Selected Current Affairs (1) 05

Author: Wang Yuqiang, Editor-in-Chief
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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 grasp. 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—hold a calm heart amidst the uncertainties of life, watch the clouds gather and disperse, and the flowers bloom and fall. Unconsciously, 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, and entering 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 express bitterness’s tang. 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 fulfilling 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; 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 and a faint fragrance! Embrace the life tree that sparkles with wisdom and is full of youthful vitality!