The bookstore in Kunming is ubiquitous, it can be in a café, on the corner of a B&B, or in everyone's mobile phone.
Eraser Bookstore. Nowadays, books have not changed, but the habits and ways of reading have changed. Sitting quietly in the Kunming City Library, surrounded by thousands of books, you don't need to worry about anything else, just travel the sea of books; Taste a cup of hot coffee, taste two bites of dessert, open the magazine and savor the content of the conversation with friends, the book "Sisyphus" is "sweet"; It is not only the lights that are bright at night, but also the late-night library, the 24-hour urban study room of Yunfang in Xishan District "takes in" readers who do not want to go home, where they may not be for reading, but only greedy for this moment of purity; What's more, reading sharing sessions are held in various small shops from time to time, and through reading and sharing, young people have made more friends.
For a long time, Kunming has continued to promote national reading, build a scholarly Kunming, convey beauty and power with reading, and create a more substantial, warmer and more vibrant urban cultural business card. In the face of the diverse needs of the people, Kunming has built "small but beautiful" and diverse new public cultural facilities according to local conditions, promoted the construction of public reading spaces such as urban study rooms and community libraries, and continuously improved the level of public cultural services.
In Kunming, don't rush to the road.
Sit down. Turn a few pages and read a few lines.
A new type of space makes reading more enjoyable.
At home during the winter vacation, high school student Xiao Han always said that he wanted to go to the library, but he didn't go out. It turned out that if I wanted to study at the city library, I really didn't have to go out.
Turn on your mobile phone and search for "Kunming Library" WeChat *** Digital Experience Area" to "listen to books" and "read beautiful" to read books. "The most practical feature for me is the Poetry Dictionary, which can query most of the ancient poems in high school, including translations and appreciation, which is not only a good tool for reading, but also a good tool to assist learning. Xiao Han is full of praise for this kind of multi-functional library.
At present, the Municipal Library has achieved 100% coverage of the wireless network in the reader service area, and has built a special database such as the first literature characteristic database, the ancient literature characteristic library, the local literature characteristic database, the Kunming cultural and historical database, the Spring and Autumn Ten Lectures Library, and the multi-topic database of "Famous Places of Southern Yunnan".
According to reports, the Kunming Library actively cooperates with institutions, enterprises, schools, communities, and military camps to build special branches and service points such as the "Han Book Garden" of the Guandu Court, and carries out activities covering lectures, cultural salons, exhibitions, etc., benefiting more than one million people. At the same time, with the goal of high-quality development of public culture, a number of new public reading spaces have been created, which are represented by the Reading Room, Juexiao Study, Lucky Air Cloud Branch, and Accessible Magazine Library, which integrate cross-border integration, resource sharing, and model innovation, forming a branded, large-scale, and characteristic public reading space cluster.
Citizens read books in the main reading area of the "City Study" of the Kunming Municipal Library. Photo by Yang Yanhui.
As early as the beginning of 2022, after investigation, Kunming City built "Juexiao Study" in 12 hotels and B&Bs with more tourists and a relatively large concentration of surrounding merchants.
Enterprises can choose books according to their own positioning, just like having their own study room, which reflects the character of the enterprise and the city of Kunming. For example, the National Inn chooses books related to national culture, the Flying Tiger Club selects books that introduce the history of the Flying Tigers and the history of the Anti-Japanese War in Yunnan, and the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway Culture Theme Hotel selects books related to the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway to highlight the hotel's theme culture.
At present, Kunming has built a new type of reading space with diversified formats and distinctive characteristics, such as "Reading + Hotel", "Reading + B&B", "Reading + Financial Institution", "Reading + Aviation", "Reading + Community" and "Reading + School".
Reading has become a necessity of life.
No book in the world can bring you good luck, but they can make you who you are. Recently, the explosion of Dong Yuhui, the anchor of an e-commerce platform, has made many people gradually fall in love with reading and books. Why do you want to read and what purpose can you achieve by reading, the citizens of Kunming have their own answers in their hearts.
Puyu Bookstore is located in Kunming C86 Camellia Fang, with a cumulative collection of more than 100,000 books, and the number of children's books here accounts for a high proportion of the collection. Every Sunday afternoon, Ms. Zhao, a citizen, brings her daughter here, and the mother and daughter read the same book together, and then exchange reading experiences with each other, which not only warms up the parent-child relationship, but also slowly develops the reading habit of the daughter. "I never ask her what type of books she has to read, she can read poetry and literature, she can also read ** magazines, the important thing is to form a good habit of thinking more after reading. Ms. Zhao introduced that under her drive, friends of the same age around her will also join her to bring their children to study here, and their reading group is growing.
Jade Bookstore. The formation of a reading club, Xiao Cui, a graduate student who likes to read since childhood, has long wanted to do it. Taking the opportunity of joining the graduate school entrance examination group, she couldn't wait to gather this group of peers with similar majors and reading needs, and formulated a reading sharing mechanism that helps maintain an active atmosphere.
We agreed on a time and a place on the weekend, and students who want to share their reading experience should sign up in advance, and I will inform all the books shared this week in advance. When it was time for the reading club, several sharers shared the content of the books and their personal feelings in turn, and at the end, there was a free discussion session for everyone to ask questions and exchange ideas and speak freely.
And on major social ** software, there are many such recruitment posts. "Reading socializing requires two or more people to have a certain understanding of the book, author or genre being discussed, and the threshold will be higher and the reward will be greater. In her view, this form of social interaction is "a quiet breeze" in the fast-paced, fragmented Internet environment.
Sitting down and enjoying a book seems like a luxury to busy modern people compared to the spiritual "fast-moving consumer goods" at your fingertips. It is undeniable that no matter how fast the pace of life and how rich the cultural choices are, a good book still has an enduring appeal, and reading and related activities are still a rigid spiritual need for many people.
Yunfang 24-hour bookstore.
I like to read late at night, and it's easier for me to relax and get into the mood in that extremely quiet environment. As a frequent visitor to Yunfang's 24-hour urban study, Xiaoling finds a way to comfort herself in her busy work. This urban study has become his "charging station", allowing him to quickly switch to a state of self-improvement.
Some experts have proposed that the pursuit of convenience, quality, and diversity of requirements, when the inner demand and the actual supply just match, there is a broad space for the development of the urban study. By continuously extending the tentacles of reading, the urban study room will help to achieve full coverage of the national reading service network and promote the equalization of public cultural services.
It is precisely with the large and small urban study rooms in Kunming that the reading preferences and relaxation methods of citizens are finally sustenance. Kunming, the city of "love to read", has promoted the continuous surge of national reading with solid cultural infrastructure construction and operation, adding more cultural atmosphere to the city.
Editor-in-charge: Yang Rui.
Editor: Liu Ying.
Final review: Zhou Jianjun.