2. Laozi (Tao Te Ching)
Required reading reasons
Tao Te Ching, also known as Tao Te Ching, Laozi's Five Thousand Words and Laozi's Five Thousand Articles, was a work written by the pre-Qin philosophers in ancient China before their separation, which was highly praised by the philosophers at that time and was an important source of Taoist philosophy. Concise and profound.
Laozi (or Tao Te Ching) is a China classic with the least words and the most translations. A few words contain many possibilities of understanding and explanation. Laozi is a classic in China's traditional culture, which has a great and far-reaching influence on China's philosophy, art and thought. Although Laozi has only 5,000 words, it contains rich philosophy and wisdom. It is the first complete philosophical work in the history of China, and was praised as the king of all classics by Chinese ancestors.
3. Caigen Tan
Required reading reasons
Caigen Tan is a collection of quotations about practice, life, social life and fertility compiled by Taoist Hong Yingming in the early Ming Dynasty. It is a rare treasure training in the vast past to crystallize the truth of three religions and nine streams and teach people from generation to generation. It has an incredible subtle influence on people's cultivation and moral cultivation. Its text is concise and clear, and it adopts both refined and popular tastes. I like quotations, but I have fun that quotations don't have; Arrange in order, whoever seems to be an essay will have an essay that is not easy to achieve; It seems to be exhortation, but there is an awakening that exhortation lacks; And there is rain and mountains, the night is quiet and the bell rings, the words are clear and delicious, and the wind and moon are boundless.
The author combines the golden mean of Confucianism, the inaction of Taoism, the birth of Buddhism and his own experience, forming a set of rules for entering the WTO and the way of treating people, which shows China people's unique views on life, interpersonal relationship and human nature. Although there must be many differences between modern people and people more than 400 years ago in concepts and ways, whether it is to find ways to cultivate one's self-cultivation, the principle of dealing with people, or the differences in management strategies, political knowledge and talents, etc. "Caigen Tan" gives people profound enlightenment, but it has not worn away its profound and wise brilliance because of the passage of the sun and the moon.
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Small Window, a Sword Sweep of Drunk Ancient Hall, 12 volume, essays on epigrams. Written by Chen Jiru in Ming Dynasty. Chen Jiru (1558- 1639), a secondary alcohol, comes from Huating, Songjiang. Gong can write, calligraphy is Su Mi, and at the same time he can draw things, which made him famous for a while. The imperial edict was repeatedly requisitioned, and it was all bad words. What he did was "or stab at trivial things, explain them into books, and compete with each other to buy and write." People praised him as a wise man who can see through life and death and vanity fair. The Story of the Small Window is divided into twelve episodes: awakening, emotion, preciseness, spirit, elements, scenery, phonology, strangeness, wonder, luxury, regularity and modesty. The content mainly expounds the cultivation of mind and life first, which shows the secluded literati's indifference to fame and fortune, Tao Ran's detachment in the mountains, elegant writing, extraordinary writing and unique analysis of things. The book begins with "Awakening" and ends with "Money". Although mixed in the dust, I look down on things; In the criticism of pouring thoughts into the world, the philosopher's coldness is revealed, and its motto is exquisite, short and exquisite, which urges people to save money and benefit their hearts. Since it came out, it has spread like a raging fire, attracting readers' attention again and again, and its cultural charm has been recognized by readers more and more.
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the art of war
Required reading reasons
Sun Tzu's Art of War, also known as Sun Wu's Art of War, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Sun Wu's Art of War, etc. , the first military work in the world, is known as the "Military Science Festival".
Sun Tzu's Art of War is a brilliant treasure in the classical military cultural heritage of the Han nationality in China and an important part of China's excellent cultural tradition. Its content is profound, its thought is profound, and its logic is rigorous, which is the concentrated embodiment of the essence of ancient Chinese military thought.
Sun Tzu's Art of War is regarded as the treasure of the town and the classic of China's military strategists. It has a history of 2500 years since its birth, and it has been studied in all dynasties. Sun Tzu's art of war is a strategy, and strategy is not a trick, but a great strategy and great wisdom. Today, Sun Tzu's art of war has gone global. It has also been translated into many languages and occupies an important position in the world military history.
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Travel notes of the elderly disabled
Required reading reasons
Liu E's Travels of Lao Can in the late Qing Dynasty was rated as one of the four "condemnation novels" in the late Qing Dynasty by Mr. Lu Xun. Rich in content and profound in meaning, he has made great artistic achievements. It has been translated into many languages and has great influence at home and abroad, and has been recognized as a world literary masterpiece by UNESCO.
Lao Can's travel notes have high artistic taste, leaving obvious traces of bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new. The first is the transformation of narrative mode, from storyteller narrative to writer narrative. The novel is full of subjective feelings, and the writer's creative personality and subjective consciousness have been fully improved. The perspective of the novel has also changed from the traditional omniscient narrative to the third-person restricted narrative. Secondly, the application of psychoanalytic technology. In the second episode, it was a bold attempt, and wrote a long confession of Yi Yun, the aunt of Doulao Palace, about her passionate love with Ren. The writer's strokes and paintings touched the most secret inner tremor in people's subconscious, and told the whole process of a girl's strong lust and material desire, which was quite psychologically analyzed by modern people. The most outstanding artistic feature of Travel Notes of Lao Can is the transformation of China's novels from narrative to description. In addition, the brushwork of poetry and prose opens up aesthetic space, and its writing style is beautiful and unique, and its artistic conception is far-reaching and lofty, which has reached a high level. Describe natural scenery, especially artistic skills. For example, to write about the autumn colors of Daming Lake, you can dye a semi-colored Fengdan tree between Panyu Monastery and Cangsong Baicui, which will make you feel full of autumn. The writing on the frozen edge of the Yellow River is full of vitality.
