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Reading is to live. Flaubert said. Reading is to live a decent and noble life. Reading makes people wise, open-minded, elegant and beautiful. Reading can change life. Reading can not change the length of life, but it can change the width of life. Reading makes life in a limited length, broad and distant, magnificent and surging. Reading can't change the stage of life, but it can change the weather of life. Appearance and material composition cannot be changed based on heredity, but people's spirit can flourish because of reading. Reading can't change the starting point of life, but it can change the end point of life. Reading makes life never be at the mercy of fate, grasp yourself and go to the polar region of your dreams persistently. No matter how noble or humble you are, reading can change the coordinates and trajectory of life and play the music of life.

Reading through time and space opens up an infinite starry sky for human beings, allowing them to overlook the world. Humans have only a hundred years of space history. However, reading is a flying machine of human mind and the earliest "manned spaceship". It is synchronized with life, but it can go backwards with time, reach the distant future and reveal the vague past. It can open countless dimensional spaces, let thoughts blend vertically and horizontally, and lead to a great mind.

Reading is the cradle of happiness. Careful logic, profound thoughts, lofty realm and great soul all surround readers. You can see the world, think through the ages, talk to the wise, and talk to the great. Learning is to be a happy person. Reading makes words have eternal value, which is more ethereal than images, clearer than memory and deeper than meditation. It puts you on the shoulders of giants and puts you above the minds of great men. Reading is an important way for people to socialize, turning natural people into social people. Most of what we know about the world, life and society comes from reading.

The significance of reading is that it establishes a world of spiritual life on the level beyond secular life. A person's reading history is his spiritual development history. Reading makes people transcend animality and not become moving puppets and walking dead. Stopping reading means cutting off communication with the world and soul, and life enters an infinite cycle. It can be said that reading saved us. To live, you must read. However, such fascinating reading is not the innate instinct of human beings. People must learn to read in order to reach the kingdom of freedom of reading.

The process of learning to read determines whether you are obsessed with reading all your life.

To put it bluntly, many people have never learned to read and have no reading ability, so they can't appreciate the fun of reading and have no chance to read for life. Readers are not reading machines. It is the interaction and mutual manifestation between readers and authors' souls. What you read is the reflection of those words in your own mind. This image is constantly changing because of the weather inside you. "For a thousand readers, there are a thousand Hamlets." The real meaning of reading is that you have read the meaning that you have already felt and experienced in your heart. Reading ability is the ability of people to communicate with texts. Technically speaking, there is a way to read. After we have acquired the basic ability of reading, it is more important to analyze the text. Eat it, melt it, make the words flesh and blood, tangible and colored, and restore the life of the words.

When we say this, we don't mean that learning to read is difficult. If we are still far from reading, it is that we still have obstacles in reading, all because the secular, decadent and incorrect reading concept prevents us from approaching reading.

For example, the worship of reading and the utilitarian appeal of reading.

Perhaps, we can pull reading down from the altar of cultural worship in a shocking way.

Perhaps, we can free ourselves from the shackles of fame and fortune to study.

Everyone can get spiritual comfort from reading. Everyone is the master of reading. Reading is just to live, live happily, live with soul, live with high quality and become a real living person.

Reading is not mysterious.

Yes, reading is entertainment. I am happy because I study.

Reading is the photosynthesis of life. Life is full of spring because of reading.

Reading is a free, personalized and private space, which can accommodate your mind. Reading is to ponder, appreciate, think and surpass after experiencing the charm of words. Reading is not only imaginative but also creative. In reading, our hearts are full of wings. In reading, we break through ourselves and soar.

I remember reading an article "Cherish Reading": Reading is like the same song, with tears streaming down your face. Reading is a kind of communication and enlightenment. Cherishing reading means cherishing every minute of life and everything in the world.

Life is actually a book that can never be read. Everyone's life is different, and the content of this book will be different. Even the same person, if his or her life can be repeated, the contents of his or her life book will not be repeated.

Different people have different experiences, and the content of the book is even more different.

Therefore, how difficult it is to understand a person, to understand a person, and to understand a person's life!

But many people are trying to communicate, hoping to get to know each other, get to know each other, go deep into each other and exchange ideas.

Reading opens a beautiful window of life.

Text/Sang Yu

Friday, 26 May 2006

I remember that when my daughter was less than one year old, the best way to restrain crying was to put a colorful hardcover book in front of her. Apart from occasional physical discomfort, this method is always tried and tested.

