Reading, the best life behavior

Reading is not only a life content but also a way of life. A person's knowledge composition, value judgment, and aesthetic habits are mostly from reading. I was born in the late 1960s, my adolescence was pre-internet, and I grew up reading books. Reading helped me connect with some of the best people in history. With the book, you are not lonely, that is, with the travel of the world, you can enjoy the spiritual geography and spiritual scenery of all mankind.

In this era of electronic media, I especially admire paper reading. When you touch a good book, your eyes and fingers slide across the page, your heart will calm down. This is a ritual, just like drinking tea, sitting next to a beautiful friend, dense and lingering, your soul will swim, and you will be immersed in a field filled with concentration and stillness. When you browse the web, you don't have that feeling, you just want to grab information quickly, everything is done in a hurry, it's not drinking tea, it's gulping water. There is a value added to the paper reading. It feeds people.

Who are some of my most influential writers? What is my standard of being a good writer?

In literature, I think it is better to read two types of things: the first is classical and classical, such as Shakespeare, Andersen, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kompastovsky, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Kawabata Yasunari, Kafka, Hugo, Hemingway, Tagore, Marquez... Such as Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Xiao Hong, Feng Zikai, Wang Zengqi, Sun Li and so on. Then there is the good work of contemporary writers, especially native writers, who write in their mother tongue. Translated works, however, often have aesthetic and informational losses, the list is too long to enumerate.

For spiritual modesty and beauty, my personal favorites are Romain Rolland and Zweig. Zweig, in particular, had a personal influence on my soul and on my writing, which had a rare noble texture, lyrical poetry, and warmth. He praised the things he loved without a grudge, especially for women, very considerate and caring, very gentleman, very gentleman, he is a natural aristocrat, I appreciate his heart and education, and I highly trust his words, this feeling is rarely obtained in others.

The sooner you start reading them, the better. Once you've read a lot of pop books and fast food books, it's hard to appreciate their beauty because your taste is overblown.

A person needs to take what to lay the foundation for himself and what to take as the spiritual lesson of "the beginning of man".

Please don't forget the poetry! Poetry can fly and will take you to the context of mystery, freedom, and liberation, to the linguistic utopia. Poetry, which expresses the highest ideal of language and the purest area of life, is much like music in its pursuit. And long, the youth should be the peak season to read poetry, at this time of you, the heart clear, verdant, light, no rock heavy sophisticated, miscellaneous and Wu Chen product and rational taboo, your spiritual constitution and the soul of poetry is consistent, the United States can easily lure you, captive you, you will be willing to go with her.

Poetry is meant to be read. Unlike "see", "read" is the appearance of the voice, is the face of the soul, and is a kind of love. "Reading" turns words into love letters, into light, into excitement and trembling... Poetry readers are often those who love life the most, those whose souls are dignified and elegant, those whose happiness is strong and stable, and those whose blood contains alcohol and fire. Poetry is a kind of faith, a way of paying tribute and dedicating to life. This is an old way, and it should become a young way.

I do not know why, "read" the book seems to be less and less, people's lips become lazy and dull, become meek, incoherent. Keep the habit of "reading", don't lose it, this is the passion, the ability, is the temperature of life.

The most beautiful words must be suitable for reading, attractive reading because the author's heart rhythm let it have a moving syllable. You have to read it out, you can't help opening your mouth, you have to let the writer hear your echo.

An old musician said that when he was sent down for "renovation" in the desolate mountains, passing a dilapidated elementary school, suddenly from the walls of the "loud reading," the content of a fairy tale, he was sure that he had heard the most beautiful sound in the world, more beautiful than any music. Yes, "Loud reading," it's not an old word, he's using it as a brand new word, I'm sure I know it, it's the sound of the morning, it's the sound of the dew rolling on the grass with its sunshine, it's the sound of the book itself.

In the world, there are many thinkers, but few "living home". Life in the pure sense, a life of concentration, a life above darkness and suffering, a life undisturbed by the evils of the age.

In addition to ideological role models, we also need to accumulate some life models for ourselves, some simple and simple people of interest, some "life professionals", to be our spiritual neighbors.

Feng Zikai and Wang Shixiang, two of my favorite life masters, are those who "grow up but keep a childlike innocence", and those who make you always vote yes to "love life". I call them spiritual "pacifists" and "green environmentalists".

Feng Zikai, who passed through the turbidity, was a person who kept his childlike innocence tenaciously all his life. In him, that love of all things, that affirming and repairing attitude to life, that obligation to beauty, is so stable that it does not depend on any condition. Children were his painting material and his religion; His children and idols; It's his homework, it's his textbook; was the candy of his heart and the letter of his mind. Children's games, children's logic, children's love and hate, children's simplicity and freedom... He was obsessed with it.

I appreciate the relationship Feng Zikai has built with children, and I understand his regret for children being captured by adult society. When I was a new father, I was interviewed by a newspaper about my parenting ideas. I said that the awakening and enlightenment of aesthetic consciousness is perhaps the most important for childhood, including personality, emotion, and natural aesthetics. My concern is that the social environment is too mismatched with the spiritual environment you are helping your child to create, too dark and too beautiful, too complex and too pure. But I do not regret, it because the child has a qualified childhood. Childhood is childhood itself. It is independent and dignified. It cannot be sacrificed as a preparatory period for adulthood. When my anthology The Bright Man was published, I wrote this line on the cover: "Let the soul begin as a baby, as in childhood, biting a pencil, with innocence, curiosity and surging love for the world..."

Beside the pillow, I often put Feng Zikai's picture album, to brew a good sleep. I have often thought about how nice it would be to have a little richness in the temperament and daily life of this country.

Romain Rolland once said: "There is only one kind of true heroism, that is to love life after knowing the truth of life." This is my idea of being a good writer. Good works and life are all about this.