This is a reading poem by Yuan Mei, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, which reminds people that reading requires understanding and not to swallow everything.

Full text:

If you don’t know the taste of reading, it is better to sit in a high cabinet. What's the matter with silverfish? They eat dross all day long.

The general idea:

If you read without understanding the truth (wei refers to the taste, and refers to the principles explained in the book), it is better to shelve the book. How about you nerds who can only read books? You are just devouring useless dross all day long.

More reading quotations:

1. Don’t wait for a moment, your young head will turn gray, and you will feel empty and sad - Yue Fei

2. Work hard to know all the words in the world, Determined to read all the books in the world - Su Shi

3. If a bird wants to fly high, it flaps its wings first; if a man wants to make progress, he should read first - Li Kuchan

4. Black-haired people do not know how to study diligently early, but gray-haired people will regret it. Reading is late - Yan Zhenqing

5. Books are as affectionate as old friends, morning and dusk are full of sorrow and joy - Yu Qian

6. Books are like medicine, good reading can cure stupidity - Liu Xiang

7. If a young man does not work hard, the old man will be sad - "Han Yuefu." "Long Song Journey"

8. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - Laozi

9. The road is long and the path of cultivation is long, I will search up and down - Qu Yuan

10. Appreciation of wonderful articles, analysis of doubts - Tao Yuanming