Nowadays, phone calls and messages help us make regular contact (联系) with others. It means that we seldom write letters now. But a TV show, Letters Alive (《见字如面》), is bringing back this old habit.
Letters Alive invites famous actors and actresses, but there are no funny jokes or different competitions. Instead, it's just one person walking up to a microphone and reading a letter.
The letters were written(被写) by people from different times in history. For example, in one episode (集), they read a letter written by famous writer Xiao Hong to her younger brother in 1941. The letter shows that Xiao Hong missed her brother so much and had great hopes for his future.
"Every letter opens another world for us." according to Guan Zhangwen, the director of the TV show. "It seems that we can experience the real lives and feelings of the writers." Since its first episode on Dec. 5, Letters Alive has been widely praised. Many audiences (观众) said that it has provided a breath of fresh air to today's TV shows.
Besides Letters Alive, some other cultural TV shows have also been well received by Chinese audience. They include Chinese Poetry Conference, a traditional Chinese poetry competition and Readers, a program that invites people to read poems and articles they like or wrote. It suggests that cultural values and true feeling are becoming our interest.
