Wang Fuzhi, a great thinker in ancient China, wrote 224 volumes in his life. One year, when the eldest daughter got married, Wang Fuzhi happily picked up a box and said that the dowry was ready. Someone opened it and found it was a box full of books. Wang Fuzhi said to everyone: "This is my dowry for my daughter for many years!"

Second, Yuan Mei "eats books"

Yuan Mei, a poet in Qing Dynasty, said, "Reading is like eating. Those who eat well will grow up, and those who don't eat well will grow up stupid. " Yuan Mei is naturally a delicious food. "Eating well" means chewing well, tasting well, taking the essence and removing the dross.

Third, Li Shizhen "eats books"

Li Shizhen studied medicine with his father since childhood and became a doctor at the age of 22. He used classical prescriptions, single prescriptions and proven prescriptions for reference, and treated both inside and outside, with remarkable curative effect. He found many wrong and incomplete varieties in Materia Medica and decided to rebuild them. After 27 years of hard work. Countless students who "eat books" visited famous mountains and rivers, collected 1289 kinds of drugs, 1 160 illustrations and1096 prescriptions, and completed the Compendium of Materia Medica in 1578.

Fourth, Wang Yanan "tied books"

Wang Yanan, the first economist in China to translate Das Kapital, was on a ship sailing from the Red Sea to Europe in 1933. Because of the big waves, the ship was so bumpy that he asked the waiter in the restaurant to tie him to a chair. The waiter thought he was afraid of falling, so he did it, but he began to concentrate on reading.

V. Wen Yiduo's Drunken Book

On the wedding day of the poet Wen Yiduo, relatives and friends crowded into the house early in the morning to congratulate him. But I haven't seen the groom for a long time, and everyone thinks he's dressed up. It was not until the bride's sedan chair approached the door that people found him in the study. He is still wearing that old robe, with a book in his hand and full of interest. So the family said that he should not be allowed to read at this big moment because he would be "drunk" when reading.

Sixth, Hua "Guess the Book"

Hua's reading method is different. When he gets a book, he must think for a while, guess the layout of the book, and then consider it before opening it. If the author's thinking is consistent with his own guess, he won't read it. Hua's "guessing reading method" not only saves reading time, but also cultivates his own thinking and imagination, so as not to make himself a slave to books.