The "Reading Hour" public welfare reading activity initiated by Guangxi Normal University Press is the sixth year of holding this year. This year's theme is "Reading, Seeing the Echo of the World", through reading, we can see the echo of the world, which brings together thousands of emotions and experiences of human beings, including people's big and small thoughts and wisdom, but also contains the secret of accidental encounters between people, so that confusion can be relieved of the answer...
Participating in this reading activity, readers can receive a good morning text message from the publisher every morning at 7 o'clock every morning, and they can also punch in the short reading space that is open for a limited time from 7 to 11 o'clock every night. In the main activity from 8:00 on April 23 to 20:00 on April 24, readers enter the book list page of the book paradise to participate in online reading, and each reading accumulates 1 hour, and the organizer will invest one yuan into the Sichuan Liangshan Reading Charity Fund for local cultural public welfare undertakings.
In addition, the "Reading Hour" campaign also launched the "Famous Nine Palace Grid" column, inviting more than 40 celebrity writers to recommend their books and share their feelings about reading time. The following is a list of books recommended by the famous artists participating in the event in 2022.
Ji Wenjun (Writer, Doctor of Literature and Art, Research Expert of Dream of the Red Chamber)
Cao Xueqin's Legacy: A World of Methods and Mirrors
Book Introduction: The work of 10 years of dedicated research has been called "the novelist who knows the most about "Dream of the Red Chamber" by the famous writer Li Jingze, and praised by the famous writer Li Er as the latest achievement in "red studies" research.
Reading sharing: Reading is to the spirit, just like food, air and water are to the flesh, deciding whether it dies or survives, or like the decaying grass of basil, or like the spring willow.
Liu Cixin (Writer)
"Liu Cixin Science Fiction Junior Edition (all 12 volumes)"
Book Introduction: The famous science fiction writer Liu Cixin presented a science fiction masterpiece for the majority of children.
Read share: As a science fiction fan, science fiction has shaped my life and life. In another ten or twenty years, perhaps some children will embark on the road of scientific research, and even go to the universe to explore and establish human civilization on other planets. Children who are reading this set of books may also become interested in science because of these science fiction stories, and like me back then, enter an interesting world beyond daily life.
Zhang Peng (Vice President of Nanjing Normal University Press, Vice President of Jiangsu Provincial Writing Society)
China in the Classics
Book Introduction: 60 classics throughout the Qin, Han, Ming, and Qing dynasties, spanning a subset of classical history, bringing children a full range of Enlightenment in Traditional Chinese Studies.
Reading sharing: Reading is an all-knowing and all-round teacher that each of us can afford, and this teacher teaches us to distinguish between truth and falsehood, see good and evil, and identify beauty and ugliness.
Gao Jianqun (famous writer, Romantic literature "The Last Knight")
The Last Hun
Book Introduction: Taking the family legend and the revolutionary storm as the clue, it comprehensively and systematically presents an epic picture of the social and cultural life of the northern Shaanxi Plateau.
Reading sharing: The so-called literature, just like mountaineering, let us climb up the ladder, step by step, step by step out of the low-level fun, we are advocated and simple because of literature.
Li Shoukui (Scholar, Writer, Professor, Tsinghua University)
"One Hundred and Fifty Lectures on Explaining Chinese Characters"
Book Introduction: A Chinese character is a cultural history, Tsinghua University professor Li Shoukui told the beauty and truth of Chinese characters related to the life of Chinese.
Reading and sharing: Chinese characters have their own unique existence necessity, especially Chinese characters are symbols of national identity, which play an important role in the formation and integration of our Chinese nation and the maintenance of the unity of our Chinese nation.
Uncle Time (Founder and Writer of Big Love Time)
"Spotted Sheep and Little Blackfish"
Book Description: The adventure of imperfect children, in which they learn to accept their imperfections.
Reading sharing: Reading is to experience another life, appreciate another landscape, and expand the breadth of life without leaving home.
