Interpretation: when reading, you should analyze, not blindly believe in books, but look at problems dialectically.
Athena Chu: J ū n x ū n x ū n shbú rú wú sh
Note: Generally speaking, don't stick to books, and don't be superstitious about books.
Said by Mencius: "Believe in books. It is better to have no books. I am in Wucheng, just taking two or three measures. " Song and Lu Jiuyuan's "Which comes first, which comes later, the generosity of politics": "Alas, it is better to believe in books than to have no books."
Example: Is history credible? We can only say: generally credible. If it is completely unbelievable, it becomes nihilism. But the old saying that "believing in books is better than having no books" still makes sense.
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Appreciation: "It is better to believe in books than to have no books."
This is a penetrating reading method, which requires readers to be good at independent thinking.
Throughout the ages, people have paid little attention to books. Indeed, this book is the patented gospel of our mankind, and for many people, it is also a sacred object they worship. However, if you completely believe in books and just follow them, you will become a bookworm, and you will form so-called "bookishness", "dogmatism" and "bookishness", misleading children and causing endless harm.
Today, it is emphasized that "practice is the only criterion for testing truth", and it seems easy to understand that "it is better to believe in books than to have no books". But in the era of Mencius, I am afraid this is still an empty valley. In fact, there is no need to push it that far. Just think about those times when Mencius' words could not be quoted casually.
Finally, someone said, "Not only books, but also books."
So we can all say, "A letter is better than no book".
It is particularly noteworthy that when Mencius talked about "it is better to believe in books than to have no books", the example he cited was the content of Wu Cheng in Shangshu, and we know that Shangshu, as one of the Confucian classics, also had an extremely authoritative position in the era of Confucius and Mencius. ?
So some people think that "reading is useless" and "the more you read, the more confused you become." This argument is certainly not worth refuting. In my opinion, the tragedy of those bookworms is not that they read too many books, but that they read too hard and have too narrow interests. This is Mencius' famous saying: "It is better to believe in books than to have no books."
Lu You said more clearly: "On paper, I feel shallow and don't know what to do." After all, the knowledge in books is theoretical, and theory is used to guide practice. If we only study the theory in books and don't use theory to guide practice, this theory is empty preaching and has no meaning to society and life.
Therefore, learning book knowledge is only a means, and the ultimate goal is to transform theoretical knowledge in books into intelligence to guide practice, thus creating wealth and benefiting mankind. This is the real purpose and significance of reading.