New Year's Eve Festival" for readers across the country, with the total number of views on the whole network exceeding 10 million times.
Feng Jicai, Yan Jingming, Ah Lai, Ge Fei, Su Tong, Dong Xi, Dong Qing, Ma Weidu, Ge Liang and other nearly 50 "old friends" who are associated with the Humanities Society have sent New Year's greetings to readers across the country in the form of videos. This feast unfolded with four themes: "The Power of Literature", "The Charm of Classics", "The Feast of Reading" and "The Hope of Youth".
At the event, Zhu Yongxin, the national image spokesperson for national reading, Li Jingze, a member of the party group, vice chairman and critic of the China Writers Association, Liang Xiaosheng, a writer, and Cao Wenxuan, winner of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award, opened the first topic. Liang Xiaosheng shared with everyone how he was forced by a "truant ghost" under pressure at home, because of an accidentally published essay began to embark on the road of literature, "composition gave me the dignity of the first child, in order to keep this self-confidence and dignity, I prefer to write essays, but also require myself to write better, so I read a lot of books, which became a nutrition for the later embark on the road of literature, or the original literary vitamin." Cao Wenxuan talked about one of the power of literature is to cultivate compassion, and Li Jingze shared the importance of literature from the unique perspective of the meaning of the Chinese character "wen".
Speaking of the "charm of classics", Kang Zhen, professor and doctoral supervisor of the College of Literature of Beijing Normal University, took Li Bai's poem as an example to answer uniquely: "Since there is a natural phenomenon of waterfall in the world, there will be literary artists who continue to write about it, but only Li Bai's "Wanglushan Waterfall" refreshes our impression of the waterfall, and the most outstanding classical writers will refresh your understanding of it, so that you will have new emotions about it." ”
Regarding the "Feast of Reading", Li Er, winner of the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award and deputy director of the Museum of Modern Literature, shared the "Notes of the Southern Court" by Li Boyuan of the Qing Dynasty, which he recently read. Zhao Baisheng, a professor at Peking University and director of the World Biography Research Center, was the first professor at Peking University to offer a special research course on African literature to graduate students, discussing the phenomenon of the "African Year of World Literature" in 2021 and introducing five African writers who won the International Literary Award in 2021 through the big screen.
The "Feast of Youth" dialogue begins with a brain-opening improvisation game. Xu Zechen, a writer and deputy editor-in-chief of People's Literature, created a wonderful science fiction story based on the three key words extracted: "Li Bai was a Tang Dynasty man, and he also died in the Tang Dynasty, and when he died, he fell from the boat and drowned in the water." But he didn't know it—he fell into the water and fainted, and when he woke up, it was 2122, and he found that he was not on the ground, but in the air, in a place like the Tiangong Space Station..."
Although this literary feast carefully planned by the People's Literature Publishing House lasted for more than five hours, because the guests were full of witty words and literary games, multilingual recitations and other wonderful links, everyone listened to literary dialogues, participated in interactive guessing, praised, and left messages. "We must continue to do it next year!" Wait for the cheers to brush non-stop.