37. The joy of reading
On Saturday, a friend called and asked: What is Mr. Zhu Gong busy with? I was half-lying in bed, reading a very difficult "literary masterpiece", so I casually said: What are you doing, I'm reading. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe friend over there was skeptical, he must be a socialite and a well-known gentry like Mr. Zhu Zhi, and no one would be invited to "relax and relax" on weekends? So he said: It sounds so quiet over there, so secret, I won't go with you!
In fact, the best way for a poor person like Mr. Zhu to spend his spare time is to read. When the rich go to golf courses, nightclubs, restaurants, and dates with their lovers, you must be depressed, and you must be looking for something to kill the boredom. At this time, you can't wander around the street like a dog, right? You can't throw a pitiful few dollars in your pocket at a beer stand on the side of the road, can you? You can't grab TV with your wife and children and watch those long soap operas, can you? At this time, then you should read a book.
The "National National Reading and Purchasing Tendency Sampling Survey" found that the reading rate of Chinese people has continued to decline in the past few years, calculated by the overall sample of literate people, in 2011 compared with 2005, it decreased by 11.7 percentage points, of which urban residents decreased by 10.8 percentage points, and rural residents decreased by 12.6 percentage points, and the main reason for this decline is "lack of time". There is no time to study, which is abnormal in the eyes of many people, and Huang Tingjian, a Song man, said: If you don't study for three days, you feel hateful. I think. Mr. Huang may also be poor, if he is rich, he will only say, "If you don't drink for three days, you will fade out of your mouth", "If you don't go for three days, you will get sick", and so on.
Let's talk about the good of reading. Don't say that "there is Yan Ruyu in the book", nor do you say "there is a golden house in the book", let alone think about the three realms of reading and learning described by the ancients, what "go up to the tall building alone, look at the end of the world", what "the clothes are gradually widened and do not regret it, and people are haggard for Yi", what "everyone looks for him thousands of times, and suddenly looks back, but the person is in the lamplight." "That's the business of the scholars. I just think of him as a way to kill time. Those who read books to find the truth, read to be inspired, read to cultivate sentiment, etc., are all nonsense. If you are ready to pass a book before reading it, and make your thinking more progressive, how noble your morals are, and how rational your behavior is, you will definitely be disappointed (some books do change people, I don't believe you ask a young man to read adult books every day, look at the spring palace map).
Now there are a large number of inspirational and management books published on the market, telling people how to work hard, teaching people how to be bosses, how to be employees, what "36 ways to get out of adversity", what "how to be a good boss", what "how to be a good employee" and so on. These books are ridiculous! It's like a dazzling array of lottery books on the market, what "Football Lottery Raiders", what "Lottery Manual", what "Take 5 million home", etc., if it is useful, I will tell you? It's all stuff that publishers use to fool readers.
So what kind of books should you read? As far as Mr. Zhu is concerned, he reads almost any book, but he is still very particular about what kind of books he reads when and when he reads. Mr. Zhou Zuoren said that when reading a novel that has been abolished, one should not read it in a noisy farmer's market, nor in a library, let alone in a study, but in the shade of a tree. That kind of pastoral atmosphere and Zhuang Zen charm will be presented, and that kind of cool and mysterious realm will slowly stain your heart. In a similar way, to read Wang Guozhen's poems or Qiong Yao's novels, you have to be on a train car or plane during your trip. The reason is simple, we want to have an unexpected sexual encounter, a bad addiction.
Serious and studious, Mr. Zhu is super diligent, and his room is full of books, whether it is eating, going to the toilet or going to bed, he can't let go of the books. When eating, read some little prose, that's not to say, anyway, don't let you look nauseous, I can't read the "Hemorrhoids Care Manual" while picking up vegetables, right? When you go to the toilet, you should look for short articles, such as jokes and short stories, and you should never just flip through books such as "Cookbook Illustrations" in the toilet (it is said that Germans printed novels and poems on toilet paper for toilet users to read, and these contents were very popular with the poems of German literary geniuses Heinrich Heine and Chris Morgenstern). In Mr. Zhu's experience, there are two books that are the first choice for reading before bed: one is "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Malgas, the other is "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, and of course there are many, such as the current novels and books, you have to pay attention, the better the critics say, the more beautiful the novels written by beautiful authors, the more miraculous the effect.
After reading too many books, although the vast majority of people will not be inspired by a certain book, an article, or a certain sentence, they will become angry and become a well-known gentry like Mr. Zhu Zhi. When I was in junior high school, my Chinese teacher told us a story about how in ancient times, someone committed a crime and was sentenced to death because the verdict said that he "wounded people with an axe." His family went to intercede with the county magistrate, and the county magistrate accepted the favor and waved a big pen, so the verdict became "throwing an axe and hurting people", and the original "intentional homicide" became "manslaughter". But there's one thing you have to be careful about, don't read yourself as a nerd anymore. There is a joke in the book: There was an old show who went to the street to buy firewood, and when he saw the person carrying firewood coming, he hurriedly beckoned: Salaryman, come, come. When the bearer heard this, he came. Xiucai looked at it and asked: What is the price? The firewood seller heard the word "price" and quoted the price. Xiucai said: There is a lot of wet water, please lose it, please lose it (less money). Xiucai didn't understand, so he picked up firewood and left. Xiucai was so anxious that he screamed "wow". An article in the Legal Digest of August 1, 1997 said that Hubei Province had cracked a kidnapping case eight years earlier, and the clue to the case was a note written by the kidnapper, which read: Cross the bridge, follow the foot of the wall, to the right, see a pavilion, and a stool on the side of the pavilion, under which there is a letter. With such smooth writing and rigorous thinking, the police concluded that this person was educated, so they locked up a university, investigated one by one, and found out a teacher.
Reading books can kill us a lot of boring time, and I don't need to say any more. Reading can also bring a lot of happiness, Mr. Jin Yong said in a speech at Zhejiang University, "As long as there are books to read, you will be happy." "Mr. Zhu Zhi has a deep understanding, you think about it, as soon as Mr. Zhu Zhi comes home, he will lie on the sofa or bed, pick up the book, sometimes draw a few lines on the book, sometimes cover the volume and ponder, at this time, Mrs. Zhu Zhi can influence Mr. Zhu Zhi to study hard in order to get ahead? So she took care of the cooking, and she also took care of the cooking. After eating, Mr. Zhu Zhi ate the bowl, picked up the book, and began to soak in it, so he didn't even have to wash the bowl, it is very likely that Mrs. Zhu Zhi also made a pot of good "Biluochun", and asked Mr. Zhu Zhi to enjoy, it was really happy.