Citizens experience a different kind of New Year in the library.
Outside the window is thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting in the north of the country, inside the house is the joy of the New Year accompanied by the fragrance of books, during the past Spring Festival, Changchun City Library launched a series of colorful cultural activities, loaded with 3000 new books, millions of digital resources of Changchun City Library warm heart service vehicle to Changchun Ice and Snow Xintiandi, Nanhu Park, Jingyuetan, Changying Century City and other scenic spots more than 20 times, for the general public and tourists to provide free **, book borrowing, scan code reading, ginger tea hot drink, Warm treasure use, gift blessing word Spring Festival couplets, taste corn stove candy and other warm services, so that tourists can board the service car after playing, sit down, take a look, and feel the warmth and warmth of Changchun City Library to everyone.
According to the staff of Changchun Library, as early as December last year, the 2024 Changchun Ice and Snow Reading Season has begun. The event will last until the end of February 2024 for a period of 3 months, with the theme of "Ice and Snow Moistens the New Year, Books and Rhymes for the New Year", and launched more than 120 more than 200 activities in the three major sections of "Ice and Snow Praise Hometown", "Jiachen Welcomes the New Year" and "Scholarly Life" in the city, and carried out various forms of online and offline reading promotion activities such as traditional folk customs, lectures and training, cultural exhibitions, digital reading, children's reading, competition evaluation, interactive experience, and literature promotion, with more than 280,000 people participating.
It is worth noting that from January 18, 2024 (the eighth day of the lunar month) to the Lantern Festival, Changchun Library, together with public libraries, branch libraries and reading rooms in the city, will launch a series of activities of "Celebrating the New Year in the Library", inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, displaying traditional festival customs, and leading everyone to experience the New Year's culture through activities such as Spring Festival couplets, exhibitions, experiences, and online interactions, creating a New Year's atmosphere and adding a strong New Year's flavor.
Not only are there a variety of activities in the museum, but also the activities outside the museum are very lively. From January 30th to February 11th, the Changchun City Library launched a series of activities of "going out", coming to Changchun's major scenic spots and commercial activity venues, from January 30th to February 11th, for citizens and tourists to distribute free Spring Festival couplets, blessing characters, paper-cutting, Chinese knots and feather handicrafts, corn, stove sugar, sugar gourd and other traditional folk products representing the characteristics of Northeast China, with warm service to warm the cold winter.
On the day of this year's Lantern Festival, as the end of the series of activities of "Celebrating the New Year in the Library", Changchun Library linked Changchun Children's Library, county (city) district libraries, and demonstration branches to prepare more than 10,000 lantern riddles for the public.
In addition, during the 2024 Changchun Ice and Snow Reading Season, activities with different contents and forms will be carried out for different ages and groups, such as the "Long Picture Night Reading Space" and the social practice activities of "Volunteer Librarians", so as to expand the warm service radius of the library and build a bookish space around the citizens. In particular, the official opening of the "Digital Village Reading Room" provides grassroots people with services such as scanning code listening, listening machine borrowing, **teaching, and free**, and can also obtain 2.8 million Chinese books, more than 1,000 electronic newspapers, 47-hour audio and ** resources for free, so that villagers can enjoy intelligent services for digital reading at their doorsteps. The lecture series of "City Hot Reading: Changchun Story" - "My Story with Changchun Ice and Snow" will be held in turn. The six guests shared their unforgettable love for ice and snow and their heart-warming stories of ice and snow, igniting people's yearning for ice and snow in Changchun ......Various activities are constantly being introduced, and different forms of reading promotion are adopted for different ages and groups, so that the cold city is warmed by reading.
The Ice and Snow Reading Season coincides with traditional festivals, which are not only family and friend reunions, but also cultural inheritance. There are more and more ways to celebrate the holidays, and more and more people will choose to come to the library during the festival to experience the different flavors of reading and have a happy year full of books.
Changchun Evening News reporter Hou Dan.