The 10th "Spring Breeze Reading List" Awards, Yu Hua won the Platinum Award for "Wencheng"

Since 2012, every year on April 23, around the World Book Day, there will be a grand event about reading - the "Spring Breeze Reading List" award ceremony.
Due to the epidemic, this year's tenth "Spring Breeze Reading List" was postponed to June 13. On this day, in the main venue of Hangzhou Butterfly Theater, the branch venue of Shanghai Sinan Book Club and the Internet cloud, Li Jingze, Yu Hua, Liu Zhenyun, Ye Zhaoyan, Yang Zhishui, Jin Yucheng, Cheng Yongxin, Chen Fumin, Ai Wei, Jin Renshun, Lu Nei, Lu Min , Li Hongwei and dozens of well-known writers, translators, critics and readers from all over the country reviewed the high-quality books of the past year.
This year's Platinum Book Award was won by Yu Hua's novel Wencheng. "Wencheng" is Yu Hua's new novel after eight years. It tells a story that happened in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, going back to the more barbaric era before "Alive", extending a wider geographical space from north to south . In the stretch of time and space, characters such as the young master Lin Xiangfu from the north, the woman Ji Xiaomei from the south, the country squire Gu Yimin, and the bandit nicknamed "The Monk" are vividly displayed on the paper, forming a breathtaking picture scroll of the times. Among the major literary lists in 2021, "Wencheng" is also the most frequently listed work. In the "2021 Harvest Literary List", "Yangtze River Literary Review" 2021 Literary Ranking", and "The Sixth Annual Gold List of Long Fiction", "Wencheng" is "either the first or the second". At the award ceremony, Yu Hua thanked the organizers, the readers, and all the previous winners and nominees of the "Spring Breeze Reading List".

Yu Hua's "Wencheng"

This year's Silver Book Award was awarded to Chen Fumin's "Forty Degrees North Latitude" (non-fiction) and Liu Zhenyun's "Three Autumns in One Day" (fiction). "Forty Degrees North Latitude" revolves around the "Forty Degree North Latitude" geographic belt marked by the Great Wall. The stories of historical figures such as An Lushan and Wang Zhen are described in a eloquent manner, and finally condensed into his historical thinking and concern for "national competition and integration". "Three Autumns in One Day" cites the folk legend of "Hua Erniang", and builds the novel on the painting of Liu Shu, thus building up multiple spaces: there is a legend that the fairy "Hua Erniang" is looking for jokes in the dreams of Yanjin people; There are also the emotions and thoughts of the three ordinary people who played Xu Xian, Fa Hai, and Bai Niangzi in the Henan Opera "The Legend of the White Snake"; there are ordinary fathers and sons who have left their hometowns and are still walking despite the hardships of life; there are also Yan Luo, a fortune teller and a Taoist woman. Unfinished grievances...

Chen Fumin "Forty Degrees North Latitude"

Liu Zhenyun "Three Autumns in One Day"

In addition, the annual tribute award was awarded to Yan Jiayan's "The Complete Works of Yan Jiayan" and the representative work "Our Land" by Carlos Fuentes, a Mexican national treasure writer translated by Lin Yian; the Spring Breeze Golden Translator Award was awarded to Gong Yu The Epic of Gilgamesh was translated and annotated by the book; the Spring Breeze Social Science Award was awarded to Yang Zhishui's "Name and Acquaintance: Museum Visits • Second Edition"; the Spring Breeze Science Fiction Award was awarded to Li Hongwei's "Guide the Way"; The Book Award was awarded to Bao Erji Yuanye's "Children of Wulan Muqi: Bonfire and Starry Sky"; the Chunfeng IP Award was awarded to Lan Xiaolong's "Winter and Lion"; the Chunfeng Newcomer Award was awarded to Yang Xiao's "Winter and Lion". Re-walking: Looking for Southwest Associated University on Highways, Rivers and Post Roads"; Zhejiang Edition Good Book Award was awarded to Ding Xiaoping's "The Red Boat Sails"; Chunfeng New Youth Fashion Award was awarded to Bilibili's "I Am Brother Yellow Duck", Kuaishou's "Sister Fudou", and Zhihu's "Chu Yunqing".
Li Jingze, vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, said online that the epidemic is full of uncertainties, and literature is about thinking about people's fate amid uncertainty, soothing and inspiring people. He looks forward to next April, when everyone can gather in Hangzhou to share the beauty brought to us by literature once again.

Li Jingze

On the day of the event, Zhejiang Province also released the "2021 Zhejiang Provincial National Reading Report", the 2021 Zhejiang Edition Good Book, the second batch of "The Most Beautiful Reading Team", the 2022 "Book Fragrant Zhejiang" major brand activities, and launched the "National Reading". Online" application.