Xu Zhuoyun (historian, student of Hu Shi and Fu Sinian, mentor of Wang Xiaobo)
"Xu Qianyun Ten Days Talk"
Book Introduction: How do we relate to the world in the post-pandemic era? The summary of Xu Qianyun's 90 years of life thinking has surpassed the unseen with foresight and led us to see the current world pattern and the future of mankind.
Reading and sharing: "I look forward to going through this experience here and now, having the opportunity to talk to everyone, so that everyone can be excited a little, and a ripple can be made in the otherwise calm and waveless heart." Small waves can create big trends and drive everyone to make continuous progress. (Preface to "Xu Zhuoyun's Ten Days' Talk")
Zhang Jiawei (Young Writer)
"NBA 75: When the Basketball Stars Shine"
Book Description: Unparalleled Chinese a brief history of the world's NBA, surging with enthusiasm.
Reading sharing: Reading a book is like looking at a person's ID photo. Reading a few more books is like looking at a person in a three-dimensional way, looking at it at 360 degrees without dead ends. Moreover, the books that have been read and the knowledge structure that have been established can be reflected from multiple angles. Reading only one book, and being sure of it, is easy to reach a dead end. Read more books, back and forth, you will have a deeper experience.
Zhou Huacheng (Writer)
"One Day Without Doing, One Day Without Eating"
Book Introduction: The book shares my beauty and spiritual harvest of rural labor practice.
Reading sharing: Reading has never crossed the mountains, and drinking tea has passed through thousands of rivers and mountains. Look at the scenery of the world between the lines, and move forward with determination in not doing or eating. Thank you for reading to make us meet, thank you for books for making us a better version of ourselves.
Lee Wai Yin (Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin)
The Formation of Modern China (1600-1949)
Book Introduction: A work of modern and contemporary Chinese history with a grand vision and new insights.
Reading sharing: Reading is not only to increase knowledge, to broaden horizons, nor just to do learning. True reading is an experience of the mind, an appeal from the depths of the heart, in order to satisfy one's own unproductive curiosity. Only when reading is no longer a task on one's shoulders, the book in your hand is your spiritual companion, and reading is a pleasant experience.
Luo Weizhang (Writer)
"Who's Knocking"
Book Description: This is a long river novel with epic character.
Reading sharing: Books allow us to see the world and discover ourselves. The world is big and small; it's small and it's small.
Susie Lee (Korean picture book writer and illustrator)
The Zoo
Book Introduction: Shaping the dual world of children and adults with charming colors, a work that sees the voice of children, suitable for all children who love animals and parents who do not understand children.
Read share: As a mother, I hope to swim in the imaginary world with the little protagonist of "Zoo". Reality and fantasy are intertwined; as an adult, I wish I could jump out of the ego, freely adjust the focus of my vision, and see the other side of reality.
Zhao Dongmei (Professor and Writer, Department of History, Peking University)
The Great Song Dynasty: 1063-1086
Book Introduction: It tells the story of the Northern Song Dynasty politician Sima Guang and his era, and is also the history of the transformation of the political culture of the Northern Song Dynasty from prosperity to decline.
Reading and sharing: Life goes on, reading is not stopped. In reading, go up to the tall building alone, get away from the hustle and bustle, recognize the contours of the world, and embrace the true self.
Huang Fan (writer, poet)
The Empire of Imagery: A Lesson in Poetry Writing
Book Introduction: In the form of both literary and theoretical thinking and four lessons, summarize his teaching and creative experience, and explore the theory of creative poetry writing that is suitable for the Chinese context and self-contained system.
Reading sharing: Reading is my spiritual companion in life, not only makes me think more clearly and deeply, but also becomes an important time for me to reflect on myself and renew myself. As an experienced person, I am full of evidence of life that confirms ideas, and it is reading that ignites my passion for witnessing and becoming a sober person. Reading has given me the spirit of ease and self-reliance, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is my never-ending mentor.
Black Potter (Young Poet, Essayist)
"100 Billion Books"
Book Introduction: These Chinese characters, these fragmentary chapters, carry the author's body temperature, they are scattered, cloudy, and gradually converge and gather. This unique, kanji galaxy created by Black Pottery looks forward to meeting the reader in an infinite universe.
