Literary innovation activities intersect and interact with the public, changes and new trends in the creation of film and television dramas, and whether ChatGPT, which can write poems and write **, can replace the human brain writing ?......These cultural events and cultural phenomena in 2023, as well as the discussions they have sparked, not only have a subtle impact on the way we live and socialize, but also provide a new dimension for us to observe and understand the prevailing trends in the cultural field.
The torrent of time is still washing everything, there are flowers blooming, and there are stars extinguished, but there are always some flickering and precious people and things left in the memory.
(1) Domestic films and classic literature
The past year has been a big year for domestic film and television dramas, and it is also a big year for humanities.
Which movie is the Pick of the Year in 2023?
The Wandering Earth 2" has a bright box office, but the popularity of the topic has dropped a lot compared with the first one, and what Chinese sci-fi blockbusters urgently need to update is more localized creativity;The topic marketing of "Disappearing Her" opens the way, the type is colorful, and the high attention also brings great controversy;"All or Nothing", the realistic theme encountered the apocalyptic environment of the northern Myanmar wire fraud, creating a high box office, and the educational value is greater than the entertainment value;"Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an" and "Deep Sea" are the concrete embodiment of "The Light of Guoman" in 2023, and the former is slightly better because it activates the Tang poetry feelings of audiences of all ages;"No Name" integrates two pairs of commercial films and literary films without a trace, and is the blockbuster with the most distinctive personality in 2023;"Space Exploration Editorial Department", "Yong'an Town Story Collection", and "Mistakes by the River" have a strong literary temperament, and are niche favorites;"The Three Teams" made its finale at the end of the year, and it was full of ...... stamina
Drawing nourishment from Chinese history, culture and classical literature, this has greatly improved the original concentration of domestic films. "Fengshen Part 1: Chao Song Fengyun", "Man Jianghong" and "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an", these three movies are enough to support the original pattern of domestic films in 2023, and they all have distinctive characteristics: the dramatic extraction of the story is more direct;There are creators' thoughts on the prototype story, which is more profound;There is a film that fits more closely with the aesthetics and values of contemporary audiences. This sign makes the audience full of optimism about the way out for the creation of stories from tradition and classics in the future of domestic films.
(2) "The Long Season" and "Hurricane".
Not only is the big screen very lively, but the small screen is also exciting. The power of science fiction works has given the audience more imagination for the future. The TV series "Three-Body Problem" started with the concept of "physics does not exist", which aroused high enthusiasm for watching dramas. For the sci-fi imagination of the future world, film and television people have never stopped.
In addition to the magnificent imagination of looking up at the starry sky, there is also a down-to-earth real life. The TV series "To a Windy Place", which was broadcast at the beginning of the year, told the idyllic plot, and the drama immediately triggered a strong social effect after it was broadcast. During the Spring Festival this year, the number of online searches for the relevant filming locations involved in the drama such as Fengyangyi, Shaxi Ancient Town, and Xizhou in Yunnan Province rose sharply, and it became a travel destination for many "drama fans".
This year's hit dramas "The Long Season" and "Hurricane", the stories of the two dramas are one north and one south, both of which use parallel narratives of the contrast between the present and the past to reveal why we have come to this day, and through the development of the story, it tells the changes in the fate of many characters in the past 20 years, and also explains a series of major events such as the restructuring of state-owned enterprises and the changes in urban business formats.
The most tearful and empathetic thing is that in "The Long Season", a simple sentence is so touching. The beginning of the episode begins with Wang Xiang, a high-spirited train driver in the 90s, and the last scene of the finale also ends with the elderly Wang Xiang saying goodbye to himself in the past. Wang Xiang, a train driver played by Fan Wei, shouted "Look forward, don't look back" after the truth was revealed, the trauma of the past is a foregone conclusion, it is better to grasp the present and embrace the future.
The web-to-book "Chinese Strange Tan", which is composed of 8 independent stories rooted in Chinese culture, presents the unique charm of Chinese culture with modern concepts and modern technology. From the national style to the national tide, "Chinese Strange Tan" has set off a wave of Chinese culture fever, highlighting the aesthetic temperament with unique Chinese characteristics.
(3) Literature and the Public.
At 7 p.m. on October 5 this year, the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was announced, and Norwegian writer Johan Fosse won the prize. Jon Fosse has been called "the living playwright whose works have been performed the most times". His works have been translated into more than 50 languages and performed in more than 1,000 productions. He is considered the "new Ibsen" of today's world, and "John Fosse's "Someone is Coming" fully expresses that experience of modernity in an extreme way. ”
For Chinese literature, the endless literary innovation activities have become an important form of literature entering the public.
