[English] Read more and travel far Source: Ming and Dong Qichang's "Essays on Painting Zen Rooms" ● Volume 20 Painting Tactics: Read thousands of books, travel Wan Li Road, get rid of the dust in your chest, naturally camp in the ravine and stand in the ravine. Read thousands of books and take Wan Li Road.

The original author is Liu Yi. Meaning: Reading thousands of books means studying hard and making your talents superior. Walking on the road of Wan Li means making what you have learned manifest in your life, and at the same time increasing your knowledge, that is, integrating theory with practice and applying what you have learned.

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Wan Li Road here is a supplement to reading, which is static and dynamic. The knowledge in books is limited, which can only be made up by reading and listening! The ancients regarded "reading thousands of books and walking Wan Li Road" as a pursuit. Because both of them can broaden people's horizons and increase their knowledge and ability. So is the importance between the two the same? What's the difference? If we simply talk about which is important, I think "taking Wan Li Road" is much more important than "reading thousands of books". You can refute me like this: If a person does not read any books and only takes the Wan Li Road, he will not succeed. This is a sentence pattern that we often argue about when discussing problems, and it is also a very useful sentence pattern. But it doesn't seem to have much effect here. In the business world, many people have come to the conclusion that in the early stage of starting a business, people with lower education are often easy to succeed. Some people have done statistics. At present, among the managers of well-known domestic enterprises, the first degree or below is an absolute advantage. The situation around us has repeatedly proved that some innovative business owners have never even attended high school. I'm afraid this can't be summarized in special circumstances. On the contrary, a person who reads dead books behind closed doors has long been the object of our ridicule. Can we say that walking is more important than reading?

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I understand "walking" as learning by doing. Human evolution began with walking. From the tree to the ground, our ancestors first learned to walk. The purpose of walking is to get more food and find a safe place to rest. At the same time, it broadens our horizons and learns a lot of useful knowledge. When Dayu and his father were managing water, they realized the principle of "water should be drained rather than blocked". Confucius attached great importance to the role of practice in learning, and proved what he had learned by traveling around the world to run the country and make it safe. Li Shizhen, Xu Xiake, Kyle Poirot, Darwin and Columbus all wrote great works or made great discoveries by "walking". It can be seen that "walking Wan Li Road" is much more important than "reading thousands of books". Compare the relationship between "reading" and "traveling": "reading thousands of books" is like people seeing the golden hill of knowledge and ability through a window, but if they really want to get the golden hill of knowledge and ability, they have to go out and "travel to Wan Li Road".

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On the one hand, reading can help me broaden my knowledge and learn from other people's experience, but at the same time it also puts a "tight hoop" on your head (this is the characteristic of experience. The more experience, the more bound people's thinking, and the worse their sense of innovation. After "reading thousands of books", only by "walking on the road of Wan Li" can you go out and have a look and experience the scenes described in the book, and you will find that what is said in the book is less than one thousandth of the experience. At the same time, you will understand the author's feelings about this scene and compare them with your own feelings, so as to enlarge your knowledge. Only in this way can the effect of reading be reflected. Therefore, reading is like a magnifying glass. Whether the knowledge in your mind is "true" or "false", it will be magnified several times (of course, the more you read, the greater the magnification). Not being able to read will only bind more and more, just like eating too much food can't be digested and absorbed, and it can only be a burden, which is not only useless but also "harmful". As a teacher, I have always admired reading. For example, "Reading thousands of books makes me write like a god", "There is a golden room in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book", so there is more or less an idea of belittling "doing". Intellectuals have gone from books to books for thousands of years. It can be seen that the current teacher group has been divorced from practice for too long, and most teachers have been isolated from the society (both for objective reasons and subjective reasons), and the profession of teachers has naturally been "sacred" to an incomprehensible level. To get social support, we must first get social understanding, and to get social understanding, we must first integrate into this society. "Wan Li Road" is what teachers need most at present. Meaning: To study thousands of books is to study hard and make your talent better than others. Take the Wan Li Road, that is, to embody what you have learned in your life, and at the same time to increase your knowledge, that is, to integrate theory with practice and apply what you have learned.