When the sales of " Skin " exceeded 3 million copies, Cai Chongda made a decision to convert the old house at home, the "Mother's House" written in "Skin till now" into a public welfare library, and commissioned Oriental TV's " Dream Renovation Home " program to invite the well-known designer Ju Bin to transform it.
For Cai Chongda, reading was once a "sanctuary" when he was young. He said: "When I was a child, I dreamed of a place that allows me to lie down, sit, and lie down, read books day after day, with a quiet space and free reading. Building a public welfare library not only fulfilled my childhood dream, but also a process of going home again, but also a form of taking responsibility for social public responsibilities. I hope that people in the town can reach the distance in books."
"'Mother's House' Library is my new home in my hometown"
"Mother's House" The library is located in the depths of the winding alleys in district of Dongshi Town. The quiet library forms a sharp contrast with the bustling crowd, which seems particularly abrupt to ordinary people.
"Mother's House" Library Appearance
Cai Chongda admitted: "This house in my hometown, in addition to the relationship between emotions and parents, is indeed a faraway place that I find difficult to go back to. Modern economic model is destined that fewer and fewer people in the town may be. In fact, I used the royalties to build this house, just like my mother had to build a house back then. It was completely wrong in personal interests. Only by putting it emotionally is priceless."
In Cai Chongda's view, the clan, family, and mother in the town gave birth to him and together constituted his mother body. Building the "Mother's House" library is actually the process of the wandering son Cai Chongda going home again. He said: "My hometown is strong enough. I have brought my hometown to the distance. My hometown is beautiful and powerful, and it really protects me. Some people pave the way for my hometown, some people build buildings for my hometown, but no one has built a public welfare library for the town. I am a writer, and it is very suitable for me to do it."
"'Mother's House' Library, these eight words are a whole. Half of the newly completed houses will be an open library, and the other half will be my family's residence, which will become my 'new home' in my hometown." Cai Chongda further explained that the emotion represented by the house is a "small home", and the library actively participates in common affairs represents "everyone".
"Mother's House" Library, this name begins with the personal and private cherishing emotions, but ultimately completes the form of bearing public responsibility. This is very similar to the core of the southern Fujian clan culture. The clans and clans begin with blood ties and connect the most detailed human emotions, but when they expand, they are public relations with management functions and spiritual order. Hometown Jinjiang is the place where Cai Chongda dreams of. Perhaps the successful completion of the "Mother's House" library will become the most direct witness of Cai Chongda, who is working far away in a foreign land, to contact his hometown.
In Cai Chongda's view, building a public welfare library not only fulfills his childhood dream, but also a process of going home again, and it is also a form of taking responsibility for social public responsibilities.
reluctant to part with the old house, and was pulled several times in the mood
"That house, the stone couplet at the gate, was one of the few surprises my father gave to his mother. He woven the names of the two people into the couplet and carved them on the stone; there was a bed where they got married, and the paint fell off, but they all had memories..."
In the book "Skin Case", Cai Chongda wrote that in order to build this house, her mother was almost crazy and paranoid. When her father had a stroke and was so difficult that she went to pick up the vegetable leaves thrown by others, she "stubbornly wasted money" to build a family house.
Library on the second floor
Cai’s mother first learned that her son wanted to transform the house that had condensed her lifelong efforts and emotions into a library that was open to the public, and she was very supportive in her heart. "Our family lives in Shanghai, and this house becomes lonely and has moved in for a few times a year. My mother and I proposed to transform our home into a public welfare library. My mother was very happy and she was happy to see that the house would become a place to help the villagers." Cai Chongda said. But when Cai Chongda frequently contacted the designer for construction, Cai's mother became sad again. During the three or four months of the library design being changed, Cai's mother was pulled, rising and falling.
Jinjiang Dongshi Town District has dense houses, and the widest distance between buildings is less than two meters. If you want to change the old house to a high-density building terrain. A library that integrates modernization and literary atmosphere is particularly difficult. The old house can no longer bear the original intention of the library design, and my mother's house has to change from "simple transformation" to "demolition and reconstruction", and has to add construction budgets. Cai's mother once told her son sadly that her inner depression: "I built the bricks of the house with my master. When she was building it, your father sat next to her and looked at it with a smile. If you push it down, there will be nothing..." Faced with my mother's reluctance and nostalgia, Cai Chongda said firmly: "Father will be very proud, we will change it into a library that will be opened to everyone, and we will definitely do it. "
The door of the new home on the third floor is the imprint left by her father
Finally, when she heard that the designer would keep the couplets on the stones of the house and the paint-falling beds, the library after completion may become a landmark building, Cai's mother became happy again. Cai's mother specially returned to Dongshi and held a groundbreaking ceremony according to the customs of southern Fujian, telling the house that she had been rooted in most of her life, "We are going to groundbreaking." Cai Chongda posted a construction map after the house was demolished on his Weibo, telling everyone who cared about and followed, "The 'Mother's House' library has started construction. ”
The starting point is the emotion of the hometown, and the end point is the responsibility of the public
Southern Fujian people believe in gods and will vow to do good deeds. As authentic Southern Fujian people, Cai Chongda also made a wish: “When the book "Skin Case", every million copies sold, we have to do something for our hometown. "In fact, he did the same. When the sales of "Skin" exceeded 1 million copies, he returned to Dongshi's alma mater to set up a scholarship; in 2017, the sales of "Skin" exceeded 2 million copies, and he returned to his alma mater, Jinjiang Qiaosheng Middle School, took the names of his father Cai Changfa and his mother Huang Lizhen, and established the "Changli Literature Award" to encourage his alma mater's younger classmates who had their literary dreams; in 2018, the sales of "Skin" reached 2.8 million copies, and he returned to Quanzhou Normal University to set up " "Skin Cloth" Literary Award"; in March 2019, "Skin Cloth" sales exceeded 3 million copies. This time, he decided to build "mother's house" into a semi-open library.
As soon as he learned about the student Cai Chongda's idea, Chen Changwei, the principal of his alma mater Qiaosheng Middle School, praised it very much. He took the initiative to take on the daily management of the library. He said: "This idea is great. Chongda's charity path has moved from the school to the society, which is a reflection of his personal sense of social responsibility. I believe that the project will have a profound impact on the town and even Quanzhou, and I hope it can become a cultural landmark. ”
With the unveiling of the "Mother's House" library, the first lesson of the library's Hengchang Lecture Hall also started
Cai Chongda's arrangements for the completion of the library. He had already had his own idea: after completion, this library built for the town can borrow a book with a valid ID card; people outside the town also borrow books for free, and only need to pay a certain deposit. Tea drinks will be reserved in the library. , light food space, contractors do not need rent, but they need to operate at a low price and undertake the maintenance of public space. The operation of the library will be assisted by the principal of Dongshi's alma mater, and the daily management will be provided by the members of the Literary Club of Qiaosheng Middle School. The library will pay a certain amount of maintenance compensation. He said: "The library is the hometown and the distance of oneself, integrating into a new space. The starting point is the emotion of the hometown, but the end point is the public space leading to modern social responsibility. "
" I hope the personal story of the book selector will also leave a mark in the library, making it a 'library of life' for many people." As Cai Chongda wrote on Weibo, in the future, this built "mother's house" library will no longer be just a sustenance of personal emotions of the Cai family , but will embody the life mark of everyone related to it.
Source: Jinjiang Township News
