Reading is an activity that uses language to obtain information, understand the world, develop thinking and gain aesthetic experience and knowledge. It is a process of obtaining information from visual materials. Visual materials are mainly words and pictures, including symbols, formulas, charts and so on.

Reading is an active process, which is regulated by readers according to different purposes to cultivate people's sentiment and improve their self-cultivation. Reading is a thinking process of understanding, comprehending, absorbing, appreciating, evaluating and exploring articles. Reading can change one's mind and acquire knowledge, which may change one's fate.