In late April this year, Rushing News planned and launched a large-scale literary root-seeking tour special activity of "Eighteen Teenagers Go to Liangzhou and Walk with Ye Zhou" around the famous writer Ye Zhou's masterpiece "Eighteen Beats of Liangzhou" and its story, and invited 18 doctoral students from 10 well-known universities in China, such as Peking University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, etc., to walk into Wuwei with Ye Zhou, and inspect the local natural geography, cultural customs, and cultural attractions, and complete an unusual reading trip. More than 20 companies, including People's Daily Online, Xinhuanet, China**, China News Service, Beijing News, The Paper, and Chao News, followed up on the event, with a total of 20 million+ readings on the whole network. The planning of this literary event is not only a precedent in Gansu, but also a first in China, and has become a successful example of promoting excellent traditional culture and telling Chinese stories. The event was also selected as the 2023 New Excellent Case of China's Newspaper Industry.
The release of the five award-winning works of the 11th Mao Dun Literature Award is undoubtedly an annual literary event. Yang Zhijun's "Snow Mountain Land", Qiao Ye's "Treasure Water", Liu Liangcheng's "Bemba", Sun Ganlu's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and Dongxi's "Echo" won awards. On November 19, at the "2023 Chinese Literature Festival - Mao Dun Literature Award Night", five Mao Award-winning writers took the stage to talk about their literary concepts and literary pursuits. It is the first time in the history of the Mao Award that such a full-matrix communication method has been conducted, and it is also the first time in the history of the Mao Award that the winners and editors can receive the award together.
In 2023, Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Su Tong, Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, Zhu Yong, Zheng Zhi, Jiao Dian and other book writers, publishers, and book lovers will appear on the location documentary reading program "I Read on the Island" to share the fun of reading with readers. Their age ranges from the post-50s to the post-90s, and the overall strength of Chinese contemporary literature has come to the foreground and the public with a relaxed, comfortable but profound "face", and literature has a vivid connection and interaction with the public.
In October, the 81st World Science Fiction Convention held in Chengdu once again became the "top stream". On October 21, Chinese science fiction writer Hai Yi won the 81st Hugo Award for "Best Short and Novella**" on the night of the World Science Fiction Convention Awards Ceremony.
(4) Intelligent generation and human brain creation
In 2023, chatgpt will write poems, press releases, and **, causing people to worry about the future of writers and whether artificial intelligence can replace human subjective initiative.
How popular is ChatGPT?How bullish?
Once launched, ChatGPT accumulated 100 million users in just two months, and in the past 20 years of the development of the Internet, no consumer Internet application has grown faster than it, which can be described as the fastest growing application in history.
After using it for a while, Bill Gates lamented: "The emergence of this AI technology is as significant as the birth of the Internet and personal computers. ”
Musk tweeted in December last year: "ChatGPT is so scary, we are not far from the dangerously powerful AI." ”
Even Google and these companies that started with traditional search engines have been forced to rush to launch competing products to defend the city.
So, ChatGPT is so good, what can it do?
To put it simply, she can chat with you like a real person, and she can translate, do questions, write songs, write articles, compile**, write**, write weekly work reports, write **scripts, and formulate travel strategies......
In a word, it's just so much it can do, and it's better than quite a few people do. Due to the fear that it is too powerful, many industries and many people are afraid of being replaced by it, and even have anxiety about unemployment.
Some netizens believe that ChatGPT has a strong expressiveness in text generation, which can imitate different styles of text and generate natural and smooth text. For example, it can generate new poetic works using Du Fu's poetic style. However, there are still a lot of challenges and limitations for ChatGPT to replace human writing.
(5) Farewell and memory
Some people say that the so-called meaning of life is to say goodbye to your loved ones one by one.
In 2023, there are many cultural celebrities who have left their mark on our youthful memories and will leave forever.
Sing mountain songs, sing here and there;Mountain songs are like spring river water, not afraid of many dangerous bends on the beach. ”
This classic mountain song duet is well-known, and the bright-eyed Zhuang girl "Liu Sanjie" also remains in the memory of several generations. And what makes this film image deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is the famous performance artist Huang Wanqiu.
Huang Wanqiu. On March 4, 2023, Huang Wanqiu died of illness at the age of 80. She wrote in the last WeChat circle of friends in her life: "Farewell, I will go to the world to spread songs!".”
