The problem is how to form the habit of reading.
Why don't we get into the habit of reading? It may be directly related to parents. Now parents have to choose books for their young children. For example, a child has a pile of books, and parents should take them to review. This is not good, this is too superficial; This is no good, this knowledge is useless to you; This won't do either. You've seen all this. Why did you buy it again ... and then his parents chose some books for him. This is a very bad habit.
Westerners believe that the formation of habits is much more important than what books you read. How can children form habits? He likes reading. When you go to a bookstore abroad, if there are parents leading the children, it is basically the children who are picking books. Parents just have to pay for their children to read slowly.
The most difficult thing to change in a person's life is habit. For example, although I spend a lot of time watching IPAD, I still want to see a lot of things on paper. This is the formation of habits. Therefore, when a person's reading habits are developed, you don't have to worry about him. The choice of content is up to him. Parents should not take his place.
These three stages were not decided by me, but by the ancients. The ancients believed that there were three stages in life. The first stage is reading aloud. The decade from the age of five to fifteen is the first stage of reading. The biggest advantage of this stage is good memory, so this stage is called reading and reciting, and no understanding is required. I always let you know what today means. For example, when primary school students write a composition, the first is the central idea, and the second is the general idea of the paragraph. The ancients thought that the four books and five classics were all works that stopped at the top of the mountain. How can a child understand? Just recite it. Come to think of it, most of the things you can recite are memories before you were fifteen. As long as you can recite the classics, it will be good for your life.
The second stage is called through learning. It's easy to understand through learning and through learning. The time period is 15 to 25 years old, which is equivalent to today's high school to college graduation, including master's degree and so on. During this time, you must learn to get through it.
The third stage is dabbling. Generally speaking, twenty-five to thirty-five years old is the first decade of entering society. At this time, you should keep learning, because the knowledge you have learned in school is often not used in the unit.
Reading, learning and dabbling constitute your lifelong reading project.
Of course there is. Simply put, there are two ways.
The first method is called intensive reading, which is your major or your favorite field. You must read carefully. The best way is to take notes. Good memory is not as good as bad writing, that's what it means. If you want to achieve something in a certain field, you can't do without intensive reading.
The other is rough reading, which can also be divided into two categories: one is rough reading. I read this book once and finished it soon, so I know what it is; One is fast reading, which is working reading. That is, when you read this book, you read the first sentence of each paragraph. No matter how much you want to read, you just have to jump to the second paragraph and speed up your reading, so you don't have to delve into it. For example, the next day, you will meet the author of the book and say that I have read your book, and then discuss everything in his book with him. This is reading at work.
What is the purpose of reading? Apply what you have learned.
I advocate reading more miscellaneous books and dabbling more. I like ceramics and have published several books about ceramics. Then, some people may ask: What effect does reading science and technology books have on learning ceramics? The color of ceramics is the color of metal at high temperature. For example, high temperature red and high temperature green are the colors of copper at high temperature. You can understand these by reading chemistry. What influence does literature have on ceramics? Can deepen your understanding of ceramics. There are many nouns with strong literary color in ceramics, such as white glaze, whose literary description is "sweet white"; Yellow glaze is called "burnt yellow" in literature. In my book, I described it like this: "The same white glaze was different in the first three dynasties of Kangxi. Kangxi white glaze is hard, Yongzheng white glaze is greasy, and dry white glaze is thin. " It's a literary feeling. Also, everyone knows that "sweet white" is a famous product of Yongle. At that time, I described it as neither hard nor brittle. Compared with the white porcelain of Yongzheng, it is not greasy but sweet. Compared with the dry white porcelain, it is not thin and mellow. These descriptions are all literary works. You must have a certain literary accomplishment to understand the taste inside.
Reading aesthetic books is also helpful for learning ceramics. Blue and white, for example, is the crystallization of Persian culture, Mongolian culture and Chinese culture. No porcelain variety can compete with blue and white in the 700 years after its appearance. It was not until the middle of Qing Dynasty that famille rose gradually kept pace with it. Pastel is also an exotic product, which is the influence of European enamel on China culture. Then the blue glaze. Many colors in porcelain are objective colors, such as red, yellow, blue and green, but blue glaze is subjective color, which is not found in nature. This color was created by China people within the framework of China's aesthetics. The ancients said that "ancient pottery emphasizes celadon", and celadon is the largest kind of ceramics.
Does philosophy have anything to do with porcelain? It doesn't seem to be directly related, but it does. For example, there is a kind of porcelain sauce glaze, the color is not good-looking, so the literati gave it a nice name, called Zijin glaze. It is a convergent color, neither pleasing to the eye of celadon nor so strong as black porcelain and white porcelain, just waiting in a corner. Since the Qing Dynasty, Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu and Xuantong all had purple glaze; Many kinds of porcelain last several dynasties at most, but this kind of porcelain has official glaze from beginning to end. Think about it, is this a philosophical question? I sometimes joke that Ge You is a bit like purple glaze. When Ge You was young, he looked like an old man and played a small role, but he eventually became the first hero in China. This is a philosophy of existence.
Having said that, I don't know what's the use of reading. But one thing, whether you read professional books or leisure books, as long as you read more books, it will definitely help improve your quality of life. People who read a lot must live a happy life.