"If you understand the Chinese New Year, you will understand the Chinese nation and understand life itself." Articles of less than 2,500 words and a set of special programs have touched the heartstrings of hundreds of millions of people in China, causing many ordinary people in China to reflect and examine traditional culture.
1 Some things have been missed for too long.
Guo Wenbin, who advocates pacifism, is a creator devoted to "novel festival history" and a writer who thinks about festivals in the form of literature. Many of his novels are set in festivals. Students who won the highest prize in China literature, Lu Xun Literature Award, wrote Dragon Boat Festival. Rada, a famous critic and former director of the creative research department of the Chinese Writers Association, said: "Reading Guo Wenbin's novels is a great surprise. I didn't expect such a beautiful story. I didn't expect such a beautiful, pure, implicit, meaningful and silent novel. It may not be easy for you to summarize his novels in theory, but you can revel in them. Guo Wenbin's novels moved me to tears. Guo Wenbin provided us with a rare aesthetic experience. The aesthetic value provided by Guo Wenbin's works, the rare beauty, is especially worth cherishing. " I believe that people who have read his novels, especially those with holiday themes, have this feeling.
After Guangming Daily was published, his "Chinese New Year is a complete play of China culture" was quickly reprinted by dozens of websites across the country. In "Our Festival-Spring Festival" produced and broadcast by Ningxia Satellite TV with its novel collection "Spring Festival" as the carrier, Guo Wenbin, the guest host, used vivid TV language and unique poetic language from eight aspects: blessing, gratitude, inheritance and harmony between man and nature.
* * * Ten episodes comprehensively and deeply explain the cultural implication of the New Year and its vital position in the traditional culture of China. Li Yiwen, deputy director of Ningxia Satellite TV, said: "The audience responded enthusiastically. At the request of the audience, we specially started the replay from the Lantern Festival. " Li Li, director of Ningxia Satellite TV, told the reporter: "It is the mission of media people to continue the blood of national culture, and it is also the bounden duty of satellite TV channel to face the national audience to produce relevant programs with national height and eternal value. Here, we hit it off with Mr. Guo Wenbin. "
The Spring Festival was originally the festival with the most national characteristics in national customs. But in today's fast pace, the profound culture and profound meaning that should have been conveyed in it are lost. For many urbanites, China New Year may just mean another seven-day holiday. Ms. Wang, who works in a public institution, said that the Spring Festival seems to have nothing but eating and playing. This kind of Spring Festival makes her feel empty and lost like many people. What is the significance of the Spring Festival? In the TV program "Our Festival-Spring Festival", she was deeply touched by the vivid folk scenes and the cultural connotation hidden behind Guo Wenbin folk customs: "His story resonated strongly with me, and I found out where the roots of urbanites are." Young scholar Tang Rongyao believes that contemporary people have collective amnesia about traditional festivals, and people's memories are full of foreign festivals and various fake festivals. Guo Wenbin wrote it.
Articles and guest TV programs are refutations of this situation. In this way, he awakens people's collective memory of festivals and makes people re-examine traditional culture, just as he awakens poetry teaching with poetry festivals.
The reaction of readers and TV viewers shows the great vitality of traditional culture. In the consciousness of many modern people, traditional culture is either unfathomable or old-fashioned, and it has lost its luster like a dusty pearl. Guo Wenbin said that he pays attention to traditional festivals because they embody China culture. It is his greatest wish to liberate the string of pearls from the dust and let them glow with their original light, which is also the wish of everyone. Over the past few years, People's Literature, Guangming Daily and other newspapers have insisted on publishing these articles, affirming the readers and critics of these articles and giving him great confidence and strength. Not long ago, the main leaders of the autonomous region affirmed and recommended "Chinese New Year is a complete drama of China culture", the propaganda department of the Party Committee of the autonomous region and the general radio and television station attached importance to the Spring Festival programs, and the spirit of hard work of the program group deeply inspired and infected him. To this end, He, a "Chinese New Year fan" who goes back to his hometown for the New Year every year, gives up going home and works with the comrades in the program group all night. The original plan of seven episodes was finally made into ten episodes, which shows the recognition of traditional culture by the program group.
