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— August 17 to August 23 —

Reading is not only a way of life

It is also a spiritual pursuit

It makes us lie flat

Find Inner Peace

In the midst of fierce competition

Remain humble and introspective

Every time you read

It's a baptism of the soul.

Let us meet a better self between the lines

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Dongcheng District

Wangfujing Bookstore

Beijing Children's Reading Carnival "Guwenguanzhi is really interesting" Chinese Classics Appreciation Meeting

Guwenguanzhi is a collection of ancient Chinese prose compiled by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou, uncle and nephew, for private school teaching in the Qing Dynasty. It contains 222 proses from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty. Guwenguanzhi is comprehensive and focused, and most of them are works with outstanding ideological and artistic qualities. In this event, the author will use humorous language to make obscure ancient Chinese prose easy to understand, which will help young readers who are just starting to learn ancient Chinese to quickly understand the relevant articles, grasp the main idea and essence, and cultivate their ability to read classical Chinese independently.

Event time: 15:00-16:00, August 18

Participation method: Offline activities

Event address: No. 218 Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District

Small bookstore

The decline of the Qing Dynasty and China's early modernization——Zhang Shoutao's new book sharing session on "The Great Seventy Years"

This book features famous intellectuals as the protagonists, showing the decline of the Qing Dynasty and China's early modernization. It is a comprehensive, three-dimensional, and true monograph on China's early modernization. The book is rich in historical materials, well-argued, and integrates literature and history. It innovatively adopts the "wave" theory of modernization, focuses on highlighting practical application, major changes, and modernization, and "borrowing people from history" to be close to reality, which has strong practical significance and academic value.

Event time: 15:00-17:00, August 17

Participation method: offline activities, online live broadcast

Event Address: Room 106, Building C, No. 8, Beijing Station East Street, Dongcheng District

Xicheng District

Beijing Book Building

"Xue Xiaoba roams the world of Chinese"

"Xue Xiaoba's Journey into the World of Chinese Language" takes the content of primary school Chinese textbooks as its starting point. Each chapter corresponds to a text, and each lesson is a place where Xue Xiaoba travels. A tour guide or tutor is set up at each stop to explain various knowledge related to the text to Xue Xiaoba through dialogue. Following Xue Xiaoba's footsteps, young readers will enter the colorful world of Chinese language, understand the various stories behind the text, and easily master all aspects of literary knowledge.

Event time: 15:30-16:30, August 18

Participation method: Offline activities

Event address: No. 17 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng District

Zizai Museum Bookstore Fuchengmen

Reading and Nature Protection Book Sharing Session "Flower Legend"

In the book sharing event "Legend of Flowers" for reading and protecting nature, the narrator will lead everyone to trace the little-known stories behind the naming of plants from more than 100 natural history paintings. At the same time, they will explore the unknown species of the New World with the scientists in the book, and learn how botanical painters used their brilliant pens to record and promote the enlightenment and development of botany in the era before the emergence of photography technology.

Event time: August 17, 19:00-20:00

Participation method: Online live broadcast

Event address: No. 1, Fuchengmen South Street, Xicheng District

Chaoyang District

Benhua Bookstore

Where the heart passes

The Heart Sutra is one of the Buddhist classics. Its full name is the Mahaprajnaparamita Heart Sutra. This classic occupies an important position in Buddhism and is regarded as the essence of the Prajna Sutra. The phrase "form is emptiness, emptiness is form" comes from this sutra, expressing the philosophical idea that the material world and the spiritual world are interdependent and mutually transformed. The Heart Sutra is not only a theoretical exposition, but also has practical guiding significance. It teaches people how to break attachments, eliminate troubles, and achieve liberation through the practice of Prajna wisdom.

Event time: August 17, 10:00-12:00

Participation method: Offline activities

Event address: D301, 3rd floor, west entrance 4, commercial street, west section, Changying Tianjie, Chaoyang District

Carousel Time Sun Palace CapitaLand Store

Carousel Time Reading Interest Cultivation - Parent-Child Reading Club

"Good Weather and Bad Weather" is a philosophical fairy tale book written by the famous children's literature writer Bingbo. Through the story of an old lady and her two sons, the book conveys an important philosophy to readers: facing the same thing, different perspectives will produce different views and feelings. Therefore, we should learn to look at problems from different perspectives, always maintain a positive and optimistic attitude, and cherish the beauty of every day. This book not only attracts a large number of readers with its wonderful storyline, but also has a positive impact on children's growth through its profound themes and implications.

Event time: August 18, 11:00-12:00

Participation method: Offline activities

Event address: No. 14, 15, 201, 2nd floor, Building 12, Taiyanggong Middle Road, Chaoyang District

The Other Shore Bookstore

New book sharing session on "Official Glaze of Traditional Chinese Architecture"

The book "Official Colored Glaze in Traditional Chinese Architecture" first explains the difference between ancient colored glaze and colored glaze glaze, and outlines the formation and development of architectural colored glaze components; secondly, it sorts out and examines the relationship between official colored glaze components and official buildings, the changes in production locations, and the firing craftsmen; finally, it summarizes the typical dragon-patterned drips and hooks of the Qing Dynasty and the seals of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the form of rubbings. The book uses pictures to help readers clearly understand all aspects of architectural colored glaze components, with rich pictures and texts, and is easy to understand.

