One day, I met several young mothers with their children in a cafe for afternoon tea. Several children are big and small, the oldest is three or four years old, and has started to run around; the youngest is just over a year old, afraid of life and clinging. In the end, the older children were "caught" back by their mobile phones. When they faced the screen, the world suddenly became quiet; the little ones didn't have mobile phones, but only picture books. Slip and slip. I often feel the power of continuous "evolution" of human beings in such scenes - some things that seem to be "skills" today do not need to be taught specifically to the "new generation", they just play and play. Yes, it seems to be an innate "instinct". This kind of situation is actually quite common. I have worked with some young friends on some videos, and I found it difficult for them to complete the script in words - give them a concept, they will have a sense of the picture in their minds, and quickly think of which work they have seen similar Expressed, they can successfully complete the storyboard script, but it is difficult to deepen it at the literal level. At first, I didn’t quite understand it, and I always thought—Is it so difficult to write down what I said and the pictures I thought of in words? Later, I found out that I was wrong. They are "television children" who grew up in the video age. They are accustomed to the picture-based way of thinking, but they are forced by Party A, who grew up in the reading age, to convert the images in their heads into words.

We have always regarded language as an important carrier of human civilization. In terms of the form and content of communication, we always think that the content should be the most important, but in fact, the form and carrier of communication are also reshaping what we want to express. content. Changes like this have existed since time immemorial. Ancient Chinese is concise but vague, not because the ancients did not want to explain it clearly, but because there was no paper at that time, and only tortoise shells, bamboo slips or bronzes could be used as carriers to record. From paper books to mobile phones, eloquently returned to just a few words, and the flood of information has worn away people's patience. Under the guidance of this trend, it is not surprising that "title party" emerges one after another. Even fragmented reading seems to be on the decline—from 140-word Weibo to 15-second short videos, text as a carrier of information seems to be gradually receding. The Argentine poet Borges said: "I think the experience of reading a book is no less than traveling or falling in love." But when I open my mind, I think that the future human civilization may not be passed down through language as a carrier, it may be There will be ways that we cannot imagine at this stage. Reading will eventually become more "niche". But what Borges said is also true in the distant future - the experience of reading a book is always "individual" and "private", the same as the experience of traveling or falling in love. You can't experience the joy you have, and you can't share that joy with others.

One day, I met several young mothers with their children in a cafe for afternoon tea. Several children are big and small, the oldest is three or four years old, and has started to run around; the youngest is just over a year old, afraid of life and clinging. In the end, the older children were "caught" back by their mobile phones. When they faced the screen, the world suddenly became quiet; the little ones didn't have mobile phones, but only picture books. Slip and slip. I often feel the power of continuous "evolution" of human beings in such scenes - some things that seem to be "skills" today do not need to be taught specifically to the "new generation", they just play and play. Yes, it seems to be an innate "instinct". This kind of situation is actually quite common. I have worked with some young friends on some videos, and I found it difficult for them to complete the script in words - give them a concept, they will have a sense of the picture in their minds, and quickly think of which work they have seen similar Expressed, they can successfully complete the storyboard script, but it is difficult to deepen it at the literal level. At first, I didn’t quite understand it, and I always thought—Is it so difficult to write down what I said and the pictures I thought of in words? Later, I found out that I was wrong. They are "television children" who grew up in the video age. They are accustomed to the picture-based way of thinking, but they are forced by Party A, who grew up in the reading age, to convert the images in their heads into words.

We have always regarded language as an important carrier of human civilization. In terms of the form and content of communication, we always think that the content should be the most important, but in fact, the form and carrier of communication are also reshaping what we want to express. content. Changes like this have existed since time immemorial. Ancient Chinese is concise but vague, not because the ancients did not want to explain it clearly, but because there was no paper at that time, and only tortoise shells, bamboo slips or bronzes could be used as carriers to record. From paper books to mobile phones, eloquently returned to just a few words, and the flood of information has worn away people's patience. Under the guidance of this trend, it is not surprising that "title party" emerges one after another. Even fragmented reading seems to be on the decline—from 140-word Weibo to 15-second short videos, text as a carrier of information seems to be gradually receding. The Argentine poet Borges said: "I think the experience of reading a book is no less than traveling or falling in love." But when I open my mind, I think that the future human civilization may not be passed down through language as a carrier, it may be There will be ways that we cannot imagine at this stage. Reading will eventually become more "niche". But what Borges said is also true in the distant future - the experience of reading a book is always "individual" and "private", the same as the experience of traveling or falling in love. You can't experience the joy you have, and you can't share that joy with others.