Selected Current Affairs (IV)

Author: Wang Yuqiang
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: On a leisurely afternoon, during the twilight of sunset, with a cup of tea in hand, open the book in your possession. Watch familial love shine like a lamp, silently illuminating every corner of our lives, until tears stream down our cheeks. Life is like a chess game—hold a calm heart amidst the uncertainties of life, watch the clouds gather and disperse, and witness the blooming and falling of flowers. Unconsciously, let these beautiful Chinese characters, the profound emotions hidden within ordinary matters, flow through our minds like the passage of time. Perhaps what we need is just this feeling.
Reading is an enjoyment—enjoying the sunshine, its brightness; enjoying the air, its freshness; enjoying the trials, their depth. Reading is a sentiment—attending to nature, yearning to listen, embracing life, and delving into the heart. Reading is a happiness—small grasses and towering trees in nature, the joys and waves in humanity—all will spark love, overflow with emotion, reveal laughter’s comfort, and bittersweet sorrow. Zhuangzi’s transcendence, Tao Yuan’s seclusion, Yue Fei’s heroic spirit, Lu Yao’s perseverance—all will give you a clear heart, a peaceful heart, a full heart, and an upward heart.
Reading makes you like the wind, sweeping across mountains and rivers, the Yellow River, the Huangshan Mountains, the Yangtze River, the Great Wall; reading makes you like a swallow, soaring over the green, blue, and yellow homes, savoring Xishuangbanna and Daxing’anling, listening to the Yarlung Tsangpo and Himalayas. Open the door to wisdom and strength, and kiss the rose that carries fresh dew and exudes a faint fragrance! Embrace the life tree that sparkles with the fire of wisdom and brims with youthful vitality!