Under the statue of Confucius, the sound of reading aloud, diligently studying shadows. On August 23, at Longxi Academy in Jiaoyuan Village, Dinghu District, Zhaoqing City, a unique "Chinese Studies Ceremony" event was held.

This is a silhouette of the activities of the rural branch of the Southland Book Festival in 2022. This year, the Southern Country Book Festival is going to the vast rural land. For the first time, 27 rural sub-venues have been set up in 10 cities in the province, and four rural sub-venue demonstration sites with different characteristics have been carefully built in Boluo, Zhaoqing, Xingning and Kaiping. .

The rural sub-venue organically combines excellent culture with local characteristics, activates the vitality of excellent traditional local culture through cultural revitalization, enhances the value of rural culture, conserves rural customs and civilization, and provides strong spiritual power and intellectual support for rural revitalization.

At the same time, the rural sub-venue organically integrates "send culture" and "cultivation culture" to enrich the "cultural granary" of rural revitalization, and see the broad picture of rural cultural revitalization.

Feel the charm of cucurbit silk and rural culture

Walking into Guanbei Village, Luoyang Street, Boluo County, Huizhou, more than 400 murals constitute a beautiful scenery. The murals cover party building, rule of law, local culture, idiom stories and traditional culture, etc., with a strong cultural flavor.

On the 24th, the sound of pure and elegant Lingnan Hulusi music came from Guanbei Village. This is a special cultural event held at the rural branch venue of the Southern Country Book Festival.

Chinese Lingnan cucurbit flute music, the tune is euphemistic and beautiful, with strong characteristics of Cantonese music and Lingnan culture. Guanbei Village opened a Lingnan Hulusi art training course as early as 2016, providing a platform for the majority of villagers to learn.

Ding Yanqi, Director of the Marketing Department of Boluo Xinhua Bookstore, told reporters that in order to better spread the artistic charm of Lingnan Hulusi, this year's Southern Country Books Festival Music Sharing Session invited professional teachers to explain the musical instrument structure and music theory of Lingnan Hulusi, and also The famous cucurbit flute songs such as "Moonlight" and "Guangzhou Nursery Rhymes" were played on the spot.

Ding Yanqi introduced that the rural branch of the Book Festival in Guanbei Village also systematically sorted out the characteristic culture of Guanbei Village, created seven unique cultural tribes, and set up interactive games accordingly.

Starting from the endorsement bar, villagers can listen to the explanation of traditional Chinese medicine culture in the Village History Museum, appreciate fine art works at Guanqiaoxuan, and have a photography experience at the Young Photographers Association; when they travel to cultural tribes, they can experience the beauty of primitive tribes through hand drums; to teenagers The comprehensive service center can explore the inner voice and feel the phonological charm of cucurbit silk in the "one acre of three points"...

"This year's Book Festival not only brings spiritual food to the countryside, but more importantly provides a platform for the display and dissemination of rural culture." Ding Yanqi said that this Book Festival fully demonstrated the cultural heritage and characteristics of Guanbei Village. It also created a strong "literary" atmosphere for rural revitalization.

The "ritual" of listening to farming and reading family heirlooms between pastoral academies

On the 23rd, the activity of "Chinese Learning Rites—Traditional Culture Entering the Countryside" was held at the Longxi Academy branch in Jiaoyuan Village, Dinghu District, Zhaoqing City. As one of the four characteristic rural sub-venue demonstration sites of the Book Festival, the Longxi Academy is decorated in an antique style. The host on the stage is dressed in Hanfu, and the readers and children under the stage are sitting upright. It seems that I can really hear the sound of books in the ancient years.

At the event, Tang Wenming, a member of Guangdong Literature and Art Critics Association and vice president of Zhaoqing Famous City and Tourism Development Research Association, first led 18 primary school students to pay homage to the statue of Confucius. Taking this as a reference, Tang Wenming brought out the theme of this lecture, "Farming, Reading, and Heirloom, Creating Happiness", and used plain and vivid language to interpret the connotation of "ritual" and the relationship between "ritual" and "happiness" on the spot.

Longxi Academy was founded in 1756 and completed in 1758, with a history of more than 200 years. The academy was formerly a private school for the Liang family members of Jiaoyuan Village to cultivate their own children. The peach and plum blossoms are all over the world, which has played an indelible role in discovering and inheriting the history and culture of Jiaoyuan Village and inspiring and educating future generations.

At present, the academy has become a lecture hall for civilized practice in the new era of Jiaoyuan Community, Kengkou Street, Dinghu District, covering a total area of 520 square meters, with more than 6,000 books available for borrowing. Cultural knowledge, conveying economic information.

Have a reading date by the rice field

On the morning of the 22nd, the Rural Branch of Xinzhou Village, Xingning, Meizhou City organized the "Reading for half an hour" activity. The teachers and students sat comfortably by the rice fields and read the chapter "I have a motherland, I have a mother tongue".

"Reading for half an hour" also set up a wind chime message session. The students wrote their thoughts on books on bookmarks in immature fonts: "Reading thousands of volumes, writing like a god" "Books are the ladder of human progress"... … elements of the Book Festival can be seen everywhere on the scene, and the reading atmosphere is strong.

It is understood that Xinzhou Village in Xingning City, relying on its good ecology and profound cultural heritage, has transformed from a previous provincial poverty-stricken village into a rural revitalization demonstration village. During this year's Book Fragrance Festival, Xingning Xinhua Bookstore and the local Xinzhou Village Committee organized a small book fair.

The books on display are rich in content, covering themed publications, life encyclopedias, children's picture books, and world famous works, such as "Insects" and "pollution-free agricultural products". A staff member of Xingning Xinhua Bookstore told reporters that books on planting and health preservation were welcomed by many villagers.

The bell tower of a century-old hometown of overseas Chinese builds a red education position

On the afternoon of the 23rd, the Hengjiang Village Country Branch of the Southern Country Book Festival and the national reading series activities of "Reading into the Countryside, Book Fragrance with Rice Fragrance" and the national reading series of "Happy Reading Kaiping, Book Fragrance" were held in the farmhouse bookstore in Hengjiang Village, Yueshan Town, Kaiping City.

Formerly known as the quaint Shaoxian School, this farmhouse bookstore has a long history. It is a testimony to the patriotism of overseas Chinese and is also an important material evidence for the study of overseas Chinese society and the history of overseas Chinese. The bookstore is equipped with more than 4,536 volumes of various books, and is often organized to carry out various activities.

"This is the first time that the Book Festival has entered Hengjiang Village, which is of great significance." Guan Xuemei, a staff member of Yueshan Cultural and Sports Center, told reporters that the biggest highlight of this Hengjiang Village rural branch event is the study and dissemination of red culture, including "Learning the Party by reading comic strips" "History Red Stories Immerse Your Heart" activities, themed book exhibitions, etc., "establish a 'new position' for red education in the Bell Tower, a hometown of overseas Chinese for centuries, to promote the villagers' in-depth study of the party's history and comprehension of the revolutionary spirit."

The event site will also set up interactive display and interactive links such as the mobile book car of the Southern Country Book Festival, the donation of books by 10,000 people, the drifting of thousands of books, and the recording of audiobooks. Empower rural revitalization.