The purpose of reading is to eliminate customs. Yellow valley means that people's language is tasteless, and their faces are disgusting if they don't read. It should be noted that the language of many people in the world is tasteless and disgusting, not only in business and politics, but also in universities. However, language is tasteless and disgusting, but it is no harm to bureaucrats and businessmen. Scholars are unreasonable. The so-called ugly face cannot be explained as ugly face, because it is not impossible to flatter others and smile, so it is "disgusting"; A flattering smile and a beautiful face are "cute". If you want a handsome guy, you can do it in a kennel, a dance floor or a government office. Politicians with beautiful faces and beautiful words are not necessarily ugly. Reading has nothing to do with a beautiful face, because books are not cream, and reading them will increase your luster. So, it depends on how you look at it. Some people look at the face of a beautiful woman. Anyone with oval face, eyebrows, bright eyes and white teeth and lips is called a beautiful woman. However, if Li Daiweng is interested in aesthetic feeling and looks at charm, Li Daiweng's so-called three-point manners are equal to six or seven points, and six or seven points lack manners is equal to three or four points. Some people look ordinary, but when they talk, they make you feel cute; There is also a modern Jia, a foreign darling, who makes vases and decorates the living room very well, but when he talks, he feels boring. The so-called disgusting face of Huang Gu only refers to the scholar's discussion style. If the cloud of Six Chapters of a Floating Life is not like a stone and her front teeth are slightly exposed, I think she is the first beauty in China. So are men. Although Zhang Taiyan's face is not beautiful and Wang Guowei has braids, they are charming, not tasteless and disgusting. Kind of cute. There is also a beautiful politician, who is the rabbit aunt of the military man. Although she spoke beautifully, she was sick for three days.
You can't force yourself to learn, because academic ideas are slowly developed from embryos. Its growth has its reasons, such as the rise and fall of vegetation, the turning of rivers, each of which has its own natural trend, which in turn will inevitably accomplish nothing. The south branch of the tree will naturally develop to the north branch, otherwise it will die. The river will turn when it crosses the alum cliff, instead of rushing desperately. As long as it flows down the trend, it will eventually flow into the East China Sea. No one in the world has to read books, only books that have to be read at a specific time and place. There's something you should see. I don't understand. Some are readable at this time, and some are unreadable at this time. Even if there is a must-read book, it is by no means a must-read at this moment. You can't read it without a definite view, and you can't read it without a developed mind. Confucius said that you can learn the Yijing at the age of 50, which means you can't read the Yijing at the age of 45. Liu Zhiji seldom read the ancient prose Shangshu, but he couldn't understand it after being beaten. After listening to his classmates reading Zuo Zhuan, it is good and easy to recite it for help. Zhuangzi is a must-read, but if reading Zhuangzi is boring, I have to give up and read it again in a few years. Feel interested in Zhuangzi and then read Zhuangzi, feel interested in Max and then read Max.
And the same book, the same reader, can read the taste of the present. It's like looking at a photo of a celebrity or reading an article about a celebrity. When we don't meet, it's a smell. After meeting and chatting, you can look at his photos, or look at his articles, and there is a deep concern. Or after breaking up with others, it is another taste to look at their photos and articles. Learning easy at forty is one kind of taste, and learning easy at fifty is another. So all good books are worth rereading. The deeper your own opinion, the more advanced your knowledge, and the more you can understand it. For example, I reread Lamb's paper at this time, which is completely different from what I read when I was a child. Although I found his articles very interesting when I was a child, I never really touched the soul and didn't know the beauty of his articles. Maybe we didn't go to primary school when we were young, or we didn't read geography when we went to primary school, or we didn't feel interested in reading geography; However, in today's changing Fujian, I look at the map of the border between Fujian and Zhejiang with relish. It's interesting to read Fan Zeng's biography by herself. Or ask Xu to read the biography of the literati who committed the literary inquisition in the early Qing dynasty in prison, so that he can have a taste in his heart.
