"What you get from paper is shallow" comes from the poem "Reading on a Winter Night" and the whole poem "Reading on a Winter Night":
The ancients learned nothing, and it takes time to grow old.
What you get on paper is so shallow that you never know what you have to do.
The ancients spared no effort to learn knowledge and struggled for it all their lives, often starting from youth and achieving success in old age. After all, the knowledge gained from books is superficial and it is impossible to understand the true meaning of knowledge. To truly understand the profound truth in books, you must practice it yourself in order to learn successfully.
This poem was written by the poet Lu You to his youngest son Lu Yu in Yin Shan in the fifth year of Qingyuan (1 199). At this time, Lu Yu was twenty-one years old and was "young".
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This is a godson poem, and the poet emphasizes the importance of practice in the relationship between books and practice. Indirect experience is a way for people to draw nutrition from books and learn the knowledge and skills of their predecessors. Direct experience is an understanding that comes directly from practice, and it is a more important way to acquire knowledge. Only by "practice" can we turn book knowledge into practical knowledge and play the guiding role of what we have learned in practice.
By describing Lu You's education to his son Yu Zi, the whole poem tells readers to have a tireless and persistent learning spirit. A person who has both book knowledge and practical spirit is a truly learned person. The poet drew comments from the experience of the ancients who spared no effort in "learning" and "asking questions" and warned his son that if he wanted to achieve something in his old age, he should work hard when he was young.