2. Laozi (Tao Te Ching)
Required reading reasons
Tao Te Ching, also known as the True Classic of Morality, Laozi's Five Thousand Words and Laozi's Five Thousand Articles, was a work before the separation of the pre-Qin philosophers in ancient China, which was highly praised by the philosophers at that time and was an important source of Taoist philosophy. It is concise and profound.
Laozi (or Tao Te Ching) is a China classic with the least number of words and the largest number of translations. However, 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 is only 5,000 words, it contains rich philosophy and wisdom, and it is the first complete book in the history of China.
3. Caigen Tan
Required reading reasons
Caigen Tan is a collection of quotations about practice, life, life experience and origin compiled by Taoist Hong Yingming in the early Ming Dynasty. It has the crystallization of the truth of three religions and nine streams, and it has the difficult way to teach people from generation to generation. It was a rare and precious training for the past. It has an incredible subtle influence on people's cultivation and moral cultivation. His words are concise and clear, appealing to both refined and popular tastes. This is like a quotation, but in the order, whoever seems to be an essay will have an essay that is not easy to reach; It seems to be exhortation, but there is an awakening that exhortation lacks; And there is rain and mountains, and there are quiet bells at night, and the words are clear and delicious.
Combining the Confucian doctrine of the mean, the Taoist inaction, the birth of Buddhism and his own experience, the author has formed a set of inherited rules of entering the WTO and ways of dealing with people, showing China people's unique views on life, interpersonal relationship and human nature. Although there must be many differences in concepts and ways between modern people and people more than 400 years ago, whether it is to find ways to cultivate one's self-cultivation, the criteria for dealing with people, the strategy of management, and the talent for politics.
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The story of the small window, a sword sweep of the drunken ancient hall, total 12 volumes, is a short aphorism. This is written by Amin Chen Jiru. Chen Jiru (1558- 1639), whose real name is Zhong Chun, was born in Huating, Songjiang. He can write poetry and calligraphy, and Su Mi can also draw pictures, which made him famous for some time. 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, magnificence, method and modesty. The content mainly expounds the cultivation of mind and the most important thing in life, showing that hermits are indifferent to fame and fortune and enjoy themselves in the mountains. In the criticism of instilling ideas into the world, the philosopher's coldness is revealed. Its motto is exquisite, short and pithy, promoting people's vigilance and saving people's hearts. Since its inception, it has spread like a raging fire, attracting readers' attention again and again, and its cultural charm is increasingly recognized by readers.
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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 Tzu's Art of War and Sun Wu's Art of War, is the first military work in the world and is known as the "Military Science Ceremony".
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 strategy, and strategy is not a trick, but a grand strategy and great wisdom. Now, 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 the alternation between the old and the new. First of all, the narrative mode has changed, from the storyteller's narrative to the writer's 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 techniques. In the second episode, I wrote a long story about her love with Ren Sanyun. This is a bold attempt. The writer's brush strokes touched the most secret chord tremor in people's subconscious, telling the whole story of a girl's strong lust and material desire, which is quite psychologically analyzed by modern people. The most outstanding artistic feature of Travel Notes of Lao Can is that it reflects the transformation of China's novels from narrative to description. Through the blending of poetry and prose, the aesthetic space is opened up, the writing style is beautiful and elegant, and the artistic conception is far-reaching and lofty. Have reached a very high level. Depicting natural scenery, especially artistic skills. For example, write about the autumn colors of Daming Lake, and dye a semi-thick red maple tree between the Zen master building and the pine and cypress to make you feel full of autumn. Writing about the frozen edge of the Yellow River is vigorous and powerful.
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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, no classic novel in China is as popular, elegant and popular as it is, and it is loved by all ages.
Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio has a wide range of themes, rich contents and high artistic achievements. It has successfully created many artistic models, with vivid characters, bizarre plots, rigorous and ingenious structure, concise writing and delicate description, which is the pinnacle of China's classical classical Chinese short stories. It seems that all articles are about ghosts, foxes, immortals and monsters, but in fact, every word is about people, feelings, the world and the world.
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 a combination of realism and romanticism, which is full of imagination and strong social criticism. It has successfully created many artistic images, all of which are lifelike: writing about corrupt officials. When writing the imperial examination, the examiner should parrot, as blind as a bat; Write love, then find marriage, lovely; When writing about women, it is elegant and affectionate. From the story structure, the plot is bizarre and the layout is rigorous and ingenious, which makes readers interested after opening the book.
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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 attainments, he explored the function and aesthetic feeling of ci and put forward his own literary theory. With new eyes and ears, 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-Hua with "realm" as the core, which has taken a solid step on the road of the exchange and integration of Chinese and western literary concepts.
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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. However, it is flexible and changeable. Firstly, it used three artistic techniques: Fu, Bi and Xing, and made great achievements, which deeply influenced the development of China literature for more than two thousand years. Many of his outstanding works are well known to women and children, with vivid descriptions, beautiful language and healthy thoughts. Although it has experienced 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 to educate people and a spiritual pillar to stabilize society. Over time, scholars of past dynasties worshipped it and regarded it as a synonym for sacredness. Because of this, The Book of Songs became the cultural wealth of China people and the symbol of China culture, and spread to Korea and Viet Nam in the Tang Dynasty. It lasted for hundreds of years and was even regarded as the immortal work of this world. With its unique cultural heritage and profound beauty, it has always been full of infinite charm.
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Ancient prose view
Required reading reasons
China Ancient Literature is an ancient book in China. So far, it has written a famous article about the 5,000-year history of China. There are more than 200 short and catchy essays, 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. Fan Zhongyan's Yueyang Tower and many others can understand their thoughts. This book is full of knowledge, including historical materials, ancient literature, poetry and painting comments and landscape introduction ... May the light of wisdom illuminate thousands of families in Qian Qian, and at the same time illuminate thousands of souls in Qian Qian who are eager for knowledge, so as to make the spiritual space of mankind brighter. The selected articles of Guanzhi of Ancient Chinese Literature can include the essence of ancient Chinese literature and can be read with notes.
Guanzhi of 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 it is also the best anthology of ancient prose. For hundreds of years, not only scholars are familiar with it, but also the general public.
—— From the website of Harbin University of Commerce Library.