Every year at the two sessions of the National People's Congress, "reading for the whole people" is a keyword with a high degree of attention, and this year is the same, among the proposals and suggestions of many members and deputies, Zhu Yongxin's call for the establishment of a "national reading festival" has attracted special attention. From 2003 to this year, he reportedly not only proposed the establishment of a "National Reading Festival", but also did a lot of work to promote the ritual of reading.
Reading needs a sense of ceremony, which is already the consensus of many book lovers, advocating the establishment of a "national reading festival", that is, to raise the sense of ritual of reading to the national level and promote in-depth reading in the name of the whole people. When it comes to the sense of ceremony, some people will feel that along with the sense of ritual, there may be formalism, real deep reading, and no sense of ritual is needed. Such concerns are justified, for a small number of readers, and even more people with reading perseverance, there is no need for any special sense of ritual to emphasize, but for the public reading, the existence of ritual sense is only good and there is no harm.
In the era of intelligent Internet, people's attention is disrupted and distracted, and it is impossible to calm down and read books, which is not only a trouble for many young people, but also makes many book lovers and readers feel uneasy. Indeed, compared with the various information on mobile phones, the instant interaction on social platforms, the passages provided by video websites, etc., the pleasure and feedback of reading are obviously much slower, and in such a context, emphasizing the ritual sense of reading is actually a supplement to the boring side of reading.
The ritual sense of reading has been mentioned for many years, but many people lack a clear understanding of it, which involves the realization of the scene of reading - there must be a realistic reading scene as a motivation, so that readers can feel and immerse themselves in it. Just as the vast majority of people will immediately reduce their voices or simply remain silent after entering the bookstore, the reading scene of the bookstore will bring strong hints, and it is best not to do anything else here except reading, such as calling and chatting, which is not tolerated by the reading scene of the bookstore.
In terms of the realization of reading scenarios, there are actually many things that can be done, such as "Earth Hour", which can strive to put down the things at hand at a certain time of the day, "reading for an hour"; for example, like the "Ice Bucket Challenge", everyone can challenge to read a good book that they find very useful but cannot read; for example, more bookstores can join the "24-hour non-closing bookstore", which provides readers with various activities related to reading, writing, reading and so on on this day... The creativity of reading is limitless, but it does require a bigger and more platform to carry.
In recent years, watching movies has become an indispensable urban lifestyle, which is related to the scene operation of movie theaters, watching movies offline, exchanging movies online, this offline interaction, there must be a movie theater as an entity carrying platform, so the growth rate of movie theaters will be so fast. If bookstores have such functions, they will inevitably become one of people's social centers again.
Like bookstores, there is an urgent need for scene-based operation of the place, but also the library, reading room and other increasingly deserted cultural places, they have provided people with spiritual food in several years, is to leave countless good reading memories of the place, how to make these cultural places lively again, need to have wonderful creativity, excellent leadership, long-term persistence.
Source: Guiyang Daily
Author: Han Haoyue
Reviewer: Pan Qiwen
Editors: Liu Shen Xu Liuyan