Cover news reporter Zeng Jie
"Tonghua blows the wine for the guests, and the pine nuts are read when they fall." Li Yu, a famous poet of the Ming Dynasty, wrote the magic of reading in "Ciyun Li Shiwen See Cambodia". Yan Geling, a writer who wrote "Ma Ge is a City" and "Lu Gang Yan Zhi", said: "Reading is the best way to make people full and beautiful. ”
Reading determines a person's cultivation and realm, has a bearing on the quality and strength of a nation, and affects the future and destiny of a country. No matter where we are, as long as we are in the company of books, we will have poetry and distant places.
"Moon Order Seventy-Two Waiting Solutions": "Li Chun, The First Moon Festival." Standing, building the beginning, the five elements of the qi, the past, the coming continued, and the spring wood qi began to arrive, so it is called the establishment of the same, the establishment of summer, autumn and winter. "Spring signifies that the winter when all things are hidden has passed, and the spring when the wind and the sun are warm and all things grow is coming. Spring is the day of reading, and it is not a bad time to live up to the scenery. On February 4th, the day of Lichun, Alai Study recommended a list of books for the majority of readers, including classic books such as Ma Zhitu's "That Era, That Kind of Person", inviting readers to accompany the fragrance of books in the season of the revival of all things.
"The books I have read myself are not based on the purpose of entertainment, nor on the judgment of popularity, but more on the history of the growth of thoughts and emotions through their own reading history, and from the list of books read, I can clearly see the growth and change of a person." Although Alai has written a book list for readers, recommending classics written by Ma Zhitu, Liushahe, and Lin Xili, he hopes that readers can open their own book lists, find their own areas of interest, and read them systematically.
It is reported that the Alai Study Room, jointly built by the Sichuan Daily Newspaper Group and the famous writer Alai, has been grandly opened in the Western Cultural Industry Center on January 22, and this urban cultural living room with humanistic charm is not closed for the New Year, providing citizens with a book-scented Spring Festival.
The recommended book list of Alai Study is as follows:
1. Ma Zhitu, "That Kind of Era, That Kind of Person"
There are few old writers in the world who are still working hard at the age of 100. In his lifetime, the old man Ma Zhitu had seen all kinds of people, these people, or toilets in the temple, or in the grass, or for celebrities from all walks of life, or for the pawns of the peddlers, thousands of faces, each with its own characteristics, vividly preserved in his mind, is the inexhaustible source of life for his creation. Ma Lao's observation is sharp, his memory is superhuman, in contact with people, he is good at capturing the shining point, this book, although written in many small things, is not idle book, is a condensation of the life experience of centenarians, full of social and life thinking, and the summary of historical experience and lessons. Ma Lao's pen is strong, and with his emotion-filled and non-clear words, he has left wonderful sketches for the people he has met in his life.
2. Quicksand River 《White Fish Solution》
This book is the heart and insight of Mr. Liushahe's decades of research on ancient Chinese characters. While showing us the contribution of ancient China to the world in terms of writing, it also corrects the mistakes made in the book by Xu Shen, the scribe and philologist of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the author of "Commentaries on the Interpretation of Characters", after a thousand years, which is the real value of this book. The book was originally titled "Liusha River Literacy", which was published by Modern Publishing House and Zhonghua Book Company in Hong Kong. However, unfortunately, due to the direction of editing and other reasons, this book does not show the old man's idea of the ancient text in an authentic way, leaving a regret for both the old man and the reader. The manuscript published this time will use four-color printing of Mr. Lao's manuscript, which not only completely and accurately expresses the world of Mr. Lao's writing, but also expresses the aesthetic in Mr. Lao's beautiful calligraphy. Readers will see Mr. Lao's obsession with traditional culture between Mr. Lao's fluent calligraphy, and will also appreciate Mr. Lao's noble personality and unparalleled charm from the allusions that he has learned from it.
3. Quicksand River "Orthographic Characters Go Home"
This book is the finale of Sha Lao's series of explanations in his later years, analyzing the irrationality, absurdity and hegemony of simplified characters from the aspects of sound, shape and meaning, and analyzing more than 450 commonly used simplified characters. If "White Fish Interpretation" is intended to explain the wonders of Chinese character creation and the humanistic characteristics contained in it, then "Orthographic Characters Homecoming" directly attacks the fate of simplified characters and expounds the profound cultural reasons for restoring orthographic characters. The book is vivid and highly readable.
4. Lin Xili's "Kingdom of Chinese Characters"
The Kingdom of Chinese Characters tells the characteristics of the origin of Chinese characters in the form of pictures and texts, and selects more than 200 words related to human life for detailed explanation, such as words related to human bodies, houses, utensils, silk and hemp, livestock, agricultural tools, cars and boats, roads, etc., while analyzing and describing the lifestyles and customs of Chinese, so that people can deepen their understanding of words. It's both deep and easy to read.
5. Lin Xili,"The Kingdom of Chinese Characters for Children"
"The Kingdom of Chinese Characters for Children" is narrated by the Swedish sinologist Lin Xili in the form of pictures and texts to tell children about the origin and characteristics of Chinese characters, mainly selecting some words related to human life, telling chapters, such as people and humans, water and mountains, livestock, cars, roads and boats, farming, wine and utensils, hemp and silk, bamboo and trees, tools and weapons, roofs and houses, books and music, etc., while analyzing and telling the lifestyle and customs of Chinese, deepening the reader's understanding of the text. There are many books on Chinese characters on the market, but they are basically written by Chinese authors. As a foreigner, Lin Xili is full of curiosity about every Chinese character, such as why people call the switch of tap water "dragon head"? Why do people call pregnancy "having a body"? What is the relationship between "body" and "pregnancy"? Why do many Chinese meet instead of asking "hello", but "Have you eaten" and so on? The book only describes more than 200 "basic Chinese characters", most of which are the earliest Chinese characters created and used by Chinese. It can be said that this is an easy-to-understand introductory book for children to learn Chinese characters.