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Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio
Required reading reasons
Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is an incredible classic and a masterpiece of master Pu Songling. Up to now, in our country's classical novels, no work can be as popular, elegant and popular as it is, and it has been loved by generations.
Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio has a wide range of themes, rich contents and high artistic achievements. His works have successfully created many artistic models, with vivid characters, bizarre and tortuous story, rigorous and ingenious structural layout, concise writing and delicate description, which can be called the pinnacle of China's classical classical Chinese short stories. It seems that all the articles are about ghosts, foxes, immortals and monsters. In fact, every word is about people, feelings, the world and the country. Between the lines are the author's rich experience and profound wisdom for life and society.
Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio combines the strange stories from a Lonely Studio, legends and human feelings in ancient novels, absorbs the advantages of ancient vernacular novels, and forms a unique concise and elegant classical Chinese style. At the same time, it adopts the combination of realism and romanticism, full of rich imagination and strong social criticism. It has successfully created many artistic images, all of which are lifelike: writing about corrupt officials is ugly and cronyism; When writing the imperial examination, the examiner should parrot, as blind as a bat; Write love, then find marriage, lovely; When writing about women, you will smile, be elegant and affectionate. From the story structure, its plot twists and turns bizarre, rigorous and ingenious layout, so that readers are full of interest after opening the book, unwilling to let go.
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Words on the earth
Required reading reasons
Words on earth-a peak you can't avoid, a master of Chinese studies-Master Wang Guowei, a century-old classic, points the way with a new eye! With profound literary accomplishment, he explored the function and aesthetic feeling of words and put forward his own literary theory. To the new people's refreshing, Wang Guowei not only excavated and updated the traditional theory of Ci, but also infiltrated the western philosophical viewpoint, and expressed it through appropriate metaphors and concise language, making Ci on Earth a landmark work.
Ci Hua on Earth is the most famous ci work of China in modern times. This is an epoch-making work in the history of China's poetic talk. The book has a novel point of view, incisive arguments and a self-contained system, which has always been valued by scholars at home and abroad. The book puts forward the theory of Ci with the theory of "realm" as the core, which has taken a solid step on the road of exchange and integration of Chinese and western literary and artistic ideas.
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The Book of Songs
Required reading reasons
The Book of Songs is China's first monograph on pure literature, which opens up the narrative and lyrical connotation of China's poems and is called "the ancestor of pure literature". As the earliest collection of poems in China, The Book of Songs has a lofty position and pioneering value in the history of literature. It is the beginning of China's realistic literature, and its contents, techniques and forms are used and imitated by later generations. The syntax of The Book of Songs is mostly four words, which is regular but flexible. Firstly, it used three artistic techniques: Fu, Bi and Xing, and made great achievements, which had a far-reaching impact on the development of China literature for more than two thousand years. Many of its outstanding works are well known to women and children, which are not only vivid in description and beautiful in language, but also full of rhythm and healthy in thought. Although it has been thousands of years, it is still irreplaceable.
During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, The Book of Songs was listed as one of the Five Classics, which became a Confucian classic, a magic weapon for educating people and a spiritual pillar for stabilizing society. Over time, scholars of all ages worshipped it and regarded it as a synonym for sacredness. Because of this, The Book of Songs has become the cultural wealth of China people and the symbol of China culture. It spread to Korea, Vietnam, Japan and other Asian countries in the Tang Dynasty and to Europe in the Ming Dynasty. It lasted for hundreds of years and was even regarded as the immortal work of this world. No matter in the past or today, it is full of infinite charm with its unique cultural heritage and profound beauty.
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Ancient prose view
Required reading reasons
China's View on Ancient Literature is an ancient China book, which has written a famous article about the 5,000-year history of China. There are more than 200 short and catchy essays in it, which show the profoundness of ancient culture in China and the extraordinary wisdom of ancient people in China from many angles. There are famous works by scholars and celebrities before the Qing Dynasty, and there are four books and five classics, the Book of Rites, Zuo Zhuan and so on that the ancients must learn. For example, Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting Collection, Han Yu's Shi Shuo, Fan Zhongyan's Yueyang Tower and so on. Can feel their inner thoughts. This book is rich in knowledge, historical materials, ancient literature, poetry and painting comments, and landscape introduction ... May the light of wisdom illuminate thousands of families in Qian Qian and thousands of souls eager for knowledge in Qian Qian, and make the spiritual space of mankind brighter. The selected articles in "Guwen Guanzhi" can not only contain the essence of ancient prose, but also remove the obstacles of reading and understanding ancient prose with annotations, and annotations can also explain the wonderful writing. This way of reading will naturally be welcomed by beginners, so Wu Xingzuo said, "Learn well and use well" (preface).
"Ancient prose" is the most beautiful, valuable and representative ancient prose collected by the author from a sharp perspective in the vast ocean of China literature, so this book is also the best selection of ancient prose. For hundreds of years, not only scholars are familiar with it, but also the general public loves it and spreads it widely.
—— From the website of Harbin University of Commerce Library.