"The Ancients Talk About Reading" selects fragments of classical Chinese texts from the ancients about reading and learning to tell us about the attitudes and methods of reading.

The first part is some selected sentences from Confucius' "The Analects". Tell us that we must have a correct attitude when studying, be honest in life, and be honest in learning. Be humble and eager to learn, be diligent in learning and ask questions, be diligent and don't be lazy. You must persevere on the road of learning and don't be a half-hearted person. Thinking without learning and practice will be in vain.

The second article is a classical Chinese essay written by Zhu Xi, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. It tells us that there are three ways to read, namely: heart, mouth and eyes. Just doing one of them is not enough. If you are not serious when reading, and your mind is not on the book, then your eyes are not looking carefully, and your heart and eyes are not attentive, but you just read casually, then you will definitely not remember it, and even if you remember it, it may not last long.

Famous quotes about reading

1. Reading a good book is like making a good friend. ——Zang Kejia

2. Read more than ten thousand volumes, and write like a god. ——Du Fu

3. People who do not study will stop thinking. —— Diderot

4. Anyone who reads useless books is just playing with things and losing hope. ——(Qing Dynasty) Wang Yu

5. Reading is to wisdom as gymnastics is to body. ——(British) Proverb

6. If you don’t know the taste of reading, it is better to sit in a high cabinet; as a stupid fish, you will eat dross all day long. ——(Qing Dynasty) Yuan Mu

7. If a bird wants to fly high, it first flutters its wings; if a man wants to make progress, he first studies.

——Li Kuchan