The 2nd Hubei Cultural Heritage Carnival.
Tuan Tuan will take you to read
Dear "Youth Hubei" fans and friends, good evening everyone, it's time for the "Qingzhi Reading" column every Friday night, and today is the 53rd issue of Tuan Tuan reading with you. Tonight, Tuan Tuan will take you to readOn PaperLet's appreciate itThe beauty of traditional culture. "On Paper" is a collection of essays created by Jiangnan prose writer Su Cangsang. This book takes the precious intangible cultural heritage of southern China, craftsmanship, customs and people as the basic elements, and records the beauty of traditional customs and objects with handsome brushwork. December 16, 2023Su Cangsang's "On Paper" won the "Outstanding Writer Award" at the 6th Zhu Ziqing Prose Award.
Mulberry silk, traditional papermaking, grass stage opera troupe, tea farmer's life, beekeeper's house, ancient aging, West Lake boat lady ......The daily life of these craftsmen is gradually withdrawing from the social stage. The author goes deep into the life scene of "them", personally experiences paper fishing, singing, tea picking, beekeeping, silkworm breeding, and rocking boats, intercepts the vivid cross-section of life, deeply excavates the unique spiritual values, ways of thinking, cultural consciousness, and cultural self-confidence of the Chinese nation contained in them, and expresses the new spirit of the new eraIt has formed a valuable cultural record, eulogizing the beauty of the Chinese nation's landscapes, scenery, tradition, labor, and people.
"My words are stained with dirt and dew."
"On Paper" is composed of seven essays: "The Story of Spring Silkworms", "On Paper", "Wandering with the Opera Troupe", "With Tea", "Bee Husbandry", "Winter Brewing" and "Boat Niang". All the works in the book "On Paper" come from the author's personal experience. The author spent more than three years "stepping on the mud, braving the bitter cold, withstanding the haze, and enduring the pain" into the lives of 7 different craftsmen, including silkworms, traditional papermaking, grass stage opera troupes, tea farmers' homes, beekeepers, ancient methods of aging, and West Lake boat girlsIn the experience, the feelingtheAfter life, use tender and delicate emotional pen and ink to write the lives of these people.
In order to write the "Bee Herding Map", Su Cangsang traced the footprints of three generations of beekeepers, took blood pressure monitors and medicines, and traveled thousands of miles to Xinjiang, covering Urumqi, Qitai County, Jiangbulak, Biliuhe, Yining, Yili River Valley, Guozigou, and Sailimu Lake; When she wrote "The Story of Spring Silkworms", she got up at 3 a.m. and fed 100,000 silkworms with mulberry leaves with silkworm farmers; In order to write about the ancient method of papermaking in Fuyang Yiguzhai, Su Cangsang went to Zhujiamen Village, Dayuan Town, and followed the papermaking master up the mountain to cut bamboo; When writing "Follow the Troupe to Wander", Su Cangsang followed the troupe for a month, and even sang "Farewell Farewell" and "Funeral Flowers" on stage, completely becoming one ......of them
Because of this, in the collection of essays "On Paper",A lot of detail emerges. 
She wrote of tea farmer Huang Jianchun: "His hands are born to roast tea: the five fingers are combined, tightly sealed, from the root of the fingers to the fingers, there is a slightly curved arc, and it fits tightly with the stir-fried tea pot." Huang Jianchun is one of the best people in the village to fry tea, and the tea leaves he fried are green, fragrant, sweet, and beautiful, and feel like touching silk. ”
She wrote in "Winter Brewing": "The appearance of glutinous rice fished out of the spring is like moss on the eaves of a winter house awakened by spring rain." When poured into the wooden steaming barrel, it looks like a light snow in the south of the Yangtze River near the end of the year, thin, thin, and matte. ”
Those realities that we ignore have become vivid and meaningful in Su Cangsang's writing. Su Cangsang said:"All my words are a mud-stained, dew-dropped, steaming experience, a surging creative impulse, and a literary ambition to break through myself. ”
Writing about traditional folk culture through "fieldwork".
Some readers said, ""On Paper" is called "Words on Paper", but it is a gain from doing it", she uses her feet to measure the earth, touches life with her hands, and uses her eyes as telescopes, magnifying glasses, and microscopes to observe, capture, and achieve body, heart, and emotion. As some critics have said,"On Paper" is a scene, a destination, a sound, color, taste, texture, dense texture and vitality
When it comes to "On Paper", "fieldwork" is inseparable. Su Cangsang said:In fieldwork, sincerity is the first element, and selflessness is the second. As for Fang **, she has a few feelings: do your homework beforehand, try to get the support of relevant local departments, find acquaintances to communicate with the interviewee in advance, and understand the other party's social etiquette and taboos in advance, such as silkworm raising and opera troupes. During the interview, you should pay attention to your image, behave politely, not noisy, not intrusive, follow the local customs, respect each other, and listen attentively.
Su Cangsang observed their clothing, skin color, expressions, and hands that worked all year round, and observed their daily diet and interpersonal interactions. The author is a deep experiencer, which is the preciousness of "On Paper" and the moving thing about "On Paper".
Su Cangsang's prose has gradually become a typical representative of contemporary American writing, and her prose is often used as a high school examination question and college entrance examination mock question across the country, so she is known as "college entrance examination hot writer". When asked what kind of literary outlook and outlook on life she hopes her prose will convey to young people, she said:"Keep the heart of a child, receive the earthly atmosphere of the world, believe that all things are animist, and the world is beautiful. ”
From paper to practice
Safeguard intangible cultural heritage with cultural consciousness and self-confidence
**The general secretary pointed out: "We must adhere to road confidence, theoretical confidence, system confidence, and the most fundamental cultural confidence." Cultural self-confidence is the full affirmation and active practice of its own cultural values by a nation, a country and a political party, and firm confidence in the vitality of its culture. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the excavation and sorting of ethnic and folk culture have been put in an important position, but it is a matter of the past 20 years to truly include the integrity of intangible cultural heritage in the modern sense of "daily use without realizing it" into the scope of protection and cherishing, which can only be done when a country has enough cultural self-confidence.
The insight and writing of On Paper is the product of literature's active involvement in the field of intangible cultural heritage under the development of the country, and it is also the epitome of cultural awareness and self-confidence practice. Whether it is from the perspective of the vertical development of the 5,000-year civilization history of the Chinese nation, or from the perspective of the diverse cultural creation of the Chinese nation, which is a multi-ethnic national family, intangible cultural heritage, as a way of people's life, production and expression of thoughts and emotions, has been condensed in the traditional Chinese context for thousands of years, presenting the orderly inheritance of traditional Chinese culture, and it is also the convergence of the achievements of national civilization. Strengthening the awareness and protection of intangible cultural heritage is of far-reaching significance to the dissemination and inheritance of excellent Chinese culture.
In the new era, each of us is the writer of development. Inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture is not only a matter of words, but also a gesture of deeds.
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Edited |Zhang Yushan, Liu Hongcen audit|Zhou Tingting is on duty on the editorial board |Liu Yi source |Youth Hubei is comprehensively compiled from Guangming**, China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, Zhejiang Contemporary Literature Research Center, October Literature and Art, etcHongcen Liu (Wuhan University).
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