Tomorrow is the 26th World Book Day. At this time, parents always tell their children why people should study. Is it to gain the ability to survive, or to enrich your spiritual world, or for something else?

Children will also give strange answers.

What is the meaning of reading? I think any answer will be one-sided.

Then let's watch a story with our children and let them feel the meaning of reading in the story.

In a quiet town, standing in a small hotel in the center of the block, a man in a hat is sitting on the balcony writing, surrounded by books.

After a while, the wind blew hard and all the words on the book were blown away.

The man and those books were also blown to another unknown world by the strong wind.

The man saw that there was no handwriting in the book he had just finished reading, and he was ready to go around and see what was going on. At this time, a beautiful girl was flying in the sky, holding a hot air balloon composed of a group of books.

One of the books took the man to a big house full of books, and the man began his spiritual journey from this moment.

Although this story is only 15 minutes and has no lines, it is very intriguing and won the best animated short film award at the 84th Academy Awards.

This is a wonderful flying book written by william joyce. This short film is also to pay tribute to the late pioneer of library promotion, Bill Morris (with the same name as the hero in the story).

People who study hard will make the world full of color.

In "Magic Flying Book", the audience can feel the wonderful power that the book brings to mankind more than once.

One sunny afternoon, the protagonist Morris was reading a book on the balcony. A hurricane swept through the town. Morris saw that all the furniture, things and animals were swept away by the hurricane, and even the words in his books danced with the wind.

Although he clung to the railing on the balcony, he was blown to a desolate world by strong wind, where there was only black and white.

Strange things happen one after another. Morris doesn't have a word in the book. He was depressed and just wandered around with a wordless book.

When I was at a loss, I suddenly found all kinds of books floating over my head.

Soon, these books gathered together like a huge hot air balloon, and the ribbon was pulling a young girl flying in the sky, which was the first color in Morris's eyes after he came to this strange world.

Just before leaving sight, the girl left Morris with a magical flying book full of all kinds of knowledge.

Since then, Morris has also started his own fantasy journey.

This magical flying book took Morris to a huge house, where there were all kinds of books. Morris likes reading very much, and before he knew it, he became good friends with these books.

One day, a black and white old man came to Morris to borrow books. When Morris carefully found a book for the old man to read, something wonderful happened.

At the moment he took the book, the old man slowly became colored from head to toe. He is no longer a shriveled and aging body, but a colorful soul.

All this stems from the power of books. After the destruction of the world, people lost their colors. Only the pure land of human spirit is still colorful, and that is books.

Only here can people find the direction of pursuing value.

Later, more and more blacks and whites came to borrow books. Morris used books to let these people gain knowledge, feel wisdom and get the color of the source of life. Their souls came back to life at this moment.

Shakespeare once said: "life without books is like life without sunshine;" Wisdom without books is like a bird without wings. "

It turns out that the colorful world comes from inner enrichment, and reading is the best way for us to lead to the world.

The life of books should be awakened by reading.

Another wonderful scene of the story is that Morris enters the house and sees many books on the shelves. These books are very personal, some like to beat like notes, and some like to be as profound as classics. ...

They all have their own lives, they can communicate with each other, they can run and jump, and they can fight. They will take turns to fly to Morris's arm and slowly open the pages so that Morris can see the words in the book.

Morris realized the significance of these books, and he decided to stay here and be the master here.

Before long, he became good friends with the books here, which provided Morris with all kinds of words to read. Morris shuttles between literature, art, music and mathematics every day, bathed in the sunshine of knowledge.

Later, he found that these book lovers also had various "problems".

Some books are too old and weak, and sometimes they will spread out and make the pages fall off. Some books are fragile, and they are in danger of breaking when touched lightly.

So Morris decided to take good care of these old friends. He became a book doctor, listening to the heartbeat of books with a stethoscope every day and holding a medicine box to remedy the pages.

Cold summer, I don't know how much time has passed. Morris has been immersed in this life, reading and taking care of these old friends.

He also "lent" these old friends to strangers who came to this room, whether they were white-haired old people or ignorant teenagers, they were all full of life. These book lovers have given people in the strange world strong spiritual bones and muscles, and the book itself has gained unparalleled spiritual life.

The life of a book is awakened by an individual's reading process. As the People's Daily said, a person who loves reading must have "poetry and distance" in his heart, as well as his own daily life in spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Reading has never made people leave the earth, nor encouraged people to stay away from life. On the contrary, it is to let people go forward bravely even if they encounter difficulties, and to meet challenges with a smile even if they know that life is always bumpy.

Reading brings people not negativity and nothingness, but hope and strength, which is a kind of heroism and a solution to problems.

The power of books needs to be handed down from generation to generation.

In this magical room, Morris and the book grow old together. He still takes care of his old friends every day and insists on writing his own words every day.

But until one day, it is inevitable to say goodbye to life. When Morris, with white hair, wrote "the end" on the last page of the book, the old friends of the book were very reluctant.

When Morris packed his clothes, put on his hat, and leaned on crutches, he staggered through every corner of the place where he had stayed all his life, walked to the door, waved goodbye back, and his eyes were full of disappointment.

The book flew over and surrounded Morris, as if he didn't want to let this old friend leave at all.

So, they opened one page after another and formed a new book, Hot Air Balloon. They threw out ribbons and dragged Morris to fly, just like the young girl who brought him here before.

Everything is so familiar, but it will soon become strange.

Perhaps this is the inheritance of books' life and the transmission of wisdom. The power of books always needs someone to take the torch in the hands of predecessors.

After Morris left, the house welcomed a new owner, a lovely little girl. As soon as the little girl entered the door, the book still flew to her happily, and the little girl instantly glowed with the brilliance of life.

The little girl walked into the room, looked at the books full and opened the first book. As soon as she opened it, she saw a picture of Morris sitting on the balcony reading a book. It turns out that Morris never left.

This is not only a kind of inheritance, but also a kind of gratitude.

Reading can give people not only endless knowledge, but also the improvement of thinking and the effective feedback of life experience.

On the road of life, children are full of gratitude. Looking at the road ahead, they will naturally be full of hardships.

At the end of reading, you can cultivate a compassionate personality and mind.

Mao Mu once said: "To cultivate the habit of reading is to build a shelter for yourself so that you can escape almost all the pain and misfortune in the world."

When we are faced with choices, pains, encounters and accidents at all stages of life, we will always find our own answers in books.

Reading is just to meet the best self unexpectedly. When reading this big book of life, gratitude may be the best preface.

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Author | Li Ge

Edit | Deng Qian

Edit | Mao Xinwen

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