At that time, it was still far from the internet. Monique's Book Without Words is even more out of reach, and other picture books, such as the mouse series, are even less known. Only a few colorful "What Children Know" and a monthly "Baby Illustrated" were found in the bookstore. On a business trip to Hangzhou, I was dazzled by the variety, neatness and order of bookstores. For a time, it was like grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, picked up this one and put it down, and finally chose a set of short stories with twenty volumes among thousands of roses. It is these rare and precious spiritual foods that give her daughter the first fragrance in her life. In reading, she smelled happiness and beauty, and in the story, she found a kind and lovely partner.

Often, she will assign a book to read, tell the same story over and over again, never forget every detail in the story, and even steal individual words and reverse individual sentences, which can be monitored and corrected immediately without delay.

The good feeling starts from the moment you bring your child close to the book. Even if there are such trivial things in life, even if there are those tangled knots in work, a clear stream will slowly flow through my heart from the moment I open the book. What's more, there are a pair of eager eyes in front of me. The unique charm of writing is that a few words can take you to a secret garden far away from the hubbub, listening to birds and throwing clouds.

"Books are the ladder of human progress." When my daughter was growing up, I tried to build a rainbow bridge with colorful light with books. Imagine walking along the way, holding hands with big hands, pointing to the bright stars and the bright moon. The other side of the bridge is beautiful, confident, full and happy, and all kinds of qualities are learned, forged, revised and perfected in the process of walking and reading. What a beautiful picture it will be!

Recently, I read Sun Youjun's Adventures of Little Cloth Head to my daughter, which left a deep impression on me. The moving part of this book is to let children know the sufferings of the old society and learn to cherish the hard-won happiness now. It's easier said than done. Especially now, the arrogance of the only child is more or less reflected in the child. By reading similar stories, let her know how to save, know how to be humble and know how to love. A good book is a beacon.

When the Internet comes into our life, a vast reading horizon and a sea of books are waiting for you to explore. It's as if the bear and tiger in Jaros's works were ecstatic as discovering Panama. Although the pace of searching has returned to the original place, they have seen the beauty of life from a higher level.

Teacher Mei, a contemporary writer of children's literature, said: If a person wants to be excellent, he must be close to literature, and the way to get close to literature is of course reading. Reading those classics and masterpieces, you can get a different atmosphere from the secularity between stories and languages, and at the same time, you will also develop an elegant mood and feeling ... Slowly, this kind of reading will give you an unconventional style and vision. ...

What reading brings us is undoubtedly such a lofty view. Especially when you are trapped in reality, the power to jump out of the circle comes from all kinds of books and from concentrated reading. So are children. With this ability, it is tantamount to opening a window and looking at beauty. The same is growth, accompanied by reading, especially reading excellent classic works, how poetic it is! We need to give children such warmth, and children also need such traction.

Reading and life

Xu Yan

Today's topic concerns the culture of each of us, every family and every city. No matter what kind of people, they can't do without reading. Why? Because "reading" is an important tool to make life bright, and it is an ideal wing for our life. If I leave "reading", I have no fate to face everyone; Without "reading", I can't study in the library department of Peking University from my hometown in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, or teach in Nanjing University from Peking University, nor can I become a lecture expert on "reading". Next, I would like to share with you some of my experiences on "reading and life" over the years.

The essence of reading is to pay attention to life

It means: when you are a teenager, opening a book is like looking at the moon through the door. You are small, the moon is round and big, and you are full of yearning for the moon. You think the moon is magical, and you also think reading is magical. Middle-aged people are like watching the moon in their own yard with their hands behind their backs, full of goodwill towards the moon, that is, they have a full grasp of reading and full of confidence; Being old is like playing with the moon on a stage (the traditional Chinese character "stage" refers to a scholar standing on a tall building). Playing with the moon means "interacting" with the moon. You feel that the moon is in your own hands, and your life experience is integrated with what you read.

Juck Zhang summed up the situation and taste of reading quite well. He said: "Teenagers read like a glimpse of the moon in the gap, middle-aged people read like a moon in the court, and old people read like a moon on the stage." The last sentence is especially the crowning touch: "The depth of experience is the depth of income." In other words, when you have the participation of experience, that is, after the interaction between book knowledge and practical knowledge, you will have a full grasp of reading and full confidence in what books can bring to your life. This is very important. So, if you can read a book without words, you can get amazing sentences. In other words, if you can combine your personal experience with book knowledge through your own thinking, you can also write your own wonderful articles. This article is "thinking", which contains your own life feelings and consciousness, knowledge and opinions.

