In today's world where people are increasingly replacing hard reading with touch-screen browsing, do we still have deep and serious reading? Just browsing is an instantaneous stimulus of sight and hearing, and it is easy to stay on a relatively shallow and broken level.
In the social atmosphere of rushing to achieve results, there have been a number of flat information performance people who know everything, know everything, do not check, do not distinguish, do not generalize, do not retrospect, do not deliberate, have no analytical ability, and have no creativity. Some of these capable people are still full of anger and dirty. Their appearance is a disaster for the Chinese nation's tradition of "having poetry and bookishness in its belly and calm in the depths of reading".
More people think that with a mobile phone, they can know which official is ugly, which celebrity's family member has committed a crime, and which food has eaten the dead person. Of course, I also know which Uncle Bird became the world's number one dance star, and which five-year-old published his or her first book of poetry. There are too many people like us now, he sees, he listens, he preaches, but he doesn't think.
Even more and more people have not read it carefully, but just looked at the audio-visual program, and felt that it was general and even boring, which greatly ruined the perception and appetite for classic works.
I once quoted Confucius's saying, "To learn without thinking is to be reckless, to think without learning is to perish", to say that learning without thinking, your level is the same as that of networms and Internet addicts, you know a lot of things, but you have no brain. What is it to think without learning? Think without learning, you don't have that much knowledge, you're out there all day.
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I'm afraid that the classics will be spat on
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I said I was afraid that the result of technological development would make people idiotic. Why? Because the development of science and technology will weaken people's original ability.
In an online survey, the most powerful spit is "Dream of the Red Chamber". As soon as I looked at it, it was over, Chinese if it developed in this direction, we could only look at the paragraph, and it was still a fake paragraph.
For my part, I must not forget the scene when I went to the People's Education Center at the age of nine to borrow Hugo's Les Misérables: I was immersed in the soul of the bishop who complained about virtue on Valjean, and I believed how good people should have been, and we had done ourselves badly.
We must not forget that when I was a teenager, I read and recited feverishly for "University", "Filial Piety", "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty", "Su Xin Ci", etc., which was also an experience: people can become more elegant, reason can become personality, and norms can become dignity and pride.
We must not forget the immersion of Chinese and foreign literary classics at the age of eighteen or nineteen: Lu Xun made me severe, Ba Jin made me burn, Tolstoy made me praise, Balzac made me alarmed, Goethe made me admire, Chekhov made me gentle and melancholy, Fadeyev made me admire and sigh... And in difficult times, it was Dickens who accompanied me and made me know that people must endure storms, thunder, lightning, and stormy waves.
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Discover in the book a life that you didn't understand in the past
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I have thought many times, what is the greatest pleasure of reading? It is to discover life in the book, to discover life that I did not understand in the past.
So what is the happiest thing in life? It is to find a book in life, a certain situation, a certain scenery, a certain feeling, you feel that this should be completely on the book, or feel that it is really the same as what is experienced in the book, the feeling when reading, this is the happiest thing.
Books and life can be mutually verifiable, complementary, and mutually recognizable. When I was in the second grade of elementary school, I read the first book in my life, "Selected Model Essays for Primary School Students", the first article was called "Autumn Night", and the first sentence I still remember: The bright moon rises in the sky.
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I'm so excited, why?
At that time, I was almost 7 years old, I already knew what the moon was, and I also had a comparison between the moon and the sun, the sun was very bright, very harsh, the sun was very hot on the body, the moon I thought was bright, but it was different from the light of the sun, what was different? I do not know.
As soon as I read the book, it was called "Kyaukjeong", I was so excited, Oh my God, this is "Kyauknjie"! From then on, whenever I saw the moon, I thought of "kyaukray." I was so happy that I thought I had discovered the world. The world is no longer strange, I named it, what is the name? - "Kyauksh".
We must also admit that books will never be as rich, so intuitive, so vivid, so subtle as life, but books have the characteristics of books, and some content cannot be fully obtained in life.
Why? Books are mainly expressed and established by language and words, books symbolize life, and the result of symbolization is to add people's thinking to it, and books express people's thinking ability.
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Books are organized, idealistic, and general
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Where is the relationship between books and life? Books are classic. Some books have a lofty nature that life does not have, and even a divinity. Books represent the wisdom, experience, and understanding of predecessors, and only by reading these books can we grasp the classics and obtain the classics.
Books are organized. Daily life gives people feelings, today know "Kyauk clean", tomorrow know "bright", the day after tomorrow to know "bright", the day after tomorrow to know "fragrant", but these experiences in life are messy. Only after the combing of symbols, through the combing of language and words, a person's understanding of the world begins to be organized, and this kind of organization cannot be given by daily life.
Because there is orderliness, there is clarity, what things are said more clearly, sometimes even between spouses - the most feared thing between spouses is not that there is disagreement, but that there is no confusion about where the inconsistency is, and sometimes I think, or you write out which three articles for me to see, I will understand it as soon as I see it, and it will be clear.
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Books have ideals. What is an ideal? I hope there is, but not yet. "The journey of the great avenue is also that the whole world is just, the wise and the able are chosen, and the faith is cultivated." The deceased does not kiss his relatives alone, nor does he have only sons and sons. "Everyone not only loves his own parents, but sees other people's parents love him as much as his own parents, sees other people's children, and takes care of him and helps him like his own children, so how good is this society!"
Books can express many noble ideals, and these noble ideals are not fully obtained in life, which is idealism.
The book is general. Because people's language and words summarize a lot of things that cannot be seen or touched. Happiness, nobility, nobility, dedication, benevolence, morality, direction... These abstract things can only be summarized by language and words, and what people cannot see can be achieved by language; what people cannot hear, language can achieve; what people cannot touch, language can also achieve.
Language is man's thinking, using man's mind to see the world and understand the world; to look at history, to understand history; to look at life, to understand life. Without reading, just in life, no matter how smart a person is, he can't reach it.
Books cannot be replaced, no matter how rich a person's experience is, without books to improve, summarize, and promote, life will never reach a relatively high realm.
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It's a little bit of a strenuous book to read
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So what type of books should you read today? I advocate reading a little bit of a strenuous book, a little bit of a book that you are not used to, and a little bit of a book that requires you to look up information, consult others, and discuss with your teachers and friends.
In addition to interesting books, read a little serious book. In addition to the books of breaking news, the books of miracles, and the books of venting, it is even more necessary to read books of science, logic, analysis, and books with innovation, art, and courage.
In addition to the books that go down the river, you also have to read books that climb up and need to be weighed. In addition to the books you are familiar with in the vernacular and the books in the form of recitation lectures, you must also read books with a little academy atmosphere, books in ancient Chinese, books in foreign languages, and books in tomes.
In addition to the books that are easy to read, it is also necessary to read some books that have been read less in the past, so that instead of reading for ten minutes to win laughter or praise, but for a moment and a half, I can't find the feeling.
The more convenient, comfortable, and quantitative the information, the more seriously you must read the book and read the brain-draining book. Read with your brain, and definitely not just follow the flow, follow the fun, be proud of the mastery of gossip, talk, and finally become a "smart" all-round idiot.
So I would like to take this opportunity to emphasize: keep reading, the benefits are endless. In the touch screen era, don't be a slave to the Internet.
Source: Read Wuhan
Author: Wang Meng
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