Faye Wong sang him into "If You're a Fake", and Keigo Higashino wrote him into the ...... "Anxiety Relief Grocery Store".Japan's ** master Ryuichi Sakamoto** transcended national borders and touched many people. He has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globes.
Sakamoto has a deep relationship with China. Most Chinese people know him because he was invited by Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci to score "The Last Emperor", composing 45 pieces a week, and won the Best Original Score Award at the 60th Academy Awards.
On March 28, 2023, Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away in Tokyo, Japan, ending his nine-year journey to fight cancer at the age of 71. The last updated Weibo reads "Art for a thousand years, life for a long time".
Huang Yongyu. Huang Yongyu, the interesting old man is also gone.
On June 13, 2023, Mr. Huang Yongyu, a famous painter and writer, drove west at the age of 99.
As an artist, he began to create woodcuts in the thirties and forties of the last century, and later expanded to oil painting, Chinese painting, sculpture, craft design and other art categories, and has an important position in the Chinese contemporary art world. His stamps for the Year of the Monkey are even more widely known. His collection of essays "The Old Man Older Than Me" enjoys a high reputation among readers, and it brilliantly describes Qian Zhongshu, Shen Congwen, Zhu Danian, Zhang Boju and other senior masters, vividly depicting the style and bones of cultural figures of an era.
In the starry sky of the Chinese music scene, Coco Li is undoubtedly the most shining star.
She is warm, energetic, sunny, confident ......These precious qualities have not only become popular symbols of popular culture at the turn of the century, but also set a benchmark for young people to be positive energy idols.
Although she suffered from depression, she struggled with it all her life. On July 5, 2023, Coco Li passed away. People will always be illuminated by the warm singing voice and bright smile she left behind, and they will always be "endless".
Milan Kundera.
July 11, 2023, one of the greatest voices in world literature.
Milan Kundera, a Czech and French writer and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Life, died in Paris at the age of 94.
Since its publication in 1984, The Unbearable Lightness of Life has taken the world by storm and has been published in more than 30 countries and languages. The New York Times commented: "Milan Kundera thus established himself as the world's greatest living writer." ”
When one reads his work in depth, one will find that Kundera's exploration of language arts, its philosophical ideas, and its questioning of the world inspire people to see the world as clearly as possible.
Schematic diagram of the location of the Sijiaoping site.
(6) New archaeological discoveries and breakthroughs
In 2023, China has made fruitful achievements in the field of archaeology, with a series of new archaeological discoveries and breakthroughs. Among them, 24 important progress of major projects of "Archaeological China" were announced, which once again proved the pluralistic unity of Chinese civilizationThe latest research results of the fifth phase of the "Chinese Civilization Exploration Project" were released, focusing on key time nodes and major eventsThe results of "Tsinghua University's Tibetan Warring States Bamboo Slips (Shi San)" were released, and the collation report published a total of five bamboo books such as "Doctor's Food Rites", all of which were not seen in the literatureArchaeological Beijing (2023) - The latest archaeological research results of Beijing have been released, focusing on the Xingong Ruins, Liulihe Ruins, Jinzhongdu Ruins, etcThe sacrificial area of Sanxingdui site reproduces several large-scale bronzes that have been successfully matched across the pit;A new piece of human parietal bone fossil ...... was discovered at the Zhoukoudian Peking Man site
It is worth noting that the Sijiaoping site in Lixian County, Gansu Province has become a major project of "Archaeological China".
Located in Lixian County, Longnan City, Gansu Province, Sijiaoping Ruins is a large-scale architectural site of the Qin Dynasty. The Sijiaoping site is located at the top of the Sigezi Mountain in the northeast of the county, with an altitude of 1867 meters, and the original top of the mountain is flattened, forming an area of about 2The 80,000-square-meter hilltop platform was found to be surrounded by rammed earth walls on the periphery of the platform, and there were a large number of rammed earth building foundations inside.
Restoration map of the Sijiaoping site.
According to the unearthed building materials and production technology, the Sijiaoping site should be the remains of the Qin Dynasty, the building complex is hierarchical and orderly, with a large rammed earth platform as the core, the whole presents an obvious central symmetrical pattern, which is different from the architectural space of daily life, reflects a strong ceremonial nature, and may be a group of ritual buildings related to sacrifices, which has important academic value for the study of Qin Dynasty politics, ritual system and architectural history.
Archaeological research has once again allowed people to see the exchanges and interactions between various regional cultures in China since ancient times, and has once again proved the characteristics of Chinese civilization that are eclectic, continuous and pluralistic.
Text丨Rushing News reporter Liu Xiaolei.