Selected Current Affairs - Issue 9

Author: Wang Yuqiang
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
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 we are moved to tears. Life is like a chess game; in the midst of life, hold a calm heart and watch the clouds gather and disperse, the flowers bloom and fall. Unconsciously, these beautiful square characters, the profound emotions hidden 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 trials, their depth. Reading is a sentiment—attending to nature, yearning to listen, embracing life, entering the heart. Reading is a happiness—the grass and trees in nature, the joys and waves in humanity—will all spark love, overflow with emotion, reveal smiles of comfort, and express the bitterness of sorrow. Zhuangzi’s transcendence, Tao Yuan’s seclusion, Yue Fei’s heroic spirit, Lu Yao’s determination—all will give you a clear heart, a peaceful heart, a full heart, and a heart yearning upward. Reading makes you like the wind, sweeping across mountains and rivers, the Yellow River, the Yellow Mountains, the Yangtze River, the Great Wall; it makes you like the swallow, soaring over the green, blue, and yellow homes, experiencing Xishuangbanna and Daxinganling, listening to the Yarlung Tsangpo and Himalayas. Open the door to wisdom and strength, and kiss the rose with fresh dew, its faint fragrance lingering! Embrace the life tree that sparkles with the fire of wisdom and is filled with the breath of youth!