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"Did you read a book today?"
On the occasion of World Book Day, many bookstores and the media have put up such slogans.
And in real life, the one I hear the most is "Did you do nucleic acid today?" ”
Under the epidemic, this sentence has become a greeting between friends and family.
Because it has become a necessity of life, important and urgent.
However, with the increasingly strict control of the epidemic, daily nucleic acid has become one of the daily lives of people in the control area, and it is a necessary procedure that everyone must go through every day, so the sentence has become "you also come to do nucleic acid.".
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Just like in the early years people always met with the phrase "Have you eaten?" "Greetings to each other.
Because most of our predecessors, and even many of us, experienced starving childhoods and adolescence.
Being able to eat and eat is the most important thing in life, and greeting people whether they eat or not is to show the greatest concern for others.
Later, although the standard of living has improved, there will be basically no more cases of not having enough to eat, but the memory of hunger for generations has been deeply engraved in our genes and has become our collective subconscious.
Therefore, in today's era of poverty alleviation and well-off, the older generation still starts with "Have you eaten?" "As a greeting.
And the Most Talked About By the Chinese is also about eating, from food prices to cooking techniques, from eating delicious new to eating smart eating, the three-year epidemic has created many chefs and family noodle experts.
But the vast majority of middle-aged people and younger will never again think of the question "Have you eaten?" After all, eating is like brushing your teeth and washing your face, which is part of daily life.
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If reading had become a part of our lives, there would have been no more "Are you reading today?" Such a greeting, instead asking "What book did you read today?" ”
After three years of epidemic, netizens have concluded from the activity trajectory of many people infected with the new crown virus that the library is the safest place.
Because not a single infected person has ever been to the library, it is unlikely that anyone will be infected from the library.
At a time when COVID-19 is raging across the globe, all of our libraries in a country of more than a billion people are like Antarctica.
Is this a blessing or a joke?
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Everyone knows the benefits and importance of reading, sports, getting up early, etc., but because these things are not urgent, the effect cannot be immediately apparent, coupled with human inertia, many people are difficult to insist.
So like-minded people came together, formed a community, and urged each other.
I remember a few years ago I attended a reading and writing camp, and many people in the group added "Did you read today?" in front of their WeChat names? or "Did you write today?" ”。
Some people changed the WeChat name to "please call me to code words" or "take me to read with you", and everyone promoted each other, and the effect was not bad.
I have been writing since then, of course, because I am busy with work, but also because of laziness, I have not been able to write every day, only guaranteed to write once a week, but reading is a daily need, whether it is a business trip or overtime, it has not been interrupted.
At that time, the WeChat group was still there, but there were very few people who continued to write, and the WeChat names that prompted the reading code words did not change, quietly staying in the group and no longer posting.
It can be seen that such slogans and prompts are useful for some specific objects in a specific period, but there is still a long way to go to form long-term habits.
For example, the same weChat name was changed to "Did you get up early today?" Or "Did you exercise today?" Some people unconsciously form corresponding good habits, while more people just stick to it for a while and then return to the prototype.
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Although for those who take reading as a habit, every day is a reading day, but all the knowledge payment during the 423 reading day has different degrees of discounts, so this is indeed a festival for readers.
With the prosperity of new media, reading forms and scenes have also become diverse, and the activities of the book day are even more exciting and dazzling.
"Did you read a book today?"
I hope that this simple greeting can awaken more people's enthusiasm for reading, link people in different environments through various forms of push, stimulate public interest in reading, and create a book society.
Author's profile: The original author of this article, Tiandao Reward, opened a self-media account such as the headline number and the public account "Mortal Book Enlightenment", recorded the lives and reading feelings of ordinary people, and recommended good books to you.