. Reading is to live a decent and noble life. Reading makes people wise, open-minded, elegant and beautiful. Reading can change lives. Reading cannot change the length of life, but it can change the width of life. Reading makes life within a limited length, broad and far-reaching, magnificent, surging, mighty and exciting. Reading cannot change the physical aspects of life, but it can change the atmosphere of life. The external appearance and material composition are based on genetics and cannot be changed, but the human spirit can flourish and flourish through reading. Reading cannot change the starting point of life, but it can change the end point of life. Reading helps you never let your life be at the mercy of fate, take control of yourself, and move toward the extreme of your dreams persistently. Regardless of noble or humble origin, reading can change the coordinates and trajectory of life and play the music of life. Reading travels through time and space, opening up an infinite starry sky for mankind to look at the world from afar. Humanity only has a century-old history of aviation and aerospace. However, reading is the aircraft of the human soul and the earliest "manned spaceship." It synchronizes with life, but can go retrograde with time, reach the distant future, and reveal the confusing past. It can open up countless dimensional spaces, allowing thoughts to wander vertically and horizontally, leading to the great soul. Reading is the birthplace of happiness. Meticulous logic, profound thoughts, lofty realm, and great soul all surround readers. You can see the world, think about the past, talk with wise men, and talk with great people. To be a scholar is to be a happy person. Reading gives words eternal value. It is more ethereal than images, clearer than memory, and deeper than meditation. It puts you on the shoulders of giants and puts you above their thoughts. Reading is an important way for people to socialize. It transforms natural people into social people. Much of the world, life, and society we know comes from reading. The significance of reading is that it builds a world of spiritual life on a level that transcends secular life. A person's reading history is the history of his spiritual development. Reading enables people to transcend their animal nature and avoid being reduced to puppets and zombies. Stopping reading means cutting off communication with the world and the soul, and life will enter an endless loop. It can be said that reading saved us. To live, you must read. However, such fascinating reading is not an innate human instinct. People must learn to read in order to reach the free kingdom of reading. The process of learning to read determines whether you will be associated with reading throughout your life. To put it bluntly, many people have never learned to read and have no reading ability. Therefore, they are unable to appreciate the joy of reading and have no connection with books throughout their lives. Readers are not reading machines. It is the interaction and manifestation of each other's souls between readers and authors. What you read is the image of those words in your own mind. This image changes endlessly depending on your inner climate. "A thousand readers, there are a thousand Hamlets." The true meaning of reading is that you read the meaning that you feel and understand in your heart. Reading ability is the ability of people to communicate with text. Technically speaking, there are methods for reading. After we have acquired the basic ability of reading, what is more important is the ability to analyze text. It is transformed by food, making the words flesh and blood, tangible and colorful, and restoring the life activated by the words. When we say this, we do not mean that learning to read is difficult. If we are still far away from reading and there are still obstacles in our reading, it is all because of the secular, corrupt and incorrect concept of reading that prevents us from getting close to reading. For example, the worship of reading and the utilitarian appeal to reading. Perhaps, we can shockingly remove reading from the altar of cultural worship. Perhaps, we can liberate reading from the shackles of fame without any fetters. Everyone can get spiritual comfort from reading. Everyone is a master of reading. Reading is just to live, live happily, live with soul, live with high quality, and become a living person in the true sense. Reading is not mysterious. Yes, reading is entertainment. Because of reading, I am happy. Reading is the photosynthesis of life. Because of reading, life is full of spring. Reading is a free, personalized and private space that can accommodate your soul. Reading is about pondering, appreciating, thinking, and transcending after experiencing the charm of words. Reading is not only imaginative, but also creative. In reading, our hearts become full-fledged. In reading, we break through ourselves and soar. I remember reading an article "Cherish Reading": Reading is like a song, when the song reaches the point of love, tears flow.

