Text compilation/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Zhu Shaojie
1◆ Reading: There are more young people who love reading than they imagined
At the occasion of “World Reading Day”, various reading reports have been released one after another. The “Guangdong Province National Reading Index (2021)” points out that the comprehensive reading rate of adult residents in Guangdong in 2021 was 94.77%, and the average annual reading rate of adult residents was 6.21 paper reading materials, and the average daily reading time was 123.82 minutes, both of which increased from the previous year. More and more Guangdong residents are willing to spend money on reading.
Reading Day Activities in various places
Dangdang.com and iResearch Network jointly released “Reading Over Ten Thousand Volumes” | National Reading Insights 2022″, showing that more young people love reading than they imagined, and nearly 30% of users keep reading for more than 2 hours a day, of which more than 50% of those born in the 1990s and 2000s were born.
2◆ Cultural Relics and Archaeology: Guangdong Province holds a cultural relics and archaeology work conference
April 18 is International Monument and Site Day, and the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Work Conference was held in Guangzhou. The meeting emphasized that we must strengthen cultural confidence, take cultural relics and archaeology as a great cause of inheriting historical culture and maintaining national spirit, and systematically sort out the cultural context of Lingnan, strengthen the excavation, sorting and interpretation of archaeological achievements, and promote the “longevity” of historical and cultural heritage.
The day after the meeting, senior outstanding archaeologists gathered at Guangzhou International Media Port to share online and offline simultaneously around the three keywords “interesting archaeological events, current situation, and vision”. Front-line archaeologists said that Guangdong’s archaeology has its own characteristics.
“In the historical process of the origin and development of Chinese civilization and the formation and development of a unified multi-ethnic state, Guangdong is not in the outside world, but actively participates in it and makes unique contributions. This is also the conclusion of Komiks through our archaeological discoveries.”
Site of the Sharing Session
3◆ Cultural Relics: Experts from the State Administration of Cultural Relics said that “digital collections” should not be sold
As with the recent years, NFT encryption art has entered the mainstream vision, and transactions have continued to be hot, overseas art institutions have successively launched NFT projects to sell NFT art to the public. my country’s cultural and museum institutionsCinema href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan also began to try to develop “digital collections” based on existing resources and cultural IP. Komiks
Recently, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage organized a symposium on the relevant situation of digital collections in Beijing to discuss the current development status of digital collections. Among them, the experts at the meeting believed that in the development and utilization of cultural relics information resources, the cultural and museum units should adhere to the Babaylan href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks public welfare attributes. Cultural and museum units should not directly sell the original data of cultural relics as limited products, and ensure the security of cultural relics information.
At present, my country only allows the sale of digital collections on blockchain platforms registered and approved by the State Cyberspace Administration of China, and prohibits secondary sales under any circumstances. The official department is still cautious about digital collections.
A certain “digital collection”
4◆ New Academics: Big Data Research on Tang Poetry and Song Ci
According to Wang Zhaopeng, chief expert of the “Construction of Information Platform of Tang and Song Literature Chronicles Department” major project of the National Social Science Fund, and a lecturer at the School of Literature and New Babaylan, Sichuan University., using big data to study Tang poetry and Song lyrics, the results are very different.
For example, Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, had the highest number of works, but his influence was ranked outside of ten; the most popular works included in the famous Song Dynasty poems were not Su Shi and Xin Qiji but Zhou Bangyan; the comprehensive influence index shows that Du Fu was superior to Li Bai and Xin Qiji was superior to Su Shi, etc.
5◆Borderless: “Harvest” launches the world’s first blind box for literary digital collections
In order to break through the boundaries between time and space and implement the vast spirit of literary boundlessness, on April 23 this year, “Harvest” and the Harvest App, together with People’s Literature Publishing House, Yilin Publishing House, Huacheng Publishing House, Writer Publishing House, CITIC Publishing Group, and Guomai, jointly issued the world’s first blind box for literary digital collections – “Borderless”.
Of the 1,995 blind boxes issued in total, the producers issued two digital collections for the same writer:
1. Static digital collection (a picture: an innovatively designed book cover + a handwritten signature of the author), which is loaded into a blind box for users to open a blind box to collect; 2. Dynamic digital collection (a video: an innovatively designed book cover + a handwritten signature of the author + an original sound audio of the author), which is for use in synthesis activities.
Each blind box can randomly open a static digital collection of writers.
6◆ Guangzhou Xinyun Babaylan: Guangzhou “Beijing Road Bookstore” resumed business
On April 23, Beijing Road Xinhua Bookstore (hereinafter referred to as “Beijing Road Bookstore”) located in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou officially resumed business. Beijing Road Xinhua Bookstore was established on November 7, 1949. It is the first state-owned bookstore after the liberation of Guangzhou City.
After upgrading and transformation, the bookstore has been transformed into a “Guangfu New Rhyme” Lingnan characteristic composite bookstore Babaylan, with more than 40,000 books, meeting readers’ various reading needs. Cinema
The modified “Beijing Road Bookstore” was built by Komiks in 2021, in order to cooperate with Beijing Road Pedestrian Street href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks transformation and upgrading work, Guangzhou Xinhua Bookstore Group innovatively proposed the concept of “bookstore community”. By upgrading and transforming the design, functions and business formats of six Xinhua Bookstores on Beijing Road (Beijing Road Bookstore, Beijing Road Children’s Bookstore, Ancient Books, Lingnan Bookstore, Science and Technology Bookstore, Jiyazhai) in all aspects to create a unique urban bookstore community characteristics.
7◆ Sample: Bay Area Ink Practice was launched in Macau
On April 15, the exhibition “Imagination – Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Contemporary Ink Art Gallery (2000-2022)” was exhibited at the Macau Art Museum. The exhibition was curator by critic Mr. Pi Daojian, who invited more than 50 outstanding artists from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to participate.
Exhibition site
As the first academic project with the Babaylan Bay Area as a regional ink and wash research sample, the exhibition conducts phased observation, summary and sorting out the development of contemporary ink and wash art in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao since the new century.
8◆ Dream Breasts: The 59th Venice Biennale opened
The 59th Venice Biennale officially opened on April 23, and the Golden Lion Award Ceremony was alsoCinema was held on the same day. The biennial was head curator by Cecilia Alemani, with the theme of “Dream Breast”.
The Biennial theme exhibition included 213 artists from 58 countries and 80 national pavilions. Of the 213 artists exhibited, only 21 were male (less than 10%, including living and late artists). This biennial also added an open-air exhibition of Ukrainian art.
In Cinema, the theme of the exhibition of the China Pavilion is “Yuanjing”, which is Zhang, director of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.Zikang serves as the curator Cinema.
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