Today, when I was visiting Zhihu, I was invited to answer this question. To be honest, I never thought about the meaning of reading, so I knew that I like reading. But since it is a question, please answer it well!

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

reading is meaningless when you can't understand the author's meaning and can't remember the contents of the book.

is that really the case?

recalling a well-known saying, San Mao said, "If you read more books, your appearance will naturally change. In many cases, you may think that many books you have read are gone, and you will lose your memory. In fact, they are still boundless in your potential temperament, in your speech, and in your mind. Of course, they may also be revealed in your life and words."

You think you have forgotten the contents of the book, but it has actually slowly penetrated into your bones, your temperament and your speech.

In my opinion, reading has three meanings for me:

There is a praise answer in Zhihu, which clearly illustrates the importance of reading.

The world in the eyes of readers is completely different from that of non-readers. People see deep beauty, and they can tell where it is vividly, but we will only sigh in the same way: "Beauty! /it looks good! /Damn, it's beautiful! "

These days, we want to find a glamorous job. There are thresholds for interviews: no need for 985/211, three years or above of work experience ...; We want to find a good object with a house and a car. There is a threshold for blind date: you must have beautiful skin and long legs, and you must be able to chat with each other; We want to make friends with high-level people, and the circle has a threshold: either rich and powerful or excellent enough.

But the threshold for reading is very low. A book costs only a dozen yuan, but the most expensive is not more than a hundred yuan. Even if your family is poor, you can borrow books, read e-books or second-hand books. The threshold for reading is so low that everyone can enter the hall of reading.

Moreover, reading provides us with an opportunity to communicate with high-level people. We read this book to show 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 life, but books have narrowed the distance between us and big people. We can have a collision of ideas with the author, have an equal exchange, reach the heart-to-heart sound, and sometimes even change our lives.

isn't this something that deserves our rejoicing?

"When you are writing PPT in the office, Alaska sturgeon is jumping out of the water; When you rack your brains to negotiate with your customers, the rime in Hengduan Mountain is floating around the top of the mountain; When you squeeze cakes in the morning rush hour subway; The goshawk on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is moving through the clouds. "

you think that only travel can change all this, but what you don't know is that reading can also change it.

Read San Mao's Story of the Sahara:

She said, "It's after eight o'clock in the morning, just after the sun came up, we have reached the high cliff. When I got off the bus, there was a mysterious and silent desert behind me, and in front of me was the stormy sea and rocks. There was no cloud in the blue sky, and groups of seabirds flew around, occasionally making some calls, which highlighted the surrounding emptiness. I turned up the collar of my jacket, opened my arms, looked up to be blown by the wind, and kept this posture. "

Let me know the Sahara desert again. It is not only desolate, but also has other flavors: mysterious, quiet and elegant;

Reading Shark's Fin and Pepper by British writer Fu Xia made me yearn for Chengdu cuisine, feel proud of China food culture, and was amazed at her strange description of Chinese food.

When she first saw preserved eggs, she said, "These two preserved eggs seem to be staring at me, like the eyes of the devil who broke into a nightmare, deep and dark, shining with threatening light. Protein is not white, but a dirty, translucent brown; Egg yolk is not yellow, it is a lump of black silt, surrounded by a circle of green and faint gray, which is moldy. The whole preserved egg is shrouded in a sulfur-colored halo. "

When she first ate Dandan Noodles, she said, "It looks ugly: a small bowl of noodles with a spoonful of dark, crunchy ground beef. But as long as you pick up chopsticks and mix the noodles, you will wake up the spices laid at the bottom of the bowl. Every noodle will be wrapped in a mixture of soy sauce, red oil, sesame sauce and pepper, and the effect is really groundbreaking. In just a few seconds, your mouth will catch fire, your lips will keep shaking under the onslaught of pepper, and your whole body will emit hot air (you will sweat when the weather is hot). "

When reading Li Juan's "The Corner of Altay", I was deeply attracted by the different natural scenery of Altay. Reading her words, it seems that I can hear the wind blowing, the water trickling, stepping on the grass, reaching out and touching the clouds.

The grass around me is really grass, and its green is really green. When I touch it, I am really touching it. I pulled it up gently. It was pulled up not because I pulled it up, but because of its own fate ... What I want to say is something more harmonious, fairer and more beautiful than harmony.

There are many meanings of reading, but the premise is that you have an interest in reading. If you are not interested, everything else is nonsense. I hope everyone can find interest in reading and unlock new ways to see the world with me.

I believe that the world in the book that you see with your eyes now, one day, your footsteps will definitely take you there!