China News Service, Xi'an, October 2 (Reporter Alina) During the National Day, the three branches of the Shaanxi Provincial Library launched 34 public cultural activities with distinctive themes and diverse forms, covering six categories: theme exhibitions, lectures by famous experts, intangible cultural heritage experiences, parent-child reading, creative practice, and digital reading. It creates a warm, connotative and fun book-filled holiday for readers. "Celebrating the holidays in the library" has become a new holiday leisure trend.
During the National Day holiday, the Shaanxi Provincial Library has created a three-dimensional exhibition system with collection resources as the core. Many exhibitions are open during the National Day holiday. Five major themed exhibitions including "Looking back at the Long March, forging ahead with our original intention - An exhibition of newspapers and materials collected in the collection to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March" and a calligraphy exhibition in the high-tech museum area, including "Tang Poetry Enriches Chang'an and Blooming Calligraphy and Calligraphy", are simultaneously open. The Chang'an Road Museum area also launches a special exhibition on "Shiqu Book List", "Annual Shaanxi's Favorite Books", a touring exhibition of ancient Shaanxi local chronicles, and a Silk Road special collection exhibition. More than 10 exhibitions cover multiple dimensions such as red culture, traditional culture, local culture, literature and art.
The picture shows the calligraphy exhibition with the theme of "Tang poetry embellishes Chang'an and calligraphy blooms with youth". Photo courtesy of Shaanxi Provincial Library
Shaanxi Provincial Library broke through the boundaries of traditional lending services and created a "reading + experience" composite scene, launching multiple offline interactive activities accurately during the National Day. The National Day themed concert "Celebrating the Birthday with Books and Praising the Mountains and Rivers with Wind Music" paid tribute to the birth of the motherland with melodious music; Professor Wang Shuanghuai of Shaanxi Normal University gave a special lecture on "The Silent Monument - Wu Zetian's Strategy of Governing the Country and the Mystery of the Wordless Monument", providing in-depth cultural sharing for history lovers; the "Moving Type Seal Qin" movable type printing experience activity, readers completed the entire process of word picking, typesetting, inking, and printing by hand, and made exclusive commemorative bookmarks. A series of immersive activities allow readers to transform from "book readers" to "participants in cultural activities" and gain new cultural, tourism and leisure experiences in one stop.
For young children, the three branches of the Shaanxi Provincial Library jointly launched more than 10 National Day-specific children's activities, integrating patriotic education and the cultivation of traditional virtues into reading and practice. The Chang'an Road pavilion area carries out classic picture book readings and small bottle cap creative activities to convey the concepts of diligence and environmental protection; West Street Children's Pavilion successively launches frugality-themed lectures, patriotic-themed satchel making, National Day sand painting photo frame creation and other parent-child activities; the High-tech Pavilion Area's Wisdom Tree Picture Book Story House selects "I Love My Motherland" and "Beautiful China" and other National Day-themed picture books for reading. The series of activities cover the needs of children of different ages, allowing children to inherit traditional virtues, cultivate feelings for their family and country in the company of books, and spend a fulfilling and meaningful National Day holiday.
Wisdom tree picture book story house. Photo courtesy of Shaanxi Provincial Library
Relying on the online platform, the Shaanxi Provincial Library has extended reading services to all scenarios including holiday travel and home leisure. The "Shaanxi in Poetry" short video collection activity continues to heat up during the holidays, guiding readers to get out of books and into the real scenes of the Three Qin Dynasty, and activate classic poems while walking and reading; "Brain Sprouting" 21-day reading check-in, "Four Seasons Listening to Books" online listening check-in, and "Ingenuity, Diligence and Frugality to Build the National Dream" online picture book sharing and other activities are simultaneously promoted to meet the reading needs of readers in different situations; various key exhibitions are simultaneously launched with the "Cloud Viewing Exhibition" service, breaking space constraints and allowing the public to enjoy cultural resources anytime and anywhere. Deep linkage between online and offline services enables non-stop reading services and uninterrupted cultural supply during the holidays.
Qiang Ying, deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Library, said that the Shaanxi Provincial Library will continue to dig deep into the cultural resources in the collection, innovate service scenarios and activity forms, launch more high-quality cultural activities, continue to polish the "Bookish Shaanxi" brand, and inject lasting bookish power into the high-quality development of public cultural services in the province. (over)
