On the afternoon of December 17th, the "River Imagery" Dongguan Literary Masters Creation and Sharing Salon was held in Dongguan Library. As the special planning of the 800th issue of the "Citizen School" of Dongguan Library, the salon was co-sponsored by Dongguan Library and Dongguan Writers Association, and invited Chen Qiwen, a famous writer, member of the National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association and president of the Guangdong Reportage Society, Hu Lei, chairman of the Dongguan Writers Association, and Mo Huajie, Xie Lianxiu, and Xiang Jiexin, the new award-winning writers of the 11th Guangdong Lu Xun Literary and Art Award, walked into the Citizen School to talk about literature and life with readers.
Well-known writers held salon dialogues and talked about literature around the theme of "river imagery".
In literature, rivers are endowed with rich symbolic meanings and become important carriers for the integration of nature and humanity. Rivers can symbolize not only the passage of time and historical changes, but also life, strength, and hope, demonstrating the will of humanity and the desire and power to change the world. The five Dongguan writers invited to the salon all have outstanding literary achievements in the theme of river and river. At the salon, several writers started from the literary image of "river and river", cut from the story of their own life and river, and shared their experience and insights in literary creation with readers.
Chairman of Dongguan Writers Association, literary critic Hu Lei served as the academic host of the salon, he said that the river has always been the theme of literary creation, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign authors have a lot of river writing, the river is also an image often written by Dongguan writers, today's salon with the theme of the river, the development of literature, very meaningful.
The writers who participated in this event all have works about rivers, Chen Qiwen is the author of the long ** "Riverbed", the prose essay collection "Drifting and the Shore - Notes on the Tracing of the Origin of Huxiang", "Lifeline - China Water Conservancy Survey", "Up and Down the Great River - The Fate of the Yellow River", "China Water Tower", Mo Huajie's long ** "Spring Tide" and "In the Dust of the World", Xie Lianxiu, Xiangjie's new "Ballad of the East River" and "Angry Fish" are all literary writing around the theme of rivers.
For a long time, rivers have been a common lyrical image in the pen of Dongguan writers. The rivers written by the writer not only represent the rivers in the sense of geography, but also reflect and create the meaning of life, historical consciousness and problem awareness. In fact, the writing of rivers is also a kind of humanistic interaction between man and nature, man and society. At the salon, Hu Lei relied on his familiarity with several writers and his unique insights in literary creation to give a subtle interpretation of the content shared by the guests, which ran through the audience and guided the continuous deepening of the theme of the salon.
As a writer who has written a number of reportage works on water and rivers, Chen Qiwen, vice president of the China Reportage Society and president of the Guangdong Reportage Society, started from the relationship between water and the fate of mankind, and shared his research on water and literature over the years. In the salon, he used humorous language to share his stories with the public over the years and the river, which caused laughter from the audience from time to time.
Tomie is my mother river, and if it weren't for Tomie, I wouldn't have been able to write "Spring Tide", and the feelings that I grew up by the river and were soaked in water are particularly smooth to write. The young writer Mo Huajie started the creation and sharing of "From Fisherman to Writer" with the inspiration of his long story "Spring Tide". He said that writing must be creative, use words with body temperature and life, do not use gorgeous, tall, and big words, and grounded is always more powerful than fake big air. The distance between the story and the ** is the difference in literature, and a good story is only a part of the **, and the literary, in addition to reading and comprehending, more often go deep into life, be close to nature, and let yourself have feelings with all things in heaven and earth.
Xie Lianxiu and Xiang Jiexin shared with the public their wonderful stories of going to the source of the Dongjiang River and along the banks of the Dongjiang River to collect wind and their understanding of rivers and literary creation.
The theme of today's river imagery is very good, the Dongjiang River is a river of nostalgia, but also a river of ecology, culture, and dynamic development. Xiang Jiexin started from the relationship between the Dongjiang River and the urban development of Dongguan, and shared his thoughts on the image of the Dongjiang River in his creation. "From the perspective of Dongguan's urban development and history and culture, it is inseparable from the Dongjiang River. As a native of Dongguan, I was born here and worked here, and I have a deep sense of the close relationship between the mother river of Dongjiang and the culture of Dongguan, which also made me incorporate a lot of emotions for my hometown when creating "The Ballad of Dongjiang". Xiang Jiexin said.
Dongguan Library's "Citizen School" illuminates urban life with wisdom.
Eighteen years of peach and plum spring breeze, knowledge lectures touching people's hearts. Since the first public lecture was held in May 2005, the "Citizen School" of Dongguan Library has been carried out for 18 years, and on December 17, 2023, it ushered in its 800th issue, setting an important milestone for this brand activity.
As a vivid carrier of urban reading in Dongguan, "Citizen School" is an all-round and multi-level public welfare Xi exchange platform founded by Dongguan Library in response to the characteristics and development needs of Dongguan City, and it is also a long-term and public welfare knowledge dissemination activity brand carried out by Dongguan Library for the general public, aiming to spread advanced culture, cultivate academic Xi fashion, and enhance the charm of the city.
Over the past 18 years, the "Citizen Academy" of Dongguan Library has not set any audience threshold, which has been recognized by the general public, and it has become a Xi for many Dongguan citizens to go to the library on Sunday afternoon to listen to a theme lecture. As a special plan for the 800th issue of the "Citizen School", the literary salon also received a positive response from the citizens, and the citizens who participated in the salon listened carefully to the writers' sharing, and also interacted cordially with the writers from time to time, and the scene was full of a strong literary atmosphere.
It is very inspiring for me to be able to meet so many well-known writers face to face today, to listen to their stories about their literary creation, and to listen to their interpretation of their understanding of literary creation. Mr. Zhang, a citizen who came to participate in the salon, told reporters that he usually likes to read and writes some prose, so he often comes to Dongguan Library to borrow and read books, and he also likes to participate in the activities of Dongguan Library's "Citizen School". He was very benefited and inspired by such lectures.
Zhao Aijie, head of the Reading Promotion Department of Dongguan Library, said that since its launch, the "Citizen School" has high requirements for the selection of keynote speakers, high-quality planning of speech themes, and vigorous publicity and promotion through multiple channelsIt has held more than 50 lectures on various themes every year, which has produced a wide range of social benefits and demonstration effects, and was rated as the top ten university Xi brand in Dongguan in 2013.
In the future, we will continue to hold more public welfare theme lectures according to the characteristics and development needs of Dongguan, build an all-round and multi-level public welfare Xi exchange platform for citizens, bring the ideas of the times to the citizens, let the smart wisdom illuminate the city life, and help Dongguan build a culturally strong city and high-quality development. Zhao Aijie said.
Written by] Southern + reporter Zhang Qianqian.
Correspondent] Chen Jiaxin.
Author] Zhang Qianqian.
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