Therefore, the reading of teenagers, middle-aged people and the elderly cannot be separated from such a law: "Everything is a scroll, and the reading room of heaven and earth." Be good at reading without words, and be good at integrating your life with the knowledge of natural mountains and rivers, social things and books.

When people reach middle age, part of them should be used for further study; In old age, reading is regarded as a means to reconcile the mind and enrich the spiritual home, so that life will be complete and full. Therefore, we say that reading enables people to learn from the wisdom of others, give life wings of knowledge and insight, and gain relatively unlimited development space in a limited century. This is the essential meaning of reading.

Reading classics lies in drawing wisdom from life.

Classics are filtered by time and read by generations. The reading behavior of this generation is similar to today's "mobile phone voting", so that it can be called "classic". There are so many ancient books in China, why only China and Four Great Classical Novels become "classics"? It is precisely because countless generations of readers "voted" for these books that the four classic novels stand out from the vast number of classic works and enter the "list of famous works". This is the meaning of reading "classics": a "classic" records the richest knowledge, the wisest wisdom and the most subtle opinions of ancient sages.

On the question of what is a "masterpiece", there is a passage from a professor and a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago in the United States:

Famous books are read by the most readers. They are not best sellers for a year or two, but best sellers that last for a long time.

Famous books are easy to understand, not quoted and obscure. ...

Whether it's about philosophy, science, history or poetry,

They are all about the universality of human beings, not professional issues;

Famous books are meaningful and durable ... even if they are read repeatedly, it is difficult to exhaust their connotations. Masterpieces are the most influential.

Has enlightening and educational significance;

The famous book discusses the long-standing unresolved problems in human life.

Dr Adler's view on famous books is a summary of the principles of the western book culture world.

There is an old saying in China: "Young people don't read the outlaws of the Marsh, and old people don't read the Three Kingdoms." Once personal experiences and experiences are added to reading, the understanding of the original work will be deeper. The materialization of reading determines your spiritual consciousness, which can affect a person's thinking and can also be used in social personnel practice. It would be great if wisdom was used to treat people. On the other hand, reading classics can improve ourselves, improve and purify our cultural heritage and taste, let us use the pleasure and elegant taste of reading to deal with ignorance and even ignorance of life, to face the vulgarity and even vulgarity of life, and to laugh at the helplessness and even boredom of life.

Reading a newspaper is different ... If you are reading a newspaper a month ago today, it is hard to get respect from others. But if you read "60 Books Must Read in Life", probably no one will laugh at you, and everyone will be full of cultural respect for you. Therefore, if you form a hobby of reading, it will be the happiness of your life.

I recommend two materials here: The first is "The 50 Most Worth Visiting Places for China People", which was ranked in the 2006 Hangzhou International Tourism Fair. After reading it myself, I felt surprised and ashamed. I'm surprised that many places I've been to are among the 50 places worth visiting, but I'm ashamed that I haven't been to some places or missed them because of my poor understanding of the city.

These 50 places can be divided into eight types: modern city, historic city, seaside city, scenic city, natural landscape, outdoor adventure, hope of life, ancient town and ancient city ... In addition to the "50 most worthwhile places for China people" in China, there are also "the most worthwhile places for people on earth" in the United States.

The first category is "historical cities", ranking as Barcelona, Hongkong, Istanbul, Jerusalem, London, new york, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco and Venice; Other series are divided into the last Eden, the land of scenery, the beautiful and peaceful paradise on earth, the harmonious combination of man and nature, and the world miracle-the greatest building of mankind (including the Great Wall of China).

Therefore, China and the world together have 100 places, of which only Hongkong is on the list.

Do you think it's a pity to live now, because there are many places we can't go, such as the Amalfi coast in Italy. I don't think many people have been here, even the "beautiful and quiet paradise on earth". What if we can't go to these places?

The wise ancients in China told us: "A scholar can know what's going on in the world without going out." Modern people know what is happening in the world as long as they don't go out and surf the Internet. Modern communication tools such as telephone, short message, mobile phone and internet are very convenient, but ancient scholars did not have this condition. How can they know what is happening in the world with their eyes open and their ears open? They read books, because the reader is an intellectual who once mastered words and can read books, and he can acquire knowledge from all kinds of information, so in this sense, in order to acquire more knowledge and make life more meaningful, reading is very important. Although there are many places where there are no opportunities and it is impossible to leave our footprints by fate, we need to know more or less about them, because reading can let our eyes fly over the geographical restrictions and have some knowledge and understanding of them.

