. Reading is to live a decent and noble life. Reading makes people wise, open-minded, elegant and beautiful. Reading can change life. Reading can not change the length of life, but it can change the width of life. Reading makes life in a limited length, broad and distant, magnificent and surging. Reading can't change the stage of life, but it can change the weather of life. Appearance and material composition cannot be changed based on heredity, but people's spirit can flourish because of reading. Reading can't change the starting point of life, but it can change the end point of life. Reading makes life never be at the mercy of fate, grasp yourself and go to the polar region of your dreams persistently. No matter how noble or humble you are, reading can change the coordinates and trajectory of life and play the music of life. Reading through time and space opens up an infinite starry sky for human beings, allowing them to overlook the world. Humans have only a hundred years of space history. However, reading is a flying machine of human mind and the earliest "manned spaceship". It is synchronized with life, but it can go backwards with time, reach the distant future and reveal the vague past. It can open countless dimensional spaces, let thoughts blend vertically and horizontally, and lead to a great mind. Reading is the cradle of happiness. Careful logic, profound thoughts, lofty realm and great soul all surround readers. You can see the world, think through the ages, talk to the wise, and talk to the great. Learning is to be a happy person. Reading makes words have eternal value, which is more ethereal than images, clearer than memory and deeper than meditation. It puts you on the shoulders of giants and puts you above the minds of great men. Reading is an important way for people to socialize, turning natural people into social people. Most of what we know about the world, life and society comes from reading. The significance of reading is that it establishes a world of spiritual life on the level beyond secular life. A person's reading history is his spiritual development history. Reading makes people transcend animality and not become moving puppets and walking dead. Stopping reading means cutting off communication with the world and soul, and life enters an infinite cycle. It can be said that reading saved us. To live, you must read. However, such fascinating reading is not the innate instinct of human beings. People must learn to read in order to reach the kingdom of freedom of reading. The process of learning to read determines whether you are obsessed with reading all your life. To put it bluntly, many people have never learned to read and have no reading ability, so they can't appreciate the fun of reading and have no chance to read for life. Readers are not reading machines. It is the interaction and mutual manifestation between readers and authors' souls. What you read is the reflection of those words in your own mind. This image is constantly changing because of the weather inside you. "For a thousand readers, there are a thousand Hamlets." The real meaning of reading is that you have read the meaning that you have already felt and experienced in your heart. Reading ability is the ability of people to communicate with texts. Technically speaking, there is a way to read. After we have acquired the basic ability of reading, it is more important to analyze the text. Eat it, melt it, make the words flesh and blood, tangible and colored, and restore the life of the words. When we say this, we don't mean that learning to read is difficult. If we are still far from reading, it is that we still have obstacles in reading, all because the secular, decadent and incorrect reading concept prevents us from approaching reading. For example, the worship of reading and the utilitarian appeal of reading. Perhaps, we can pull reading down from the altar of cultural worship in a shocking way. Perhaps, we can free ourselves from the shackles of fame and fortune to study. Everyone can get spiritual comfort from reading. Everyone is the master of reading. Reading is just to live, live happily, live with soul, live with high quality and become a real living person. Reading is not mysterious. Yes, reading is entertainment. I am happy because I study. Reading is the photosynthesis of life. Life is full of spring because of reading. Reading is a free, personalized and private space, which can accommodate your mind. Reading is to ponder, appreciate, think and surpass after experiencing the charm of words. Reading is not only imaginative but also creative. In reading, our hearts are full of wings. In reading, we break through ourselves and soar. I remember reading an article "Cherish Reading": Reading is like the same song, with tears streaming down your face. Reading is a kind of communication and enlightenment. Cherishing reading means cherishing every minute of life and everything in the world. Life is actually a book that can never be read. Everyone's life is different, and the content of this book will be different. Even the same person, if his or her life can be repeated, the contents of his or her life book will not be repeated. Different people have different experiences, and the content of the book is even more different. Therefore, how difficult it is to understand a person, to understand a person, and to understand a person's life! But many people are trying to communicate, hoping to get to know each other, get to know each other, go deep into each other and exchange