Recently, I read Poems with the Garden by Yuan Mei, a scholar of Qing Dynasty, and my family, and I have another feeling. He wrote, "I didn't know that the words' broken' and' god' were both ways to teach people to read and write. Don't break its body, take its spirit, and don't use its dross. Eating mulberries, spitting silk, not mulberries; Bees pick flowers, but the honey they make is not flowers.
Reading is like eating. People who are good at eating will grow up, while those who are not good at eating will grow up with tumors. "If' broken' is understood as a lot, regardless of the essence of dross, it will inevitably lead to diarrhea and bloating", or because of lack of understanding or congenital deficiency, it will also lead to lifelong disaster.
Yuan Mei said, reading is like silkworms spinning, bees making honey, and people eating, that is, we should "chew and digest", get rid of the rough and the fine, discard the false and keep the true, and use it for our own use, learn from one another, from "transformation" to "creation". Breaking the volume is to pick up the gods; Only when you write can you understand God.
The hidden truth:
The content of Yuan Mei's Talking about Reading tells us that the most important thing in reading is to understand the main idea of the book, so reading thousands of books is not only the superficial meaning of reading, but also the essence of reading.
If you just swallow the dates, you'd better not read them without distinguishing the essence from the dross.