Why read Zhu Ziqing today? In order to appreciate the personality behind his works, in order to relive the literary memories of generations, but also to taste his cultural concepts in the classics that are constantly recited, and to find the spiritual resources of the present. How to read Zhu Ziqing today is not an independent topic, it is about the overall attitude towards famous masterpieces, and ultimately points to "how to read the classics today".
Today we not only need to read Zhu Ziqing, we need his simplicity and gentleness; we need to read Lu Xun, we need his sober self-sustainment, we need his bitter criticism and enthusiastic persistence; we need to read Wang Zengqi, we need his tranquility and simplicity; we need to read Shi Tiesheng, and we need his self-redemption in the face of the dilemma of survival. Fate is that human beings need literature, not literature needs human beings. If literary classics have the most practical care, it is that a tear in the work can reflect the boundless sorrow, from the fate of a person to see a group of people, so that everyone's soul is no longer scattered, literature condenses all mankind, in the boundless place of the vast wilderness, great thoughts and emotions can continue, endless.
Source: Guangming Daily