Read Reader" and "Wenxun" magazine detective team: the only good book that has passed the test of truth is this one! (weird)

Author｜ Chen Yanming (literary worker) Photography｜ Wang Zhiyuan

At the beginning of November 2018, this magazine reported on the difficulties encountered by the editorial team in obtaining the author's authorization when compiling the " Taiwan Children's and Children's Book during the Japanese Occupation Period ", and issued more than 130 official documents before and after, just to find the author's authorship. family. The editor turned into a detective team, relying on various clues, just to reproduce the appearance of the nursery rhyme movement of the year.

After the report was published, it received a lot of responses, and readers were amazed at the editor's probing skills, leading future generations to glimpse the appearance and grace of the people of the time from the nursery rhyme. In fact, the detective work on paper through file preservation, compilation, and scrutiny is exactly what Wenxun is doing. In addition to the monthly periodic visits to old writers and the accumulation of literary and historical materials, the "Literature and Art Information Research and Service Center" launched by the Wenxun team in July 2018 is currently the largest writer library in China.

Feng Deping, editor-in-chief of the detective team of "Wenxun" (Hello), regarded the "Taiwan Children's Reader during the Japanese Occupation Period" as an important work achievement this year. She mentioned that most of the objects of the text messaging service are writers, but many of the authors of this book are amateurs, and it is extremely difficult to find information. This is also a book she recommends readers should not miss in 2018. "Life will pass away, but the written words will remain and become the testimony of the times," she said.

We also visited other members of the editorial department of Wenxun and asked them to choose a good private book and recommend it to readers. Although the editorial work is busy, everyone's eyes light up when they talk about their favorite books.

Whale Xianghai's "Quest for Friends along the Coastline" is a book recommended by Du Zonglin, the youngest publishing commissioner in the team. He had read this out-of-print treasure, but he had no chance to collect it. There was a time when there was a mess on the Facebook page of the small study room, but he didn't expect that someone would actually hand over the first edition to him. He said: "This is one of the books I'm most looking for at this stage, and the last chapter of this book is titled 'Your and My Love Fails for the Success of the Family', which reminds me of the recent gay marriage referendum, if gays If you can love each other and start a family, then love will not "fail for the success of the family"."

The project leader Zhan Yupei's favorite book this year is Zhong Wenyin's "I Can't Help You". She mentioned: "The text describes the struggle between mothers, nurses, and nasogastric tube insertion and removal, and compares the mother with the nasogastric tube to a broken elephant-trunked god of wealth walking off a lotus seat. It reminds me of my own father. I also had a nasogastric tube inserted in the early stage of my stroke, and I also had this kind of wrestling. I laughed knowingly when I read it, and I felt like, "Ah! That's how it was at the time."

Mu Xin's "Leopard Change" is the most recommended book by planning Xu Jiajun this year. She likes Mu Xin's pure words that don't fall out of her book bag, and she claims to be a fan of Mu Xin. This book was reorganized according to Mu Xin's last wishes. Although the 16 articles included are all published works, the collection into a book has become another complete story. It is said that you can see the history of Mu Xin's spiritual growth. Xu Jiajun mentioned: "Sometimes when I encounter difficulties, I hope that Mu Xin can be possessed and use his eyes to judge the problem, so he often re-reads his text. This is a book that can be close to Mu Xin."

"I am Takoyaki, call me Octopus Saburo" by Yoshihisa Hasegawa is the most recommended book by editor-in-chief Tu Qianman this year. Octopus Saburo looks different from everyone, but no one cares why he is different, he wants to run away from home. At the end of the story, the reader realizes that it was the boss who forgot to put the octopus, so he was just a ball of batter, but he happened to meet a child without front teeth, so he liked this takoyaki without octopus very much. When reading this book, Tu Qianman thought of the book "The Wound of the Mind, The Body Will Remember", she mentioned: "We may encounter some trauma and sometimes think that we are worthless, but we must practice and accept that we are truly thoughts and feelings, living with those emotions.”

The work that Deputy Editor-in-Chief Ding Mingqing would like to recommend to readers this year is "Yoko Ono's Song of the Seed of Life". After he finished reading this collection of poems, he kept it with him from time to time, and read it casually when he thought of it. The sentences in the book are short and gentle, but they can interact with the scenery around them, which is very useful to him. Ding Mingqing read several of them to us on the spot: "Record your friends' laughter and save it for rainy days." "Imagine what will happen to the room after you move out. Imagine what is in the room when you die. You can take it with you.” ● ( The original text was first published on the OPENBOOK official website on 2018-11-26)

"Wenxun" detective team recommends good books

• "Spring Breeze Boy's Song: A Novel Reader for Taiwanese Teenagers During the Japanese Occupation", Zhang Wujun, etc., Wenxun Magazine
• "Treasure Island Gramophone: Taiwanese Nursery Rhymes Reader During the Japanese Occupation (1)", by Y Sheng et al, translated by Lin Zhonglong, illustrated by Pan Jiaxin, Wenxun Magazine
• "Children's Talk Broadcasting Bureau: Taiwanese Nursery Rhymes Reader During the Japanese Occupation (2)", by Y Sheng et al, translated by Lin Zhonglong, illustrated by Pan Jiaxin, Wenxun Magazine
• Yoko Ono's Song of the Seed of Life, Yoko Ono, published by Yuanliu
• "Friends Along the Coastline", Whales to the Sea, Trojan Horse Culture
• "I am Takoyaki, call me Takoyaki Saburo", written by Yoshihisa Hasegawa, translated by Lin Zhenmei, published by Viking
• "Leopard Transformation", Mu Xin, Printing Press
• "I Can't Help Teasing You", Zhong Wenyin, Daejeon Publishing