Color Illustration Version 60 Essays Everyone Should Read in a Lifetime

Author: Lu Xun, Bo Yang
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Good articles, worth loving for a lifetime; Good articles, will stay with you forever; Good articles, dissolve troubles, nourish the soul; Good articles, give people strength, change lives. This book selects 60 classic essays, some moving with emotion, some convincing with reason; some purely aesthetic, some simple and down-to-earth; some passionate and spirited, some eloquent and composed, with diverse faces and styles. Reading a certain number of excellent essays in one's lifetime can not only absorb the essence of their thoughts, enrich one's knowledge, enhance one's critical thinking skills, and cultivate artistic appreciation, making life more fulfilling and perfect. Moreover, it allows one to master and utilize this genre, making it a valuable assistant in daily life and work. For this purpose, the book selects 60 essays of great significance to a person's life, accompanied by images and appreciative text that align with the content, creating a colorful, three-dimensional, and culturally enchanting reading space for readers. This enables readers to learn knowledge and improve reading efficiency in a relaxed manner while gaining more aesthetic enjoyment, imaginative space, and humanistic refinement.
There is one major flaw in the Chinese character, which is their unwillingness to work hard—in simpler terms, being gluttonous and lazy. If this mindset continues to develop, it can lead to a mentality of national and racial extinction. Everyone looks out for their own interests, as long as they are well-fed and clothed, they pay no attention to the nation, society, or public welfare. Even those who are concerned about the current state of the country and express dissatisfaction do nothing but sigh or hope for a "saint" to come and fight for them. Here, I want to tell a story—It is said that two beggars were discussing their aspirations. One said, "If I become rich, I will buy five hundred bushels of rice and sleep in a pile of rice; when I'm hungry, I'll eat a little from the left and a little from the right—how happy that would be!" The other said, "If I get rich, I will definitely buy a huge pile of cotton. I'll sleep on top of the cotton, if it gets cold on the left, I'll burrow into the pile on the left, and if it gets cold on the right, I'll roll into the pile on the right—won't that keep me warm for a lifetime!" That's one story.
Others say: A large group of toads in a pond were discussing, saying, "Ants have a king, bees have a king, why don't we have one too?" So, they all started shouting towards the sky, annoying the heavens so much that a large wooden board fell from the sky! It landed on the water's surface, scaring the toads so much that they all hid at the bottom of the pond, daring not to come up. Among them, one brave toad came up to the surface, jumped onto the board, and started shouting proudly. The other toads followed suit, jumping onto the board and shouting wildly. The heavens grew tired of them and said, "These creatures are so annoying. They want a 'king'—fine! I'll send down a python!" After the python descended, it swallowed the entire group of toads. Those who cannot save themselves, refuse to sacrifice, and only hope for external forces to rescue them are like the toads—they are the successors of the beggars! P10-11