There are some things I have to do.
After his short story "Reunion" won the 4th Lu Xun Literature Award, many readers expected his new work to come out. But the fact is that in the year of 2008, Guo Wenbin cherished words like gold, declined many high-paying manuscripts from publishing houses and magazines, and tried his best to promote pacifism. Some scholars believe that its significance is far more important than winning back the "Lu Xun Literature Award" to Ningxia.
People who like to read Guo Wenbin's novels find their inner happiness and spiritual paradise far away from the outside world. For Guo Wenbin, the greatest happiness in life is writing. In Guo Wenbin's schedule in 2008, most of the time was occupied by social activities: the second China Yinchuan Music and Poetry Festival with the theme of "awakening poetry teaching and cultivating honesty", more than 30 lectures focusing on Chinese studies entered the classroom, the publication of a series of ten volumes of "Literature Silver Army", the large-scale earthquake poetry meeting and charity sale, and the Mid-Autumn Festival poetry meeting ... Most of the activities aroused strong repercussions, and many related words and pictures became the common image of the media. On the surface, social activities unrelated to writing can be closely related to each other, but they can taste the same meaning: go all out to sow peace in people's hearts.
Guo Wenbin said that pacifism aims to help modern people find their lost happiness, and let people find and experience the greatest happiness in life in the simplest and most common life scene. Guo Wenbin once said that the greatest tragedy in life is to drive a happy car but desperately seek happiness, and finally explode all the cars without knowing what happiness is. Guo Wenbin discussed pacifism in detail in his prose collection "How Far Is Confucius from Us" and his novel collection "Selected Novels of Guo Wenbin".
Once, Ha Luohui, vice president of Ningxia People's Publishing House, followed Guo Wenbin to some colleges and universities to publicize his pacifism. In the 90-minute report, applause rang more than 100 times, with an average of one applause per minute. The atmosphere at the scene surprised Harrow. She noticed that in order to stop the applause, Guo Wenbin had to say, "In order to save time, can you save the applause and send it to me after the end?"
It is easy to compare Guo Wenbin with Yu Dan, who is famous for his lecture on Chinese studies in Lecture Room. Harohui quoted a reader as saying: "If Yu Dan's Confucius is a western medicine, Guo Wenbin's Confucius is a delicacy, Yu Dan makes our eyes beautiful, and Guo Wenbin makes our hearts beautiful."
In today's society, the emphasis is on the realization of personal value. Many people have lost themselves in the struggle for the universal values of "power, fame and profit", and people all have the same experience of getting farther and farther away from happiness. Guo Wenbin said: "Looking for happiness from desire is like looking for fish from a tree. Solving mental illness with matter is like putting out a fire with oil. " Stimulating desire can not only solve our spiritual thirst, but also add fuel to the fire. Only pure tranquility like water can really extinguish the burning flame in people's hearts.
Campus has become the main front for Guo Wenbin to promote pacifism. He said that children are the future of a nation, and the tranquility of children determines the tranquility of a nation. By studying history, we will find that tranquility is the greatest vitality of a nation. He hopes that the quiet spring rain can moisten these young hearts silently, thus affecting their lives and strengthening our nation. Therefore, every time I think of those eager eyes on campus, he can't refuse the invitation of the school; On the podium, he hoped that he could not give his heart to his children.
The realization of Serenity has a long way to go.
Some people think that Guo Wenbin's pacifism is a spiritual utopia, which is not feasible. Chen Ke, an associate professor at the School of Humanities of Ningxia University, believes that few people stop to think about their hearts in order to make a living. Guo Wenbin's advocacy is very good, but I'm afraid it's difficult to promote it among the people. Li Jianjun, a famous literary critic, put it more simply. He said that Guo Wenbin's behavior of promoting peace was tantamount to blocking the car with his arm.