Reading is a kind of communication and a kind of understanding. Cherishing reading means cherishing every minute and second of life and every plant and tree in the world. Life is actually a book that can never be finished. Everyone's life is different, and the content of this book will not be the same. Even for the same person, if his or her life could be repeated, the contents of his or her book of life would not be repeated. Different people have different experiences, and the content of the book is even more different. Therefore, it is so difficult to understand a person, understand a person, and understand a person's life! But many people are trying to communicate, hoping to read each other, understand each other, go deep into each other, and allow thoughts and ideas to exchange. Reading opens a beautiful window in life. Written by Sang Yu. Friday, May 26, 2006. I remember that when my daughter was less than one year old, the best way to suppress her crying was to put a colorful hard-cover book in front of her. Except for occasional physical discomfort, this method has been tried many times and has achieved great success. At that time, it was far away from the Internet. Monique's "Wordless Book" is out of reach, and other picture books such as the Little Mouse series are even less known. There are just a few colorful copies of "Little Children's Knowledge" that I found in bookstores, and a monthly issue of "Baby Pictorial". I occasionally went on a business trip to Hangzhou and was dazzled by the variety of books in the bookstore. For a moment, I felt like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, picking up this book and putting down that one, and finally selected a set of twenty volumes of short stories among thousands of roses. It is these rare and precious spiritual food that give my daughter the first fragrance of life. She smells happiness and beauty in reading, and finds kind and lovely companions in stories. Often, she would designate a certain book to read and tell the same story over and over again, obsessed with every detail in the story. She would even secretly replace certain words and invert certain sentences, which could be detected and corrected immediately without any hesitation. The wonderful feeling starts the moment you bring your child close to the book. Even if life has such complicated trivial matters, even if work has those entangled knots, from the moment I open the book, a stream of clear water slowly flows through my heart. What's more, there is a pair of clear and flawless eyes in front of him that are eager for knowledge. The unique charm of words is that just a few words can take you to a secret garden far away from the hustle and bustle, where you can listen to the chirping of birds and admire the flowing clouds and flowing water. "Books are the ladder of human progress." When my daughter was growing up, I worked hard to use books to build a rainbow bridge, a colorful rainbow bridge. Just imagine that along the way, big hands are holding small hands, pointing to the stars and the bright moon, and the universe is bright. On the other side of the bridge is beauty, confidence, fulfillment and happiness. Various qualities are learned, forged, revised and perfected one by one in the process of walking and reading. What a beautiful picture it will be! The most impressive time was reading "The Adventures of Little Butou" by Sun Youjun to my daughter recently. The moving part of this book is that it allows children to understand the sufferings of the old society and learn to cherish the hard-won happy life now. It's easy to say it, but it's not easy to do it. Especially now, the arrogance of only children is more or less reflected in the children. By reading similar stories, let her know about thrift, humility, and love. A good book is a beacon that guides the course. When the Internet enters our lives, an extremely broad reading horizon and an ocean of books are waiting for you to explore. It seems that the little bear and little tiger in Yarosh's novel were as ecstatic when they discovered "Panama". Although the search steps have returned to the original place, they see the beauty of life from a higher realm. Teacher Mei Zihan, a contemporary children's literature writer, once said: A person who hopes to be outstanding should get close to literature, and the way to get close to literature is of course reading. Read those classics and masterpieces, and you will get a different atmosphere from the world in the stories and language. At the same time, elegant moods and feelings will be born...Slowly, this reading will give you a style and something extraordinary. Eyes... What reading brings us is undoubtedly such a distant view. Especially when you are trapped in the prison of reality, the power you rely on to break out of the circle comes from all kinds of books and concentrated reading. The same goes for children. Having this ability is tantamount to opening a window to see beauty. Also growing up, with reading as my companion, especially reading excellent and classic works, what a poetic relaxation it is! We need to give our children this kind of warmth, and our children also need this kind of traction. Reading and Life Xu Yan Today’s topic concerns each of us, every family, and the culture of every city. No matter what type of person you are, you cannot do without "reading". Why? Because "reading" is an important tool that leads life to a bright future and gives our lives wings of ideals.