So we can see that reading has two aspects, one is the speaker and the other is the reader. Cheng Zi said that the readers of The Analects include such people and such people, some who have read it completely, and some who have read it but can't dance. Therefore, reading must be similar in temperament, and ordinary people must find a homonym saint, a writer with similar temperament as a teacher. This is the so-called school must be effective. Don't be confused and listen to people's teasing. Zhuang Zi is good, Xun Zi is good, Su Dongpo is good, and Cheng Yichuan is good. One can't love Johnson or Su Cheng at the same time. Finding a writer with similar thoughts and a literary lover will make you feel extremely happy, but it will have a violent impact on your soul, such as the thunder in spring, the hatching of silkworm eggs, a new life and a new world. GeorgeEliot read Rousseau's autobiography himself, like an electric shock. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche's teacher, and Ibsen, Bernard Shaw's teacher, are not disciples, but they have the same thoughts and great influence. The second son studied Schopenhauer and Ibsen, which had a great influence on his thoughts, and this was the beginning of his budding knowledge. Because of the similarity of temperament and spirit, I never tire of it and linger. Only by surviving can we go deep, and only after going deep will we flourish and make great progress in our studies.
Who is a sage with similar temperament to you? Only you know. No one can force you to find such a writer. You will feel at home. When Su Dongpo first read Zhuangzi, he told him that if he had a long history in his heart, Yuan Zhonglang would shout out when he read Xu Wenchang's poems at night, calling for repetition. Reading is for repetition. This is the reason. This is the same as love at first sight. When you meet such a writer, you will hate him for meeting him late. Everyone must have a favorite writer, and everyone will find it by himself. If you find a literary lover, he will attract you with magic, and you will be attracted by it. Even the voice and appearance, laughing and laughing, are gradually similar. Infiltrating in this way will naturally benefit a lot. In the future, you will get old and tired of this lover, and then find another lover. After two or three lovers, or four or five lovers, you have probably been deeply influenced and matured (and become a writer). If you can't find a lover, you can read from the east to the west, and what you read may not go deep into your soul. Is to take part in accidental amusement, accidental amusement, no experience, no grades in study.
If you know your lover's taste, you will know that studying hard is deceptive. Every time a scholar is "diligent" or "sleepy", it is a mistake. People who become famous by reading only have fun, not pain. It is said that the ancients studied to chase the moon, stab stocks and supervise girls. Actually, they are all idiots. Reading is boring and sleepy. It is foolish to stab your thigh with an awl. A person's book is in front of you, and Chinese and foreign sages have told you wonderful things. If you still want to sleep, you should go to sleep. It's no use poking. It's indecent to ask a girl to accompany you and wake you up during a nap. You should also sleep instead of reading. This method is extremely unhealthy. If you don't sleep, you will only read bad health and won't read wonderful books. If you have read that wonderful book, you don't want to sleep, so there is no need to wake the girl up. It is ok to bear hardships and stand hard work, but reading should not be regarded as suffering. Seeing reading as pain, I went the wrong way at the first attempt. People who are famous for reading all over the world like reading; You feel bitter, but he thinks indulgence is fun. It must be like playing mahjong alone, or playing prostitutes alone, lingering, eating, sleeping and reading. As far as I know, students who are good at Chinese are all students who have read millions of words of Three Kingdoms and Water Margin. It is by no means that they can read Chinese well by reading 50 or 60 pages of anthology in a school year. Excuse me, what is the pain of reading for those who secretly watch the Three Kingdoms talk with water? How about pages? A studious person will steal a book, and peeking is peeking. People who steal books are likely to learn to be famous.
Reading requires courage, vision and perseverance. Courage is inseparable. If you want to be knowledgeable, you must dare to stick to your own point of view, even if it is different from your predecessors for a while. The elder can convince me, but the elder is right. It is the elder's fault that the elder can't convince me. People's hearts are as different as their appearances, so we should be down-to-earth and not sacrifice ourselves for others. Good poetry, david lee, Du Hao, Wen Hao, Su Hao or Han Hao. Everyone should read what he likes according to his conscience, and then say what it means to do well and speak well. Or even if Su Han is not good, don't be ashamed, and tell the reason. Or a collection of famous works, everyone says and you hate it alone, either because you don't see your academic ability or because you are right or wrong. Reach the academic level and then study. If you reach your academic level, you will find a sympathetic person in the future. When Liu Zhiji was young, he read The History of the Former Han Dynasty and The History of the Later Han Dynasty. The former book should not have a list of ancient and modern figures, and the latter book should be a record of turning over a new leaf. Everyone who heard it at that time blamed this boy for belittling the previous philosophers, and he was "suddenly speechless." Later, Zhang Heng and Ye Fan were found, and they held the same view. This is Liu Zhiji's reading courage. Because he studies all in his heart, he is not a parrot, so he can write a book called Stone. Reading like this has my feelings everywhere. Gaining insight is a science. Apart from a common view, it is an improvement, so that I will not fall into the trap, full of platitudes, half-baked, specious.