Chapter 60: On Reading

If you want to be good, you must be good, and you must read books for your children and grandchildren, which is written by an ancient wooden couplet I saw at a friend's house, and I don't know if I read it backwards, but I have good words in my heart first.

These two couplets are carved from cypress wood, and the two sides of the couplet are carved with patterns and depicted with gold edges, which were used by wealthy families in ancient times to remind future generations.

However, it can be understood that in ancient China, there was a so-called such thing: knowledge changes fate, knowledge is power, study hard every day, etc., to achieve the purpose of urging people to forge ahead.

In fact, in ancient times, the purpose of reading books was to understand things, distinguish right from wrong, and test fame and life.

Nowadays, reading books not only understands right and wrong, but also enriches our daily life, knowing that science, nature, physics, astronomy, etc. are also inseparable from life to understand life, of course, reading is also a very boring thing.

Hehe, my child has to be coaxed every time he writes homework and reads textbooks, and I still accommodate him before he goes to elementary school.

However, I am studying in order to have food in the future, and I am guided step by step. Now he has this living condition to create a better environment for him to study, and this is also inseparable from the development and progress of the country, in fact, in ancient China.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian of the four calligraphy families Su Huang Mi Cai, of course, he was also an official, and there is such a paragraph in his poems: The collection of thousands of books can be taught to children, and the legacy is full of money.

At that time, the ancients realized that the inheritance of family bloodline is not the inheritance of wealth, nor the inheritance of official positions, but the inheritance of culture.

No matter how strong the house left by the ancestors, it will fall down, and no matter how much property is left, it will be used up. Only cultural knowledge can be nourished for a long time and last for generations.

When I was a child, I learned the story of painting porridge with broken teeth, and the famous writer and politician Fan Zhongyan grew up in a poor family, his old father died very early, and his mother remarried because she couldn't stand the pressure of life.

Fan Zhongyan had no choice but to go to the temple to study. He used two liters of millet to cook porridge every day, and after the porridge solidified overnight, it was divided into four pieces, and he ate two pieces of pickled vegetables in the morning and evening, and later went to study in Liquan Temple in Changbai Mountain, Zouping, Shandong.

He lent out the rich collection of books in Liquan Temple, and he locked himself in the cave, stayed at home, devoted himself to reading, and often read all night, which was inseparable from his diligence, and he studied hard to become a talent.

In the end, the worries of the world and the joy of the world after the story of Yueyang Tower are even more famous. Wang Yangming, who is the unity of knowledge and action, was also obsessed with chess when he was a child, so that Yu reached the point where he was persuaded and did not want to learn, and finally his father Wang Hua felt that he was discouraged by his playthings, and once threw all the chess pieces into the river in a fit of anger.

Since then, studying diligently, quitting games, being a good man, and becoming a saint have become Wang Yangming's lifelong pursuit.

Of course, without his father's guidance, he might have ended up being a chess master, but he would not have been able to write a biography and become a school of mind.

Reading is a kind of hard tempering of people's body and mind, and they live to learn all the time. And I think that when you have more knowledge, you think more of your ignorance.

But if you want to succeed, you can't do without knowledge. To reach the summit of the towering mountain of knowledge, diligence is the only way to reach the top.

Since the eighties, our country has enacted a law on compulsory education, which has also led to an increasing number of people receiving basic education.