On December 6, 2023, I and more than 20 die-hard readers and authors of "Reading Anhua" magazine, at the invitation of editor-in-chief Wang Qingshan, participated in the symposium of key authors of "Reading Anhua" in the conference room on the third floor of the county ** conference center, which is also the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of "Reading Anhua". As a friend of Wang Qingshan, the editor-in-chief of "Reading Anhua", I have witnessed the growth of this journal in the past ten years, and I have also witnessed the attention and care of Wang Qingshan and the leaders of the CPPCC before and after this magazine. As the authors highly praised: this magazine is second to none in the industry in terms of quality, vitality and influence. Not to mention anything else, paying the author's manuscript fee and respecting the author's labor results is better than some municipal or even provincial journals that simply let the author use love to generate electricity.
I was one of the earliest participants in "Reading Anhua". In 2013, when "Reading Anhua" was launched, Wang Qingshan was responsible for the overall work of the publication, because he had other jobs and was too busy, so he invited me to help. I went without saying a word. There are two reasons for this: first, I have been an editor for more than 10 years, and I have some experience, so I think I can do the job;Second, Wang Qingshan has been a friend of mine for many years, so I don't expect him to be too harsh on me.
However, I was wrong. The first task I received after I arrived at the CPPCC was to read a bunch of CPPCC books and CPPCC materials within three days. Although I have loved reading since I was a child, I am not interested in political books, especially those boring documents, and I yawn when I read them.
Wang Qingshan found that I was not concentrating on reading the books assigned by him, so he said bitterly: "Editing a CPPCC magazine is not as good as editing a purely literary journal, and it must be rigorous." When you enter the door of the CPPCC, you are a member of the CPPCC, and you must use the standards of the CPPCC people to demand yourself in all aspects. As an editor of a CPPCC publication, if people ask you what the CPPCC does, you can't answer, won't it be a shame for the CPPCC?"I slowly gnawed through those books under his supervision, and gradually became familiar with the work of the CPPCC, feeling the weight of responsibility and pressure.
The first task I took on was to write a public opinion. There are many people who come to dance and walk in the county compound at night, some with children, some with pets, and some driving, which has caused a lot of potential safety hazards, and it is necessary to call on relevant departments to strengthen management. I thought writing something like this was just a piece of cake. But as soon as he showed it to Wang Qingshan, he shook his head again and again: "You still haven't figured out the essence of the CPPCC work." Don't just focus on writing this kind of thing, the key is to be organized and logical. It's like a person, every place is beautiful, but the nose, eyes, eyebrows, and mouth are all messily squeezed together, can it look comfortable?”
While counting me down, he "brushed" and corrected them, and then compared them to me. I have to admire the conciseness of his words and the clarity of his organization. He listed question 1234 in a very simple way and made suggestions one by one, which was clear at a glance. Editing "Impression of Black Tea", I was criticized for "being limited in thinking by other people's expressions, and as a CPPCC member, I don't have my own thoughts and don't make my own voice" ......
Three months of grinding have destroyed all my little self-confidence in writing, and it has also exhausted me. But the manuscript that was written and compiled was slowly passed in one go. Editing the article "Zishui Wild Fish Facing Extermination", I went to the Animal Husbandry Bureau twice for interviews. In order to write "Lu Zhengyu: The Movie Dream of Stephen Chow after the 80s", I interviewed Lu Zhengyu's father many timesIn order to promote the rising star of Anhua literature, I went to Changtang Township to interview Yao Dinghui, a disabled rural poetess, and wrote the ...... "Yao Dinghui's Dream of Publishing a Book".Often for the sake of a number, I ask for several places to be certified, and I have to give ** to several departments.
After the editing process is over, the manuscript enters the printing house, and the work enters the busiest period. Soak in the printing house day and night, the rest day is invalid, and the off-duty time is infinitely extended. Sometimes at eleven o'clock in the evening, I would receive a call from Wang Qingshan, or there was a major mistake somewhere, or the title of an article needed to be changed, or **of** needed to be replaced, or I would be asked to share a precise wording that he had just come up with. After the magazine left the factory, I took it in my hand and carefully turned over the pages one by one, full of apprehension, for fear that something would suddenly make a mistake and make us lose all our efforts.
In June 2014, my daughter took the college entrance examination, and I left the CPPCC. My daughter's college entrance examination was an excuse, but in fact I became a deserter. After more than a year of working with Wang Qingshan, I was struck by his dedication and the way he tried to cultivate me as a workaholic. His extraordinary focus, perseverance, rigor, and excellence can only be admired from afar, and there is no way to imitate him.
But my connection with "Reading Anhua" has not been severed to this day. In each issue, I finish at least one manuscript. Every time the magazine came out, I was still an enthusiastic postman. There are still many literature lovers who have given me their proud works, hoping that I will be published in the right way. If I think it is suitable for the publication, I will attach the reason for the recommendation and forward it to Wang Qingshan.
It turned out that Tang Man-ying, a security guard who worked in the Education Bureau, met me when I sent a sample to the Under Secretary for Education, Liao Shuangchu. Director Liao Shuangchu was not there, and asked me to put the sample in the hands of the security guards. When I went to deliver the magazine for the second time, Deng Wenying asked me if I could give him a copy of this magazineHe likes to watch. I'll give him one copy of each issue. Next time, he handed me an article and asked if I could use it to read Anhua. It's a reminiscence article, it's not appropriate. He was also very persistent and kept writing. A year later, he finally published the first work "Those Things with Secretary Zheng", and then published 3 articles in a row.
I also found and recommended many key authors in Anhua to Wang Qingshan. For example, You Huiming, Li Xiangyang (screen name Longxi), Fu Qingxiang ......I try to show him my full support for his work and he still sees me as a friend at work. On the 10th anniversary of the founding of "Reading Anhua", 42 issues of the magazine were published, and almost all of them had my manuscripts.
It is said that I have been in love for a long time, and I have been with "Reading Anhua" for ten years, and I have a deep affection for this magazine. In September this year, I overheard someone talk about the change from a quarterly to a semi-annual magazine, and I was shocked that the journal would be squeezed out of its publication or discontinued on the grounds of financial constraints. Today, I heard Wang Qingshan explain that the reason for the republication was just a limited number of people, and he couldn't be busy alone, so I put my heart down. The convening of a symposium of key authors shows that "Reading Anhua" will continue, and it shows that the people of "Reading Anhua" are still forging ahead.
The atmosphere of the forum was warm, and Wang Qingshan gave a briefing on the development of the journal in the past 10 years. The participants spoke freely and put forward a lot of pertinent opinions and suggestions on the layout design, column setting, author group, manuscript quality, etc., and placed high hopes on the magazine.
Another procedure of today's meeting is the theoretical research of tea incorruptible culture, I have no experience and experience, and I still had questions in my mind at that time, how can tea and incorruptibility be related?Anhua black tea is high, has a long storage time, and its biggest role is not to give giftsIsn't gift-giving relative to cheap?After listening to Tao Shu's lecture on Tao Shu's "brave, diligent, honest and good" ideology, I still don't understand, this has nothing to do with tea!
Because many of the authors came from towns and villages, the meeting time only started at half past nine, and the content of the theoretical research on tea culture took a long time, so the time for the real exchange of the authors in Anhua was far from enough. There are still many authors who have not had time to speak, and some authors are still unsatisfied. But it doesn't matter, stay in the green mountains, and I'm not afraid of no firewood. The magazine is still there, and the exchange will continue in the future.
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