-- "Leading Cadres Should Love Reading, Read Good Books, and Be Good at Reading-Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the Second Batch of Advanced Classes and Special Seminars of the Central Party School in the Spring Semester of 2009" and other articles

■Interpretation

Chinese civilization is the only uninterrupted civilization inheritance in the world, containing the great principles of being a man and doing things and governing the country, the light of wisdom penetrates history, and the ideological value transcends time and space, and it is the spiritual home that the Chinese nation can never leave. Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out that the rich philosophical thoughts, humanistic spirit, educational thoughts, and moral concepts of China's excellent traditional culture can provide useful inspiration for people to understand and transform the world, provide useful inspiration for governing the country, and provide useful inspiration for moral construction. He stressed on many occasions that "reading excellent traditional cultural classics is a kind of cultural reading with high gold content," and stressed that leading cadres should take the initiative to accept the edification and baptism of excellent traditional culture. There are less staggered dishes at the dinner table, more books containing English and Chinese, studying historical classics, looking at success and failure, learning from right and wrong, and knowing the rise and fall; study literary classics, cultivate sentiment and increase talent; Study philosophical classics, improve thinking, grasp the rules, and enhance critical thinking ability; Study the ethical classics, know honesty and shame, understand honor and disgrace, and distinguish between good and evil. In short, through the study of excellent traditional cultural classics, we can consolidate our roots and continuously improve our humanistic quality and spiritual realm.

■Original text

Wrapped in a coarse cloth, tired of cooking gourd leaves with the old Confucian, and forced to step on the locust flowers.

The bag is empty, and the spring horse is not searched, and the eyes are chaotic to see the car of the son-in-law.

The pride is still boasting of the world, and the new wet words of Zhao Huang are like crows.

——(Northern Song Dynasty) Su Shi "Farewell to Dong Chuan"

■Definition

"Farewell to Dong Chuan" is a farewell poem written by Su Shi to Dong Chuan, a new science and technology jinshi, when he left Fengxiang. When Su Shi was a judge in Fengxiang Mansion, he had a very personal relationship with Dong Chuan. Although Dong Chuan's family is poor, he is full of poetry and books, full of economy, and his simple clothes can't hide his positive and enterprising spirit, so Su Shi praised him with "poetry and books in his belly".

"There is poetry and calligraphy in the belly" is a famous sentence, and the word "self" emphasizes that the elegant and extraordinary temperament comes from the fragrance of books. "Qi" not only refers to the elegance brought by reading, but also refers to the open-minded attitude shown in the face of life's frustration and embarrassment. Reading can not only increase knowledge, but also improve people's spiritual realm and make people's temperament elegant. Zeng Guofan said to his son Zeng Jize: "People's temperament is difficult to change because they are born, but reading can change their temperament." Huang Tingjian, a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, said from the opposite side: "If people don't read, they will be born in the world, and if they look in the mirror, they will be hateful, and if they look at people, they will be tasteless in language." The English philosopher Bacon expounded the relationship between reading and human character and temperament in this way: "Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people beautiful, mathematics makes people thorough, science makes people profound, ethics makes people dignified, logic and rhetoric make people good at argumentation, and everything that is learned becomes character." ”