I think so, too. Read a book and a hundred Chinese books. Even if you have read all the books in the world, I still can't answer you if you want to say what is the use of reading these books. Because reading is a very personal thing for everyone.
You say reading can help you improve your Chinese? Or can reading make you earn more money and become a bigger official? Or does reading make you kind? I don't think so. Among my peers, many people read more books than me, but it is not necessarily that their Chinese scores in exams are higher than mine. The exam is an exam, which is about accumulation and skills. Most of the time, it depends on skill to win, and it is a bit opportunistic.
You want to say that reading can help you make money? Before China 100, the rich read more books, but I don't think any Chinese department professor read as many books. However, among the 100 richest people, any one must earn more than 100 professor China.
So you say you can be an official by studying? I think this may have little to do with reading.
You want to say that reading can make you kind? There were also many unscrupulous scholars in that period of history, who spent most of their lives reading books, all of whom were used to steal the column and play tricks, which was simply unparalleled.
Then the question comes-what's the use of reading?
I have always believed that people have their own spirit, which is innate. It is your genetic code that determines your spiritual leadership, how you think and what kind of life you will spend. Simply put, it's your taste.
Reading, fundamentally speaking, is to transform your underlying code. Changing the underlying code will change your spiritual realm, your temperament and your taste, so it will also change your life trajectory and greatly improve your quality of life.
I've heard this view. There are two things in life, you can't hide them. The first is coughing. There is no hiding that you are ill. The second is poverty. Everyone can see that a person is down and out, and this matter cannot be concealed. It's no use pretending. Puyi, the last emperor of China, lived in the palace since he was a child, and every day he could see authentic Wan Wen antiques handed down from generation to generation in the palace. He wants to study. He was the top scholar in the former Qing Dynasty to be a teacher and received the best traditional education in China at that time. I don't want to make too many comments on Puyi. Anyway, his aristocratic temperament, elegance and composure accompanied him all his life. After liberation, Puyi cleaned up all kinds of cultural relics in Beijing, and experts argued endlessly about the authenticity of this thing. Puyi took one look and immediately said which one was true and which one was false. Some of the cultural relics he said were fake, but experts refused to admit them. Why did he say they were fake? Puyi's answer is simple. This thing is different from what I saw when I was a child. If I have to ask the reason, I won't tell you, but I can tell you that it is definitely not the case. This thing is just wrong, and no reason is needed. Because everything I've seen since I was a child is true. This is taste!
I tell this story to tell you what taste is, which goes far beyond the so-called methods and abilities. With taste, even if you live in poverty, you are a person with taste. Your life will not be monotonous, and you can still live a colorful and interesting life. No taste, even if you are rich, wearing a big gold chain and a big gold watch every day, it looks just an old hat, with a flustered look and tasteless conversation. Simply put, it is "a bag of grass embroidered with pillows".
Anyway, we are just talking about poverty. Material poverty cannot be concealed. Yes, you know "poverty" yourself, but it's sad. You don't know if you have taste in it. People who have no taste often feel that they have good taste. For example, I met an aunt who danced square dance in green clothes and red pants. In an interview with the media, she felt that her dance could be performed in the theater, and it was not uncommon for people to love art. For example, some big directors made tacky movies, which were not good at the box office, and also said that the audience's aesthetic taste was not high enough. For these "dancers" and "famous directors" with low taste, my advice is actually the same, that is, read more books.
It may be a way to make the world we live in a better place by making everyone a tasteful person, a person who is free from vulgar tastes and has basic aesthetic ability. A person who has read many books, his taste will not be too bad; A person with not too bad taste will not do anything too tasteless, but he can find the dignity of human nature in even a simple and simple life and win his respect!