One is a good-looking short entertainment video that makes people laugh, and the other is a book with hundreds of pages that needs some time to read. What would you choose?

Short videos will give us a certain degree of pleasure in a short time. Maybe we will gain knowledge or insight, but not necessarily systematic knowledge.

Books, with many pages, will take up a large part of time, but they will gain a lot.

Whether it's instant pleasure or long-term prosperity. She is like a seesaw, testing our hearts all the time.

Writer Liu Chuane is a fan of Zhang. She tells the story of a talented woman, Zhang Ailing, between life and study.

Zhang Ailing was born in a noble family since childhood. Her grandfather was Zhang Peilun and her great-grandfather was Li Hongzhang. Good family conditions made her immersed in the scholarly atmosphere since she was a child.

She has been reading and writing all her life. For her, it is the nourishment embedded in life and the career that runs through her life.

Liu Chuane is a professor at Hubei University. At the same time, he is also a fan researcher for many years. He wrote many works and words about Zhang Ailing, and gained many readers. Just like he said, do pure learning, do true learning and do practical learning. For this 400,000-year-old text, he made a special trip to Hong Kong to visit teachers and friends and collect information. He read all the words and works about Zhang Ailing, and finally wrote this book.

Zhang Ailing's biography records Zhang Ailing's bumpy life experiences and experiences. No matter how frustrated and unbearable life brings her, this woman who has been with books all her life has lived the greatest elegance and dignity.

0 1 study and try to be decent.

Although Zhang Zhongting, Zhang Ailing's father, was born in a famous family, he was not as successful as Zhang Ailing's grandfather and grandfather. His father Zhang Yisheng spent almost all his time eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. Fortunately, Zhang likes reading books, and there are many books at home, so Zhang Ailing's childhood has always been accompanied by books.

Although my father likes reading, he opposes Zhang ailing's going to school. The open-minded mother strongly agreed, and she supported Aileen to go out to study.

At that time, Zhang Ailing had understood that the study of youth could not be delayed, which would be more terrible than poverty.

So she concentrated on preparing lessons at home and finally got into London University with the first place in the Far East.

Because of the turbulent situation, her trip to Britain did not come true, and finally she went to the University of Hong Kong.

In HKU, she studies hard and her grades are always among the best. She was favored by teachers, and HKU alone won two scholarships.

Zhang Ailing, who grew up in books, saw the outside world through books. Her values and outlook on life are all influenced by books. People who study can live a thousand times, while those who don't study can only live once. So she knows that if she wants to live the life she wants, she must work hard.

She hopes to change her destiny by studying, but at this stage, it is urgent to finish her studies and go to England to study.

It is because of reading that Zhang Ailing has a broader vision and greater ambition.

Do not love, turn around gracefully.

In Zhang Ailing's emotional world, Hu Lancheng is Zhang Ailing's love and pain, and her first love.

"Why are you so tall?" It captured the purest heart of a talented woman.

"Seeing him, she became very low, as low as dust, but she liked it in her heart and blossomed out of the dust." This is Zhang Ailing's best response to Hu Lancheng's admiration.

Zhang Ailing doesn't care about secular vision, Hu Lancheng's sensitive political identity and his early third family. He only saw Hu Lancheng, a real person, who had nothing to do with all external labels.

"I can't wait to wrap you up like a sachet, sew it with dense needle and thread, and hide it in the suitcase."

This sentence proves Zhang Ailing's deep love for Hu Lancheng.

After divorcing his ex-wife, Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng got married. They didn't go through formal legal procedures, only relying on a piece of paper: Hu Lancheng Zhang Ailing signed a life-long contract and got married. May the years be quiet and the world be stable.

The prodigal son finally fell in love, and Hu Lancheng finally failed Zhang Ailing.

Because of the change of the current situation, Hu Lancheng went to Wenzhou incognito. Affectionate people always show mercy everywhere. In Wenzhou, he married another woman named Fan Xiumei.

The spoony Zhang Ailing went through all kinds of hardships to find her, but Hu Lancheng, who had a close relationship with her, was surprised and even angry when she visited Zhang Ailing.

As Zhang Ailing said, when she met him, she fell into the dust. During her twenty days in Wenzhou, she got along well with Hu Lancheng and Fan Xiumei, and sometimes went shopping together.

Smart and sensitive as Zhang Ailing, she knows that he and Hu Lancheng can't go back, and his feelings for her have been transferred to another woman.

