The first national activities of the House of Books summary

The dense fragrance of books, no shape, no weight, for thousands of years, but always for a family to paint the most beautiful colors - "bells and whistles" must be "poetry and books of the hairpin family "Otherwise, it will be more rustic; if the harvest family can "agricultural hoe also with the scripture", it can afford the plaque of "farming and reading family". Countless readers of the ordinary life of the family, clustered into the nourishment of the Chinese culture of the vine of the thick roots, even if the fire of war will be countless heirloom books into scorched butterflies, but there are still countless families, the fragrance of the book with the bloodline, the family name, the family style together, quietly continued for a hundred years, thousands of years, time and time again, for the "rites of passage and seek the wild" to become a possibility and storage, The first time I saw this, I was able to save up the energy for the possibility of the "ritual loss of the wild".

Today, the long table is covered with materials recommended from all over the country "House of Books", text, photos, awards ...... look carefully, you can find that they buy and hide books, but not a great collector of books, a great scholar; they read and write books, but not a well-known writer and literary giant. They are not well-known writers and literary giants. They just like to read extraordinarily, for "half a bed of books and half a bed of bright moon" and chanting, there is a "bundle of books and cow horns to the farmyard" singing, there is a book of book notes, there is an essay contest certificate of achievement, reading makes them know what they are talking about, husband and wife love, family harmony, work excellence, children and grandchildren, neighbors praised ......

Books home, convergence of the beautiful book country

Recommended "books home" is to ordinary readers home as a grounded, can be imitated around the example, so that more families "Seeing the wise and thinking alike", so that more "natural population" into "reading population", so as to build a "bookish China The first is the "Pandora's Chest", which is the most important of all.

Reading for all, to enhance the national culture of the road

With the development of technology and material resources, the production cost of books has dropped significantly, the circulation range has been greatly expanded, more and more ordinary people to undertake the books when the blessing of the modern society is also stepping on the sound of the rotating printing presses and walking close to it. Even today, with highly developed information technology, reading still has an irreplaceable power. It can not only help us create a complex and magnificent material world, but also liberate us from pure material desires, gain spiritual clarity and abundance in sound, color, light and electricity, and open up the rationality and insight of life in the invasion of knowledge and experience, and then go on to change our surroundings, change our environment and change our society. In the 21st century, a truly strong cultural country will no longer be able to rely on a few elites to become the country that carries the throne, but must be built on the basis of the general public's overall cultural enrichment and creativity.

Reading for all, from a call, an activity, a proposal, a sign ...... to write into the party's eighteen report, written into the government's work report, its great practical significance gradually surfaced. For today's China, if we can realize that everyone has a book to read, everyone loves to read, and everyone can get pleasure from reading, acquire knowledge, and change themselves, then this will undoubtedly greatly strengthen the cultural stock and cultural potential of the whole country and nation. A country full of books is a country saturated with the essence of human wisdom, with a bright future and unlimited possibilities.

Bookish families, the cornerstone of building a bookish nation

Dripping water into the sea, accumulating soil into a mountain, the family is the cell of the society, without bookish families, bookish society, bookish China can only be the source of no water, no wood.

Today in China, there is no lack of rare editions of the collection of books, there is no lack of learning, there is no lack of learning, there is no lack of reading as a daily life of the "bookish family". But we need to look directly at the fact that there are still many poor families in cities and villages who have no books to read, and there are still many families who have the money to buy books but do not have the habit of reading - there can be a thousand reasons to read, and a thousand reasons not to read. The grand launch of the nationwide "House of Books" recommended activities, because the "House of Books" and the construction of a bookish country, the inheritance of Chinese traditional culture, the construction of a strong cultural power is inextricably linked:

Family cultural heritage. Favorable to the national cultural inheritance. Emerson said: "The family is such a place where, in the course of a day, people's appetites are satisfied with three meals, while people's hearts are satisfied a thousand times over." Everyone thrives in a concrete, specific, and mundane family environment, and the experience of family life encompasses all aspects of life. The cultural content of the family is of great significance in enhancing the cultural literacy of each individual.