ideas. Reading the article "Open a Beautiful Window of Life"/Sang Yu Friday, May 26th, 2006 I remember that when my daughter was less than one year old, the best way to restrain crying was to put a colorful hardcover book in front of her. Apart from occasional physical discomfort, this method is always tried and tested. At that time, it was still far from the internet. Monique's Book Without Words is even more out of reach, and other picture books, such as the mouse series, are even less known. Only a few colorful "What Children Know" and a monthly "Baby Illustrated" were found in the bookstore. On a business trip to Hangzhou, I was dazzled by the variety, neatness and order of bookstores. For a time, it was like grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, picked up this one and put it down, and finally chose a set of short stories with twenty volumes among thousands of roses. It is these rare and precious spiritual foods that give the daughter the first fragrance in her life. In reading, she smelled happiness and beauty, and in the story, she found a kind and lovely partner. Often, she will assign a book to read, tell the same story over and over again, never forget every detail in the story, and even steal individual words and reverse individual sentences, which can be monitored and corrected immediately without delay. The good feeling starts from the moment you bring your child close to the book. Even if there are such trivial things in life, even if there are those tangled knots in work, a clear stream will slowly flow through my heart from the moment I open the book. What's more, there are a pair of eager eyes in front of me. The unique charm of writing is that a few words can take you to a secret garden far away from the hubbub, listening to birds and throwing clouds. "Books are the ladder of human progress." When my daughter was growing up, I tried to build a rainbow bridge with colorful light with books. Imagine walking along the way, holding hands with big hands, pointing to the bright stars and the bright moon. The other side of the bridge is beautiful, confident, full and happy, and all kinds of qualities are learned, forged, revised and perfected in the process of walking and reading. What a beautiful picture it will be! Recently, I read Sun Youjun's Adventures of Little Cloth Head to my daughter, which left a deep impression on me. The moving part of this book is to let children know the sufferings of the old society and learn to cherish the hard-won happiness now. It's easier said than done. Especially now, the arrogance of the only child is more or less reflected in the child. By reading similar stories, let her know how to save, know how to be humble and know how to love. A good book is a beacon. When the Internet comes into our life, a vast reading horizon and a sea of books are waiting for you to explore. It's as if the bear and tiger in Jaros's works were ecstatic as discovering Panama. Although the pace of searching has returned to the original place, they have seen the beauty of life from a higher level. Teacher Mei, a contemporary writer of children's literature, said: If a person wants to be excellent, he must be close to literature, and the way to get close to literature is of course reading. Reading those classics and masterpieces, we can get a different atmosphere from the secularity between stories and languages, and at the same time, it will breed elegant artistic conception and feeling ... Slowly, this kind of reading will give you a style and vision that is not mediocre ... Reading will undoubtedly bring us such a lofty view. Especially when you are trapped in reality, the power to jump out of the circle comes from all kinds of books and from concentrated reading. So are children. With this ability, it is tantamount to opening a window and looking at beauty. The same is growth, accompanied by reading, especially reading excellent classic works, how poetic it is! We need to give children such warmth, and children also need such traction. Reading and Life Today Xu Yan's topic involves the culture of everyone, every family and every city. No matter what kind of people, they can't do without reading. Why? Because "reading" is an important tool to make life bright, and it is an ideal wing for our life. If I leave "reading", I have no fate to face everyone; Without "reading", I can't study in the library department of Peking University from my hometown in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, or teach in Nanjing University from Peking University, nor can I become a lecture expert on "reading". Next, I would like to share with you some of my experiences on "reading and life" over the years. The essence of reading is to pay attention to life, which means: when you are a teenager, opening a book is like looking at the moon through the door. You are small, the moon is round and big, and you are full of longing for the moon. You think the moon is magical, and you also think reading is magical; Middle-aged people are like watching the moon in their own yard with their hands behind their backs, full of goodwill towards the moon, that is, they have a full grasp of reading and full of confidence; Being old is like playing with the moon on a stage (the traditional Chinese character "stage" refers to a scholar standing on a tall building). Playing with the moon means "interacting" with the moon. You feel that the moon is in your own hands, and your life experience is integrated with what you read. Juck Zhang summed up the