Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty said: "Books are like medicine. Reading them well can cure stupidity." This means: Books are like medicine. Reading them properly can cure stupidity

Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty said: "Books are like medicine, and good reading can cure stupidity." This means: Books are like medicine, and good reading can cure diseases. In fact, reading does have miraculous effects in "preventing" and "curing" diseases.

From the words of Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty. Liu Xiang is a great scholar and a great editor. He was born into a noble family and was the fourth-generation grandson of Liu Jiao, the younger brother of Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty. He served as an auxiliary bureaucrat very close to the emperor, but his main job throughout his life was not to be an official, but to be an editor and study. He devoted all his energy to studying books in Tianlu Pavilion (Royal Library), serving as the "chief editor" of classics, biographies, poems, and poems. He spent more than 20 years reorganizing the palace collection that had accumulated over a hundred years. He revised "Warring States Policy" and compiled "New Preface", "Shuo Yuan", "Biography of Martyrs", "Hong Fan's Five Elements", etc. Later Liu Yiqing's "Shi Shuo Xin Yu" was also based on Liu Xiang's "Shi Shuo Xin Yu" "Said" was born out of other books.