It is true that family life is a pots and pans marching song, and there are books at home, even if you end up falling into the cumbersome, washed out, the same work, but there is a different state of mind; the same family, but there is a different mood; the same offspring, but there is a different kind of literacy. Reading is a way to give meaning to family life, to infuse family life with peace of mind, and to find a spiritual home for family life to live in.

Family virtues are sung to promote social virtues. Reading is not only for their own quality improvement and spiritual settlement, but also to their nearest relatives, dedication of their own knowledge, love, understanding and support, because of their own existence so that the family more mutual respect and mutual love, which is the basis for the establishment and inheritance of good family style. Family style is the code of conduct for us to be a man, but also the modern inheritance of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, with a good family style of the family is the basis of social harmony cells.

Family harmony and happiness is the guarantee of social harmony. Family happiness is an important part of a happy life, and a harmonious family plays a very important role in social harmony. Every family faces two worlds: one is outward, recognizing the world and transforming it to improve the quality of life; the other is inward, absorbing the sustenance of life and nourishing it. Family life is mundane and trivial. Where can we find the grace we have lost in our busyness? Where to look for the profoundness we buried in the trivial? Where to find the dreams we put aside in the ordinary? The only way is to read! It allows us to cultivate grace, precipitate profundity, and revitalize our dreams! The family's love of reading does not necessarily guarantee a happy and fulfilling family, but it does provide spiritual support for it. When family members develop the habit of reading, they unconsciously have the ability to expand themselves and their way of being, making family life more fulfilling, meaningful and interesting.

Bookish Families, Drawing China's Most Beautiful Map

The 996 recommended families are located in 31 provinces (municipalities and districts) and units of the People's Liberation Army and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps across the country, and each of them has a real, vivid, and contagious story of reading, with a large number of clues and rich materials.

They are so ordinary, so intimate, as if they are the neighbors living around us. The photos of the study are the most shocking and touching, the mottled or elaborate bookcases, the neat bookshelves and shelves next to the green, the books exposed between the cast-iron heater, the horizontal and vertical stacks of magazines, newspapers and books, that inserted in the cut open plastic bottle of a brush, that row of old masterpieces in the surprising version you read as a child, the spine of the book there is surprisingly you have been a long time but have no chance to buy! That book, that wall hanging the ancient rustic paintings or yellowed photos, that quietly nestled in the books of Shaanxi cloth tigers, ebony carved giraffe ...... abruptly your heart was opened, you are not tempted to enthusiastically pounced on the hand of the head of household, sincerely said: "would like to be a I'd like to be friends with you! Can you lend me that book to read first ......"

Hammer and ink books record the difference of these 996 families, here to find out.

Several generations have been reading together in the same house, reproducing the joy of farming and reading to pass on to the family. The family of farming and reading has always been an important part of Chinese cultural tradition, and the contemporary "family of farming and reading" embodies the love of reading and the cultivation and inheritance of reading habits of ordinary working families. For example, Wan Shixi's family in Chongqing is a large family with four generations living under the same roof, where the 87-year-old grandfather reads newspapers and magazines every day and writes well; the head of the family, Wan Shixi, is a senior elementary school teacher and has been awarded the title of National Outstanding Teacher; and his four children have graduated from university. The family has a collection of more than 10,000 books, and spends more than 10,000 yuan on books and magazines every year. The family has more than 100 scientific research achievements, and it is also due to reading that the family is well-informed, respects the elderly and loves the young, and gets along with each other harmoniously.

Covering many ethnic groups, beautiful flowers are always spring. In addition to the Han Chinese, the recommended families cover more than 20 ethnic minorities such as Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, etc. The number of families reaches 150, accounting for 15% of the total. For example, the Yunnan Dai Ainuo family, the head of which used to be a journalist, founded the unique "Ainuo Bookstore" after his retirement to promote and protect the Dai culture, which has been called "a one-man museum" and has a certain influence in China and Southeast Asia. The library is called a "one-man museum" and has a certain influence in China and Southeast Asia. Since the establishment of the bookstore, it has received more than 3,000 people and become a must-visit place for many scholars and experts to study Dai culture. He has also translated, organized and published long poems of Dai narratives, such as "Fragrant Hair Girl" and "Triangular Snail".