Even though her heart is very painful, Zhang Ailing doesn't want to pester her. The books she has read and the education she has received all tell her to let go rationally.

Zhang Ailing is kind. After she made up her mind to leave Hu Lancheng, she often helped Hu Lancheng with her own efforts.

The last night he came to Shanghai to see her, they lived in different rooms. Later, in the farewell letter to Hu Lancheng, Zhang Ailing also attached a manuscript fee of 300,000 yuan.

Although the last farewell letter was put forward by Zhang Ailing, she knew that it was because Hu Lancheng no longer loved her that she could not persist without dignity.

The scholar's reserve told her not to. If you don't love me, I will turn gracefully.

I don't want to disturb others.

At the age of thirty-five, Zhang Ailing went to America alone. She spent the rest of her life in the United States, during which she went back to Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province once.

In the eyes of many people, Zhang Ailing is weird and withdrawn. For example, she doesn't like to make friends with people, and always closes herself in the apartment. She refused to open the door when people she didn't want to see or unexpected guests came to visit.

However, behind the unfamiliar indifference, Zhang Ailing has a different kind of warmth.

In the United States, a friend introduced her to work at the China Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. At that time, her assistant, Taiwan Province scholar Chen Shaocong, once said: Because she knew that Zhang Ailing didn't like to associate with people, she tried to avoid having too much contact with her, and she always put the information she needed at work on the table when Zhang Ailing was away, for fear of disturbing her purity.

Once Zhang Ailing was ill, Chen Shaocong went to visit and send medicine. Knowing that Zhang Ailing couldn't open the door, Chen Shaocong rang the doorbell and put the medicine at the door.

A few days later, Chen Shaocong found a small bottle of "chanel no.5" perfume on his desk with a note saying thank you.

Everyone thinks that Zhang Ailing is eccentric and doesn't like to get in touch with people. But behind this, what we see is the warmth and delicacy of a generation of talented women thanking others for their help.

Her thoughts and feelings are just attached to the words, which is the end of the complaint. Her heart always hides the beauty and kindness of scholars.

Zhang Ailing is also a person who is afraid of causing trouble to others.

In her later years, she lived in a hotel, and the only thing she could do for her friends was to find a house. Lin Shitong was the only person who took care of Zhang Ailing in the last few years.

Speaking of caring, I only call Lin Shitong when I need to find a house. I never bother Lin Shitong at ordinary times, and they have only met two or three times.

The last time was when Zhang Ailing died, Lin Shitong received a phone call from the landlord, saying that Zhang Ailing might have died, and Lin Shitong was the only person the landlord thought might know Zhang Ailing.

Zhang Ailing doesn't want to be disturbed, and she doesn't want to disturb others.

According to police research, it has been three or four days since Zhang Ailing died and was discovered. She lay quietly in bed with a serene face. Important documents and letters are neatly packed in handbags and placed on the table.

Zhang Ailing has been living her own life according to her own wishes, and even the way she chose to die is to follow her own heart. In America, a person lives quietly, reading and writing. Before you die, put everything in order and leave quietly.

If she wants to take the initiative to contact the outside world and get help, she only needs a phone call, and there will be countless schoolmates to help her.

However, Zhang Ailing doesn't want it. She is used to being alone, taking care of herself and not wanting to disturb others.

She has been accompanied by books and words all her life, and reading is her best spiritual comfort.

Try not to disturb others when something happens. For her, this is also a decent reader.

Talking about reading, Zhang Ailing once said: "Books are the best friends. The only drawback is that myopia has deepened, but it is still worthwhile. "

What is the significance and value of reading?

Is there really a difference between reading and not reading?

Dong Qing, the host of CCTV, once said in a program that I always keep the habit of reading for an hour before going to bed every night. It is because of uninterrupted reading that Dong Qing, with its intellectual atmosphere, accessible poems and songs, and calm typhoon, was created on the stage. She said that all this is the accumulation of reading.

Some people say that the books you read will soon be forgotten. Is reading that important?

Someone replied that the books you read are hidden in your temperament, in your actions and in your thoughts.

It is precisely because of the power of reading that one can create one's inner self, and the inner self is one's true inner knowledge.

Elegant as Zhang Ailing, striving for progress and pursuing studies; If you don't love, just let go; Try not to disturb others when something happens.

Reading makes a person the most elegant and decent.