"Readers are happy people" (excerpt)
Author: Xie Mian Recitation: Kang Hui
I often think that the reader is a happy person in the world, because in addition to having the real world, he also has another vaster and richer world. The real world is owned by everyone, and the latter world is unique to the reader. From this I think of how unfortunate it is for those who have lost or cannot read, and that their loss is irreparable. There are many inequalities in the world, inequalities in wealth, inequalities in power, but the possession or loss of the ability to read is embodied in spiritual inequality.
In a person's life, he can only experience the joy he has, that suffering, and perhaps add some of the experiences and experiences he has personally heard about himself. However, through reading, people can enter the world of many others in different time and space. In this way, people with the ability to read invisibly acquire infinite possibilities beyond finite life. Reading not only made him more aware of the names of grass, trees, insects and fish, but also could go back to the ancient times and the future, and enjoy the strange customs of existence and non-existence.
More importantly, reading benefits people not only the expansion of knowledge, but also the indoctrination and cultivation of the spirit. People learn to be human from reading, and learn their personality from the writings of the philosophers and contemporary talents. People learned wisdom and thinking from the Analects, serious historical spirit from the "Chronicle of History," and fierceness of personality from the Song of Righteous Qi; the passion of the world from Marx, the critical spirit from Lu Xun, and the moral persistence from Tolstoy. Goethe's verses are inscribed with a wise life, and Byron's verses call for the enthusiasm for struggle. A person who reads, a lucky person who has the opportunity to have an experience beyond his personal life.
【About the Author】
Xie Mian, a native of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, born in 1932, is a literary critic, poet and writer, vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association, vice president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association, honorary member of the National Committee of the China Writers Association, and editor-in-chief of Poetry Exploration Magazine.
【Reciter Profile】
Kang Hui is the host of China Central Radio and Television Corporation.
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