Looking at the current development of newspaper supplements, it presents the following characteristics:
First, individuals of the whole people truly experience words and truly reflect the present life.
Since the 1980s, literature and art have gradually shifted from collective discourse and serving the mainstream politics, from the lack of personal aphasia to the awakening of individual consciousness and social concern for individual mentality, experience and ideological trend. The experience and life of little people, ordinary people's daily chores, social changes and personal life experience words under the background of urban and rural areas have become the mainstream.
The current supplement embodies the characteristics of being close to life, close to the masses and showing the real experience of the masses. Writing is no longer the patent of professional writers and professional writers, but more and more becomes a mass cultural activity of the whole people.
As long as the words are reasonable, authentic and credible, a text reflects the individual's thinking and experience of social changes and life, and reflects the contradiction between the development of the times and reality. It may not be literature and art, but it may become the choice of newspaper supplement.
Take "City Notes" of Guangzhou Southern Metropolis Daily as an example. The genre of this supplement is prose and stories, mostly in the first person. The authors are mostly grassroots, ordinary people and amateur authors. The content involves all aspects of social life, and the personal experience in social life truly reflects the brand given to individuals by the times, which is the contrast between new words and the truth of current life.
Another example is the supplement of Shanghai Evening News, whose works are mainly essays, mostly describing personal daily life and experiences.
At present, in the literary genre of newspaper supplements, prose and essays with "I" as the main theme occupy the mainstream position, and the genre of notes and stories with "I" as the appearance is increasingly prosperous. However, the pure third-person novel is marginalized by the poems that are too philosophical in literature. To some extent, this shows that the supplement attaches importance to individual experiences and individual mileage changes. Judging from the trend of world literature, under the background of intensified social competition, accelerated pace of life, social materialization and alienation, western literature also pays more attention to individuals and pays more attention to the expression of individual hearts and experiences. Going to the heart and exploring the inner world, aiming at ordinary people, is also the current trend of western literature. Heroism, Gao Daquan's characters, and simple political labels and sermons have become increasingly diluted.
Supplement is a major feature of China newspapers. The supplement of China Daily originated in the late Qing Dynasty and was originally called "Deputy Zhang" or "Attached Zhang". 1897165438+1On October 24th, Zilin Shanghai Newspaper, founded by British businessman Zilin Foreign Firm, published a leisure newspaper, which was attached with the newspaper. This is the earliest supplement. The contents of early newspaper supplements were mainly old-school poems, novels and notes. Most of them are "gossip" and have no direct connection with the overall content of the newspaper. Before and after the Revolution of 1911, the bourgeois revolutionaries used newspapers for revolutionary propaganda, and began to pay attention to the collocation of supplements and news reports. Around the May 4th Movement, there appeared supplements advocating new culture and spreading new ideas, such as Morning Post Supplement (see Morning Post), Republic of China Daily Supplement (Shanghai), Current Affairs News Supplement and Beijing Daily Supplement (see Beijing Daily). 19 19 May 5 to 165438 June+10/day, published a column on Marx's research in the supplement of Morning Post, and published the earliest translation of Marx's wage labor and capital. Since then, the supplement has become an inseparable part of the whole newspaper.
Newspaper supplements are news, which is the main difference between supplements and other special editions of literary works or theoretical articles. The works published in supplements are closely related to social life, and some supplements directly cooperate with news reports.
The newspaper supplement is the position for China's progressive and revolutionary cultural figures to spread new ideas. Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, Lu Xun and Guo Moruo were all famous contributors to the Supplement. During the new-democratic revolution, some newspapers with conservative political tendencies hired progressive cultural figures and celebrities as the editors-in-chief of supplements, which expanded their influence and increased their circulation, and opened up supplements to express proletarian revolutionary views and publicize socialist ideals, resulting in a special phenomenon of one newspaper and two strategies.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), China newspapers have inherited the fine tradition of running supplements, and all of them have established various supplements that can show their own characteristics. As an integral part of a newspaper, the supplement is subject to the editorial policy of each newspaper.
There are many forms of newspaper supplements in China. Common ones are: 1 comprehensive supplement, which focuses on literary works and publishes literary reviews, scientific essays and informative articles at the same time; (2) thematic or professional supplements, publishing special manuscripts, or targeting certain readers, such as international supplements and women and family supplements; Theoretical and academic supplements, such as history, literary criticism, economics and management supplements.
In addition, in the English part, there is no "supplement" that can fully explain the Chinese meaning, and the words that are close to each other are supplements and features. Among foreign newspapers, The Times of Britain is the closest "supplement" to China, and the rest are mostly book reviews. ※.