Reading can enrich and enrich people, exercise their minds, improve their realm and change their temperament, which is beneficial to people's words, deeds and lifestyle. Reading can also broaden your horizons. The knowledge in books is all-encompassing. By reading, you can broaden your horizons. In the process of reading, you can read people who are different from you, such as people from different cultures or backgrounds, which can help you understand their views and re-examine the original prejudice. Reading can cultivate sentiment. When we encounter setbacks or need help in life, reading will make us feel happy. Reading can also improve writing. In the process of reading, I appreciate many beautiful words, so I can learn from them and draw lessons from them when writing.

The meaning of reading

Reading is closely related to self-cultivation, and the first thing to cultivate is reading. However, on this issue, Zhu's Neo-Confucianism is different from Wang Yangming's Mind. Neo-Confucianism believes that to become a saint, it is necessary to study and cultivate one's morality, and it is not advisable not to study and cultivate one's morality. However, the theory of mind and nature holds that it is enough to be a saint, cultivate one's morality and improve one's mind, but reading is useless. Therefore, how to become a saint, whether in two ways or in one way, constitutes the main background of the ideological history of Song and Ming Dynasties. Now, it seems that reading alone may not improve your moral quality, but if you don't study and only engage in spiritual cultivation, then the degree of moral development is limited. Because if the understanding of society, people and interpersonal relationships can't be based on sound rationality, we can't draw a correct conclusion, and we can't achieve rational consciousness and clearness without reading.