Selected Current Affairs - Issue 7

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 tears stream down our cheeks. Life is like a chess game; in the midst of life, hold a calm heart, watch the clouds gather and disperse, flowers bloom and fade. In the blink of an eye, let these beautiful Chinese 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, delving into 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 laughter’s comfort, and taste bitterness’s bitterness. Zhuangzi’s transcendence, Tao Yuan’s seclusion, Yue Fei’s heroic spirit, Lu Yao’s perseverance—will all 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 Yellow Mountains, the Yangtze River, the Great Wall; makes you like a swallow, soaring over the green, blue, and yellow homes, experiencing Xishuangbanna and Daxing'anling, listening to the Yarlung Tsangpo and Himalayas. Open the door of wisdom and strength, kiss the rose with fresh dew, its faint fragrance! Embrace the life tree that sparkles with wisdom and brims with youthful vitality!