The "Reading Beijing -2023 Capital Citizen Reading Series Cultural Activities" Launch Today
Published on: 2023-04-23 | Updated On: 2023-04-23On the occasion of the arrival of the 28th "World Reading Day", the press conference of the 2023 "Reading Beijing" series of cultural activities for Beijing citizens, sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and co organized by the Capital Library, the Beijing library association, and the libraries in all districts of Beijing, was held at 14:00 on April 23 at the lecture hall in Block A of the Capital Library. Guests including Chang Lin, a second level inspector of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Bian Jian, a member of the Beijing Radio and Television Party Group and deputy editor in chief, and Sun Mingjun, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University, attended the press conference. The theme of the press conference is "Lifelong Reading, Book Fragrance Engraves Time", and the guests and reader representatives attending the event jointly launched the 2023 "Reading Beijing". The press conference was also live streamed simultaneously on 24 platforms including the Capital Library Cloud Classroom, Beijing Time, and Listening to FM, attracting a total of 2.76 million viewers.
A journey of opening and sharing reading
Through the four chapters of "Ultimate Joy", "Ultimate Beauty", "Ultimate Achievement", and "Ultimate Enjoyment", it is conveyed that reading is the ultimate joy, the journey of ultimate beauty, the journey of ultimate achievement, and the source of ultimate enjoyment, which is the positive energy of national reading.
Picture: Guests and readers jointly launch the 2023 "Reading Beijing" event
As an important reading brand activity in Beijing, the 'Reading Beijing - Capital Citizen Reading Series Cultural Activity' has flourished since its establishment. With the synchronous cultivation of reading width, length, and depth, it continuously helps Beijing's nationwide reading activities achieve new upgrades. We hope that more and more citizens and friends will participate in the 'Reading Beijing' activity
A City of Book Fragrance, Creating the Beauty of Reading Together
In 2023, "Reading Beijing" adheres to the concept and practice of combining online and offline, covering the entire city without any omissions, and seamlessly connecting with monthly reading. With the linkage of one city as the key, it drives and leads thousands of public libraries and grassroots libraries in the city to participate. Within the 16 districts of the city, it continues to hold four major activities: the city's recitation competition, the selection of the top ten excellent reading spaces, the growth of reading with me, and the most beautiful book review; Based on nationwide reading, we aim to create a reading loop for all ages and from multiple dimensions through book list guides, activity innovation, and platform promotion; Based on lifelong reading, we always take meeting the new expectations of the spiritual and cultural life of the citizens of the capital as the starting point and foothold, vigorously promote a good atmosphere of love, good reading, and good reading in the whole society, guide the general public to enhance reading interest, cultivate reading habits, and improve reading ability, and become lifelong readers and learners.
Image: Liu Chao (first from right), Deputy Director of the Capital Library, releases the "Reading Beijing Coordinates" plan
This year's "Reading Beijing" has both continuity and innovation. The "Top 10 Excellent Reading Spaces" selection activity is linked with Gaode Map to launch the "Reading Beijing Coordinates" plan. By searching for the keyword "Reading Beijing" on Gaode Map, you can navigate to the selected excellent reading spaces over the years. Different theme reading routes will also be designed, inviting readers to check in and enjoy the excellent reading circle around you; The theme of the city's recitation contest is "Enchanted with the fragrance of books, pleasing to read and far reaching". Multiple online and offline contest areas can participate in the contest. The online contest area will invite everyone to read poetry and classics together through the Tiktok platform. The "24 solar terms reading plan" runs through the year, sharing the beauty of reading, writing, culture, and thought; Reading accompanies my growth. Through the activities of "Harmony with Poetry, Singing to Classics" and the "Walking in the Water, Rhyme, Forest, and Sea Continues the Canal Culture" Beijing primary and secondary school student library ticket design competition, we aim to turn millennium old classics into songs of the new era, inherit the most precious cultural heritage, and encourage children to practice diligently, acquire new knowledge, and strive for progress; The "Most Beautiful Book Review" is a friend of books, relying on recommended reading lists to guide readers to read high-quality books, record the life cognition drawn from books, enhance their spiritual perception after reading, and carry out "free writing" activities to perceive their inner thoughts and thoughts through the writing process.
Lifetime Reading, Building a City of Reading Together
Start small and finally grow old. In 2023, the theme of "Reading Beijing" is "lifelong reading, the fragrance of books engraved with time". The initiative of "reading together, lifelong reading" is launched to help improve the four core competencies of "seeking knowledge, doing things, coexisting, and being a person", jointly building a city of reading and achieving a great learning country. Reading Beijing "will rely on the high-quality reading resources of the city's public libraries, allowing readers of all ages, including children, teenagers, youth, and the elderly, to freely read recommended books; Launch the "Newborn Reading Gift Pack", using high-quality reading resources and expert guidance resources from public libraries to popularize the concept of "reading from the age of 0" to society; Organize the theme activity of "Reading on the Commuter Road" for young and middle-aged readers to make fragmentation time fragmented and improve reading efficiency; Create a "silver age reading list" for elderly readers and strengthen the aging adaptation transformation in the field of reading services.
Focusing on the theme of "lifelong reading", Li Nianzu, Deputy Director of the Capital Library, introduced the exciting activities of the year. Each month, each theme, and each topic, each highlight, the Capital Library will focus on four aspects: "travel, viewing, speaking, and exhibition", leading the organization of public libraries throughout the city and laying out a new pattern of cultural activities. Creative "Tour" has launched three daily reading activities: "Hutong Roaming Record", "Following Lu Xun on a Tour of Beijing", and "Walking along the Central Axis", integrating multiple contents such as expert explanations, on-site visits, classic reading, and intangible cultural heritage experience, to read the beauty of the capital city. In the diverse "visual" world, using Shoutu New Media as a platform, through a series of video programs such as "Sun Sun Sun Book Publishing", "Shoutu Digital Resource Usage Guide", and "Flip Shoutu", we can better meet readers' needs in learning knowledge and interactive sharing, and spread the soul of Shoutu. On the one hand, we plan and organize over 80 lectures, storytelling sessions, and exciting activities such as "Children Watching Intangible Cultural Heritage", focusing on the source of knowledge. Enriching the exhibition, we have launched exhibitions such as "Wonderful Brushes, Blooming Flowers, Reading and Thinking about the Future", "The Origin of Chinese Illustration and the Original Art Exhibition of the Nine Divine Deer Picture Book Library", "The 110 Year History Exhibition of the Capital Library", "The Precious Literature Exhibition of the Capital Library", and "The Axis of Printmaking". We have held 5 major exhibitions annually, showcasing our reading power.
Zhang Yuanyuan, a national first-class actor at the Northern Kunqu Opera Theater, A Long, a host at Beijing Radio and Television Station, a youth recitation group, and the Saint Mirror New Century Orchestra also practice multi-dimensional reading through "reading+" methods such as Kunqu, dialogue, recitation, and performance, conveying the pleasure of sensory reading and triggering bursts of applause.
As a cultural person, one can better solidify one's soul. The first activity of "Reading Beijing" was delivered by Professor Sun Mingjun from the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University. Professor Sun, with the title of "The Crown of Five Words and Rhythm Chanting and Spreading", read and appreciated the five character lyric poem "Nineteen Ancient Poems" by literati in the late Han Dynasty, and positively understood the romantic aesthetics and awakening of life in the poetry.
Let the spread of a city full of book fragrance spread, and let the city's book fragrance permeate one's life of reading. Welcome to the official website of "Read Beijing" or the WeChat official account of "Capital Library" to learn more about "Read Beijing" and Capital Library in 2023.