Today, when I was browsing Zhihu, someone invited me to answer this question. To be honest, I have never thought about the meaning of reading. I just know that I like reading and reading. But since it is a question, then I should answer it well. !

The author wants to say that the meaning of reading may be that to read, you must remember every sentence in the book and fully understand the book. This is called reading.

There is no point in reading when you cannot understand the author's meaning and cannot remember the content of the book.

Is this really the case?

Recalling a familiar saying, Sanmao said: "When you read more, your appearance will naturally change. Many times, you may think that many of the books you have read have become a passing smoke and cannot be remembered. In fact, they are still The potential in temperament, conversation, and boundless mind may also be revealed in life and writing. ”

You think you have forgotten the content of the book, but it has actually penetrated into you slowly. It’s in your bones, your temperament and your conversation.

In my opinion, reading has three meanings to me:

There is a highly praised answer on Zhihu, which clearly explains the importance of reading.

The world in the eyes of people who read is completely different from that of people who don’t read. What they see is deep-seated beauty, and they can also vividly describe where the beauty lies, while we only see the same thing. , everyone exclaimed: "Beautiful!/Good-looking!/Oh my god, it's so beautiful!"

These days, we want to find a glamorous job, and there are thresholds for interviews: non-985/211, no, The work experience must be 3 years or more...; We want to find a good partner who owns a house and a car. There are thresholds for blind dates: you must be fair-skinned, beautiful and have long legs, and you must be able to chat with the other party; we want to make friends with high-level people. There are thresholds for people of different levels: either they have money and power, or they are good enough.

But the threshold for reading is very low. A book only costs a dozen yuan, and the most expensive is no more than a hundred yuan. Even if your family is not well off, you can borrow books, read e-books or second-hand books. The threshold for reading is so low that everyone can enter the palace of reading.

Moreover, reading provides us with an opportunity to communicate with high-level people. If we read this book, it means that we need it, and it is our teacher.

In real life, our circle is limited, and we may never meet such a high-level person in our lifetime, but books bring us closer to big people, and we can talk to the author. A collision of ideas, an equal exchange, reaching a resonance between hearts, and sometimes even changing our lives.

Isn’t this something worthy of our joy?

"When you are immersed in writing PPT in the office, the sturgeons in Alaska are jumping out of the water; when you are racking your brains to negotiate with your clients, the rime in the Hengduan Mountains is floating on the top of the mountains; when you are in When the subway is crowded in the morning rush hour, the goshawks on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are flying through the clouds.”

You think that only traveling can change everything, but what you don’t know is that reading can also do it.

Read Sanmao's "The Story of the Sahara":

She said: "It was around eight o'clock in the morning, not long after the sun came up, and we were already on the high cliff. After getting off the car, behind us It is a continuous mysterious and silent desert. In front of you are the sea and rocks with turbulent waves. There is no cloud in the blue sky. Flocks of seabirds fly around and occasionally make some calls, which highlights the surrounding area. I turned up the collar of my jacket, opened my arms, raised my head to the wind, and kept still."

It made me re-understand the Sahara Desert, which is not only desolate, but also desolate. Other flavors: mysterious, quiet and elegant;

Reading "Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper" by British writer Fu Xia made me yearn for Chengdu food, feel proud of Chinese food culture, and feel proud of her appreciation of China. The strange description of the dish can't help but be amazed.

When she saw preserved eggs for the first time, she said: "The two preserved eggs seemed to be staring at me, like the devil's eyes breaking into a nightmare, deep and dark, shining with a threatening light. The albumen was not white, It is a dirty, translucent brown; the yolk is not yellow, but a black sludge, surrounded by a faint green gray, and the whole preserved egg is shrouded in a sulfur-colored halo. "

When she ate Dandan noodles for the first time, she said: "It looked unremarkable: a small bowl of noodles with a spoonful of dark, crunchy minced beef. But as long as you pick up the chopsticks , stir the noodles, and the spices spread on the bottom of the bowl will be awakened. Each noodle will be coated with a mixture of soy sauce, red oil, sesame paste and Sichuan peppercorns. The effect is really shocking in just a few seconds. Your mouth will be on fire, your lips will tremble under the onslaught of peppercorns, and your whole body will be radiating heat (you will sweat profusely when the weather is hot)."

Read Li Juan's " When reading "The Corner of Altay", I was deeply attracted by the different natural scenery of Altay. When reading her words, it seems that you can hear the wind blowing, the water trickling, and you can touch the clouds when you step on the green grass.

The grass around me is really grass, and its green is really green. When I stroke it, I really stroke it. I pulled it up gently. It was pulled up not because I pulled it up, but because of its own destiny... What I want to say is a kind of beauty that is more harmonious than harmony, fairer than fair, and beautiful. Something more beautiful.

There are many, many more meanings to reading, but the premise is that you must be interested in reading. If you are not interested, everything else is nonsense. I hope everyone can find interest in reading and join me in unlocking new ways of seeing the world.

I believe that the world you see in the book with your eyes will one day be reached by your steps!