Explaining the power of reading, Plum Blossom Fragrance comes from bitter cold. Recommendation of the family to change their destiny through reading is obvious, there is no lack of cases through reading to become talented entrepreneurs who return to society and benefit their neighbors. For example, Xing Fuhao family in Hainan Province, the head of Xing Fuhao junior high school level of education, is a retired driver in Haikou City Transportation Company, his wife is only a laborer in the force car factory, the two raised three children, but also to support the three old people, the early years of the family's economic difficulties. In the couple's teaching, three children love to read and study, went to college, the family's economic situation has improved greatly. 2004, Xing Fuhao retired back to his hometown of Meiliu Village, will be built into the ancestral home of the "Lily Zhai", bookcases of all kinds of books thousands of books, engraved on the walls of the maxims of the family, drawing a cartoon of the moral education of Confucius and Mencius and the village children to set up the examination for the first time, the village of the village of the village of the children's children to get a good job. The village children set up a scholarship to get into a famous school.

Diffusion of the wind of reading, the spring breeze and rain Zei neighborhood. Most of the recommended families have a family style of reading and book collecting, with obvious characteristics, and are able to help and motivate their neighbors to read, becoming role models for the masses. For example, the Fang Hongxia family in Hebei Province, the head of the family in their own yard set up a "peasant women's book club", attracting villagers from surrounding villages to come to read books, and the book club as a platform for free capacity-building training for rural women, contributing to the local rural cultural construction work.

The "stars" are shining brightly, spreading the positive energy of reading. Among the recommended families, there are also a small number of bookish families from the fields of opera, performing arts, calligraphy, painting, etc., fully demonstrating the important role of reading in promoting their careers. For example, Beijing's Li Yan family, the head of which is the founder of the Oak Bay Community Library's "Second Study Room," has been widely reported by media outlets such as People's Daily, China Press and Publication News, and Beijing Television, and his wife and daughter have both published works.

Reading is close to the soul, presenting the truth, goodness and beauty of ordinary people. By listening to the reading voices of the declared family members, we can y feel the sincere love, beautiful emotions and unremitting pursuit of books and life of an ordinary Chinese. 996 "House of Books", about 70% of the ordinary people's families, whose reading experiences are simple and full of truth, presenting the most beautiful inner light to the contemporary Chinese people. The most important thing is that they have the ability to read and write. For example:

"The trees of the Evergreen Court are evergreen, and the white head of a child aspires to the green clouds. I wish the setting sun was infinite, why be despondent near dusk!"

--Xia Chuanshou, retired teacher of Anhui Middle School

"We are both disabled and have been married for 17 years. The husband has a lower limb disability and is accompanied by a wheelchair; the wife is congenitally blind and has never seen the colorful world. We have not only changed our destinies through reading, but we have also become like-minded couples through reading. Although we have no children, we are accompanied by books and reading has become an essential part of our daily lives."

--Beijing's Li Zhen

Recommendation process rigorous and laborious

"Family is the cell of society. Every society is vibrant because of the existence of different individuals and families, and the colorful society composed of different families constitutes a picture of the world. Therefore, the key to advocating reading for all lies in advocating reading for families; the core of building a bookish China lies in building bookish families." State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television Publication Management Division responsible person introduced, "book-scented home" recommended the plan has been brewing for a long time, and "book-scented China" concept of promoting the maturity of the "book-scented home "The book is a good idea," he said, "but I don't think it's a good idea.

The origin of "House of Books"

In April 2006, the former General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), together with the Central Propaganda Department, the Central Civilization Office and other 11 departments*** issued the "Initiative on Carrying Out Reading Activities for All People", and since then the "Carrying Out Reading Activities for All People" has been formally included in the GAPP's annual "Initiative". " was officially included in the General Administration's annual work plan.

With the development of the times, the field of reading for all has gained more and more attention from both official and private sectors, and the fields of libraries, education, and press and publishing ...... can be said to be the main positions for promoting reading for all, while the General Administration's endeavors over the years have been directed at promoting the construction of a system for reading for all --Collecting the efforts of the whole country, led by the government, to improve the reading environment of the nationals, enhance the reading habits of the nationals and strive to build a long-term mechanism and activity platform for public ****cultural services. At the practical level, the General Administration has developed a series of regular national reading programs, such as releasing national reading survey data, recommending excellent books, preparing the "National Reading Activity Bulletin", jointly organizing the "Book-scented China" TV gala with China Central Television (CCTV), and fostering the "Book-scented China" series of activity brands. "In terms of system construction, the promotion of national reading legislation and the formulation of national reading medium- and long-term plan are the top priorities of the General Administration to promote the work of national reading.

