First, I am reluctant, but I have to admit that how steel is tempered has a great influence on me. When I was seventeen, I copied Paul's famous saying "Life belongs to us only once" on the title page of my diary. About twenty years old, I put this book on my pillow. I often read the story of Paul building roads. At that time, I jumped the queue in the mountain village, doing the same job as Paul. But when I reread this book six years ago, I felt reluctant to read it. Paul's intolerance and conceit surprised me. Is this my idol? I'm trying to imitate this kind of person? I feel embarrassed. I won't recommend this book to my daughter and I won't read it again.
Second, Tolstoy's War and Peace or anna karenine. I saw my soul in the heroes Andre, Bill and Levin. I think Tolstoy's sentences can go straight into my heart and let me live in different States several times. However, in describing the complexity and richness of the human heart, Dostoevsky's brothers karamazov is the pinnacle. I think Tolstoy is very kind and thoughtful. As for Dostoevsky, there is only surprise and awe.
Third, "Three Hundred Tang Poems". In fact, what I want to talk about is China's classical poetry, from The Book of Songs to Nineteen Ancient Poems to Tang Poetry and Song Poetry, and Three Hundred Tang Poems is their representative. These ancient poems can quickly arouse my sense of vicissitudes of life and arouse my "fundamental anxiety". Life is short, and years are fleeting. This feeling makes people feel profound and profound, beyond the greed of flies and dogs, into the depths of nature, and even the words are sparse, I want to talk about it.
Fourth, Becker's Against Death. This book has influenced me more than the psychological works of various schools. This book, as well as Tillich's Courage of Being, helped me understand the unique characteristics of human mind and humanity beyond animals. After reading this book ten years ago, I was surprised and stopped reading books on psychology.
Fifth, Zhuangzi. Su Dongpo said: When I was a child, when I was studying in Zhuangzi, I felt that this person had said all his thoughts. Su Dongpo felt the same way when he was in college. Around the age of twenty, Zhuangzi once seriously threatened my "revolutionary ideal". Repeatedly reading How Steel was Tempered is a struggle against Zhuangzi. In the past 20 years, I have already stopped fighting against Zhuangzi. His description of life and the universe is very wonderful, which can pull us out of the quagmire of conceit and bondage, let us face the most important problems directly, and at the same time, we will not be too obsessed and forget our real position in the world.
Sixth, institutional economics, any one. At 1993, I heard Hong Sheng mention this topic, saying that I had never heard of it. Hong Sheng laughed at me and said I didn't know. How can anyone understand economics? Later, after listening to several lectures of their Tianze Institute and reading a pamphlet introducing institutional economics, I was fascinated. It is a good skill of history to analyze institutional changes with the clarity and rationality of microeconomics. Once you understand this idea, it's hard to forget it.
Seven, Huang Renyu's fifteen years of Wanli. 1986 reading this book at the beginning gives birth to the feeling that history can still be written like this. A few years later, I also turned to history and was influenced by it. As for the depth of writing, with the light of "image is greater than thought", it is really a moment to explain history. Mr. Huang Lao's generalization is often scarred, which is not jealousy.
If I refine it again, beyond the professional or professional needs, the above-mentioned books, 300 Tang poems, Zhuangzi is the most important to me, followed by Tolstoy's books. Knowledge is infinite, but there is only one soul, and it cannot be withered.