On April 23, World Book Day, did you read a book?
Reading Day, a festival dedicated to reading. Its presence doesn't just remind people that it's time to read, it doesn't simply make people realize how long they haven't read much.
Its far-reaching significance lies in reminding the world with a sense of festive rituals: no matter what age, no matter what family situation, no matter where you are, no matter who you are, as long as you are willing to read, you can draw rich nutrients from the ocean of knowledge.
As the World Book Day keynote declaration says: "I hope that the people scattered around the globe, whether you are old or young, whether you are poor or rich, whether you are sick or healthy, can enjoy the pleasure of reading, and can respect and thank the masters of literary, cultural and scientific thought who have made great contributions to human civilization, and can protect intellectual property rights." ”
I think that as every independent individual, the greatest meaning of reading is that if we can read as a way of life, then it will inevitably allow us to maintain a sober and calm in this noisy era, so that even if we fall into the cumbersome, the chaotic state of mind can be clear and clear.
"Know yourself", this is the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates famous quote, and the greatest benefit of reading is that it can help us know ourselves.
Reading, throughout the ages, has been the unchangeable persistence of people, and in the succession of generations, reading covers the sincere teachings of teachers and the earnest hopes of the elders.
"Cultivate and read for a long time, and the poetry books will be passed down for a long time." As a long-standing ancient admonition, it is often written as a couplet and a couplet, and is often regarded as a writer's style and proverb. Its essence is to read.
In ancient times, there were Su Qin's "cone thorn strands", Sun Jing's "head hanging beam", Kuang Heng's "chiseling wall to steal light", Che Yin's "sac fluorescent snow"... The stories of these celebrities studying hard are well known. In modern times, there have been groups of benevolent people who have studied for the rise of China and diligently pursued the realization of ideals.
Three more lights, five more chicken chirping. Most of the benevolent people and accomplished people from ancient times to the present have the experience of studying hard.
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Tao Yuanming lost his father at the age of eight, and his family's situation gradually declined, but he studied hard in the poverty situation, taught himself to become a young man with lofty ideals who "fled the world with fierce ambitions and thoughts from afar".
Under the guidance of the idea of "learning and excellence", he hoped to help the world and the world, so he threw himself into the official field, initially sacrificing wine, following the staff, joining the army for two terms, and giving county orders, and in the end he deeply felt that he had "fallen into the dust net by mistake and gone for thirty years.".
After resigning from the official and returning to the countryside, Tao Yuanming said in peace and happiness, forgot about gains and losses, and truly lived a life of clear cultivation and rain reading. Since then, it is he who planted beans in Nanshan, it is he who picks chrysanthemums, it is him who talks about sangma, and it is he who plants canes.
He would "delight in the love words of relatives, and write music books to dispel worries", and he would also "ascend to Donggao to soothe the whistle and give poetry to the clear stream". However, for Tao Yuanming, the most fulfilling thing in such a peaceful and peaceful life is to read, and the most comforting thing is to drink.
He said in the biography of Mr. Wuliu: "Good reading, do not seek much understanding, and whenever you have a will, you will gladly forget to eat." In fact, he did not know his meaning slightly, half-understood, but truly understood the spirit of the heart, and read books to the point of being intoxicated and gladly forgetting to eat.
"I have both cultivated and planted, and I still read my books." Reading is his spiritual enjoyment after returning to the field and farming. "Pan-view of the biography of the King of Zhou, flowing through the mountains and seas." Pitching the final universe, why not be happy? Reading brought him tao taoran's happiness in life, which he could get in the dim officialdom.
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When Su Shi was young, he was proud and proud, and wrote a couplet and pasted it on the door: "Read all the characters in the world; read all the books on earth." After being nodded by an old man, he was ashamed.
Realizing that I had an end to my life and that I knew that there was no end, he added two words to each couplet and changed it to:
Indignant, he knew all the words in the world; he was determined to read all the books on earth.
"Every book is counted, and every time it is sought." He invented a unique reading method for himself, the "Eight-Sided Method of Being Attacked".
"Old books are not tired of reading a hundred times, and they are familiar with deep thinking and self-knowledge." He read cultural classics and copied and endorsed them.
The humble and studious Su Shi later became an official and a teacher, and eventually became a peak in cultural history.
Su Shi, poetry, words, literature are excellent, calligraphy, painting are all familiar. He was one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, and was praised by scholars as an "all-round artistic giant" and praised by Lin Yutang as a versatile genius.
This is all closely related to his lifelong study, which has cultivated his grand righteousness, forged his will and character, and broadened his mind pattern.
"Wrapped in a coarse cloth, there is poetry and bookishness in the belly." When we read his famous poem today, how can we not be impressed by this great writer a thousand years ago.
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Lu You, a patriotic poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, was eager to learn since childhood, and he was obsessed with books, claiming that "I am born to learn languages that is, to delay books, and thousands of volumes are eager to dry up."
He named the living room "Book Nest", with the inscription" "Ten thousand scrolls of ancient and modern eternal days, a window of dawn to send the flow of the year", immersed in ten thousand volumes of ancient books, guarding a window of flowing years, embracing a party of elegance, it is really a human pleasure.
