The most critical function of reading is not to seek knowledge, but to cultivate oneself.
Now reading is no longer considered a serious, serious, and something that must be faced, and reading is not as persistent and important as before, so there is the question of how many years after graduation and whether to read.
After knowledge became readily available, the original three functions of reading—reading, seeking knowledge, and cultivating—were all affected.
In the past, when we read books, knowledge and self-cultivation were synchronized, now the level of knowledge seeking is replaced by retrieval, as long as we know the title of a book and the name of a person, retrieval is enough.
And the function of reading emphasizes the entertainment function more. After the original state of hard pursuit and searching up and down disappeared, knowledge was there, but cultivation was gone.
We used to admire Su Dongpo's poems "with poetry and books in the belly", and when we read more, the bookish spirit that ordinary people say comes out. Today, after my reading and cultivation are no longer synchronized, the shaping of personality, soul, temperament, and external image by reading has been cut off, which is a very serious problem.
This generation is my age in a transitional era, we are growing up in the age of books, and on the other hand, we are catching up with the digital age, and we can understand on both sides.
The next few generations of young people may have entered the digital age before they had time to understand the previous era. I have an understanding of how the upper and lower generations read, so I will feel emotional.
But for young people, lessons are useless, so I write down my reading experience, maybe there are some books that arouse their interest, and how many people can be influenced in the books.
In today's era of overwhelming information, it is difficult to establish one's own reading interest, to let one's position, vision and interest not be tempted by the surrounding environment. With the mass media, the homogenization of reading is too serious.
In fact, everyone's reading is different, and it is completely normal for a mathematician and a literature professor to have different interests. Readers should first establish their own reading interest and base point, and then talk about reading after having that base point.
The phrase "open book is beneficial" is often mentioned and has a deep impact, but I think that "open book is beneficial" as a slogan is worth scrutinizing.
Why is it opened??
Now we know that people who read a lot will succeed, but many people who don't read are also successful, and there are many more people who have read books all their lives without success, so reading books may not be successful, or "open books" may not be "beneficial".
Getting everyone to understand the slogan "Open books are good" is problematic in itself, because age, occupation, mood, reading goals, and so on can affect your reading.
Many famous sayings about reading books have been recited in ancient and modern times, but most of them are actually aimed at specific groups of people. It is not the same for ordinary readers, literati, officials, and emperors to talk about reading. For example, Wang Guowei borrowed Song Ci to talk about the "three realms" of reading, which is more suitable for scholars than for others.
Everyone has their own experience, and a really good state is to constantly summarize their own path and then make adjustments on their own. For any person who reads, his reading method is basically only suitable for himself.
In the article "Reading as a Social Method", I recommended Zhang Taiyan's ideas. Mr. Zhang Taiyan repeatedly emphasized that the knowledge of life is far less than that of teachers and teachers, and it is far less than the social experience and life sorrows.
In other words, what he learned from his teacher was far less than what he gained from social experience and his own life plan, so I summarized his experience of reading:
- First, learning is basically based on self-study;
- Second, if you really don't understand, you can ask for advice;
- Third, reading must link life planning with book knowledge in order to have a truly in-depth experience.
Author = Chen Pingyuan
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