situation and taste of reading quite well. He said: "Teenagers read like a glimpse of the moon in the gap, middle-aged people read like a moon in the court, and old people read like a moon on the stage." The last sentence is especially the crowning touch: "The depth of experience is the depth of income." In other words, when you have the participation of experience, that is, after the interaction between book knowledge and practical knowledge, you will have a full grasp of reading and full confidence in what books can bring to your life. This is very important. So, if you can read a book without words, you can get amazing sentences. In other words, if you can combine your personal experience with book knowledge through your own thinking, you can also write your own wonderful articles. This article is "thinking", which contains your own life feelings and consciousness, knowledge and opinions. Therefore, the reading of teenagers, middle-aged people and the elderly cannot be separated from such a law: "Everything is a scroll, and the reading room of heaven and earth." Be good at reading without words, and be good at integrating your life with the knowledge of natural mountains and rivers, social things and books. When people reach middle age, part of them should be used for further study; In old age, reading is regarded as a means to reconcile the mind and enrich the spiritual home, so that life will be complete and full. Therefore, we say that reading enables people to learn from the wisdom of others, give life wings of knowledge and insight, and gain relatively unlimited development space in a limited century. This is the essential meaning of reading. Reading classics is to learn the wisdom of life. Classics have been filtered by time and read from generation to generation. The reading behavior of this generation is similar to today's "mobile phone voting". Only in this way can they be called "classics". Of all the books in ancient China, why did only China and Four Great Classical Novels become "classics"? It is precisely because countless generations of readers "voted" for these books that the four classic novels stand out from the vast number of classic works and enter the "list of famous works". This is the meaning of reading "classics": a "classic" records the richest knowledge, the wisest wisdom and the most subtle opinions of ancient sages. On the question of what is a "masterpiece", there is a passage from a professor and philosopher at the University of Chicago in the United States: A masterpiece is read by the most people, not a bestseller for a year or two, but an enduring bestseller; Famous books are easy to understand, without quoting, obscure and difficult to understand ... whether they are related to philosophy, science, history or poetry, they all discuss the universality of human beings, not professional issues; Famous books are meaningful and durable ... even if they are read repeatedly, it is difficult to exhaust their details. Famous books are the most influential, inspiring and instructive. The famous book discusses the long-standing unresolved problems in human life. Dr Adler's view on famous books is a summary of the principles of the western book culture world. There is an old saying in China: "Young people don't read the outlaws of the Marsh, and old people don't read the Three Kingdoms." Once personal experiences and experiences are added to reading, the understanding of the original work will be deeper. The materialization of reading determines your spiritual consciousness, which can affect a person's thinking and can also be used in social personnel practice. It would be great if wisdom was used to treat people. On the other hand, reading classics can improve ourselves, improve and purify our cultural heritage and taste, let us use the pleasure and elegant taste of reading to deal with ignorance and even ignorance of life, to face the vulgarity and even vulgarity of life, and to laugh at the helplessness and even boredom of life. Reading a newspaper is different ... If you are reading a newspaper a month ago today, it is hard to get respect from others. But if you read "60 Books Must Read in Life", probably no one will laugh at you, and everyone will be full of cultural respect for you. Therefore, if you form a hobby of reading, it will be the happiness of your life. I recommend two materials here: The first is "The 50 Most Worth Visiting Places for China People", which was ranked in the 2006 Hangzhou International Tourism Fair. After reading it myself, I felt surprised and ashamed. I'm surprised that many places I've been to are among the 50 places worth visiting, but I'm ashamed that I haven't been to some places or missed them because of my poor understanding of the city. These 50 places can be divided into eight types: modern city, historic city, seaside city, scenic city, natural landscape, outdoor adventure, hope of life, ancient town and ancient city ... In addition to the "50 most worthwhile places for China people" in China, there are also "the most worthwhile places for people on earth" in the United States. The first category is "historical cities", ranking as Barcelona, Hongkong, Istanbul, Jerusalem, London, new york, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco and Venice; Other series are divided into the last Eden, the land of scenery, the beautiful and peaceful paradise on earth, the harmonious combination of man and nature, and the world miracle-the greatest building of mankind (including the Great Wall of China).