Who is the origin of World Reading Day to commemorate?

Some people say, "reading may not make you rich, but reading more books will give you more opportunities to create wealth." Bian Xiao thinks this sentence is particularly reasonable. Although not everyone really has a good prospect of reading. But after all, it is the result of your own efforts, and you will never regret it. Do you know World Book Day? There may still be many people who don't know, so let Bian Xiao take you to see it!

Origin of the Festival: The inspiration for UNESCO to choose April 23rd as World Reading Day comes from a beautiful legend. April 23rd is the anniversary of the death of Spanish writer Cervantes, and it is also a popular festival in Catalonia "Saint George's Day". In fact, the same day is also the anniversary of Shakespeare's birthday and death, as well as the birthdays of American writer Nabokov, French writer Maurice Derohan, and Laxenes, the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in Iceland, and so on, so it seems "justified" to become a global reading day.

1972, UNESCO issued a call to the whole world to "move towards a reading society", requiring all members of society to study. Books have become the necessities of life, and reading has become an indispensable part of everyone's daily life. From 65438 to 0995, UNESCO declared April 23rd as "World Reading Day", and devoted itself to promoting reading, publishing and protecting intellectual property rights all over the world.

"We must be able to make books available to anyone anywhere." This is a sentence repeatedly emphasized by Ms. Milagros Del korol, Director of Creative, Cultural Industry and Copyright Department of UNESCO and President of UNESCO Press. Since its announcement, "World Reading Day" has received enthusiastic response from all walks of life in the world, and has developed into an activity aimed at young people, aiming at cultivating children's reading habits and humanistic spirit and guiding them to respect knowledge.

Therefore, on April 23rd every year, writers, publishers, teachers, librarians, educators in private or public schools, students, humanists, mass media and book lovers all over the world turn the publicity activities of Reading Day into a lively and joyful festival.

However, in China, this world-wide reading day has never been known to the public, let alone a festival. According to the survey of Sohu Reading Website in 2004, only 6% people know about World Reading Day, 27% people have heard of it but don't know the details, and 67% people have never heard of it.

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