As the name implies, the idiom "swallow dates" means to swallow dates without chewing. Nowadays, "swallowing dates" just corresponds to a new phenomenon, that is, "cultural fast food".

If ancient people only chewed pears but didn't swallow them, they were afraid of hurting their stomachs; If you swallow jujube without chewing, you are afraid of hurting your teeth. If modern people swallow dates, I'm afraid the reason is different. Three words-no time! As for the reason, it is nothing more than "in today's society, time is wealth" or "in order to adapt to the fast-paced life of high-tech society", so today every jujube is processed by a series of advanced means and turned into jujube capsules, which makes people swallow it with a mouthful of water. It is said that "nutrition is not lost".

Therefore, the great works that predecessors have studied for a lifetime have become capsules like red dates today-all kinds of abbreviated books, essence books and story outlines. Readers can easily omit the laborious and tooth-hurting process of "chewing" the original work and happily swallow "nutrients" directly. In this way, no matter which famous book you are talking about, even if you haven't read it, people and stories will come. If you don't read and analyze the essence of the work carefully, you can talk about it in Kan Kan, just like a knowledgeable scholar. In fact, this man hasn't even read a chapter of the original book.

However, such "cultural fast food" has gone astray. Let's not talk about whether the nutrition of "jujube capsule" is really not lost. Just saying "taste" is 108 thousand miles worse than fresh jujube, and it has no taste at all.

Real culture should be an art. For example, fruits with bright colors, sweet taste, tender and juicy generally have direct allure and aesthetic feeling, and grinding this fruit into powder and concentrating it into capsules is tantamount to depriving the aesthetic feeling of culture, making the subtle spiritual touch of literary works become a rigid symbolic formula, which makes people dull; The vivid and rich characters in the book have also been stripped to the skeleton, making it difficult to see flesh and blood.

We read famous books in order to truly experience the baptism of that kind of beauty. Some western famous works have lost their literary talent after translation, so it is better to find a TV newspaper to read a story introduction.

Now science and technology have developed to provide human nutrition with drugs, but human beings will not give up their own taste of food. What about the "capsule" made by culture?