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Chinese has always had a pragmatic attitude towards reading.
Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng wrote a famous poem "Li Xue", saying that "there are thousands of bells in the book, there is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book", anyway, there is everything in the book. The book is well read, what do you want.
Therefore, "if the boy fulfills his life aspirations, he will read to the window diligently", since there is something in the book, then you should read well!
This kind of persuasion is simpler and rude than Xunzi's persuasion, and it is straightforward.
02
In fact, the word reading has more than one meaning, which can refer to reading, or to school or study.
The former is less utilitarian, while the latter carries a certain utilitarian purpose, because the latter is often connected with worldly fame and fortune.
Sometimes the two are the same, sometimes they are not the same.
For example, in the eyes of Song Zhenzong, reading the Four Books and Five Classics is considered to be reading, but reading "The Tale of the West Chamber" is estimated to be not counted, and watching "Dream of the Red Chamber" is not counted.
And after tea and dinner, between work, pick up a copy of "Dream of the Red Chamber" to read, that is a real reading, if you read the four books and five classics, of course, it is also counted.
03
In the sense of reading, reading is "useless".
At the very least, "useful" is not much.
There will be neither a thousand bells nor a house of gold in the book, and the books we read will not become the fame and profit of reality, nor will they be exchanged for firewood and rice for cooking.
Even, sometimes, it can be counterproductive.
Because a person's energy and attention are limited, one side uses more, the other side uses less.
If you want to be a social expert, calling friends to organize a few more meals is definitely better than studying at home; if you want to make rapid progress in your career, running more to the leader's house is definitely better than studying at home.
In the real world, the book is definitely not as good as the smell of copper, and it is even less than the incense of authority.
04
Reading is one's own, has nothing to do with worldly interests, has nothing to do with the eyes of others.
Lei Haiwei, a courier brother who won the championship of the third season of the "Chinese Poetry Conference", spent all his fragmented time memorizing poems in addition to the intense delivery of takeaways.
While merchants were waiting for a meal, waiting for a red light on the road, or even riding a bicycle on the road, he was chanting the verses of the ancients.
Reading poetry and delivering takeaways are not compatible in themselves, but in Lei Haiwei's body, they are perfectly unified.
Lei Haiwei said: "Whenever I recite those beautiful verses of the ancients, my heart is always extremely comfortable. ”
When he liked to read poetry, there was no program "Chinese Poetry Conference", and he read and memorized it for many years, just because he loved it, only because he was happy.
This kind of reading is the real reading.
05
The real reading is actually more like a practice, a self-cultivation.
What reading brings us is the pleasure of communicating with the author across time and space, and the satisfaction after colliding with the spark of the thinking of the sages and sages.
Reading books can allow us to find a world of peace and tranquility in this troubled world.
Reading does not necessarily bring us material abundance, but it can make us incomparably rich in our own spiritual world.
Pearl Whisper, from the dual perspective of teachers and parents to look at education, to answer the educational confusion of adolescents and parents.