Read and share: The divinity of books lies in enabling human beings to transcend the shackles of time and space and find friends and acquaintances. So, let's read it.
Zhu Weiyong (Young Artist, Writer)
The History of Chinese Art at a Glance (volumes 1-3)
Book Introduction: A biography of artists, through their lives, let the art of Chinese painting and calligraphy through the fog of time, formally but not boring in front of us.
Reading sharing: The world is huge, but the places that our bodies can really reach are very limited, not to mention the past and future that we can't cross, but all these regrets can be made up by reading.
Zhang Liying (Professor of Logic, Central University of Finance and Economics)
"The Logic of Comics for Teenagers"
Book Introduction: Logic enlightenment comic books written for teenagers can bring children an interesting, brain-burning and happy reading experience, so that children have a vision of insight into the law from an early age.
Reading Sharing: World Book Day is only one day, but reading should never stop. We embrace reading in solitude, but reading allows us to find sounds in the crowd.
Chen Lusheng (Former Deputy Director, National Museum of China)
The Beauty of museums
Book Introduction: Exploring the beauty of the museum's collection, the way of exhibition, and the wounds of operation, from the former deputy director of the National Museum of China.
Read share: The museum is an encyclopedia that represents the level of accumulating the achievements of civilization. Museums are cultural landmarks and cultural windows of the city. The museum has a unique educational function, is the second classroom for students, and is a place for the lifelong education of adults. Go to the museum, learn knowledge in the museum, and improve yourself in the museum.
Zhang Tao (Associate Professor, Central Academy of Fine Arts)
"Jun is a Sad Guest in the World"
Book Introduction: Subvert the stereotype of Qi Baishi, touch a chaotic piaoping person with flesh and blood and temperature, and peek into the historical scene of the art circle of the Republic of China.
Reading sharing: In an unreasonable world, reading is probably one of the best ways to be reasonable. Not an escape, but a gentle and fierce persistence.
Xiao Yi (Writer)
"Searching for Shu: Sichuan from Archaeology"
Book Description: Nineteen journeys of discovery with China National Geographic, a history of Shudi that switches between the ruins at the foot and the thousand-year-old civilization.
Reading sharing: Last week, I went to Anyue County and saw four words on the rock wall of Yunlong Academy in the Qing Dynasty: "Reading Lipin", which was written by Qing Xianfeng's four-year filial piety Fangzheng Ao Jingyou. The academy no longer exists, but the letters on the rock walls have survived. Only by reading books and reading more books can we have character, taste, and the ability to taste.
Wang Jia (writer, curator, recipient of the Hungarian Order of the Golden Cross)
"Voice Off-Screen"
Book Introduction: A cross-border fusion of music and painting, a journey of musical interpretation behind famous paintings.
Reading sharing: The more you read the book, the less you feel you know. The process of seeking knowledge is lonely, but it can withstand loneliness in a pompous social atmosphere, and the rich spiritual world harvested is the greatest wealth of life.
Oscar Berniffe (French child philosopher and educational thinker)
111 Children's Philosophical Thinking Exercises
Book Introduction: The book explains the connotation of children's philosophical thinking and analyzes the characteristics and difficulties of children's philosophical thinking exercises.
Read Share: Philosophy is a school of freedom. "It is better to believe in books than to have no books", any idea may be questioned and subject to strict scrutiny and criticism.
Ye Jiaying (Scholar of Classical Culture)
The Complete Collection of Poetry recitations of various bodies of Jialing
Book Introduction: Feel the secrets and life legends of poetry discovered by "Daughter of Poetry, Gentleman of Grace" for you.
Reading sharing: Whenever students ask the question "What is the use of reading poetry", I always reply: "The purpose of poetry is to make the reader have a kind of immortal heart full of emotion." ”
Liu Xin (Professor of Philosophy and Education, Sichuan University)
"Professor Liu Classics Introduction" series
Book Introduction: With the help of children's literature, children's philosophy, science fiction and traditional Chinese classics, the series explores a rich range of topics in a way that inspires thinking.
