1. Who said, “Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles”? Some say it comes from "Painting Purpose" written by Liu Yi of the Song Dynasty, some say it comes from "Essays on Painting a Zen Room" by Dong Qichang, a late Ming Dynasty painter, and some say it comes from "Lv Yuan Cong Shuo" written by Qian Yong of the Qing Dynasty. This sentence expresses the relationship between "reading" and "traveling" in a popular and concise way. It can also be extended to the relationship between book knowledge and practice, and even the relationship between "knowledge" and "doing". The reason is self-explanatory and needs no further explanation.
2. There may be no basis for saying that "Chinese people who love traveling now say that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books." However, it is true that some Chinese people do not read or do not like to read.
3. On the occasion of this year's "World Book Day", the National Reading Survey Report released by the China Press and Publication Research Institute shows that in 2013, the per capita reading of paper books by Chinese adults was 4.77, which was far lower than 11 books from South Korea, 20 books from France, 40 books from Japan, and 64 books from Israel; the average person reads 13.43 minutes a day, and more than half of the respondents admitted that they read very little or relatively little.
4. Nowadays, there are indeed some "Chinese people who love traveling" who do not read before traveling and do not understand the history and humanistic knowledge of the destination; they neither listen to the tour guide's explanations nor read the text introductions during the trip. , busy taking photos; not reading the book after the trip, and even have no idea where the sceneries in the photos are or what the names of the buildings are, let alone how much they know about the culture of the destination. Although I have "traveled" thousands of miles, it is difficult to say how much knowledge I have gained.
5. “Love to travel” and “love to read” should be consistent and mutually reinforcing. I traveled to the Middle East with my Bible. After watching "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", I became interested in Paris, the capital of flowers. I went to Shaoxing to look for the prototype place in Lu Xun's novels. I visited the ancient town in western Hunan and then looked for Shen Congwen's "Border Town". The examples are endless.
6. Reading can trigger interest in traveling and deeply experience the natural and humanistic characteristics of tourist destinations; after traveling, you can better understand the content of the book or arouse the desire to read. “Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles.” This familiar old saying is so profound that it deserves to be vigorously advocated in national tourism.
7. “Traveling is a high-grade life activity” is true. "High taste" requires cultural accumulation and humanistic qualities, of which reading is an indispensable link. Today, when the national enthusiasm for tourism is high, we should advocate traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books, instead of celebrating the "people who love traveling" by saying that "reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles."