Selected Current Affairs. Issue 5

Author: Wang Yuqiang
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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 possession. Watch familial love shine like a lamp, silently illuminating our tearful hearts; savor life as a chess game, maintaining a calm heart amidst the uncertainties of life. Watch the clouds gather and disperse, flowers bloom and wither, and let these beautiful Chinese characters, imbued with profound emotions 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 depth of experience. Reading is a sentiment—attending to nature, yearning to listen, embracing life, and entering the heart. Reading is a happiness—small grasses and towering trees in nature, joys and waves in humanity—all will spark love, overflow with emotion, reveal comfort in laughter, and the bitterness of sorrow. Zhuangzi’s transcendence, Tao Yuan’s seclusion, Yue Fei’s heroic spirit, Lu Yao’s perseverance—all will grant you a clear, calm, abundant, and aspiring heart. Reading makes you like the wind, sweeping across mountains and rivers, the Yellow River, Huangshan, the Yangtze, the Great Wall. Reading makes you like the swallow, soaring over green, blue, and yellow homelands, indulging in Xishuangbanna and Daxing’anling, listening to the Yarlung Tsangpo and Himalayas. Open the door to wisdom and strength, and kiss the rose adorned with fresh dew, emitting a faint fragrance! Embrace the life tree, filled with the spark of wisdom and brimming with youthful vitality!