Shan Zhiqiang

Shan Zhiqiang

Shan Zhiqiang, executive editor in chief of China National Geographic.

He graduated from Jilin University and worked in the Ministry of economy of people's daily (Overseas Edition) in 1985. Later, he worked as a manager in National Geographic of China. At present, he is a researcher of Institute of Geographical Sciences and resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy director of publishing Committee of Chinese geographical society, vice chairman of science communication and Science Education Professional Committee of Dialectics of nature society, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and distinguished researcher of science communication center of Peking University.

introduce

Mr. Shan Zhiqiang is fond of thinking. He has a novel point of view. He is fond of books and travels thousands of miles. As the executive editor in chief of China National Geographic magazine, he is familiar with the business and good at planning and organizing albums and reports loved by readers, "why did God make Sichuan", "beauty China" and other albums constantly refresh the miracle of magazine release. He led his team to Hoh Xil, Mount Qomolangma, Rongbu glacier, Mount Xisha, Taklimakan Desert, Kunlun Mountains, Qilian Mountains, Hengduan Mountains, Qinling Mountains, the source of the Yangtze River, the great bend of the Yarlung Zangbo River and other places. He experienced many hardships and recorded many little-known stories.

Life

Shan Zhiqiang has a complicated experience and has done a lot of work. The major of the university is Chinese language and literature, but different from other liberal arts students, Shan Zhiqiang has a strong interest in science and mathematics. Shan Zhiqiang's work is related to "geography", because geography is the closest to humanities.

Since Shan Zhiqiang became editor in chief, the magazine's albums, such as "circle the most beautiful place in China", "why did God make Sichuan", "go all over the world to ask the river", "grand Shangri La", "list of the most beautiful places in China", have not only created a miracle of release, but also become a classic collection of many people.

To be able to travel all over the mountains and rivers of the motherland is the place where many people admire Shan Zhiqiang. But he said with a smile, "go" is not his original purpose. He used to build a car behind closed doors until 2003, when he was invited to Sichuan by chance. After walking around, I found that the impression of ordinary people on Sichuan is still limited to the old pattern of the land of abundance, Chengdu Plain, large population and rich products. At this time, his eyes stay in the west of Sichuan, Ganzi, ABA, Liangshan, vast land, many snow mountains, especially the snow mountains and snow peaks in Sichuan, Siguniang mountain, Gongga Mountain, Hailuogou, etc., solemn and holy, which is different from the famous mountains and rivers in traditional Chinese aesthetics.

"To look at mountains, we should look at extremely high mountains." This is a famous idea put forward by Shan Zhiqiang in his album "why did God make Sichuan". He said that for thousands of years, Chinese people have sung about the scenery in the East, but ignored the magnificent rivers and mountains in the West. Chinese people should have a revolution in aesthetic appreciation and enter the era of appreciating glaciers. His theory was warmly received by many people. At that time, a group of scholars in Sichuan were also impressed by his outsider's point of view.

Since then, National Geography of China has gradually matured, and Shan Zhiqiang has begun to walk more. The more he walked, the more he felt that the citizens of a country should have a basic understanding of the mountains and rivers of his motherland. On the Sichuan Tibet line, he met a group of young people. They were all white-collar workers in big cities. After leaving their jobs, they finished the Sichuan Tibet line without any harvest. They didn't know that there was a magnificent scenery around them. This made him more firmly set up the idea of helping people master geographical knowledge, which he said would make life richer.

As a traveler, Shan Zhiqiang likes walking on the road very much. Just like the Renaissance must return to the origin of Greece, if he wants to do a geographical report, he will go to that place to have a look in person, and there will be unexpected surprises and discoveries every time.

He said: 'the photographer's photos are always incredible. All you believe is your own eyes. He thought that China had "no place to go", but later found that he was wrong. In Shangri La, he saw the polygamy coexisting with the modern marriage system. In a village, each family has four brothers and a wife. In Everest, which is usually considered dangerous, he saw the beautiful ice Pagoda Forest, in which the stones at his feet were washed with water like Buddha, shining blue in the sun.

Often walking in the western region, Shan Zhiqiang's investigation life is not the leisure tourism that people imagine, but full of hardships and dangers. In the vicinity of Dunhuang, in order to find the large-scale Yadan landform, they drove to an abandoned national road by mistake. The road was full of quicksand, and the car soon ran out of oil And the light they saw in their desperation cheered them; on Mount Everest, the beautiful and pitfalls of the icetower forest, which no one had ever entered, were everywhere with ice cracks and ice lakes. Even the local guide tried to persuade Shan Zhiqiang not to go down, but Shan Zhiqiang "went his own way." he laughed that the most beautiful scenery was often in the most dangerous place.