Reading sharing: the world is impermanent, life flows, only reading leads to eternity!
Nie Zhenning (Chairman of Taofen Foundation, Vice Chairman of Publishers Association of China)
"Books should be read like this: a reading plan for elementary school students to read the whole book"
Book Introduction: Read, talk, write with children, and comprehensively improve reading ability!
Reading sharing: Reading is a person's ability to learn, think and innovate. Reading power, let China more powerful!
Xiong Bingzhen (Founder and Pioneer of Chinese Children's History Research)
"Early Childhood Doctors and Young Mongolians: The Sustainable Way of Modern Chinese Society"
Book Introduction: This book is a pioneering work that explores the history of child-rearing in China, introducing many ancient and modern parenting methods.
Reading sharing: Good reading of Yu Mengtong's silver bell laughter, refreshing!
Song Siheng (pianist, composer)
《Ioggi Izakaya》
Book Introduction: Every diner is worth knowing, they are both ordinary and profound, they are both warm and funny, and they have insight into the truth of the world at a certain moment in their tortuous life, together with the soul food in the book.
Reading sharing: Human life is endless, and books can always help us understand this endless richness, and it is through reading that our lives become vast and free.
Li Xiaojun (Professor, Department of English, School of Foreign Chinese, Shenzhen University)
The Art of T.S. Eliot
Book Description: Revised from a series of lectures by Professor Helen Gardner at Oxford University, the Four Quartets are used as a research center to identify the flow of their styles, trace their roots, and explore their poetic concepts, basic symbols and ultimate meanings.
Read share: Follow the pace of Eliot's creation, with poetry, through tense times, through horror and boredom, restore faith, hope and love, imagine glory and dreams.
Jin Yucheng (novelist, painter)
Looking Back (Revised Edition)
Book Introduction: Non-fiction writing carried out in the posture of "searching"—father's letters and old photographs as meridians, and mother's dictations as weft lines, is not only a family memoir, but also a private footnote to modern history.
Reading sharing: Let the reader feel it, do not explain, do not make yourself smart, record the furry scene.
Cheng Weiping (Translator, Editor)
Kafka's Biography: The Critical Years
Book Introduction: Presents the deprivation of individual life by the nightmare of modern society, tells how "Metamorphosis" and "Litigation" were born and the writer's moving love and explosive growth, and presents the writer's works, identities and experiences like a panoramic film.
Reading and sharing: Reading biographies is also subconsciously looking for spiritual "blood relatives" and "echoes" in life, in order to pursue their own "inner truth" and resist the loneliness and nothingness of life. The book offers a convincing answer to the puzzle of "why Did Kafka become Kafka?" In the reality of Kafka, to read Kafka, you may as well start with this biography.
Li Jingrui (Young Writer)
"Shen Yu Tang"
Book Description: It tells the last glory of the local veteran salt merchant family in Zigong, Sichuan, after the abdication of the Qing Emperor. The times and the individual, eternal and changeable, large and small, converge on a family lost in the revolution of the times.
Reading sharing: When reading the lives of others, there is both praise and vigilance, and moving forward with this vigilance is like a small flashlight in the dark night, which cannot shine far, but maybe it is just a little light that allows people to avoid the quagmire and escape the trap.
Wei Dong (Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor of Shanghai Beibeite Literature, Guangxi Normal University Press)
Dostoevsky: The Pinnacle of Literature, 1871-1881
Book Description: The final chapter of Dostoevsky's five-volume biography shows the brilliant decade of the writer's later life.
Reading Share: Reading Dostoevsky, we are not only concerned with those profound, metaphysical propositions, but also the deep humanitarian tradition of Russia, which is why we still like Dostoevsky today.
Taiko Kuno (Japanese early childhood education expert, founder of "Little Bear Society")
"Thinking Cultivation from the Age of 3", "75 Ways to Raise Children Intelligently"
Book Introduction: The author summarizes through decades of teaching practice in Japan, and uses the Kuno teaching method to cultivate their thinking growth for the physical and mental development of children aged 3-6.
