World Book Day | Let the book in your hand light up the light in your heart.

  Busy city life

  Starting from the morning rush hour.

  Ended in the last bus at night.

  On the hurried commute.

  a book

  Start a spiritual journey beyond time and space

  A reader

  Quietly depict the most beautiful scenery in the noisy city.

  Even if people are crowded, there is also a spiritual corner.

  When the world is too fast, books slow the heart down.

  The book in your hand will light up the light in your heart

  

  The reader on the subway

  The first episode set out

  [Introduction: "The Scholar on the Subway" is a series of online micro-documentaries jointly created by Xinhuanet and Zhongban Group Digital Media Co., Ltd., which records the people who study on the subway by oral record, observes the life and mental state of ordinary people in the city through the subway, which is closely related to people, advocates reading for all and explores the possibility of building a public spiritual space in the city. 】

  April 23 rd

  World Book Day

  Pay attention to reading

  May you become the most important person in the city.

  A beautiful reading landscape

  ———————

  Build a spiritual corner for yourself in a crowded crowd

  Dictation | Zhu Liwei

   In February 2018, I met a young man reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on the subway. My strong curiosity and professional relationship prompted me to ask him if the book was good or not, but in the end I only dared to take pictures of him reading with my mobile phone.

   This photo inadvertently opened a photo exhibition of my circle of friends. I called it "the reader on the subway". Out of my love for books and concern for reading, I recorded about hundreds of subway readers in more than a year.

   Gradually, I met more and more interesting reading stories, such as the mother who buried herself in the teenage version of 100,000 Why, the girl who always sat in the same place to study, the uncle who always read the same book, and the young man who always took Mazar to the car to study … … This flowing reading landscape became colorful in my eyes, and I inadvertently became a reading observer on the subway, imagining the people behind me and their lives through books.

   The books that were taken to the subway were far beyond my imagination. This long list of subway books made me realize that I might actually be in an invisible underground library.

   I posted the reading moments recorded in my notes on the Internet, and the response was unexpected. Some netizens said that this "gentle photo album" made him "warm in heart", while others said that such a "spiritual corner" actually made him "somehow, tears filled his eyes", and many people set out, opened their books and wrote down their thoughts and feelings.

   A netizen left me a message: If your goal is to read all the famous books, it is better to start your reading on the subway from now on.

   I think reading is never too late to start. Everyone has a seed buried in his heart. It needs to find the temperature for germination.

   In the limited space of the subway car, during a journey of several tens of minutes, the book links the reality and a better life, the once-only life and the infinite parallel universe, and the spiritual exchange between ordinary people and writers. Studying on the subway is a spiritual corner they built for themselves in the crowded crowd.

   The city is so big and in a hurry, start another spiritual journey with a book, and expect you to become a "scholar on the subway"!

   (Zhu Liwei: Publishing practitioner, loves reading, pays attention to reading and is willing to share. Since February, 2018, she began to photograph the readers on the Beijing subway, and published the reader’s photo album and "subway book list" on the Internet, which aroused enthusiastic attention and discussion among netizens.

   Producer: Xiao Yang Sun Jing

   Editor: Zhai Zihe and Zhang Qingshui

   Planning: Wang Zhiyan, Liu Jiajia

   Producer: An Junyang

   Director: Wei Xiaotong

   Filmed by Wei Xiaotong and Zhu Liwei

   Copywriter: Zhu Liwei and Wang Zhiyan

   Post-production: Wei Xiaotong Wang Zhi Zhang Youming

   Publicity Coordinator: Liu Jiajia Zhao Zixuan and Li Aili Dai Jiayun.

   Art Design: Cheng Yuanyuan

   Voice: Lu Junwen