Essays describing the study and life insights

The study is the nest of the literati’s spirit and the meditation hall of life. The study is a place where the heart can live and where the heart can be free. Below is a prose describing the study that I brought to you for your enjoyment.

Essay describing the study: Study

In the past two years, I fell in love with hand-made cross embroidery. When I first started learning, I didn’t dare to touch the complex landscapes with birds singing and flowers fragrant, so I learned calligraphy. Pure black embroidery, my first work is: Peace and Reach. After being framed, it was hung on the wall between the doorways of the two rooms. This is not the most ideal location, but it is the most suitable location in my home.

In fact, I think these words are most suitable to hang in the study room and behind the desk. But my house only has three rooms. Due to local conditions, there is no extra space that can be set up as a dedicated study room. I remember that when the house was being renovated, I hesitated several times and never dared to discuss with my husband whether the guest room could be turned into a study. I know this is a very unrealistic idea, given the circumstances, that room was for his mother. At that time, his mother went to take care of her children at the house of his brother who was working elsewhere. When the child over there grows up, she will definitely come back to live with us. The room must be reserved for her at any time, so I can only swallow the words that come to my lips. Facts have proved that I was right not to speak. Two years after we moved to our new home, his mother came back and became the owner of that guest room.

To be honest, I have always hoped that I could have an independent and decent study room. The place doesn’t have to be big, but it needs to be delicate. Depending on the size of the space, I will put a few appropriate antique wooden bookcases and neatly arrange all kinds of books. Of course, I will also carefully organize and categorize the books I like. I have to sort out Chinese and foreign classics, classical literature, poetry, prose, etc. in an orderly manner. Books that I read often are placed within easy reach, and books that I occasionally read are placed on a high bookshelf. I believe that I will be able to achieve the serious effect of just thinking of a book title among the complicated books.

If conditions permit, I like to lay a darker wooden floor on the floor of the study room. Change half of the windows into wide floor-to-ceiling windows, add thick curtains, and put in a few pots of your favorite indoor plants. When the sun is shining, I can open the curtains at will and let the sun shine on the floor. During the rainy season, I can watch the rain through the window, or I can open the window and let the fresh and moist air enter my heart and spleen and nourish my heart. Oh, by the way, there should be a few exquisite and unique lamps on the wall. I can adjust the light and brightness of the study according to my mood and needs. This kind of study is cozy and warm. No matter how big or small the space is, it is enough to accommodate my joys, anger, sorrows and joys, and it is also enough for me to relieve my fatigue and blend in freely.

In my eyes, the study room is not only a place for reading, writing, placing books, and storing, but also a place where people can calm down, slow down their thinking, and slow down their movements. Whether it is a leisurely afternoon, a rainy evening, or a quiet night with a cool moonlight, as long as you walk into the study, you will be immersed in a peaceful and peaceful environment surrounded by the fragrance of books. No matter how noisy the outside world is, how fierce the competition in society is, or how trivial the worries of work and family are, as long as you walk into the study, you will feel extremely relaxed and calm. With a door, a window, and a curtain, you can be in your own paradise, shutting out all the wind, frost, rain, and snow on the road of life.

At this time, you can make a cup of tea, turn a page of the book, and spend a slow time in silence in the atmosphere filled with the fragrance of tea and books. Or, do nothing, just sit at the desk, close your eyes and relax, and be alone quietly, where you can reminisce about the past or imagine the future. Or you can stand in front of the window, fold your hands, look out the window, meditate deeply, and be in a daze. In my opinion, this is also a beautiful enjoyment.

The study is a place where the heart can live and where the heart can be free. It’s not just me, in fact, everyone needs a study like this. The study room is a symbol of exquisite life, a ladder of character quality, and the perfection of spiritual pursuit. Do you have a study room? And where is my study room?

Essay describing the study room: Study room

After graduating from university and being assigned to work in the Huangpi Township Government of Ningdu County, I I want to have my own study room.

Around June 1992, I spent nearly 200 yuan from my monthly salary of only more than 500 yuan, and went to Huangpi Old Street to ask a carpenter to make a shirtwood bookcase, and then asked a painter to paint the bookcase. Red paint. Since they are sold freshly in the mountains, the bookcase boards are thick and cheap. After the bookcase was moved back to the room, which was only about 30 square meters, it was placed against the wall at the entrance. I thought I had my own study room from now on. The next step should be to buy books. Unfortunately, by the end of 1995, I had only bought 5.6 books in total. Not only that, but all the agricultural books I brought back from university were lost due to busy work over the years. But the main reason why there are no books on the bookshelves is lack of money. Since I have just started working, starting a family and starting a business is a big deal, so I have no money left to spend on buying books. I usually borrow the books I need for my study and research.

In July 1997, I moved back to my hometown in Jiangbei from the township government to live temporarily. I also hired a car to move my bookcases and other furniture back to the countryside. Since I spent a lot of time at home this year, my main task was to read, study and engage in theoretical research. I also bought very few books during this period. I only bought books that I needed to use and love to read, such as "Institutional Economics", "History of Chinese Philosophy", "Aesthetics", etc., as well as other literary works. In the autumn of 1998, my family moved to Ningdu City to buy a house and settle down. At this time, my bookcases and other furniture were moved from the countryside to Ningdu Street. The idea of ??collecting a large number of books came after I made great progress in my economic research and literary creation. Since 2000, I have been buying books in a planned way, mainly from Xinhua Bookstore and above-ground bookstalls. In 2006, I spent more than 600 yuan to buy a new bookcase. It was made of MDF, which is popular in furniture stores. The bookcase was painted black. At this point, I have two bookshelves, and my total book collection has grown to more than 600 volumes. These books are placed on two bookshelves and packed in three large boxes. My room has also become a veritable "study".

