As the starting place of Beijing's construction of the city, Xicheng District carries the history of Beijing's founding of more than 3,000 years and more than 870 years of history, and is also the northern end of the World Heritage Site of China's Grand Canal, which winds for nearly 3,200 kilometers.
In recent years, Xicheng District has made great efforts to build regional cultural soft power, and held various forms of cultural activities with phenomenal impact, which not only enrich the festival cultural life of the majority of citizens and tourists, but also carry forward and inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and gradually enhance the cultural brand influence of the functional core area of the capital.
Scenery of the West Side
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"Lilac Poetry Society" has a long history, to the Qing Dynasty is extremely prosperous, is one of the important activities of the annual Beijing famous people gather to communicate, show their style, at that time the famous Ji Xiaolan, Hong Liangji, He Shaoji, Gong Zizhen, Lin Zexu and other people and the famous Xuannan Poetry Society, have left lingering footprints and poems here. In 1924, the famous poet Xu Zhimo accompanied the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore to Fayuan Temple to admire the lilacs and visit the ancient temple, which became a good story in the history of Chinese literature and the history of Sino-Indian cultural exchanges.
In order to study and implement Xi Jinping's cultural thoughts, present the long history and realistic imagination of Beijing Xicheng in the form of poetry, and further polish the golden business card of urban culture, Xicheng District launched the Lilac Poetry Club Global Chinese Poetry Collection at the opening ceremony of the 2024 "Tribute to Masters and Centennial Poetry" Centennial Lilac Poetry Meeting.
The event was jointly established by the Xicheng District Party Committee and District Government, the famous magazine "October", and the October Academy of Literature and Literature in Prague, Edinburgh, Kuala Lumpur, Kathmandu and other places at home and abroad where October writers live.
In 2024, the "Tribute to the Masters and a Hundred Years of Poetry" Centennial Lilac Poetry Meeting
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Lilac Poetry Society, Global Chinese Poetry Collection
1. Awards
The competition has a social group and a campus group (the contributors are students), of which the social group has 1 lilac poetry award with a prize of 50,000 yuan; 2 Blue Lilac Poetry Awards, each with a prize of 20,000 RMB; 3 White Lilac Poetry Awards, each with a prize of 10,000 yuan; 6 Lilac Poetry Awards, each with a prize of 5,000 yuan. There are 12 Lilac Poetry Club Campus Poetry Awards in the campus group, with a prize of 5,000 yuan each. The above amount includes individual income tax. A number of outstanding organization awards will be awarded to college literary societies that actively publicize and organize authors to participate in the competition, and the number and quality of contributions are considerable.
II. Entry Requirements
1. Contestants are not limited to nationality, identity, style and subject matter, and all works that carry forward the core values of socialism and emphasize the ideology, epoch and artistry of poetry are among the applicants. Encourage the creation of Xicheng District's profound cultural heritage, fruitful development achievements, and broad development prospects (for specific information, please refer to the website bjxch.gov.cn the People's Government of Xicheng District, Beijing).
2. Entries must be original and debut, with no more than 5 poems (chapters) per submission, and the total number of lines should not exceed 100 lines. Please indicate the author's real name, ID number, zip code, address, mobile phone number at the end of the article, and attach a personal profile and life photo within 150 words for later contact; Participants in the campus group are also required to indicate their school, grade, class (or major) and provide personal information such as a photo of their student ID.
3. Entries are limited to modern poems (including prose poems) or old style poems. The award news is subject to the release of the WeChat public platform of the Faculty of Arts in October.
4. Only electronic submissions are accepted for this event. You can choose one of the following two submission methods:
(1) Please send the written works to the mailbox in the form of attachments: [email protected], please be sure to indicate "Social Group" or "Campus Group" in the subject of the email;
(2) Log in to the Chinese Poetry Network (www.zgshige.com) to submit your manuscript online (please check the options of "Participating in the Essay Contest" and "Lilac Poetry Club: Global Chinese Poetry Solicitation Activity" when publishing your works, and check the "Social Group" or "Campus Group" options). Before submission, please complete the real name, contact number, zip code, address, email address and other member authentication information, and do not fill in the text (the submission area is being built).
5. Contact number and contact person of the competition office:
October Faculty of Letters: Teacher Wen (010) 58572509
China Poetry Network Customer Service: (010) 65386536
III. Award Procedures
1. The preliminary judging team will select 3 outstanding works from the social group and the campus group every month, and after no objection is announced on the official WeChat public platform of the Faculty of Arts in October, they will be shortlisted for relevant awards and won relevant prizes. There are 18 shortlisted works in the social group and the campus group to enter the selection sequence of relevant awards of the year, and the final jury team will vote and score 12 award-winning works each.
2. All award-winning works will be displayed in the special issue of "Lilac Poetry Club: Global Chinese Poetry Collection" in October, and the organizer of the event will no longer pay the manuscript fee and enjoy the free use of all award-winning works. A total of 24 winners in the Social and Campus categories will be invited to participate in the 2025 Lilac Poetry Club.
3. The award-winning works may be adapted into music, short videos, poems and films and other art forms for dissemination and presentation.
Fourth, the collection time
July 1, 2024—December 31, 2024
5. Time and place of awards
In April 2025, the award ceremony will be held during the Lilac Poetry Club in Xicheng District, and the awards of the "Lilac Poetry Club - Global Chinese Poetry Collection Activity" will be announced on the spot.
Source: Beijing Xicheng, October Magazine