Shan Zhiqiang, who has traveled a lot, sighs that he still has many places to go and many books to read. Having seen so much scenery, he has always insisted on writing his own articles before the album. He said that only by writing in person can he pay attention to and study nature.

Shan Zhiqiang is the editor in chief of the magazine. He likes writing, reading and quoting classics. For example, in order to write about the Three Gorges, he will find 54 poems about the Yangtze River and 12 poems about the Three Gorges in 300 Tang poems. He compares the hidden Chinese courtyard buildings with the conspicuous western Castle buildings, and explains the Guanzhong Basin culture and the Athens mountains with geographical knowledge Cultural differences In addition, he has many controversial "deviant" arguments, such as that afforestation is a myth, questioned any large-scale afforestation project, for which he used the "top community" theory of American ecologist clemenz; when the Qinghai Tibet railway was opened, he announced the birth of another great wall, which made him criticized by many netizens. His writing style shows the nature and steadiness of outdoor people. At the same time, it can make us realize the intense emotion and impulse of scholars to rectify the world. He is always eager to ask for a proper "reputation" in the city for those unknown mountains, lakes, plateaus and wetlands.

He runs back and forth between the two extremes of the natural world and the civilized world. At one extreme, he and his fellow friends trudged and got lost in the glacier and desert, excited about a friend's naked self portrait after climbing the glacier; at the other extreme, as a unit person, he had to push the magazine's process according to the business rules every month, coordinate the monthly magazine's publication on time, not only write the preface, but also wear a suit and tie, and meet the readers from time to time Meet or give a speech

Obviously, Shan Zhiqiang has adapted to the life of shuttling back and forth between the two worlds. Once a month, he swings like a clock, and every time, he returns to his position on time. He told reporters that in order to catch up with the manuscript, he had just finished his noodle soup on an iceberg with an altitude of more than 5000 meters or on a desert Gobi in the scorching sun. He pressed his hat, wore a charging suit, and put on headphones to knock out his experience on the keyboard. It can be imagined that what he knocked out was nothing else but something he had been doing and wanted to continue to do - to build the image of China.

Quotations

1. I always believe that the scenery is not natural, but you go to meet. It's just like the aboriginal looking at a complicated microscope. He doesn't understand the advantages of the modern civilization equipment at all. Only a person who knows about it can understand its advantages. Only when one has some perceptual knowledge of the Western scenery can one find its beauty when he goes there. I'm not a geography expert. I'm the editor in chief of a magazine. What I can do is to influence more people and let more Chinese people like the Chinese landscape from an aesthetic point of view, especially in the West.

2. I remember watching a film of the former Soviet Union reflecting the patriotic war. Most of the plots are blurred, but I remember Stalin's words. At that time, the German army was already under Moscow, and the Soviet Union was in danger. However, the Red Square parade to commemorate the October Revolution continued as usual. Stalin's speech at this time was pre war mobilization. He said this: they (German fascists) wanted to destroy a country that had produced Peter the great, Kutuzov, romonosov, Pushkin, Tolstoy, lemontov My country At the end of Stalin's speech, the troops under review went directly from Red Square to the battlefield. At that time, I thought: why can these people's names be mobilized before the war? Why do the Russians fight to the death at the thought of someone trying to eliminate these names. Because these names represent the core of the Russian spirit, they are the soul of the Russian nation, and they are the symbols of Russian national consciousness and national consciousness.

What would the commander-in-chief of our army say if the situation happened in our country and the troops were on the verge of the city and the commander-in-chief of our army mobilized before the war? We Chinese people have many glorious names to choose from. He can say that they want to wipe out a man who once produced Hanwu emperor, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Confucius, Zu Chongzhi, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Dongpo, Luo Guanzhong, Cao Xueqin It's our country.

These glorious names are enough to awaken our national and national consciousness.

3. The netizen who said "heaven is just like this" in Maldives, if he went to the Xisha and Nansha Islands in China, he would certainly sigh that "heaven is in China". The South China Sea is of great economic value (it contains several times as much oil as Daqing, and countless marine organisms with economic value such as fish). It also has the value of transportation and tourism. However, it is short-sighted to look at the South China Sea only from these perspectives. The South China Sea Islands have a bigger meaning: they

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