We are all literate citizens. Do you know the benefits of books? Do you know the purpose of the book? Do you know that books are full of our lives? I don't know! Let me tell you something!

Whenever I wander in the sea of books, there is always an indescribable feeling in my heart, as if I heard "books are really good" in my heart, and you have enriched my life.

The days of being friends with books are particularly happy. Books are our friends. They are rich in knowledge. Together with the composition book, knowing that there are colorful descriptions of the author in the composition book will let us know the colorful world of nature. There are descriptions of various fruits, which let us know the life of fruits and what they look like; There are descriptions of various high-rise buildings, which let us know how famous and great the buildings in China are. What I really want to see is fantasy, because it can make people walk into a wonderful world, where there is nothing that can make people immersive, and it is impossible to imagine how beautiful, lovely and environmentally friendly the future world will be.

The days of being friends with books have broadened my horizons, cultivated my sentiment and entered Bing Xin's works. You will know a lot about Bing Xin and realize that her problem novels, philosophical essays and clear poems have influenced us with profound philosophy and elegant language, especially her work "Stars in Spring". When you read Andersen's fairy tales, you will step into his fairy tale world, because his fairy tales make people linger and have a fantastic feeling. At that time, you'd better write an imaginary composition, because you were inspired by generate, and your composition was the most ideal and true. There are many benefits in books, so I'd better let you find them yourself.

Books have cultivated generations of people, and books are the ladder for the progress of all mankind. Books are widely used. For example, reading textbooks can improve your reading level and your writing level. This book has two functions, which is better than the composition book. The knowledge of math books can let you know the answers to math questions and the long history of math, which will improve your understanding of this course.

Now, books have become an indispensable part of my life. No matter how busy my life is, I will not reduce my reading time. Books naturally become my good friends, because their knowledge enriches our lives, and I love them-books, which give me endless life, so I am friends with books.

People who like books at home and abroad attribute their hobby of collecting books to genes. I am a believer in this statement, but I can't verify it myself. No matter how hard I dig, there is no trace of books in my genes. If I must add a postscript, my father is a man who likes reading miscellaneous books, and he used to write well when he was young. I have read what his father wrote and what his father read, and the standard is still very high today, at least better than that.

A person who reads and writes books is better than a career. His father is a man who steps on cow dung to keep warm in winter. Before joining the army, he couldn't even write his own name. He was blinded by the revolutionary ranks. This young man, who came from Apple's hometown and tasted the first apple in his life, actually won the first prize in the army's literacy work. I've seen this meritorious service certificate, and it's in an artificial leather suitcase with the Liberation Medal. There are also many badges of Chairman Mao. My father's generation did not expect that these things would be hunted by collectors in the future. My first impression of books read by adults came from a Soviet novel Harvest, which won the Stalin Prize. That's a reading by my mother's bed. Comic books are our reading materials, but they are ordinary. Later, I went to sandu island, the front line of Fujian, and saw that some people kept many comic books, but they were not collections. Only the conditions are more than others, just like Tonya, the daughter of a forestry official, who has more books than others. The island where we lived for eight years, although remote and isolated, has a smooth circulation of books because of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department. At that time, a number of internal reading materials published by Shanghai People's Publishing House were a window for us to understand the world. Memories and thoughts, as well as Kissinger's memoirs, were all contacted at that time. In addition, there are a number of Soviet novels that criticize reality. Recently, I bought "The World and Modern People" at the cold stall on Yuquan Road. It's hard to say that I don't miss the reading life of that era. There is a commune-level Xinhua bookstore on the island, which sells the books of a platoon leader who revolted against the Kuomintang. People who often buy books will pay attention to give you some books that are rarely touched, such as Li Zicheng written by Yao. He is a good reader and writes well. He bought the first, second and fifth volumes of Li Zicheng, which made me greedy. There are one or two like-minded people among his peers, all vaguely dreaming of becoming writers. On summer nights, he looked at the stars and talked about books on the lawn like a helipad ... similar situations only happened in Boston 15 years later.