Event time: August 17, 14:00-17:30

Participation method: Offline activities

Event address: 1st floor, Mudan Technology Building, No. 2 Huayuan Road, Haidian District

Fangshan District

Yanshan Xinhua Bookstore

Yanxin·Leduhui: Starting from the heart, hope and love go hand in hand

Educator Krupskaya once said: "Parents are natural teachers. They have the greatest influence on children, especially young children." Education is actually a process of parents and children growing together. Only by constantly learning and changing themselves can parents become qualified growth mentors for their children. On the morning of August 17, Yanshan Xinhua Bookstore invited Chen Rong, a family education instructor and psychological counseling expert, as the main speaker of the event to help parents understand how to establish a sense of boundaries with their children in terms of language, behavior, emotions, etc., so that family education can "keep pace with the times" and make the parent-child relationship more harmonious.

Event time: August 17, 10:00-11:30

Participation method: Offline activities

Event address: No. 4, Ground Floor, No. 2, East Lane 1, Yanshangang South Road, Fangshan District

Tongzhou District

China Bookstore Green Heart Park Branch

New Knowledge from Old Books - "A Little Bell" Sun Wukong and the Purple Golden Bell

The Purple Gold Bell is a magic weapon of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the Ming Dynasty novel Journey to the West. It was forged by Taishang Laojun in the Eight Diagrams Furnace. The Purple Gold Bell is also the necklace ornament of Guanyin's mount "Golden Haired Hound". It was secretly taken away by "Golden Haired Hound" when he transformed into the monster "Sai Tai Sui" in the lower world to deal with the Monkey King Sun Wukong. The Purple Gold Bell is very powerful. If you shake it once, it will produce fire; if you shake it twice, it will produce smoke; if you shake it three times, it will make sand and rocks fly. On August 17, come to the China Bookstore Green Heart Park Store to read the story of Sun Wukong and the "little bell" Purple Gold Bell.

Event time: August 17, 10:30-11:30

Participation method: offline activities, online live broadcast

Event address: Tongzhou District Urban Green Heart Forest Park North District Station

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Spring bookstore

"Old Books, New Knowledge" Theme Reading Club - Classic Literature "The Story of Hulan River"

"The Story of Hulan River" is a poignant narrative poem about a small town in the north. The legendary female writer Xiao Hong of the Republic of China, in a simple, straightforward, delicate and compassionate style, truly and touchingly reproduced her memories of her hometown Hulan, which was full of childlike innocence and poetic interest, revealed the shackles of the old traditional consciousness on the people, and expressed her deep sympathy for the suffering of the people in her hometown. This event will be held in the form of a reading club, where people can read classics together, return to Xiao Hong's beautiful childhood life, and feel her unique writing method of "using thoughts to criticize".

Event time: August 17, 10:30-12:30

Participation method: Offline activities

Event address: Room 118-119, Ground Floor, Yancai Apartment, No. 7 Hong'an Street, Tongzhou District

Shunyi District

Enchanted Planet Book Island

Storytelling on Book Island: Hometown

Hometown is based on Lu Xun's real experience of moving back to his hometown from Beijing in December 1919. It describes a story of returning to one's hometown and is a model work in modern Chinese narrative novels about returning to one's hometown. In the narrative of "I", the novel shows the hometown experience of the returnee and the cultural value judgment of the traditional countryside. Under the plot narrative of "returning to one's hometown", Hometown presents a rich contrasting implication, which contains the author's complex personal perception and thinking, and reflects the profound cultural poetics.

Event time: August 19, 10:00-11:00

Participation method: Offline activities

Event address: Fantastic Planet Book Island, Shuangfeng Street, Shunyi District

Changping District

MPK Vinyl Bookstore

Summer charity activities: Chinese history in idioms

Chinese four-character idioms are a unique and rich form of expression in Chinese. Most of them are derived from ancient literary works, historical events, myths and legends, etc. They not only play a finishing touch in language expression, but also open the door to the palace of literature and history. On August 17, MPK Vinyl Bookstore will invite guests to tell readers of all ages the story behind the idiom "let go" - Shang Tang, who had a benevolent heart, and the long history of China.

Event time: August 21, 10:30-11:20

Participation method: Offline activities

Event address: 3rd floor, Dandilan Shopping Mall, Aoshiji Center, east of Xisanqi Bridge, Changping District

Yanqing District

Young Light Shared Bookstore

Young Light "Read Yourself" Reading Club - Intensive Reading of "The Analects of Confucius" II: What is Benevolence?

The Analects is a collection of quotations compiled by the disciples and descendants of Confucius, a thinker and educator in the Spring and Autumn Period, to record the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples. The book consists of 20 chapters and 492 chapters, mainly in the form of quotations, supplemented by narratives. It more concentratedly reflects the political views, ethical thoughts, moral concepts, and educational principles of Confucius and the Confucian school. Its main features are concise language, easy to understand, and profound meaning. As one of the Confucian classics, the Analects not only has a profound historical and cultural heritage, but also still has important guiding significance and value for modern society.

Event time: August 17, 14:00-16:00

Participation method: Offline activities

Event Address: 1st Floor, Global New Idea, Yanqing District

The collection time for the activity ends before 12:00 on August 15

Tips: Please contact the bookstore to confirm event information before participating in the event

Source: Comprehensive compilation of Beijing physical bookstores