Recommended activities "a brief history of time"

2011~2012, detailed argumentation. The grass-roots-oriented national reading "seven into" work, is the former General Administration of Press and Publication has long been established as one of the guidelines, respectively, into the rural areas (pastoral areas), into the community, into the campus, into the barracks, into the enterprise, into the authorities, into the family. Therefore, as early as 2011, the Department of Publication Management began to plan a national program that could really promote reading into the family. At that time, Jiangsu, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing, Changsha, Shenzhen and other places had already launched some local "bookish family", "book collection home", "book master" selection, The Department of Publication Administration invited these regions to participate in the contests and competitions. For this reason, the Department of Publication Administration invited the persons in charge of the activities in these areas, as well as experts and scholars, to discuss the feasibility of organizing this kind of activities and programs. At the symposium, everyone talked about their respective activities, it turns out that this kind of purely cultural selection activities, can cause great enthusiasm among the people, many families attach great importance to such a title.

In 2012, through countless in-depth discussions and field visits, a bold decision was finally made for this recommendation campaign - no specific numerical thresholds were set! There are two main reasons for this: first, there are great differences in the living standards, lifestyles and reading conditions of residents across China. The second is that this is not a competition, if we must set up the threshold for the number of books, to win in quantity, then this activity will become a protracted, labor-intensive "book census". Recommended activities focus on attracting the active participation of the grassroots, through the publicity of excellent "House of Books" typical, to play its leading role in fostering a real reading culture. In other words, we need to discover the people living next to us, pass on their stories of reading and the happiness they have gained from reading to more people, influence and move more people, and attract more families to discover the endless treasures in books.

2013 was a busy year. After more than a year of careful consideration and site visits, the basic conditions for recommendation were finally discussed and finalized:

1. Family members love the motherland, abide by the law, and are civilized and well-mannered.

2. Family members have a certain number of books in their collection, and the family has a certain amount of expenditure for purchasing books and subscribing to newspapers and magazines.

3. Family members are able to apply what they have learned from reading and have outstanding reading results.

On April 1, 2013, the "Notice on the First National "House of Books" Recommendation Activity" was issued, requiring localities to take into account the actual situation in their respective localities, and in accordance with the quota of candidate families allocated, the provincial press, publication, radio, television and radio bureaus will organize localities to carry out the recommendation work, and requesting localities to publicize and report the activity, and attract grass-roots people's enthusiastic participation to the fullest extent possible. It was also requested that localities should publicize and report the event to maximize the participation of the grassroots. At the same time, it was emphasized that the recommended candidate families should mainly be grassroots and ordinary people's families, and that the touching reading deeds and reading stories of grassroots and ordinary people's families should be y excavated.

The first recommendation, to determine the target of 1,000 families, according to the population base and the number of families in each province, each province needs to recommend 10 to 40 families.

In June, the materials of the recommended families confirmed from all over the world poured in like snowflakes and piled up like a mountain, and the staff immediately put themselves into the hot work of reviewing the materials.

The review work was really hard, the staff sacrificed their lunch breaks, worked overtime constantly, and even gave up their precious annual vacations. Because it was the inaugural session, the materials presented a variety of challenges that required careful discrimination, prudence, and repeated confirmation and communication with the localities.

At the end of September, all the problems were finally dealt with. In order to ensure the fairness and authority of the recommendation, October 17 ~ 18, 2013 and held an expert review meeting, invited the publishing industry, reading science, journalism, well-known experts and scholars, the declaration of the material *** with the review of the gatekeeper.

After discussion within the expert group and deliberation at the General Assembly, and verification and supplementation of materials by the relevant provincial bureaus, it was determined that there were 996 "House of Books" to be recommended.

In mid to late December, the list of 996 candidate families recommended by each region was publicized for seven days on the website of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and the China Press and Publication Newspaper, which was positively reported by many media.