When reading books and periodicals, we often encounter some examples of reading without asking for a solution. Here might as well give one or two examples.

In ancient books, astrology is often used to indicate time. In the Book of Songs, the wind is everywhere, and the Chu Palace is written. In a word, the fixed star (also called the camp star) walks into the sky to represent October in the summer calendar. By this time, you can build a house in Chuqiu. This is the story of defending the country in the Spring and Autumn Period. If you look at the literature, you will understand that you will mistakenly think that you are located in the palace of Chu State. Isn't this a difference of 108 thousand miles?

The reason for this phenomenon is that reading is meaningless. Reading is a serious matter. It is always necessary to find out the meaning of the text and understand it. Especially after reading it, you should quote and write articles, and be more cautious. Because articles always affect people, we must provide accurate knowledge to the society. Otherwise it is irresponsible to the public. However, at present, when we look at some printed materials, there are many such situations.

Not long ago, I came across a pamphlet introducing peppers in a county of a province in the mainland. It is said that "according to the records of ×× county annals, peppers were planted in Qin Dynasty, which was called' Qinjiao'". Moreover, "According to legend, many people died in the Qin Dynasty because of the epidemic of plague, but people who often ate Chili peppers survived", "1400 years ago, in the Sui Dynasty, XX Chili peppers were very famous in Zhao Yan". This statement not only lacks basic knowledge, but also misunderstands the history of pepper cultivation in China. Yes, Qin pepper is indeed native to China; Today's peppers are also called "Qinjiao". However, this "Qin pepper" is by no means the Qin pepper mentioned in the brochure.

China does have a native pepper, which can be used as medicine. Li Shizhen, a great pharmacologist in Ming Dynasty, recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that Qinjiao, also known as "Big Pepper", is pungent in taste, warm in nature and toxic, and can cure "drinking less urine and excessive urine", "swollen hands and feet", "old aphtha" and "toothache" (Compendium of Materia Medica, Volume 32). The pepper here is not the pepper mentioned in the brochure, but actually one of the peppers we collectively refer to today. It is a non-fragrant spice and deciduous shrub.

As for the Qin pepper in plant pepper, it is necessary to start with the history of pepper planting in China. The ancestors of pepper were wild in the jungle of Chile and were introduced as vegetables by Mexicans. After Columbus set foot in America, it spread to Europe in A.D. 1493. After several sea routes, it was introduced to China as an ornamental flower in the late Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the record of pepper first appeared in flowers in China, and it was found in Eight Chapters of Respect for Life published by Gao Lian, a China opera writer, in the 19th year of Wanli in Ming Shenzong (A.D. 159 1). In his book Yan Xianqing's Notes on Appreciation of Flowers in Four Seasons, he said: "Pepper, overgrown, with white flowers, is hot and red, which is very impressive." Calling pepper "pepper" means that pepper is imported from the South China Sea. Just as we still call tomatoes introduced in the late Ming Dynasty "tomatoes" in scientific names. Tang Xianzu, a dramatist in the Ming Dynasty, called "pepper" "end pepper flower" and "end pepper flower" out of the need of meter, and treated flowers the same way.

As for fruits and vegetables that will gradually become fruits and vegetables in the future, they are widely planted everywhere. People also agree to call the peppers produced in Gansu and Shaanxi "Qin pepper" and Sichuan and Sichuan peppers "Shu pepper" and so on. A kind of "Qinjiao" introduced from the Ming Dynasty was "planted" in the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, and was "famous for Yanzhao" in the Sui Dynasty 1400 years ago. It can be seen that Qin pepper, as another name of pepper, is not the "Qin pepper" in the brochure. Even if it is recorded in history, it should be a kind of pepper.

Reading is meaningless, writing is wrong, and historical facts are wrong. Just a personal joke. It is very harmful to write a wrong article and spread it everywhere. At present, this phenomenon exists in the treatment of ancient China culture; This phenomenon even exists in the introduction of some foreign cultural knowledge. In some TV series, the so-called "Adam ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden" is also told orally by many people, which is an example of completely distorting the original intention and spreading false information.

This story was originally written in the Bible Genesis. In the second chapter of Genesis, it is said that the Lord "established the Garden of Eden", "found a spouse for men" and "the two became one". Then in the third chapter of Genesis, it is said that a woman ate the forbidden fruit and gave it to her husband. It also made it clear that they didn't do anything after eating the forbidden fruit, but ". It seems that the original intention of the story is quite different from the myth. If the original communicators could check the original text instead of hearsay, some jokes about "stealing forbidden fruit" and misunderstandings about Eden would not be widely circulated in society.

For some people, the need and significance of reading seems unimportant. This is probably related to the superficial understanding of Tao Yuanming's modest words of "study hard, not seek deep understanding" (Tao Yuanming: biography of Mr. Wu Liu) in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This is indeed a modest speech, but it is modest and gentle. Because "what" is based on "solution". If you have a solution, what can you ask? If you can't even solve the solution, what can you ask for? Therefore, reading should be solved. As for not only reading, but also writing to the society, it is more important to understand. Otherwise, there will be cultural jokes and even cultural rubbish. That's harmful.