Books are a treasure house of human thoughts. -Carlyle

If you like reading, you can turn a boring moment into a joyful moment. -Montesquieu

Reading is to create a complete personality. -bacon

reading makes a full man, ideals make a deep man, and conversation makes a sober man. -Franklin

Story

Digging through the wall to steal light

During the Han Dynasty, Kuang Heng was very studious as a teenager.

Because his family is poor, he has to do a lot of work during the day to earn money. Only at night can he sit down and read. However, he can't afford to buy candles, so he can't read when it gets dark. Kuang Heng heartache this waste of time, the heart is very painful.

His neighbor's family is very rich. At night, candles are lit in several rooms to make the rooms bright. Kuang Heng got up his courage one day and said to his neighbor, "I want to study at night, but I can't afford candles. Can I borrow an inch of your house?" Neighbors have always looked down on people who are poorer than their family, so they said viciously and sarcastically, "Since you are too poor to buy candles, what books are you reading?" Kuang Heng was very angry after hearing this, but he made up his mind to read the book well.

when Kuang Heng came home, he quietly cut a small hole in the wall, through which the neighbor's candlelight came. With this faint light, he eagerly began to read books and gradually read all the books at home.

After reading these books, Kuang Heng deeply felt that his knowledge was far from enough, and his desire to read more books became even more urgent.

there is a big family nearby with a lot of books. One day, Kuang Heng rolled up his bedclothes and appeared in front of a big house. He said to his host, "Please take me in, and I will work for you at home for nothing. Just let me read all the books in your family. " The host was moved by his spirit and agreed to his request to borrow books.

Kuang Heng studied diligently in this way. Later, he became the prime minister of the Han and Yuan emperors and became a famous scholar in the Western Han Dynasty.

[ last sentence]

This fable describes two things that Kuang Heng did when he was a teenager, one was stealing light by digging a wall, and the other was borrowing books to study hard. He praised Kuang Heng's spirit of bravely overcoming difficult conditions and studying diligently. Set a good example for us to study hard.

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Ba Jin's reading method

The famous writer Ba Jin's reading method is very strange, because he does it without books. Reading without books is really a wonder in the world. What is going on? Ba Jin said: "I was hospitalized for the second time. After taking a nap for less than an hour every day, I got out of bed and sat on a small sofa, waiting for the nurse to take my temperature at two o'clock. I sat motionless, but I didn't doze off. My brain won't rest. It is recalling some books and works I have read in the past, as if it wants to keep something beautiful before my memory completely declines. "

It turns out that his reading method is to sit there and recall the books he has read. This has many advantages:

(1) It is not restricted by conditions and can make full use of time. Ba Jin cited two examples: one was that during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, when Leningrad was surrounded by the German army for a long time, a young girl wrote sentences like "So-and-so," anna karenine "in her diary. At that time, there was no electricity or candles, and the whole city was blacked out. Instead of reading, she sat quietly in the dark and recalled the plot in the book. Tolstoy's novels helped her through those horrible nights. Another example is his own personal experience in ten years of civil strife. He said: "If the rebels allowed me to keep a diary during the Cultural Revolution and allowed me to keep a diary according to my own wishes, my diary must be full of titles. People will wonder: my study has been sealed and locked for ten years. Where can I find those books to read? They forget that there is a big warehouse in people's minds, which stores things that others can't take away. " These two examples show that you can "read" without normal reading conditions.

(2) review the past and learn new things. Through memory, take out the books you have read in the past and chew them bit by bit, just like cattle ruminating, which can be further digested and absorbed. Every time I recall it, I will have a new understanding, a new understanding and a new harvest.

(3) Be able to constantly draw spiritual strength from the books you have read. Ba Jin said: "I'm fighting against my illness now, and I'm encouraged by all kinds of works ... Even if I don't have the spirit to read new works during my illness, the accumulation of spiritual wealth in the past is enough for my limited rest of my life. Until death, people need light and heat. "

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _-------------------------------------------------------------------- This well-known saying was first put forward by Gu Yanwu, a patriotic thinker and famous scholar in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

gu Yanwu studied diligently since childhood. He was enlightened at the age of 6 and began to read historical books and literary masterpieces at the age of 1. At the age of 11, his grandfather Li Yuangong asked him to finish the History as a Mirror, and warned: "Now some people try to save trouble, and just browse the books such as Outline and think everything is all right. I think this is not enough." These words made Gu Yanwu realize that reading and learning is an honest thing and must be treated seriously and faithfully. Gu Yanwu is diligent in his studies, and he adopted the measures of "self-supervising reading": first, he stipulated to himself the number of volumes he must finish reading every day; Secondly, he limited himself to copying the books he read after reading them every day. After he finished reading Zi Zhi Tong Jian, one book became two books. Thirdly, ask yourself to take notes every time you read a book and write down your experiences. Some of his reading notes were later merged into the famous book "Rizhilu"; Finally, every spring and autumn, he reviews the books he read in the first half of the year, recites them silently, asks people to read them aloud, finds the differences, and immediately checks them. He stipulated that he would spend 2 pages in this way every day, and he would never rest until he finished reviewing.

Ancient Poems

Tang Du Fu: Reading is like breaking thousands of volumes, and writing is like a god. Qing Zheng Xie: If you read tens of thousands of volumes, you will become rich if you don't have a master in your heart, and it will be quite hard to spend money. Ming Yang Jisheng's Poem of Expressing Ambition: After forty years of reading the law, there is a blue sky on Wusha's head. Men want to paint Lingyange, and the first fame does not love money. Don Yan Zhenqing's "Persuade Learning": The lights are on at five o'clock in the middle of the night, just when men are studying. Teenagers only know play, do not know to study well, to the old time regret when they are young, why don't know to study hard. Song Liu Guo's Academy: Mechanics is like ploughing, and diligence knows it. But if you make more books, you will be old. Song and Lu Jiuyuan's Reading: Reading is in a hurry, and swimming is interesting. You might as well let it go before you know it, but you have to think about it urgently. Tang Hanyu's Poem of Persuasion: There are not many students who suffer from reading, but as it seems, they suffer from unknown problems. If you have enough, you don't learn, but if you have enough, you can't learn. In the Republic of China, Xiong Boyi's "Four Seasons Reading Song" Spring: Reading in spring is interesting, grinding its inkstone and writing flowers. Studying should not be lazy, and the world, the sun and the moon are busier than people. Yan Yu Ying Ge Xi understands, and Tao Hong Li Bai writes articles. Yuan Wengsen's "Four Seasons Reading Music" Winter: When the wood falls into the water, it will dry up a thousand cliffs, and I will see the real me. Sitting on the wall facing Wei, singing and snowing in the middle of the night. A pot of tea in the ground stove cooks a living fire, and it is clear enough to be called a scholar. Where can I find the joy of reading? Count the plum blossoms.