In addition to the "most worth reading" natural landscape and human landscape, there are 60 books that must be read for the whole life as a native of China and a native of the earth, which are published by Beijing University of Technology Press. The first of these 60 books is the Bible, which has the largest circulation in human history. Through the Bible, an "encyclopedia" that has influenced the lives of westerners, we can understand how western society has developed to this day. The second book, The Analects of Confucius, is called "The Bible of China People", which is a discussion between Confucius and his disciples about human beings, society, life and learning. Followed by Origin of Species, General History of the World, Kings, Historical Records, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, On War, Water Margin, Letter from Zeng Guofan, Biography of Mao Zedong, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Red and Black, Dream of Red Mansions, Red Mansions, Red Mansions and Red Mansions. There are 60 books: Scream, Little Prince, Compendium of Materia Medica, Insects, Love in the City, One Thousand and One Nights and Don Quixote. I recommend them to you in order.

Why do you recommend reading these books?

Because a person writing a book has gone through a complicated process, combined with his own knowledge and experience, and finally formed the so-called "stroke by stroke" in the past. Now he is typing word by word on the keyboard, which has gone through the process from thinking to being recorded in the middle of the brain. The ancient Confucianists also said: "make a statement", "establish virtue" and "make contributions", among which "make a statement" was the most concerned by scholars, so he once wrote a book and had a lot of experiences to record. He revised it repeatedly and thought about the words carefully. It can be said that among all the materials that can be read in words, only this book was written by the author, and it was written word for word again and again.

Therefore, we can see that some old people have retired from their hard jobs, but they have not cultivated their reading hobbies in the past. They can't tell what kind of books they like to read. After retirement, they can only play mahjong, take a walk, raise birds, or go to Gulin Park early in the morning to learn the roaring tigers, because he has to spend his retirement days. On the other hand, if you get up early in the morning, go to the park to learn how tigers bark, feed the birds after walking, and then read books and newspapers for an hour, how fulfilling and happy your life is!

The six most beneficial hobbies in life

The newspaper Reference News once published "Six Favorable Hobbies in Life". These six beneficial hobbies are inseparable from education and from our own initiative to get close to culture.

Among the "six most beneficial hobbies", "calligraphy" ranks first, because calligraphy is unforgettable. Now that you all have mobile phones, there are many short messages that you can't bear to delete, but few people have time to read them again. But if you have a handwritten letter, you will find it when you move, and take a few minutes to read it again, because handwritten letters will always be read again.

The second place is "reading". The benefits of reading can give a young man wings of ideals, and let middle-aged and elderly people always have a beautiful imagination. Because reading a good book or classic means talking with countless wise men in history, having heart-to-heart talks with countless outstanding people. In the past, the publishing conditions were so poor and the cultural communication conditions were limited. Who is writing a book? It must be the most knowledgeable and intelligent cultural elites at home and abroad who are writing books and spreading them to later generations. How a new book gets on the charts, how it sells well, how it becomes a best seller, and how well the media reports after publication are all temporary. When the noise of this book subsides, it is a good book if it still has the value of continuing reading. This is the only way for a book to become a classic.

Here I recommend two books that can cultivate a person's reading hobby.

The first is to "push the door of writers".

This book was written by Cheng Han, a female writer in Taiwan Province Province. Through this book, she visited the former residences of famous classic writers in the history of Chinese and foreign literature all over the world. She pushed open the doors of these former residences one by one. No matter whether her former residence is in a big city or a remote small city, she expressed her feelings of visiting these places by taking photos and recorded her experience of reading the works of these classic writers. The subtitle of this book is "Wandering in the houses of writers all over the world". She has been to Hemingway's former residence, Whitman's former residence, Gone with the Wind Museum, Woolf's former residence, Brothers Grimm, German fairy tale hometown, Andersen's former residence, Lin Yutang's former residence in Yangming Mountain, Taipei, mark twain, the place where Zhu Ziqing wrote Moonlight on the Lotus Pond in Tsinghua Campus of Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the former residences of detective writers such as Hawthorne and Holmes. Such a woman writer in Taiwan Province Province has gone to the world with her own pen and steps, and she is full of her own imagination in the process of going to the world. You may say that we don't have the conditions to go to the world, but you can go to China and get out of Nanjing.