Why do some people’s “studies” in society be called “studies”? The reasons for this can be described as follows: We know that the word “zhai” originally refers to the vegetarian diet of temple monks or the rice and fruit obtained from alms. I can't figure out why the ancients connected the word study with the word "Zhai". I guess the meaning is as follows: First of all, people who study must be well-educated, at least not drink alcohol or eat meat. Scholars must keep themselves clean, so they can only live on vegetarian food, which is called "vegetarian food". Scholars in the past were poor and industrious, so they could only act like temple monks and ask for some offerings from the society to maintain their health. Therefore, their daily meals are inevitably called "fasting offerings". Not only that, people who give alms in society are ugly, and it is difficult for poor scholars to survive. They have no choice but to beg from others. This behavior can be called "Zhai Jiao". As long as a poor scholar has enough food and drink to survive, he spends the rest of his time studying. Scholars in the old days were very particular about etiquette when studying. Whenever they sat down at the desk, they would be like offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods. They must clean their clothes, abstain from cravings, burn incense and purify their bodies, and be sincere and diligent before they can enter samadhi. This process is called "fasting" or "fasting". In short, scholars in the past spent most of their lives in "Ramadan", so their study rooms were naturally called "studies".

Is the reading life of today’s scholars the same? It should be said that a considerable number of people are like this, such as the gentlemen who teach in schools. They have stayed away from officialdom and salt shops all their lives and lived a life that is cleaner than water. reading life. Their study life is a bit like that of ancient monks. Therefore, their study can also be called a "study". But there are some people in society whose study cannot be called a "study",

but can only be called a "study". The reason is very simple. The study life they lead is not like that of ancient scholars. They pursue fame and fortune in society and are afraid of losing money and material every day. Many of them have even turned their study rooms into casinos. They always want to find gambling life skills from books. Others turn the study room into a battlefield. They always want to get the key to fame and fortune from books. Some of these people are wealthy, and some are vomiting money. What they eat is meat and fish, and what they eat is oily pickled vegetable soup. They wear rich clothes and silk, and their hands are gold and silver jewelry. They can't be said to be well-educated, and talking to them about knowledge is like being in a fog, and they are confused.

Which category does my reading life belong to? It can be said that it should essentially belong to the "study" type.

Because although I work in the government, I have been suspended from work for a long time to do theoretical research at home. Like my colleagues, I cannot take government cars, eat public meals, and no one gives you gifts. I cannot seek money from others or exploit others. I have always lived I live a quiet life, so my study life is like that of a monk in a temple. But on the surface, my reading life belongs to the "study" type, because I live a life of bitterness and joy. At the grassroots level, the most worrying thing for people every day is calculating their own interests, worrying about gains and losses, and worrying about every detail. Due to the harsh living environment, people can only spend their days in anxiety and fear. As for the elegant thing of reading, it is even more unattainable or regarded as something daunting. In addition to lack of time, the more reason is that people's interest in reading is washed away by the burden and sewage of life. Due to the difficult working and living conditions at the grassroots level, the people are very busy and busy. People are rushing for money and struggling for life, because no one is not greedy for money and profit. I also have to run around for the firewood, rice, oil and salt I need every day when I open the door. For this reason, it is rare to find a few tables for quiet reading in backward rural areas, and this was definitely the case before the 21st century.

However, even in the chaotic world, you can find a few fasting monks, and in the turbid torrent, there are also a few strange heroes who go against the grain. For many years, I have placed a desk in this quiet village next to the well. Sometimes I sit at the table and flip through the pages of a book, but my mind is thinking about things outside the window. Thinking about whether someone is exerting force on me, whether someone has reduced my salary, whether I can increase my income through other means, etc. Although he is sitting in the study, his mind is wandering. He is in the Cao camp and his heart is in the Han Dynasty, thinking about work and business matters. We know that learning requires a cultural environment and a policy environment. The former refers to whether the local folk customs advocate culture, and the latter refers to whether someone in the local government attaches importance to cultural undertakings. Regarding the former, our county is a cultural town with the reputation of "a literary country and a country of poetry". It has produced many great literati in history, such as the Jianghu poet Zeng Yuanyi in the Song Dynasty, and the great essayist Wei Xi in the early Qing Dynasty. . People have a fine tradition of loving culture and education since ancient times. For the latter, due to rampant corruption for many years, corruption has not only shattered the people's economic jobs, but also shattered the people's culturally-loving jobs. Just imagine: Can a scholar sit in an environment that is like a cliff all day long and worry about whether he can read a book? Even his family and life are hard to protect, but how can the construction of family culture be safe? I want to turn the "study" into a "study". I'm afraid it won't be realized until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.

Although I live a busy life of reading on the road and writing on my legs, when I am busy, even after the pain and despair of life, I still think about books. When I am free at home, I will I often read books and sometimes do some poetry writing. I am like a mountain tree or weed, born in a barren mountain with no one to manage me, but I have developed a free character and a temper that no one dares to control. Because I was born to despise everything, doubt everything, and betray everything. Just like the eagle dove flying proudly, because it dares to fight, it can soar from the study in the black land to the study in the blue sky. Most people who write poetry and compositions want to have their own collection of books. Therefore, I often go on business trips or visit local bookstores, and I always have to spend money from my meager salary to buy some books to take home and collect. Sometimes I go out on the street with four or five yuan to buy groceries, but when I see cheap old books at a roadside bookstall, I would rather give up the groceries and buy back the books. The road to collecting books is long for me, but I will definitely persevere.