The ancients also had views on reading. "The book has its own golden house, and the book has its own Yan Ruyu" is a widely influential view. Originally, this was the most common and practical goal of the ancients to persuade their children to study, but we all know that these two sentences have been regarded as vulgar pursuits today. In fact, many people regard the realization of material interests as the purpose of reading. Ancient people studied for the imperial examination and achieved fame. "Ten years of hardship, when it comes to being the top scholar", this is the happiness of the ancients, and reading has a result. In fact, it is the most basic purpose to acquire certain skills and skills through study and seek a good career, which is understandable.
But reading also has its non-utilitarian side, or more accurately, it is out of spiritual needs.
We scholars born in the 1950s are afraid of mental malnutrition. When I was in primary and secondary schools, I was hungry for knowledge, but just in time for the Cultural Revolution. It seems that books are suddenly "funded" and reading becomes extremely difficult. The acquisition of books depends on the underground passage, and several colleagues tried their best to search. All the books they get will be shared. Desire is not available, or it is not easy to get. Once you get the book, you will naturally be hungry. I'm afraid some people don't believe it. I actually finished reading Romance of the Gods and A Dream of Red Mansions on the mountain road to school. I read the first 124 volume of A Dream of Red Mansions, and then read the third volume. As for Romance of the Gods, this book is completely divided into two sections, which should be read page by page.
Because there are few books, I have no choice what to read, old high school textbooks, college textbooks I hope to see, popular novels and foreign novels since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and magazines in the fifties and sixties. My eldest brother is a Chinese doctor, and there are many books on Chinese medicine. When there is no book to read, I even read it as if I don't understand it. 1972, the first time I went to the county seat, I actually saw Wang Li's "Ancient prose" and Lu Xun's "Essays" in the Red Sea of Xinhua Bookstore. Really feel extremely novel, bought it and really entered another world. That's when I laid the foundation of ancient Chinese. Just because you want to study, it is not easy to study, and books are very complicated, so reading has no purpose and no utility. Reading is the purpose.
Reading without a purpose does not necessarily affect people, and it will achieve the goal without a purpose. When I was a teenager, reading without any ideas had a great influence on my personality, hobbies and even my life. Reading too many literary works sometimes leads to the impulse to create, so write something small. Of course, these things are not only narcissism, but also good and bad. I wanted to have an evaluation, so I contributed and published, became a literary lover, and finally embarked on the road of literary research. Reading not only determines a person's professional interest, but also affects a person's ideological character. Reading Red Rock and Li Bai's poems made me strong. Reading Du Fu's poems and novels by Tolstoy, Balzac and Hugo has gained social responsibility and responsibility. Anti-Japanese War novels such as The Gadfly, Genius and The Fire King Kong make me persistent. It's strange and interesting. After reading A Dream of Red Mansions, Marx's Youth and How Steel was Tempered, I realized my personal feelings. Come to think of it carefully, every work is a summary of the author's personal life experience, especially great works, which have strong artistic appeal and cannot be unaffected by it. I have always believed that people live in two worlds: the real world and the virtual world. Without it, the world would be incomplete. The virtual world includes the world created by books, in addition to the spiritual imagination that accompanies people all their lives, which Freud called daydreaming.
At a certain age, there will be some changes in reading compared with adolescence, but it is nothing more than utilitarian and non-utilitarian. Utilitarianism will become stronger and stronger, and the purpose will become clearer and clearer. Don't read useless books. But non-utilitarian reading will become more and more polarized. Instead of utilitarian reading, it is naturally beneficial and harmless. Personally, I often have this experience. After work, open a book to read, and you will enter a state of ecstasy. I don't know how to be a Han Chinese, so I can't talk about Wei and Jin Dynasties. Tao Ran forgot his machine and completely forgot the troubles I met during the day. At this time, you will enjoy the greatest pleasure of reading. Tao Yuanming, a native of A Jin, can play the harpsichord, but he doesn't know much about reading. I'm afraid that's what he got.
People who grew up in an era of spiritual poverty have an endless desire for books. In the past, books accounted for a large proportion of wages in universities. Managing a research has become a great pleasure. Nevertheless, I still feel that reading can't be arbitrary, so I envy the work of librarians and read whatever I want. In fact, it is a layman who watches the excitement and doesn't understand the hard work of librarians. Now I really come to work in the library. Reading is really convenient, but I have much less time to study. Moreover, as a curator, I suddenly have a sense of social responsibility. I think not only about reading by myself, but also how our society can become a scholarly society and how our readers can get close to books, love reading and read good books. At present, the publication of books is exploding, with more than 200,000 new books every year, but the quality of books is uneven. On the one hand, people are getting farther and farther away from reading, on the other hand, readers don't know how to choose good books. In this regard, libraries have an unshirkable responsibility. The library is the source of books and the place where readers concentrate on reading and communicating. Therefore, we should consider not only how to facilitate readers to read, so that readers can borrow the books they need conveniently; We should further create a good social reading atmosphere, attract readers to the library through innovative services, give full play to the advantages of the library, and guide readers to read books beneficial to life and society. In this regard, we still have a lot of work to do.
* Books are the ladder of human progress, lifelong companions and sincere friends. Gorky
* Books or medicine, good reading can cure fools. -Liu Xiang
Books are the nourishment of the whole world. -Shakespeare
People can't live like animals, but should pursue knowledge and virtue-Dante.
* Reading is like eating. Those who eat well will grow up, and those who eat badly will get sick. -Zhang Xuecheng
* People who are good at thinking, asking questions and acting usually get good results quickly. -Xie Juezai.
* Books are society, and good books are a good world and a good society. It can cultivate people's sentiment and temperament and make people noble. -Polo Goff
No matter what kind of knowledge you have, it is useful for your intelligence. It will throw away useless things and keep them. -Leonardo da Vinci
* Reading clears the mind. -Voltaire
A family without books is like a house without windows. Johansen
Diligence is the mother of success. -Mao Yisheng
Reading makes a full man, conversation makes a quick man, writing and taking notes make an exact man ... history makes a wise man; Poetry makes people wise; Mathematics makes people fine; Natural history is profound; The study of ethics makes people solemn; Logic and rhetoric are eloquent. bacon
* Every book is a small ladder. Every level gets rid of animals and rises to human beings. I am closer to the concept of a better life and love books more. Gorky
* People are alive and books are dead. The living can read the dead book and live it. If you read the living from the dead, you can read people to death. —— Guo Moruo
* There can be no real education without going to school, and there can be no discrimination. Aleksandr Herzen
* If you can survive, of course, you still have to study. -Lu Xun