Early reading, I like
Wen | Li Quncheng
Reading is an important part of the life of people of all cultures, and it is also a compulsory course for a person with literary dreams and artistic cultivation to do for life.
In daily life, some people like to read during the day, and some people like to read at night, but I like to read early. Moreover, my early reading is not silent, it is reading aloud.
On the morning when "wet apricot blossoms and rain, blowing noodles are not cold willow wind", or pick up a book of prose, or hold a book of poetry, or bring an art review, or pick up a newly received newspaper or magazine. Sometimes sitting in front of a case with a few clean windows, sometimes wandering on mountain paths, sometimes taking a nap on the shore of a stream, reading a book for half an hour and an hour, not only learning knowledge, but also absorbing fresh air, exhaling the turbidity accumulated in the chest overnight, stimulating the brain, training the eyes, exercising the tongue, it is really a lot of things.
My "early reading" is not to get up in the morning to read, but to read after eating breakfast. My habit of reading early wasn't formed when I was younger. Because, in my early years of working in the army, in that military career of "talking about soldiers head-on", time was not at the disposal of individuals, and it was impossible to read early. After transferring to the local government department, "not because of the illness helpless, how dare to drift to the official guard", but also busy with work during the day, at night many times for the sake of work and overtime, time can not be completely controlled by themselves. As I grew older, especially when I felt that my career had come to an end, I began to read early every day. At the age of "children don't know each other, laugh and ask where the guests come from", all the time is their own, and they take early reading as a daily homework and stick to it better.
Reading is happy, just as the so-called "the sea is wide with fish leaping, the sky is high and the birds fly.". If the book is the vast sea, you who love books, like a small fish swimming in the sea of books, you can inform the thousands of worlds in the sea; if the book is an endless forest, you who love books will be a small bird, in the book to shuttle freely, enjoy the beautiful scenery of nature; books, like smoke and clouds of space, you who love books, will be an eagle, in the vast sea of clouds, let you spread your wings and sweep across the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland. If you encounter unhappiness in life, even if your chest is full of resentment, as long as you pick up a good book of your choice, you will instantly turn into a swimming fish in the sea, a bird in the forest, an eagle in the sea of clouds, and a free heart, flying, and singing freely.
Whether it is spring, summer, autumn or winter, cold and summer, reading is a supreme enjoyment. In that season of "late days and beautiful mountains, spring wind and flowers", hold up a book, you will definitely read a colorful spring, even if you have been full of silver wire, you will also read the madness of youth, the sweetness of a hundred flowers; in the summer of "receiving the lotus leaves are infinitely blue, the lotus flowers are different from the sun", a good book is in hand, your heart is no less than the heat of the hot summer, it will ignite infinite passion; in the cool autumn of "parking and sitting in love with maple forest, frost leaves red in February flowers", hold up a good book, Even in the cold winter season of "six flying flowers into the household, sitting and watching the green bamboo change into branches", the rich knowledge and learning in the book will also warm your heart, and you will also read another taste: winter is coming, will spring be far away?
Zhao Heng of the Song Dynasty said in the "Persuasion Poems": "There is a golden house in the book" and "there is a yan ruyu in the book". Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" also says: Xiu Cai does not go out, he knows the world's affairs.
Writing this reminds me of my grandfather, who was an acupuncturist and very knowledgeable. When I was a child, my grandfather told us a story: there were two brothers in the Song Dynasty, and the older brother Cheng Hao did not leave the house and buried his head in reading at home every day; the younger brother Cheng Yi did not like to read, and often skipped school and ran to the mountains to play. One day Cheng Yi found a bird's nest in a tree deep in the mountains, and the eggs in the nest were square. Cheng Yi thought to himself, his brother often said that he could know the affairs of the world without leaving the house, and such a bird egg was probably impossible for him to see. Therefore, Cheng Yi took the bird egg home to show his brother, but the brother immediately chanted: "Ding Lang, Ding Lang, call for help, Fu (fu) egg square, Lingzhi grass nest, nest on the sandalwood tree." Cheng Hao then told his brother, "It is useless for you to take the eggs back, but the Lingzhi grass and sandalwood trees are the most precious." Cheng Yi saw that his brother did not leave the house, and he was still so learned, he really admired it. Since then, he has stopped skipping school, studied hard with his brother, and finally became a famous science master in history.
Reading books can also make you feel endlessly interesting, and it will also make you think and export chapters. In the summer of 2015, A few friends and I went to the Luanchuan Mountains to escape the summer. Because the village we live in was developed late, the mountains are green, the trees are shady, the tourists are sparse, and the air is fresh. At breakfast, I picked up a book of poems and roamed the mountain paths, reading them leisurely. Suddenly, a small dog popped out of the farmhouse on the side of the road and barked at me. I took a few steps forward, and it retreated to the door; and as I tried to leave, it caught up again. I immediately remembered the sinister face of the jianghu and the ugly faces of individuals, and instantly became a five-word poem:
In the morning reading room, the Shiba gate dog barked.
Yu took three or two steps forward, and the dog retreated to find a house.
Intent to pull away, chasing the platoon around me.
The world is helpless and wants to hide.
Yes, in work and life, we often encounter some helpless things and dirty villains, so that you can't dodge and have no way to escape.
Reading books can also stimulate your desire to create and realize your literary dreams. If you buy a few prose collections and insist on reading them, and you can't finish reading a few books, I believe you will germinate the desire to write prose; you will memorize hundreds of Tang poems and Song poems, and everything in the world can enter your eyes, and you can form poems; if you have a few calligraphy works or albums in your hand, take them out every day to appreciate them, maybe it will also prompt you to pick up your brush and paint. Sun Su, a Qing dynasty, said in the "Preface to the Three Hundred Poems of Tang Poetry": "If you are familiar with the three hundred poems of Tang Dynasty, you will not compose poems and will also chant", which is the truth.
That's how I lived. More than 20 years ago, I began to enjoy reading prose, poetry and art criticism, and two years later I developed the desire to create and published works one after another. So far, he has published more than 140 essays, travelogues, reviews and art theory articles, nearly 400,000 words, hundreds of poems (阕), and also published two poetry collections and a copy of "Dusty Years".
With the accumulation of time, after a period of time, I also plan to publish the "Chengzhai Anthology". Even if the quality of published articles, poems, and links may not be very high, after all, it is the expression of their true thoughts and feelings, and it is also a stage summary of the learning results, which adds a lot of interest to daily life, which is still very meaningful.
Read early and I will stick with it until the last moment of my life!
About author:Li Quncheng is a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, and a member of the China Yuelian Society. He is a member of Henan Writers Association. Calligraphy and fine art works have been selected for many exhibitions organized by the Book Association and the Provincial Art Association. He has published more than 140 articles of commentary, essays and poems in professional newspapers and periodicals with more than 400,000 words. He has published "Spring Recitation and Autumn Yin - Li Quncheng Poetry Collection", "Woye Yizhen Li Quncheng Poetry Collection", "Dusty Years", "Li Quncheng Calligraphy Works Collection", "Rise of the Central Plains - Li Quncheng, a famous Chinese calligrapher".
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