Current Affairs Selections: Issue 4

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 our tearful hearts; savor life as a chess game, maintaining a calm heart amidst the uncertainties of life. Watch the clouds roll and flowers bloom and wither, as these beautiful Chinese characters, imbued with profound emotions in 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 depth of experience. Reading is a sentiment—attending to nature, yearning to listen; embracing life, 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 perseverance—all will grant you a clear, calm, abundant, and aspiring 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 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 glistening with fresh dew, exuding a faint fragrance! Embrace the life tree, alive with sparks of wisdom and brimming with youthful vitality!