He has a poem "Reading", which is said to be "Guizhining has no five acres of garden, and the original intention of reading is Yuan Yuan." Although the eyesight in front of the lamp is not what it used to be, the head of the fly is twenty thousand words. That is to say, even if he dismissed his official home in his later years, at the age of seventy or eighty, his eyesight had declined, and he still insisted on studying the "Zizhi Tongjian" day and night, with small characters on the head of the fly, and 20,000 words a day.
However, Lu You never stopped reading more than his personal self-cultivation, but aimed at realizing the ideal of ruling the country and the world through reading. He cherished his homeland and cherished his life, and all his life longed to recover the rivers and mountains of the old days, although he encountered frequent setbacks, he did not change his original intention until his death.
"Reading has the taste of forgetting the old, serving the country indefinitely" is the portrayal of his reading until he is old, never quitting, patriotic heart, and unswerving to death.
Determined to learn, old and strong, love of books as fate, green lights and yellow scrolls, time passes, the years do not speak, Lu You left nearly 10,000 poems to future generations, he truly immersed in the fragrance of books for a lifetime.
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Gui Youguang, a native of Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, during the Ming Dynasty. How many people are familiar with the Ming Dynasty people, all because of that touching "Xiang Ridge Xuanzhi".
The Xiang Ridge Xuan in the text is the author's study of light. He began to study in Xuanzhong from the age of fifteen. When my grandmother was alive, she often walked in to greet him and hoped that her grandson would become one of the most famous in the family. After his wife got married, she often visited him in the study hall in addition to his studies.
My favorite is this poetic description: "The shelves are full of books, the songs are sung, and there is a sound, and the court is silent, and the birds come to peck, and people do not go." On the night of march and five, the moon is half walled, the gui shadow is mottled, the wind moves the shadow, and the shanshan is lovely. "I just think that if a reader can have such a quiet and quiet bookstore and be accompanied by a shelf full of books, it is the greatest happiness."
Xiang Jixuan embodied his hopes and carried the dreams of his youth. He read books, not only shouldering the mission of revitalizing the glory of the family, but also hoping to realize the simple wishes of an ordinary reader.
He was a young man with great ambitions and great ambitions, but the road to seeking a career was extremely arduous and long. 20-year-old Zhongxiucai, 6 times to participate in the township examination, 35-year-old Fang Zhongren, and then more than 20 years to teach for a living, zhongjinshi is 60 years old, life has reached the twilight of the year, how sad!
Even so, his penchant for reading was never affected. He once closed the door to guests after falling behind the door, while helping his wife to take care of his children, while taking advantage of the gap to read, and enjoyed reading to forget his worries.
He has been teaching students in private schools for decades, and is known as "Mr. Zhenchuan" by students. He was a good reader all his life and was obsessed with books. He died at the age of 66, and after his death received high praise from the literary world, and his posthumous fame was far greater than before his death.
From beginning to end, he adhered to the discipline and ideals of a reader.
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Zi Xia Yue: "Erudite and determined, asking questions and thinking closely, benevolence is in it." This is a concise summary of the method of improving personal cultivation and the way to seek benevolence.
The well-known phrase "reading is not aware of the depths of spring, an inch of time and an inch of gold", which has been encouraging people to cherish the good time and read more books to enrich and enrich themselves for thousands of years.
Lu Jiuyuan of the Song Dynasty said: "Don't be in a hurry when reading, and you will have a long interest in Han Yong's work." I don't know if I have the right to let it go, and I need to think about it urgently. "This is to warn people to read books should not be sloppy, impatient, impetuous, but should be immersed in the book, repeated chewing, tasting."
Yu Qian of the Ming Dynasty "Guan Shu": "The scrolls are amorous like the old people, and the morning and evening are sad and happy every blind date." "If you have a quiet corner, a book to please, and make reading a habit, the scroll is like your affectionate old friend." 」
The Qing Dynasty scholar Zhang Chao said in his famous work "Shadow of Dreams": "Reading the scriptures of Yidong, its divine specialty; reading Shi Yixia, its time is long; reading the sons of Yiqiu, its chic also; reading the collection of Yichun, its smooth machine." "He divided his reading into four seasons, which changed with the seasons, which can be described as very exquisite.
In modern times, Mr. Yang Dai once wrote back to a high school student, sincerely writing: "Your problem is mainly that you read too little and think too much. ”
All these emphasize the meaning and value of reading.
"Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people smart, mathematics makes people thorough, science makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and the study of logic and rhetoric makes people argumentative: everything that is learned becomes character."
Read a book, your temperament will hide the books you have read. The face is easy to age, the temperament is eternal, and the person who is full of poetry books is certainly different from the person who has no ink on his chest.
Read the book, stick to it, the books you have read will eventually follow you like a shadow, gradually precipitated into your own unique things, and your life will also bloom with the nourishment of books!
Author: Bending, willing to use heavy paper, light pen, writing flow years.