Reading on Reading Day
- To the 29th World Book Day
Text/Yang Zhouping
Book Day 2024 is the 29th World Book Day, and every year on this day, more than 100 countries around the world hold various celebrations and book campaigns. In 1995, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a resolution designating April 23 as "World Book Day" and called for: "I hope that people scattered all over the world, whether old or young, poor or rich, sick or healthy, can enjoy the pleasure of reading, respect and thank the masters of literature, culture and scientific thought who have made great contributions to human civilization, and can protect intellectual property rights." ”
Since then, the reputation of this unique and inky festival has grown day by day, and it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Let people return to a healthy, noble and pure way of life, and pay tribute to those great people who have opened up a free and rich spiritual world for mankind.
This is the call of true love, this is a deep remembrance. Regardless of skin color or country, people express their confidence and hope for the development of human civilization in this festival. Putting down the mobile phone, reading more, reading good books, and loving reading are becoming the consensus and needs of today's people, and a fresh wind of reading and the rhyme of ink fragrance are coming.
"Everything is inferior, only reading is high" is biased, but there is no lack of positive side, the benefits of reading, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, no one has ever questioned. "Accumulate tens of millions of wealth, and never study. "Reading can be rational and reasonable, and you can cultivate one's self-cultivation. Reading can dispel loneliness, make people calm and rational, curb non-divisive desires, and make people feel peaceful. Reading and knowing the taste, "whenever I have a mind, I will happily forget to eat". This kind of reading process of physical and mental unity makes the sense of sacredness and pleasure of reading spontaneously. Human life is only once, and in the book, you can experience a thousand kinds of lives and feel a thousand kinds of lives. People who don't read can only live once, and if you read more books, won't the length of your life increase?
Chisel the wall to borrow light, Sun Kang reflects the snow, and the cone of the cantilever pierces ······ The moving stories reflect the Chinese nation's love for reading. The bloodline of culture, the essence of thought, and the Taoism of the country······ Reading has been passed down to the world for a long time, and reading has become an advanced step for the people of the country to govern the country and secure the country.
In today's era, information explosion, impetuous wind, fast food culture, self-media push······ The decline in the reading rate of the whole people shows the importance and urgency of regaining reading.
Huang Tingjian, a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, said: "If you don't read for a day, your language will be tasteless and your face will be hateful." "There is poetry and books in the belly, and the most important thing is that the fragrance of books can go far." "Since everyone has a love for beauty, then only by taking reading as a way of life, a habit, and a belief will beauty accompany us forever; food is for survival, and reading is for a better life. Only when reading becomes an indispensable part of our daily life, and when reading becomes as natural as what we eat and drink, and becomes the standard of our lives, will life be full of vitality, and the days will be day after day, and no longer boring. Don't use the lack of time to read as an excuse to want to read. Jews are recognized as a smart people in the world, data show that in the field of world trade, 70% of the trade volume is in the hands of Jews, in the top 400 of the richest people in the United States, Jews account for 25%, because they have cultivated the habit of reading children since childhood, Jews read an average of 64 books per person every year, becoming the most read nation in the world, and there is a library every 100 meters on the street where Jews live.
Don't treat reading as a kind of decoration and show-off, let the bookshelf be dusty, reading is not pretending, not vassal elegance, no need to boast, scorching the scorching. Refusing to read, believing that reading is pedantic and outdated, that it is the poverty and sourness of the "talents", and that it is the arrogance and arrogance of the self-proclaimed "rough people", which is the tragedy of reading. Reading to old age, learning to old age, reading will not be mediocre and self-disturbing. The real reason why you are unhappy is actually that you think too much and don't read much.
I have a group of literary friends, and when we get together, the most talked about is reading. books, so that we have a common language. Books make literati a little closer. At different stages of life, the feelings of reading are also different. Young people are more anxious to achieve success and less peaceful. Middle-aged reading is more indifferent and less utilitarian. Reading in the elderly gives you more wisdom and less loneliness.
Loving to read is equivalent to turning lonely moments in life into great enjoyment. If the happiest thing in life is chatting, reading a book is the most exquisite chat. Studying is like visiting the home of the world's most prominent people, and it's a rare opportunity. The biggest reason for reading is to get rid of mediocrity, to have a more wonderful life one day earlier, and one day later to have one more day of mediocrity.
People are really worried about life, annoying, and go to read books, books can make people forget their troubles, and take you into the light. There is a saying that the fragrance of books infiltrates the soul, and reading lights up life.
April 18, 2024
About author:Yang Zhouping, a native of Baoji, Shaanxi, is a senior judge, a director of the China Judges Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association and the Shaanxi Writers Association, a director of the Baoji Writers Association, and the executive vice chairman of the Fengxiang District Writers Association. He is the author of essay collections such as "A City of Smoke and Rain" and "Love and Moon".