Featured Current Affairs: Volume 5

Author: Wang Yuqiang
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: On a leisurely afternoon, during the twilight of sunset, with a cup of tea in hand, open the book. Watch familial love shine like a lamp, silently illuminating our tearful hearts; savor life as a chess game, maintaining a calm heart amidst the uncertainties of life. Watch the clouds gather and disperse, flowers bloom and fade, and let these beautiful Chinese characters, imbued with profound emotions in ordinary events, 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 depth of experience. Reading is a sentiment—attending to nature, yearning to listen, embracing life, and delving into the heart. Reading is a happiness—small grass and towering trees in nature, 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 determination—all will give you a clear, calm, abundant, and 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 the swallow, soaring over green, blue, and yellow homelands, coveting Xishuangbanna and the Daxing’anling Mountains, listening to the Yarlung Tsangpo and the Himalayas. Open the door to wisdom and strength, and kiss the rose adorned with fresh dew, emitting a faint fragrance! Embrace the life tree, glowing with the spark of wisdom and brimming with youthful vitality!