The power of reading has been | revisiting literary classics and tracing chinese traditions, Chen Danyan and Gao Guoxi recommended books

Under the epidemic situation, travel presses the "pause button", but reading at home and meditating will not stop.

Under the guidance of the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, the Shanghai Municipal Federation of Social Societies, Century Publishing Group and Wen Wei Po Specially planned the theme activity of "The Power of Reading , Always Together", which was launched on April 1, inviting Shanghai scholars and writers to make "1 + N" recommendations for readers - you can recommend an excellent book, you can also recommend a song, a movie, or even a good article, share the experience of reading and watching, and jointly highlight the confidence and hope of reading with the power and the same heart to the spring. The event will run until World Book Day on 23 April.

Today, writer Chen Danyan recommends the book "Ten Days talk" and the movie "Light Cavalry on the Roof", and Professor Gao Guoxi, president of the Shanghai Ethics Society and Professor of the Marxist College of Fudan University, recommends "6 Discernments of Traditional Chinese Moral Philosophy".

Chen Danyan's recommendation:

Reading now, there is nothing more appropriate than this one.

I read this book as a teenager, and I didn't read it for many years, but I found it around 2002 to read it, but I wanted to go to Florence, to see the small town villa on the small hill in the suburb mentioned in the story, and along the way, I also passed the small village where Da Vinci made flying machines. That time I read a little more than I did as a teenager. But there is never a sense of the plague-crushing night-time storytelling, feelings about the world and life.

It is said that Bugaccio's "Ten Days of Talk" is a great work of the Renaissance, and I have also studied its central ideas and the background of the times in the course of European literary history. However, this reading is indeed immersed in the scene. Originally, I also talked with five friends and families, if the epidemic really happened in Shanghai, we would live together in Songjiang, thinking that I could tell stories at night. In fact, it is not only about the story, but also about everyone's look back at life and the world. It must be interesting. But not implemented. The sealing began, but everyone went back to their homes.

In the history of literature, this book is all about how to satirize the hypocrisy of the church, how to honestly reflect the society and people's hearts at that time, and how to talk about things related to the Renaissance. Reading now, there is no need to think about these, but to see a lot of things, there are practical benefits. This book made me miss Italy, and I lived in the monasteries of the Black Cult, and I also lived in the Brown Cult. There is a sense of humor in this book that people are forced to stimulate in times of crisis, and they should dance with the dishes in the live broadcast room two days ago. There are many small points in "Decameron" that can be smiled, which makes me marvel at its vitality.

A movie I watched a long time ago. The whole city was plagued, and someone was chasing him, and the young cavalry could only run on the tile roof, but the world on the roof was so beautiful.

I was very impressed by the scene of the young man climbing on the roof, when there was a brilliant music in the Italian opera style in the movie, which was very touching to think about. People will feel the presence of beauty in times of crisis.

The sun is also very good today, and if I can be on the roof, I will definitely have this kind of music in my heart. Maybe I want to be a cavalry on the roof.

Gao Guoxi's recommended words:

The streets and roads of the former bustling streets and communities are empty, and there are occasionally volunteers "Big White" and "Little Blue" running hard. Quiet life, reading and teaching as ever. It is those most beautiful retrogrades, under the strong leadership of the party and the government, practicing the concept of "people first, life first" and defending the tranquility of our lives. A question has always haunted us: Under the situation of the new crown virus raging around the world, what kind of spiritual force has built a strong fortress for the people of the whole country to fight the epidemic? What kind of ethical and cultural traditions does this reflect the Chinese nation? What kind of spiritual value support is needed for Chinese-style modernization and the new form of human civilization? How does this relate to our traditional culture?

Mr. Zhu Yiting's "6 Debates on Traditional Chinese Moral Philosophy" is worth recommending to everyone. This book provokes us to think deeply about what kind of cultural genes we uphold as Chinese, where we come from, who we are, and what is worth pursuing.

China is famous for its state of etiquette and righteousness, and ethics was regarded by our ancestors as the essence of man, "no compassion, no human being." "The cultural life and spiritual lifeblood of the nation have run through the present day, how to become an adult, how people should live, and how the society is well-off and the same, which requires us to think deeply. This book is against "academic utilitarianism" and is the crystallization of Zhu Yiting's decades of academic research. The book proposes that classical Chinese ethics is a moral cognitive method that is "based on emotion and blended with reason", and is the "unity of heaven and man" of "the great plain of the Tao" and the "cultivation realm". This way of thinking and mode of thinking has formed the national characteristics of traditional Chinese ethics. The "source" formed by the philosopher group dominated by pre-Qin Confucianism, after the Later Periods of Confucianism, took the social existence of their respective social beings as the "original", absorbed the ideological resources such as "Tao" and "Buddha", and constantly carried out the "integration of the source and the original", which continues to this day, constituting a rich cultural resource for writing Chinese ethics today.

The book discusses the values of righteousness, righteousness, justice, people-orientedness, benevolence, loyalty and forgiveness, honesty, and real life, harmony and difference, self-service, and the unity of nature and man, and the core values of socialism should be undertaken and integrated into the gods of excellent traditional culture, so that these value concepts can adapt to modern society, and through the creative transformation and innovative development of "ancient and modern reasoning", realize the connection between the "gods" of excellent traditional culture and the "shape" of modern culture, and cultivate and continue the "spiritual lifeline" of the nation.

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