Current Affairs Selection (9) 05

Author: Wang Yuqiang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: On a leisurely afternoon, during the golden hour 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 we are moved to tears. Life is like a chess game—hold a calm heart amidst the uncertainties of life, watching clouds gather and disperse, flowers bloom and fall. In the process, these beautiful Chinese characters, imbued with deep emotions in ordinary moments, 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—all spark love, overflow with emotion, reveal laughter’s comfort, and taste bitterness’s sting. Zhuangzi’s transcendence, Tao Yuan’s seclusion, Yue Fei’s heroic spirit, Lu Yao’s relentless effort—all will give you a clear heart, a peaceful heart, a full heart, and a heart that aspires upward.
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 the swallow, soaring over the green, blue, and yellow homes, experiencing Xishuangbanna and Daxing’anling, listening to the Yarlung Tsangpo and Himalayas. Open the door to wisdom and strength, and kiss the rose that carries fresh dew and exudes a faint fragrance! Embrace the life tree that sparkles with wisdom and brims with youthful vitality!