Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point reporter Shi Wenjing
Literature can also cause flashpoints on the Internet. On December 31 last year, 18 heavyweight guests gathered in the name of literature to present a five-hour literary New Year's Eve ceremony for readers across the country, and the People's Literature Publishing House's first live broadcast of the Literary New Year's Eve attracted attention inside and outside the literary circle.
On January 7, writer Mo Yan, who was familiar with the first online live broadcast of the new book, once again greeted his old friends Yu Hua and Nishikawa and held a new version of "Life and Death Fatigue" online release.
These two online live broadcasts of literature have attracted the participation of many large online platforms and have set off a boom in the whole network. From the current affairs interactive hotspots such as "such a large-scale literary event, it is really a long time to see" and "Mo Yan Yuhua is talking about cross-talk", it can be found that live broadcasting allows writers and literary works to be disseminated in a large area, and literature quietly achieves "breaking the circle" on the Internet.
Mo Yan and Yu Hua were simply slangers
The online launch of the new version of "Life and Death Fatigue" is a new book promotion meeting and a gathering between Mo Yan and his old friends. In the minds of the public, Mo Yan and Yu Hua can be described as the two peaks of Chinese literature, but few people know that these two peaks were once roommates who had lived together for several years. Mo Yan and Yu Hua are classmates at Beijing Normal University's Lu Xun College of Literature, or "brothers sleeping on bunk beds." In order to support his long-time friends, Yu Hua specially came to participate in the launch of the new version of "Life and Death Fatigue".
When asked by netizens about the campus life of the two in that year, Yu Hua directly revealed that the two shared a toothpaste when they shared the same bedroom, which triggered a burst of laughter and cheers from onlookers. Mo Yan recalled the more interesting details of the two, when they lived in the same room, Mo Yan was working on "Wine Country", and Yu Hua was writing his debut work "Shouting in the Drizzle". There was only a cabinet between the two, and "you could hear the rustle of the tip of the pen rubbing against the manuscript paper" and "you could even hear each other panting." There was a slit in the middle of the cabinet, tired of writing, leaning back, the two people looked at each other, "and then the inspiration suddenly disappeared, he couldn't write anymore, I couldn't write anymore." The final solution was that Mo Yan hung up a wall calendar and blocked this slit, which "successfully completed their respective novels".
After writing "Life and Death Fatigue", Mo Yan immediately gave Yu Hua a copy, which made Yu Hua intoxicated at that time. Talking about the feelings of reading "Life and Death Fatigue" for the first time, Yu Hua frankly said: "The first feeling is that I am very jealous, and I am too good to write! But the second time I read it, I was happy, I was happy for Mo Yan, and I was also happy for our Chinese literature." In order to participate in the launch of the new edition of "Life and Death Fatigue", Yu Hua specially reread the book, "every paragraph grasped me tightly. I was tearful and laughing." However, Yu Hua's words turned sharply, and he did not forget to ridicule his old friend: "Although I have seen crying, Mo Yan is more likely to cry, and he cries when he watches a TV series."
This conference is too interesting, too simple, too grounded. The fairy friendship between the two top authors of Chinese literature amazed netizens, and this friendship is not only reflected in life, but also in spiritual exchanges. The interaction of netizens is also very interesting: "Get together can open a Deyun Society" "The works of the two teachers are sad, and the daily life is so humorous, it is really to bring sadness to the reader, and keep the joy to yourself."
During the online conference of the new version of "Life and Death Fatigue", the popularity of the live broadcast room was bursting, and the viewing of the two platforms of Douyin and Bilibili reached 3 million people, and related topics rushed to the hot search list on the two platforms.
Literary New Year's Eve live broadcast is the first
In the live broadcast of the 2022 Literary New Year's Eve Ceremony of the People's Literature Publishing House, 18 heavyweight literary guests came to the scene, and 50 writers appeared in the form of videos to chat about literature for 5 hours. This grand ceremony launched a literary dialogue with the four themes of "the power of literature", "the charm of classics", "the feast of reading" and "the hope of youth", and the total number of views on the whole network exceeded 10 million times, which was a veritable cultural feast.
Zhu Yongxin, the national reading image spokesperson for the whole people, said of "the power of literature", "Social sciences, like history and philosophy, rely more on the power of reason to impress people, literature also has reason, but reason is presented in a perceptual way. Writers present the scenes of our lives in a literary way, so that everyone can find themselves in it or find the people around them. It is particularly emotional, and its power is unique throughout the humanities. ”
Li Jingze, a member of the party group, vice chairman and critic of the China Writers Association, shared the importance of literature from the unique perspective of the meaning of the Chinese character "wen": "This 'text' means that we have imagination, we have the ability to create a world for ourselves, and we have the ability to build a world of meaning for ourselves. So in this sense, literature is really important because in this 'text', literature is particularly basic, and in various civilizations, literature is fundamental in the great 'text'. ”
When asked about the significance of people reading classics today, 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: "Since there is a natural phenomenon of waterfalls in the world, there will be writers who continue to write about it, but only Li Bai's "Wanglushan Waterfall" refreshes our impression of waterfalls. The most eminent classical writers will refresh your perception of it, so that you will have new emotions about it. ”
Dong Qiang, director of the French Department of Peking University and chairman of the Fu Lei Translation and Publication Award, has such a characteristic in his heart: "I think it must be the first time in human history to take a unique vision and use unique words to open up a unique world for you. Such people, such works, are classics for me. ”
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 remarks and golden sentences, and there were wonderful links such as literary games and multilingual recitations, everyone listened to literary dialogues, participated in interactive guessing, liked, and left messages. Must continue next year!" Wait for the cheers to brush non-stop.
Live streaming of literature allows literary activities to break through regional time limits
To be honest, a New Year's Eve live broadcast of literary issues and a book launch can attract 10 million people and 3 million people, and this degree of dissemination can only be achieved on real-time interactive network platforms.
Before the rise of online live broadcasting, writers promoting new works were all holding "small and beautiful" offline new book exchange meetings, which is certainly a good channel and way for writers to communicate with readers, but rushing to hold dozens of people across the country, at most hundreds of people's literary gatherings, is still too inefficient, writers, publishing houses and readers have to spend too much time and energy to complete this "luxury exchange".
But now it is different, on the major network platforms, every weekend there are too many literary live broadcast activities, new book launch activities, a large number of young and middle-aged writers focus on the network platform to continue to create a rich literary life for the public. These live broadcast activities can spread writers and works to the greatest extent, in this process, readers can not only have convenient and close contact with super-first-line writers and their new works, but also listen to writers who did not have the opportunity to hold national signing events a few years ago to talk about literature, and niche, cutting-edge, and fledgling young writers can also face a wider audience through online live broadcasting.
Literature encounters the era of live broadcasting, so that the interaction between writers, literature and the audience is more direct and convenient, and literary live broadcasting allows literary exchange to break the limitations of region, time, and even writers' positions and fame, so that literature can easily face readers and communicate directly. Live streaming of literature has become an integral part of the reading life, and no matter who you are, if you want, you can take out your mobile phone to share this literary feast.