My father was the first official soldier after the reform and opening up, and we returned to Shanghai, my birthplace. The impression of books in this period comes from the study of foreign literature sold in a newsstand near the pier. It was edited by Xu Chi. The first issue is printed with Tolstoy's head on the blue cover. I still miss the study of foreign literature in that era, and there is no stereotyped writing. It's nothing like a paper. The entrance is not so strict that students who study English are not allowed to speak German literature. Then there will be the window of the world and the art world, and then there will be Lin Shu. At that time, everyone was curious about these things. The grand occasion of queuing in bookstores to buy books such as The Storm of War, The Gilded Age and The Adventures of Harburg Finn was a social and cultural phenomenon of that era. The second handshake finally went from underground to the ground. I learned in Beijing Youth Daily the other day that this novel has a revised edition of 600,000 words. I wonder if I can get back the feeling of reading when I have time. In order to buy a new edition of Cihai, I rode a bicycle for dozens of kilometers, which cost my mother a month's salary. Thirty years later, this thing may be found at my sister's house. I hope it's not hairy and moldy. I don't know who said that there is a bookstore selling used books in Shanghai, which is probably the beginning of my dealings with used bookstores. Probably the guy who gave me the Kangxi dictionary in college told me. From 1978 to 1980, I spent some time in Shanghai Bookstore Fuzhou Road Store, Huaihai Road Store and Sichuan North Road Store. I don't remember what books I bought today, but I remember selling them "Da Zhai Lun Nong" and so on, and I got four dollars, which is not small. You can buy three or four thick novels. Cycling on Nanjing East Road was detained by the police and pleaded successfully. I went home to hide it from my father. He doesn't know that I have given his study materials to Shanghai Bookstore as old books. For a while, these learning materials were all the prices of waste paper. Now "Da Zhai Lun Nong" belongs to the "red collection", and some people are eager for it. I wonder if the only branch of Fuzhou Road in Shanghai Bookstore is still there. This is an old book, five dollars. For a time, I thought five yuan a book was really cheap at that time. In fact, according to what five dollars could buy at that time, it was still expensive. My fate with Shanghai Bookstore continued until I graduated from college. I went back to Shanghai during the holiday, where I bought Little John with the seal of Lu Xun. I lost this book in my "wandering" career, which probably made me eat steamed buns.

I study English and American languages and literature at Shandong University in Jinan. After graduation, I filled out my resume Every time I write English and American language and literature, my heart is always a little empty, as if I have never studied English and American language and literature. Twenty years later, looking back, I have to say that the foundation of my foreign literature was laid by Shandong University. Wu Fuheng, the principal at that time, was from Harvard. He and his wife Professor Lu Fan are both experts in American literature. Wu has been a pioneer in the study of American literature in China since 1960s. In 1980s, he founded the Institute of American Literature and the Contemporary American Literature Series in Shandong University. Wu was also the first president of the Chinese American Literature Association. When I entered Shanda University, there were only 44 full professors and only three or four professors in the Foreign Languages Department. Professor Huang Jiade was the head of the literature department of St. John's University in Shanghai. After the adjustment of the department, magazines of the Republic of China and people who study foreign literature probably know that he and his younger brother Huang Jiayin compiled West Wind. When he was introduced by the department, he said that he was an expert on Bernard Shaw. I did buy the Biography of Bernard Shaw translated by him many years later, but judging from the course of Major Barbara he gave us, he didn't have much enthusiasm for Bernard Shaw. I read it in Lin Shu magazine before I went to college. It seems that he introduced Sophie's choice, and his interest in Styron seems to be even greater. Although Professor Huang wrote an investigation of literature, history and philosophy because of the background of American church, his living conditions among professors are very high. He and the headmaster both live in the expert building next to the boys' dormitory. The foreign teachers hired at that time were also in that small yard. The scene of him and his wife going to the canteen hand in hand to buy steamed bread is still printed in my mind. I heard that sometimes he likes Danish biscuits for breakfast. At that time, Danish biscuits were still a luxury, with a bag of 90 cents. After his death in the mid-1990s, I wrote a commemorative article in Wen Hui Reading Weekly. Professor Huang is from Quanzhou, Fujian. I don't have any personal contact with him, and somehow I still haven't forgotten him today. Zhang Jian, another professor in the department, is the head of the department. He is the translator of Gulliver's Travels. In the early 1980s, he and President Wu were the first people to go abroad. President Wu came back to make a visit report, saying that the church in America is not as old as the small temple in his village. Director Zhang came back from Canada and said that the western way of life is decadent. A few years later, I had the opportunity to go to Canada and the United States by myself and found that the airport in Toronto was like a fairy tale by Andersen.