Roaming the vast world and leading the public to think, the second season of Daily Literature glimpses the light of thought from daily life.

In 1980s, literature was once one of the most fashionable topics in Chinese. At that time, the fastest-selling magazine in newsstands was Dangdai, People’s Literature and Novel Monthly. If you haven’t read "Avant-garde" and "Vague School", you may be embarrassed to say hello to others.

Nowadays, in the fast-paced traffic era, it seems that there are fewer and fewer people who can calm down and read a literary work. So is there still a "shelter" for literature in our daily life? Recently, the second season of the humanistic documentary "Everyday Literature" jointly produced by Southeast Satellite TV, Channel Satellite TV and Youku Video answered this question in an ingenious way. The program enters the writers’ daily life, shows their rich and interesting spiritual world, and makes the public feel the charm of literature enough to illuminate their daily life again.

"De-streaming" writers’ lineup

The second season of Everyday Literature, which returned after a lapse of two years, continued the pattern of the previous season, starting from the visit of friends, and reflecting the writer’s cognition and interpretation of the times and life through the two-day conversation, visit, experience and observation between writers and friends. But at the same time, the program also faces some challenges in the creation of the second season.

The primary problem faced by the creative team is to determine what kind of writers will enter Daily Literature this time. Through the program, we can easily find that compared with last season, the writers in this program seem to be more "de-streamed". Among the six writers, there are writers who have won the Mao Dun Literature Award, such as Liu Liangcheng and Li Xiuwen, and there are also representatives of the "third generation poetry" Yu Jian and representatives of the new generation writers Shuang Xuetao.

The reason why I chose to shoot these writers, director Wang Shengzhi has his own ideas: "After two seasons of programs, the criteria for choosing writers are not whether there are awards or whether they bring their own traffic. The writers I choose are all people who have seen the main works in recent years and caused me to read and think. I value their ability to dream and communicate with their hearts more."

In the film, Liu Liangcheng and Hong Qi roamed the grassland Gobi in Xinjiang, and Lu Yu shepherds, wild camels, donkeys, lizards and other creatures all stopped to say hello. When he said that "a spider’s web is a spider’s home", what the audience got from it was a writer’s philosophy of equality of all beings and integration of things and me. Yu Jian and his good friend Hu Liangcan met in Jianshui ancient city, freely entering and leaving the noisy slag street and the secret quiet house, talking about divinity and eating with a big mouth. Facing the mottled door with no details, he threw a question to the audience, that is, the meaning of details to life.

Whether it’s Liu Liangcheng, Li Xiuwen, Yu Jian, Chen Yan and other writers, all the writers invited by the program are rich in life experience and thoughtful enough. It is precisely because of this that their stories and expressions can make the audience more touched and inspire them.

Let writers roam the world

Let literature combine with life better.

On the basis of exploring the writer’s spiritual world, the new season "Daily Life of Literature" also tries a new way to oppose TV linear narration. The program allows writers and friends to walk into the environment of life, nature and the streets and lanes of the city, which makes the program more "a sense of human roaming".

From the desert Gobi to the ancient city market, writers and their friends swim in the vast world, sing songs in the pastures of Xinjiang and play guitar in the yellow sand of Dunhuang; Or wandering in the bustling fireworks world, drilling hutongs and talking to grandfathers, entering the village in the city and talking to migrant workers at home. With their roaming, the program presents a broader and richer local customs and opens up a richer life.

In Wang Shengzhi’s view, the core of roaming is encounter and improvisation, which is very different from interview. It is not only a physical space movement, but also a spiritual journey. "Roaming makes writers leave their familiar environment, and then they will meet strange people and things. When these encounters occur, they can start a topic, and this expression is from the heart."

As a matter of fact, in each nearly one-hour program, the topic of conversation is changeable, which is often the product of the team setting up the camera and letting it develop when the writer and friends are roaming. Shuangxuetao and Shi Hang wandered between the red bricks and green tiles in the ancient capital Beijing, and came across a narrow family, which reminded him of his childhood sleeping on a hot kang and his parents selling roasted sweet potatoes and being chased around the street by the urban management, and naturally talked about the understanding of "compassion": "What is compassion? It is’ I am also him’. " Li Xiuwen happened to talk with his elder sister who picked bitter vegetables in Xinglin, a wasteland in the northwest. He liked to listen to everyone talk about the triviality of daily life and said with emotion, "Life is exposed to writing, and writing is exposed to life."

