Do not snooze bookstores to take root in Huadu villagers can also enjoy urban cultural experience

There is a place where the villagers have a 24 -hour lighting light for passers -by in Xiaobu Village, Huashan Town, Guangzhou

Text/Figure Yangcheng Evening News reporter Wang Jiejie

In Xiaobu Village, Huashan Town, Huadu District, Guangzhou, there is a 24 -hour bookstore that is not snoring. Customers can push the door at any time and be warmly welcomed by the owner. This bookstore not only sells books, but also provides free borrowing services. When the bookstore first opened, some villagers were surprised, "How can there be bookstores in the countryside." After understanding the public welfare attributes of the bookstore, the villagers added a little joy and pride. Essence

Jiang Yongqiang, the founder of the bookstore, introduced that the original intention of establishing a 24 -hour bookstore was to promote the reading of the whole people. The reason why the location was located is because the villagers needed a "public cultural space" compared to people in the city. Jiang Yongqiang hopes to run the bookstore and open a few more branches in the future, "serving more book lovers."

Bookstore walks into the countryside

Promote the reading of the whole people

In the middle of the small rows of private houses in Xiaobu Village, the 24 -hour bookstore's green -bottomed yellow -character sign appeared to be very eye -catching. At the entrance of the bookstore, there is also a poster of the Nanguo Book Fragrance Festival and Yangcheng Book Fair. This bookstore located in the rural areas of Guangzhou is one of the branch venues of the South China Book Fragrance Festival this year.

Bookstores are divided into two floors. In addition to some necessary tables and chairs, most spaces are displayed with bookshelves. According to the founder Jiang Yongqiang, there are nearly 10,000 books of less than 300 square meters in the two -story bookstore. From the teaching aids to the original English book, "there should be all."

In addition to Jiang Yongqiang, Yan Weicong is the only clerk in the bookstore. The 24 -year -old guy associated with the bookstore through a reading club. After in -depth contact, he simply resigned to the bookstore to help. Yan Weicong had done car maintenance and delivered express delivery. The recent job was in the printing factory, but these "not what they want". He likes to read books, and feels that the work of this bookstore has a different significance from the previous work. "The culture of promoting books and feels more valuable."

Jiang Yongqiang told reporters that in addition to normal trading, as long as you register in advance, books in the bookstore can read or even borrow it at will. "The original positioning of the bookstore is public welfare sharing, hoping to do everything to promote the reading of the whole people."

The 42 -year -old Jiangxi was a frequent visitor in the store. When he and his wife walked at night, he discovered the bookstore. "At first, he wanted to go in to rent a book. Jiangxi excavated on the construction site. His wife worked at the electrical factories. The husband and wife "are not a personality of play". In their spare time, I only swipe my mobile phone, go online, and occasionally want to read this book. I want to take a car to the town Xinhua Bookstore is very inconvenient.

Now that there is a bookstore in front of the house, Jiang Xi feels "particularly good and convenient". He will borrow several books every time and wait for reading it.

Urban cultural experience

Villagers can enjoy

"Brother Cong, a lot of homework today!" At around 4:30 pm, a crisp child sounded, and Yan Weicong ushered in the first elementary school student in school today. He helped the child to arrange a seat and told him to "do his homework seriously." In the following half an hour, the primary school students in the village were sent to the bookstore by the parents, and some deserted bookstores became lively in the morning.

The girls write quietly in their seats. The boys have a lot of naughty. They did not write a few words in their homework. "Quiet! Quiet!" Yan Weicong kept the order, but the results were very small. The children have become friends with "Cong Brother". Jiang Yongqiang came forward to criticize a few words, and the little boys calmed down and studied carefully.

Jiang Yongqiang told reporters that primary school students are at about 4 o'clock in school. Many parents have difficulty getting themselves to take care of them. They will send their children to the bookstore to study or read books. On weekends and winter and summer vacations, bookstores will also carry out free public welfare class activities. Volunteers teachers will teach children to write brushes, paintings, and reading.

Liu Yanping lives in Pingxi Village. If there are no special circumstances, after school every afternoon, she will send the third -year son to the bookstore to do homework. In Liu Yanping's view, in the bookstore and his peers, he has a sense of learning at an atmosphere. Instead of letting children play mobile phones at home, it is better to send the child to the bookstore to read a book.