Reading sharing: Thinking is one of the most important abilities of people, is the basis of all behavior, only from an early age to scientific cultivation, in order to benefit for life.
Long Xiangmei (Children's Literature Writer, Poet)
"Once Upon a Time There Was a Story: A Collection of Fairy Tales from Dragon Xiangmei"
Book Description: This is a set of fairy tales for children aged 7-12 years old. These timeless and pure fairy tales with typical oriental colors will lead children into a world between reality and fantasy.
Read share: I always believe that a good fairy tale will be like the sun, illuminating a person's life.
Shi Jun (Ph.D. in Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Member of The Science Communication Working Committee of the Botanical Society of China)
When Ancient Poetry Meets Science
Book Introduction: It will lead young readers aged 7-12 to explore the interesting naturalism contained in 21 familiar ancient poems, feel the romantic beauty of ancient poems, and explore the scientific phenomena behind them.
Reading sharing: Popular science reading helps young people gain important learning ability and thinking ability, and also subtly cultivates their scientific spirit and helps young people grow for life - this is the important value of popular science reading.
Xiong Bingqi (President of 21st Century Education Research Institute)
"What to do in high school"
Book Introduction: This book introduces 8 aspects of how to do a good job in high school career planning, and guides students to focus on the course study of college entrance examination subjects, but also to teach them to plan their future life development path.
Read share: Good planning is half the battle. In the new college entrance examination environment, career planning has become as important as the college entrance examination, which is of great significance to the lives of middle school students.
Li Yidong (Ancient Book Restorer)
Smoke on Paper
Book Introduction: "True fake calligraphy and painting show miraculous feats to reproduce miracles, clouds and smoke obstruct the eyes and hide mysterious treasures in the rivers and lakes." The first puzzle novel in China with the theme of ancient calligraphy and painting restoration. ”
Read share: "In today's impetuous people's hearts, there are always people who can withstand loneliness and historical dialogue. Those objects from ancient times carry the meaning given by the ups and downs of time. He shines the light of cultural relics restoration into his creation, telling the story of restoration, the story of solving puzzles, or the story of treasure hunting. ”
Lin Weihui (Food Columnist, Food Consultant of Flavor of the World)
"Cantonese Food Fang Zhi Wei: Understand Food, Starting from Cantonese Cuisine"
Book Introduction: This is a book of Cantonese cuisine rich in life philosophy, "people who can eat, often more able to live".
Reading sharing: Social development is very fast, the knowledge given to us by the school can no longer meet the competitive environment you need to face, reading is the only way to keep you from falling behind. It is recommended that you read a little more mixed, preferably interdisciplinary, and always keep questioning and thinking independently, so that the knowledge of others can become your wisdom.
Pan Ran (Researcher of New Anti-Cancer Drugs, Ruin Explorer, Writer)
"Ruined America - A Journey to the Rust Belt of North America"
Book Introduction: Keep reading, experience the novelty of the world in day-to-day life, and expand the boundaries of life.
Reading and sharing: The more roads you walk, you will find that the most in the world is still ordinary people and ordinary things, and behind the ruins, you see those lives that have been washed away by time, there are feelings, there is understanding, and there is more substitution. "Nothing can easily impress a person, except for the real."
Wu Qi (Parenting Education Expert, Writer, English Translator)
"The World I Want to Give You is the Whole World: Growing Up with Children on the Road"
Book Description: Since the outbreak of covid-19, travel routes between countries have been temporarily blocked. When we can't travel, the memories of travel are even more precious; when the pandemic is over, those precious memories become the motivation to restart the journey.
Reading sharing: Cultivate children's interest in reading, let them develop the habit of loving books, the sooner the better. Reading and traveling are the best gifts for children.
Walker Old Lake (media person, veteran travel blogger)
"Don't Work, Go to the Island: The Blue Love Song of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area"
Book Description: Endless sea, pure warm wind, swaying coconut trees, delicate beaches... The aquamarine Greater Bay Area, there is always an island that will make you stop.
Reading Sharing: "You can travel and you can read, but your body or soul must be on the road", if you bring a good book on the journey, you can enjoy the joy of body-mind unity.