Do not lose our "letter culture"

Letter writing is called "the most gentle art." Some sociological scholars have analyzed that netizens are chasing the era of handwritten letters, because "the happiness of communication comes from two levels. One is writing, that is, expression. Such expression has become a rhetorical method; the second is waiting. Waiting on the subjective It is also an expectation, and this expectation makes people feel hopeful.” In fact, some of the letters of famous people are often very good literary works. Even with letters alone, they can occupy a place in the history of literature. In the history of modern Chinese literature, writers such as Lu Xun, Zhu Ziqing, Liang Shiqiu, Yu Dafu, and Xu Zhimo have many works that are well known to us and are written in the form of epistolary bodies, such as Lu Xun’s “Books of the Two Places” and Xu Zhimo’s “Love the Eyebrows”. The Little Sisters etc reflects the great role of letter culture in human life, especially in expressing human emotions.

With the rapid development of network communication technology, communication methods are branded with technology. Communication tools have deeply influenced and penetrated people's daily life and even emotional life. The impact of technology on the culture of the letter is reflected in the fact that we use pens to write less and less, electronic forms of letters are used, emails that can be deleted at any time, microblogs with a limit of 140 characters, symbolized text messages, and traditional communication methods are used. The graceful rhetoric, friendly writing, and emotional expectations all disappeared.

Some people say that the art of letters represents a time of solemnity. The decline of letter art is a loss of some traditional cultural spirit. The fact that netizens write letters, seek pen pals, and send postcards to each other imply an implicit reliance on this cultural spirit. But this does not indicate that people really have to go back to the era of handwritten letters. Today, handwritten letters are no longer useful for real communication intentions in everyday life, such as giving families peace, meeting with friends, and so on. It is precisely because of this that the behavior of handwritten letters exchanged and postcards that we see as a medium for the media is often greater than the instrumentality. Remembering handwritten letters is an artistic behavior that netizens voluntarily seek for "slow," "waiting," "see words, meet," and other life experiences. It can also be seen as a collective call to the traditional cultural spirit. This is undoubtedly a source of relief.

Today, technological factors have increasingly shown their absolute superiority in life. Then how to fully respect the spiritual needs of each individual living, to nurture and moisten the human mind with artistic spirit and rich emotions, and to avoid technologicalization, electronicity and human nature, The materialization of emotions has become a top priority. I hope that a handwritten letter can cherish the good feelings for us and evoke a deep feeling of traditional culture.