In fact, Jiang Yongqiang not only wanted to turn the bookstore into a "custody class", he also hoped to make the bookstore a "public cultural space". Jiang Yongqiang actively hosted various book exhibition activities such as the South China Book Fragrance Festival. He believes that "the cultural experience in the city, and the villagers should enjoy it." In addition, he also opened up the library of the bookstore into a shop, sale and sale the local products for villagers, and also organized the flea market to allow children to buy and sell toys, books, and so on. "Bookstores are not only a place to read, but also through this platform to allow villagers to have a variety of cultural life."

Run all the small and small book cities

Touring bookstore operations

Before the establishment of a bookstore, Jiang Yongqiang had been a reporter, worked as a cultural company, and went to class in public institutions and state -owned enterprises. After turning around for more than ten years, college students who graduated from this teacher still decided to open a bookstore to do "meaningful things".

Unlike many young people with blood, Jiang Yongqiang decided to leave from state -owned enterprises in 2020 and devoted himself to entrepreneurship. To abandon the work with good treatment to make a bookstore, it is not a decision to heat up for a while. In order to allow the ideal to land, Jiang Yongqiang has made sufficient preparations and investigations.

In 2017, when Jiang Yongqiang started the 24 -hour bookstore, he was located in Tianmei Village, Huadu District, and then moved to Xiaobu Village. In order to find out the "business scriptures" of opening a bookstore, Jiang Yongqiang ran through the large and small book city in Guangzhou. Sometimes he sat in the bookstore for a long time. After observing and studying, he summarized the experience of the bookstore operation. In an interview with reporters, Jiang Yongqiang should swipe his mobile phone from time to time and dock with the customer who booked a book. He joked: "Say it well to promote the reading of the whole people, but he has been watching his mobile phone." Jiang Yongqiang is a person who pays attention to "practical". He knows that the bookstore is essentially a business. If you want to do it for a long time, you need Work hard to work hard.

The word "practical" is also reflected in the decoration of the bookstore. Unlike many bookstores that focus on the concept of "24 hours", Jiang Yongqiang's bookstore has no exquisite decoration or attractive "punching point". Jiang Yongqiang feels that the bookstore is used to read books. As long as it is clean and tidy, there is no need to hollowing out the "Internet celebrity route". "Even if the drainage is successful, everyone comes to take pictures and not read books, which is not my original intention."

Jiang Yongqiang hopes that he can operate his bookstore well, not only to satisfy food and clothing, but it is best to make some money and open a few more branches. "Many young people have the idea of ​​opening a bookstore, but they dare not practice. I hope to make a successful case and encourage more people to choose to join this industry."

Bookstore without snoring

Passership light

Why not choose normal business hours, and spend more manpower and material resources to open a 24 -hour bookstore? This is related to Jiang Yongqiang's own personal experience.

In his 20s, he worked alone in Shenzhen. Jiang Yongqiang spent many weekends in a 24 -hour book. Jiang Yongqiang loved to visit the bookstore. At that time, the house he rented was relatively remote. Sometimes when he read the book late, he did not go home without a bus. He spent the night in the bookstore. He told reporters that in fact, many fast food restaurants can sit on dawn, but the bookstore gives people a kind of warm memory and decentness. This is a warm memory that Shenzhen has given him.

In his 24 -hour bookstore, Jiang Yongqiang also encountered all kinds of passers -by. One night in September last year, a boy read a psychological -related book alone in the store. During the chat, Jiang Yongqiang learned that the boy resigned from Shanghai and then found a job in Guangzhou. After depression, I was busy renting a house during the day and could only read books at night. Jiang Yongqiang enlightened the boy and talked about a little at night, and then settled down in the bookstore. The next morning, the boy left alone and sent a text message to Jiang Yongqiang "Thank you for Qiang".

In addition, Jiang Yongqiang also encountered guests who drove to the store in the early morning of Qixi Shiye Night, a backpacker who made fire in the store, and bought the tutor -assisted running legs at 3 am ... Guests, whether they are children, book lovers, or young people who work hard in the city, the 24 -hour bookstore lights up a lamp for these people. This is a warmth he passed on.

Jiang Yongqiang's biggest wish is to meet some like -minded people to open branches in different places and "serve more people who love to read."

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