Similarly, Chen Xing, a Hangzhou scholar, also wrote Visiting the Hometown of Literature. This book is of great significance to teachers and students in primary and secondary schools in China. As a native of Hangzhou, the author has no conditions to go to the world, so I specially interviewed all the writers mentioned in Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools. All the places he has been are very good. For example, I have been to Baotu Spring written by Lao She, Qingdao Trestle written by Liang Shiqiu, White Horse Lake in Shaoxing written by Lu Xun, Nanputuo Temple on the edge of Xiamen University, Peach Blossom Garden written by Tao Yuanming, and Love Night Pavilion, a scenic spot in Changsha to see maple leaves. Therefore, visiting the hometown of literature also made the writer travel all over China. This book is very popular with teachers and students because of its interaction with Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools.

Reading is the road to imagination. Living, reading and learning is an eternal process. Reading can help you understand ideas and knowledge expressed in language. Reading can help you get to the place you want and the ideal place through words. Reading with a book in hand is a practice of expanding knowledge and an eternal way of communication between people and the world. Therefore, reading is the second hobby worthy of recommendation.

The third hobby is related to the topic we mentioned at the beginning-"browsing the map". By combining map browsing with reading, you can visit the wonders of five continents.

The fourth is "watching movies", which opens the window of people's hearts.

What are the benefits of watching movies?

In addition to this kind of reading, I also advocate not only watching plays, movies and TV plays, but also reading the original works at the same time. For example, when The Romance of the Three Kingdoms premiered on CCTV, I watched the original again, showing two episodes every night. Before that, I will read the original several times to see how the screenwriter and director adapted the original romance of the Three Kingdoms and how the director "manipulated" the tasks and plots in the novel. In this way, there will be an interaction and infiltration between modern media and traditional classic reading, which will produce the effect equivalent to chemical reaction in reading and watching, which will not only double your harvest, but also feel extraordinary enjoyment.

The same is true of the Water Margin. There are several familiar plots in Water Margin, such as the passage of "Jingyanggang Wusong Beating the Tiger" in the 23rd episode. When Song Wu met a tiger and beat a tiger, he used a series of wonderful verbs, because Song Wu, a drunk, was beating a tiger. He didn't "pass three bowls" but drank eighteen bowls in a row. When he saw the tiger really coming, he struggled with his life with his own strength and courage to survive. When I saw the real tiger, I timidly hid in the Woods and ran away ... but the TV series was spliced together with many fragments, so that we could not feel the tension provided by the wonderful words in the novel. By comparison, you will know that the TV series at least failed to change the plot of the Water Margin, and the original novel is charming.

Besides, how did Pan Jinlian feel when he first met the Song Wu brothers? Pan Jinlian thought, your brother looks like this, and your brother is probably not masculine, so he was not interested in Wu Erlang at first. I didn't expect that when he took Jiro into the door, her face upstairs was not exactly the same as his brother's. The novel firmly grasps this psychological change of Pan Jinlian, the window of Pan Jinlian's soul-eyes, and the whole facial expression commanded by eyes. At this time, there are a series of detailed close-ups of facial expressions. When she saw Wu Jilang enter the room. It turns out that when he was a long and big "character", his face was "laughing under the pile", not "three-point smile", not "laughing with skin but not meat", and then he had a affectionate expression until he laughed at the drinking time ... At this time, you will feel that the language charm of the characters described in the novel is really endless.

So, is the adaptation of this novel in place? Are the writers, directors and actors in place? You will know everything after reading it. For example, I like to watch the seventh time "Lu hangs upside down and weeping willows". He played IQ with the rascal neighbor beside the vegetable garden of Suoguo Temple in Kaifeng, and they fought wits and wits. This novel is very beautiful here ... but when we saw this episode of TV series, we easily let go of this good theme, but it is a pity that neither Lu nor the local ruffians are in place.

In a word, I said in the recently completed "Yesterday's Campus Beauty Story":

"Maybe, life has to do something because of helplessness, otherwise it will be too boring? Perhaps, life should pursue elegance because of secularity, otherwise it is vulgarization? Or, more importantly, because life is short, we must make progress in time, otherwise life will be wasted? Perhaps cherishing time and destiny is the way to seek more happiness-or is this the so-called' life'? "