He is the author of "Yanshan Night Talk", "Notes of Sanjia Village", "Fourteen Poems", "Selected Poems of Deng Tuo", etc. In the past, you could often see so-called "Reading Secrets" and "Composition Secrets" in bookstores. The contents were worthless and their purpose was just to deceive people. However, some readers are eager to save effort and are unwilling to put in the hard work. When they see these secrets, they are filled with joy, and they inevitably end up being fooled. This kind of secret is probably no longer known by anyone! However, I think there are still people who are still in the mood of looking for secrets rather than determined to learn. Therefore, it is still necessary to sound the alarm to them. It seems that in this academic rule, except for the "not leaving the door" attitude of studying behind closed doors, which is not worth promoting, it is generally a good opinion. This is indeed the case. No matter what you study and research, as long as you concentrate, work hard, and persist in your efforts, you will definitely gain something. The most fearful thing is not being able to persist in studying and researching, and then relaxing after a while. This is the state of "working or quitting, one is violent and the other is cold", and we must pay attention to overcome it. Wu Mengxiang’s academic rules are still of some use to us today. This kind of academic rules was very popular as early as the Song Dynasty, especially among Neo-Confucianists such as Zhu Xi who always liked to practice this method. But some of them are not academic rules, but some experiences. For example, Chen Shan wrote in his book "New Words on Men Liao": "When reading, you need to know the method of entry and exit. At the beginning, you should ask for the reason for entering, and at the end, you should ask for the reason for coming out. Seeing kindness is entering calligraphy; using it thoroughly, this is coming out of calligraphy. If you can't read the book, you don't know the intention of the ancients; if you can't get the book out, you will die behind the words. Only by knowing the way out can you learn the method of reading. "Reading this passage with today's perspective, you may feel that he is. The opinion is very common. However, we must know that Chen Shan lived during the Chunxi period of the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, in the second half of the twelfth century AD. It was commendable that he was able to put forward such a clear proposition at that time. He advocated reading living books instead of dead books, which means that one should know what is coming in and know what is coming out; one should understand the spirit and essence of ancient works rather than memorize some words, which means one should understand the ancients' intentions and not be stuck in words. Not only that, he also opposed the tendency to read for the sake of reading. He advocated that reading requires practical application and flexible use, which is the so-called "penetration". If you look at his propositions, aren’t they anti-doctrinaire ones? Few people paid attention to his idea in the past, because his reputation was far inferior to that of Zhu Xi and others. However, he made this idea based on his own reading experience. I think it is still worth recommending. Among the representatives of Song Confucianism, such as Lu Jiuyuan, his reading experience also has merits. There is a poem in "Lu Xiangshan's Quotations" that says: "Now read at a regular pace, let go of the unknown parts, don't be too slow." Then he cited the following poem: "Be careful not to be in a hurry when reading, and read in a leisurely way." Time is interesting; you may as well let it go before dawn, but you need to think about it urgently." This is what is meant by "reading without asking for a thorough understanding." Originally, it does not mean that you don’t ask for a deep understanding, but you don’t really want to understand the book. Instead, you advocate letting go of the difficult parts first, and don’t cling to them. Maybe after reading the context, you will understand the difficult parts; if you still don't understand, you have to wait for an explanation later. This meaning seems particularly useful for our current young readers. As for the fact that we now advocate reading with a critical eye, to select the essence and discard the dross, this scholar who advocated ancient times did not have the courage to propose it. In ancient times, there was only one carpenter who had no chance to study, and he had the germination of such an idea. This person is Lun Bian of Qi State. According to the "Tiandao Chapter" of "Zhuangzi": "Huan Gong was reading in the hall. He flattened the wheel and cut the wheel under the hall. He came up and chiseled the vertebrae. He asked Huan Gong, "May I ask what the Duke is reading?" The Duke said: "The words of the sage." Ye. Said: The sage cares? The public said: He is already dead. But the readers of this book are the dregs of the ancients!" Then Lun Bian also introduced his own experience in productive labor. Although his words are inevitably very one-sided, and he should not deny all the words of the so-called "sages"; however, he opposes reading the dregs of the ancients and emphasizes the need to experience it from productive labor, which is a unique insight. .