Faced with a relatively unfamiliar environment, writers will improvise, express their feelings about life, and respond and rebuild this imperfect real world by watching the initial heart of literature. Just as Shi Hang’s review and Shuang Xuetao’s crazy sledding on the ice rink in Shichahai expressed in the program: "Everyday Literature is not to shape a certain height, but to deconstruct all heights and let you know what is interesting, true, good and beautiful."

"I hope that in the second season’s program, literature can be better combined with daily life and bring different things to the audience." Wang Shengzhi said. Just like in the program, Yu Jian read aloud in the vegetable market, and the old man next to him walked in front of him; Shuangxuetao is reading in a narrow alley, and the people behind him are playing billiards … In the second season of Daily Literature, the author’s reading session is placed in the daily fireworks, which actually brings literature back to its place.

Literature is never empty, it comes from the summary of writers’ life and the philosophy of life. In the second season of Daily Literature, writers and friends swam together in places closely related to literary creation, visited the market life, and skillfully linked literature with life. "In the past, many people felt that literature was far away from them. No, part of daily life was literature, and those shining and poetic existence belonged to literature. So there is daily life in literature, and there is also literature in daily life. " Wang Shengzhi said.

"Invest 20% of creative power to make leading content every year"

In recent years, from Breakfast in China, Dishes, China is so beautiful, and then to Everyday Literature, fujian media group Satellite TV Center takes food, music, literature, etc. as the entry point of creation, and refines the feelings of life from the details of daily life, creating a series of successful documentary works, showing a distinctive style and winning a good reputation.

According to Hong Lei, director of fujian media group Satellite TV Center, director of Southeast Satellite TV, and master planner of Daily Literature, at present, some works blindly cater to the market and capital, and tend to be pan-entertainment and too utilitarian, so they cannot enter the hearts of the public. Therefore, he hopes to leave a "free place" for creators. "Satellite TV Center invests at least 20% of its creative power every year to make content with leading value, and encourages to try new program forms and content themes and do it on the circle. In fact, it is very valuable that each program can at least have emotional dialogue and communication with some people. "

In an era when serious literature is declining and the public attaches too much importance to the entertainment function of literature, Everyday Literature, a documentary with a seemingly niche theme, leads the audience into the world of literature step by step in an interesting way and opens up more space for thinking and taste. In the past reading documentaries, whenever the themes of "reading" and "literature" were mentioned, they were always endowed with profound meanings and heavy concepts, which made many viewers "flinch". However, in the second season of Daily Literature, there is no literary coffee to explain the creative stories of classic works. It is not an interview with famous writers, but to let writers enter a broader world and face the difficulties of modern life through individual discovery and sentiment, thus arousing the emotional resonance of the audience.

As summarized by Hong Lei: "Everyday Literature is not just about literature, but focuses on the writer’s ability to digest life, helping the audience understand and refine life from the writer’s point of view, which is a rational thinking about real life and helping the audience solve their own life problems better."

Liu Liangcheng’s birthplace is a village on the edge of the Gurbantunggut Desert in Xinjiang. The writing of One Man’s Village stems from his memories of a village that has gone far away. Li Xiuwen wrote "To the Elder in Jiangdong", using sixteen simple but extraordinary stories to write the most wordless heavy; Chen Yan took Chen Xiaoduo to visit Xibali Village in Xi ‘an. The spiritual highlights of the bottom workers are the source of his work "The Leading Role" …

"In fact, you will find that many words coincide with the images in the world. If words are the other side of meaning, then this shore is the image of our current life. " Wang Shengzhi said, "It is equally valid to put the words in the book on the hot shore, because there is a bridge between them, so everyone can naturally understand and feel, and this is the most enjoyable place to shoot this film."

"Illuminating daily life with literature and ruminating on life with thoughts" is the initial intention of creating the program "Daily Life of Literature". In the second season, the program is still full of awe of literature. Through the collision between literature and daily life, it reflects the writers’ cognition and interpretation of the times and life, and delivers thoughtful content to the audience, so that the public can glimpse the light of thought in daily life.