If I left "reading", I would have no chance to meet you face to face; if I left "reading", it would be impossible for me to go from my hometown in Taicang, Jiangsu to study in the Department of Library Science of Peking University, and from Peking University to Nanjing University to teach. , and it is impossible to teach everyone about "reading" as a lecture "expert". Next, I will share with you some of my experiences on "reading and life" over the years. The essence of reading is to pay attention to life. It means: When you are a teenager, opening a book is like looking at the moon through the crack in the door. You are small, but the moon is round and big, and you are full of longing for the moon. , I think the moon is magical, and I also think reading is magical. After a person reaches middle age, it is like looking at the moon in the courtyard of his own home, looking at the moon with his hands behind his back. He is full of intimacy with the moon, which is also his understanding of reading. You are already fully sure and full of confidence; when you reach old age, it is like playing with the moon on the stage (the traditional Chinese character "Tai" means a scholar standing on a tall building). The so-called playing with the moon is to "interact with the moon" ", you feel that the moon is within your grasp, and the life you have experienced blends with what you read. Regarding the taste of reading, Zhang Chao summed it up quite well in a passage. He said: "Reading as a young man is like peeping at the moon through a gap, reading in middle age is like looking at the moon in a courtyard, and reading in old age is like playing with the moon on the stage." The last sentence is particularly the finishing touch: "The depth of experience is the depth of what you get." That is to say, when you have the participation of experience, that is, after the interaction between book knowledge and practical knowledge, you will have a better understanding of reading. Only then can you have a full grasp of something and be confident about what books can bring to your life. This is very important. Therefore, it is said that "only by reading books without words can you get amazing and wonderful sentences." In other words, if you can combine your personal experience and practice with book knowledge through your own thinking, you can write your own wonderful sentences. It's a good article. This article has "ideological power", which contains your own life feelings and awareness, insights and insights. Therefore, reading in youth, reading in middle age, and reading in old age are all inseparable from this rule: "Everything is a book, the reading room of heaven and earth." We must be good at reading without words, and be good at integrating our lives with nature, mountains, rivers, and society. The knowledge of things and book knowledge should be integrated and integrated. In middle age, part of it should be used to continue learning; in old age, reading should be used as a means to harmonize one's soul and enrich one's spiritual home. Such a life will be very complete and fulfilling, so we call it reading. This is the essential meaning of reading, allowing people to absorb the wisdom of others, giving life the wings of knowledge and learning, and gaining relatively unlimited space for development in a limited period of a hundred years. Reading classics is about absorbing the wisdom of life. Classics have been filtered by time and read by generations. The reading behavior of this generation is similar to today's "mobile phone voting". Only those that are preserved can be called "classics". There are so many books in ancient China, so why are only the four great Chinese classics considered "classics"? It is because countless generations of readers have "voted" for these books after reading them that the four masterpieces stand out from the vast sea of ??classical works and enter the "ranking of masterpieces." This is the meaning of reading, especially "classics": a "classic" records the most complete knowledge, the wisest wisdom, and the most exquisite insights of the ancient sages. Regarding the question of what is a "masterpiece", there is a passage from a professor and philosophy professor at the University of Chicago in the United States: Masterpieces are read by the most readers. They are not bestsellers within one or two years, but long-lasting bestsellers; masterpieces are popular and easy-to-read books. What you understand is not quoting classics or obscure books... Whether they are masterpieces about philosophy, science, history, or poetry, they discuss universal human issues, not professional issues; masterpieces are timeless and long-lasting... even if they are read over and over again. , and it is difficult to exhaust its details. Classical works are the most influential, inspiring and educational; famous works explore long-term unresolved issues in human life. Dr. Adler's views on famous books are a summary of the principles in the world of Western book culture. There is an old saying in China: "Young people don't read "Water Margin", old people don't read "Three Kingdoms"." Once personal experience and understanding are added to reading, the understanding of the original literary works will be deeper. The materialization of reading determines your consciousness, can influence a person's thinking, and can be used in social personnel practice. If wisdom is used to deal with people, it would be terrible.

And a more important aspect is that reading classics can improve ourselves, improve and purify our cultural heritage and taste, and allow us to use the pleasure and elegant taste of reading to deal with ignorance and even ignorance in life. Face the worldliness and even vulgarity of life, and then laugh at the helplessness and even boredom of life. But reading newspapers is different... If you are reading a newspaper from a month ago today, this kind of reading behavior will hardly be respected by others. But if you read "60 Books You Must Read in a Lifetime", probably no one will laugh at you, and everyone will be full of cultural respect for you. Therefore, if you form a hobby of reading, it will be the happiness of your life. I recommend two materials here: The first one is "The 50 Most Worthy Places for Chinese People to Visit", which was ranked at the 2006 International Tourism Fair in Hangzhou. I felt shocked and ashamed after reading it. , I’m surprised that many of the places I’ve been to are among the 50 places worth visiting, but I’m ashamed that I’ve never been to some places or missed them because I didn’t know enough about the city. These 50 places are divided into eight types: modern cities, historical cities, coastal cities, scenic cities, natural landscapes, wild adventures, life hopes, ancient towns and cities... In addition to being one of the "50 Most Worth Visiting Places for Chinese People" in China In addition, and coincidentally, the United States also has "The Most Worth Seeing Place in a Lifetime". The first category is "Historic Cities", ranked as Barcelona, ??Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jerusalem, London, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, and Venice; other series are divided into "Last Garden of Eden", "Scenic Places", "Beautiful Places" "A peaceful paradise on earth", "a harmonious combination of human beings and nature", "a wonder of the world - the greatest building of mankind" (including the Great Wall of China).