Thousand Characters

Chapter 1 General Introduction
It is often said that reading a book is beneficial, because reading can allow people to share more experiences, learn more knowledge, feel more emotions, understand more principles, and internalize more wisdom.As the ladder of human progress, human beings cannot live without the support of books.

The power of books is formed by the experience, knowledge, thought, culture and wisdom contained in language.As the primate of all things, human beings are destined to be linked with language.Language is the home of human spiritual existence.If spoken language expands the connotation of human exchange of experience and knowledge, written language further enables human reason to have the power to transcend time and space.Books, no matter what the medium is or what the form is, are nothing more than the form in which written language is sorted out and preserved.With books, the knowledge that is the conclusion or end point of cognition in predecessors or others can become the starting point for our further exploration.If there are no books, knowledge will disappear with the physical death of the master; with books, all knowledge can be accumulated and passed on.

The power of written language embodied in books is formed through reading.Reading, or agreeing, or retaining, or questioning, or refuting, can activate people's thinking, imagination, and creativity, and can infect people's human feelings and emotional world.Word symbols must collide with fresh minds to spark the spark of thought.Only through reading can the cold symbols burst out with the flame of wisdom.Therefore, books are not only for collection, but also for people's reading.Writing in various media - oracle bone inscriptions, bamboo slips, papyrus, cowhide scrolls, stone tablets, woodcuts, printed books, laser phototypesetting, electronic editions - must be read by people in order to impart knowledge, inherit civilization, and inspire wisdom. function.

Reading is like lightning breaking through the boundary of time and space, so that the transmission of knowledge and the exchange of ideas are no longer limited to face-to-face direct interpersonal communication within a certain space-time system.In this sense, reading has constituted a power beyond time and space.

Reading is a beacon that illuminates the darkened archives of history.Through written records, narratives and explanations, books enable human knowledge, thoughts, emotions and culture to span the long river of history, forming a continuous knot of cultural inheritance.Through reading, we can have an ideological dialogue with ancient sages and sages.Reading "The Book of Songs" seems to allow us to travel through the tunnel of time and space, return to the ancient times thousands of years ago, and feel the desires and desires of the ancestors in ancient China; Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Su Shi, Zhu Xi, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Sun Yat-sen and countless other sages had dialogues and discussions...Reading is a bridge that bridges the gap between different cultures.Through reading, we not only understand the ideals and pursuits of ancient Chinese thinkers, but also understand the concerns and thinking of philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in ancient Greece; , Diderot, Rousseau, Kant and other Enlightenment thinkers explored and shouted; through reading, we can also share with people in Africa, Latin America, and Europe, or have different views on the modern world...Reading is related to every citizen scientific quality and cultural literacy.Reading often determines a person's cultural accomplishment, knowledge breadth and ideological realm.Reading, let us have a dialogue with a great heart and walk with a wise mind.With reading, everyone can stand on the shoulders of giants!Reading not only gives people knowledge but also culture; not only ability but also wisdom; not only brain but also heart.Therefore, people say that when you read a lot of books, you will be full of energy.In a certain sense, what book you read is what kind of person you are; your reading level is also your living state or living style as a human being.Whoever reads more books has a broader horizon of knowledge; whoever reads more books has a richer spiritual world.

Reading is related to the quality and quality of a nation and affects the future and destiny of a country.If a nation that does not read is hopeless, then a nation that is good at and diligent in reading will have a bright future.National reading ability and reading level determine the basic quality, creativity and development potential of a nation to a large extent.Only a nation that is good at reading can inherit the fine cultural traditions of its own nation without discarding them, and can critically absorb the best ideological achievements from all over the world.The history of spiritual development of a nation is the history of reading of a nation.If reading can make a person stand on the shoulders of giants, then a nation that is good at reading is standing at the peak of human cultural achievements.In this sense, realizing the vision of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation depends on the reading of all citizens.

History has long proved that books are an indispensable and effective carrier or tool whether it is to inherit traditional culture or introduce foreign culture, whether it is to learn existing knowledge or explore new possibilities.But the role of books is not just to be quietly placed on the bookshelves of the library, but to allow all citizens to have more reading opportunities.Allowing more people to have more opportunities to read has become the vision before us.

Jilin Publishing Group launched "National Reading Library", which can be said to have come into being at the right time.This series of books with rich content and grand system is aimed at the reading needs of all citizens throughout their lives. It is easy to understand, concise and clear, with rich pictures and texts, supplemented by modern digital media such as CD-ROMs, focusing on the needs of the people and making it convenient for the public to read.Its target audience includes all groups, from infants to old people, from farmers to workers, from the masses to cadres; its content covers everything from philosophy and social sciences, natural sciences to daily life, artistic aesthetics, leisure and entertainment. Not included.The purpose of editing and publishing this series of books is to more effectively promote the essence of Chinese traditional culture, absorb the essence of the excellent culture of all mankind, and spread the latest knowledge and ideological and cultural achievements of mankind.

In short, this series of books puts forward its own unique publishing plan according to the overall thinking of the system, which comprehensively covers the reader group and the field of knowledge; this kind of publishing plan aims to provide all citizens with cultural nutrition for a lifetime and build a spiritual home for citizens in the new era .I hope that more people will linger in this ocean of knowledge, walk in this fertile soil of thought, absorb nutrition here, learn knowledge here, nourish emotion here, enrich the soul here, improve ability here, and sublimate here ideal.I wish all readers to walk with the "National Reading Library", to be a lifelong reader, to find happiness in reading, to grow in reading, to find success in reading, and to spend a meaningful life in reading!
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