Who said anything about reading thousands of books and Wan Li Road?

This famous saying comes from Dong Qichang, a painter and calligrapher in Ming Dynasty. This sentence emphasizes the importance of combining reading with practice, and encourages people to experience the world by themselves while enjoying a group of books, so as to gain deeper knowledge and broader life experience. It originated from Dong Qichang's "Essays on Painting a Zen Room" Volume II, and Dong Qing also mentioned this sentence, thinking that through reading and learning, we can get rid of limitations and narrowness and make continuous progress. Dong Qichang was an outstanding minister, painter and calligrapher in the late Ming Dynasty, and his artistic achievements were particularly remarkable. He was born in 1555 and died in 1636. His name is Xuanzang, and he was named a Buddhist of Four Whites and Xiangguang. My ancestral home is Huating in Songjiang (now Shanghai). After Wanli entered high school, he entered the officialdom and held important positions such as editing and editing of the Hanlin Academy.