On the other hand, Guo Wenbin said that what Teacher Chen Ke said just showed the necessity of promoting pacifism. When you rush forward, you must stop and lean back if you want to stand firm. There is no contradiction between tranquility and livelihood, because it is essentially an enlightenment about "a kind of happiness". If a person does not find fundamental happiness in the journey of earning 10 million, or just loses fundamental happiness because of it, then what does this 10 million mean to him? Practice is the only criterion for testing truth. The good image and warm welcome of his team in the society gave him confidence and even made him "ambitious": Yinchuan may become a place of cultural revival in China. He said with a smile, "My idea is the stupidity of a traditional China scholar". But he believes in one sentence: "People have good thoughts, and Heaven follows suit."
As Guo Wenbin said, his wish has been supported and recognized by all walks of life. Many comrades called to volunteer before the second China Yinchuan Music and Poetry Festival. On the day of the Poetry Festival, Cui Bo, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Autonomous Region and secretary of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee, asked the secretary to make a phone call, saying that it was very cold, and let the children put on thick exhortations, which made him unforgettable. Wang Rugui, the mayor of Yinchuan, wrote a letter of concern during his business trip, which he will never forget. Hong Meixiang, chairman of Yinchuan CPPCC, and other leaders and more than 3,000 students in the audience recited the Disciples Rules, which made him unforgettable for life; Han Zaiqun, president of Yinchuan No.15 Middle School, led 1800 students from the school to the people's meeting place, which he will never forget. Chen, the headmaster of Yinchuan Tanglai Huimin Middle School, and the Minister of Propaganda Department of Ningxia University fully supported and personally supervised the performance, which made him unforgettable. Mr. Wu, vice chairman of China Book Association, generously wrote inscriptions for four sub-venues, which he will never forget; The organizer's comrades, regardless of hard work, made him unforgettable; He was deeply impressed by the enthusiasm of Sina and other 100 national and Ningxia media. Com reported this matter, and Yinchuan Evening News also took out full-page reports many times.
Some experts said that this poetry festival is a pioneering work of China culture in Yinchuan. Seeing the grand occasion of the second China Yinchuan Music and Poetry Festival, Mr. Li Jianjun, a skeptical critic, gave Guo Wenbin such encouragement. In his letter to Guo Wenbin, he said: "You are a fresh wind, which can help this era to decontaminate. You don't feel lonely." "People are in danger, but they are soft-hearted. Wen Bin still has a long way to go. " Guo Wenbin said with great emotion that he didn't expect Li Jianjun to give him such high expectations, as well as other teachers and friends. Whenever they encounter setbacks, whenever they are ready to back down, their hearts will burn again when they see these short messages.
Hallohui wrote in an article: Many friends around her were awakened, ignited and changed by pacifism. A lady who has lost confidence in life and is about to collapse, because after listening to a class in Guo Wenbin, she rekindled her enthusiasm for life and saw the sunshine again.
Guo Wenbin said that pacifism was first popularized in Yinchuan and Ningxia, because Yinchuan and Ningxia are a quiet land, because noble hearts grow on this land. Without the support of leaders, colleagues and fellow travelers, his tranquility may be just a concept, and so many touching stories will not be interpreted. Guo Wenbin also said that tranquility may be a good medicine for us to cope with the financial crisis, and it is also the temperament guarantee for Yinchuan to build a cultural, leisure and tourist city.
Harohui said: "As far as I know, with the efforts of Guo Wenbin, a long chain of peace has been formed from Yinchuan to the surrounding areas. Some people say that the future Yinchuan may be famous for its peace and beauty, but I think it is conservative ... because it is peaceful and beautiful, and it will be famous not only for Yinchuan, but also for Ningxia. " Sure enough.