1. Books that increase self-cultivation

"The Ordinary World" Author: Lu Yao "Muslim Funeral" Author: Hoda "Norwegian Wood" Author: Haruki Murakami "Christ" "The Count of the Mountain" Author: Alexandre Dumas "The Godfather" Author: Mario Puzo "Sophie's World" Author: Jostan Judd "The Catcher in the Rye" Author: Salinger "White Deer" Author: Chen Zhongshi " Broken April" Author: Kadalei "Fifteen Years of Wanli" Author: Huang Renyu "The Journey of Beauty" Author: Li Zehou "Besieged City" Author: Qian Zhongshu "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Author: Mrs. Stowe "The Dust Has Settled" Author: Alai "Roots" Author: Alec Hale "Life Begins Tomorrow" Author: Xinman Chunman "Alive" Author: Yu Hua "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood" Author: Yu Hua "Gadfly" Author: Fu Nitch's "Wuthering Heights" Author: Emily Bront? "The Complete Biography of Napoleon" Author: Liu Letu "Selected Plays by Cao Yu" Author: Cao Yu 1. "The Ordinary World" Author: Lu Yao This is a panoramic story A novel that expresses contemporary urban and rural social life in China.

There are three parts in the book. The author depicts the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life through complex conflicts and entanglements in the broad background of the past ten years.

Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intricately intertwined, profoundly showing the hardships and twists that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great era. road. In addition to people from Henan, Tongcheng is also an important part of the villagers from poor counties in the northern Loess Plateau and southern plains.

Since the coal industry began, this place has become the Alaska of western China, attracting countless people looking for a way out of life. In this "United Nations" with various accents, since Henan has the largest number of people, Henan dialect is generally used for public communication.

People from all over the world living in Tongcheng can speak a few words of Henan accent and hum a few words of Henan Opera. The city is surrounded by hills and mountains.

The mountains are rocky and have thin soil, making them unsuitable for farming. The agricultural population is far less dense than the hinterland of the Loess Plateau, let alone the overcrowded central plains. Because there are very few farmers, and there is no shortage of fuel here, these rugged mountains are actually covered with dense firewood and even some treetop forests, making them more picturesque than other places on the Loess Plateau.

Whenever autumn comes, the red leaves on some mountains are like fire, and the flowers are as eye-catching... Among the mountains and hills, holes are formed due to excessive excavation deep in the ground, and the ground surface sometimes sinks, which is shocking. Large cracks often tear apart several mountain ridges, or even cause the entire mountain to collapse due to large roof collapse, causing surrounding earthquakes of around 3 on the Richter scale. One or two hundred miles north of the mountain is the Yellow River, which flows heavily to the east with thousands of tons of silt... The city can only have one main street in this narrow ravine.

The shops, buildings and streets are lined up in rows and layers along this winding street, along both sides of the railway, and along the Qishui River, which usually has a small flow. , as dense as a hive of ants, spread out from south to north for ten miles. The train station is located in the center of the city.

A rectangular waiting room painted yellow looks magnificent in this gray and black city. Except for the dual-use airport in the southern suburbs, the small square of the train station may be the most open place in the city.

The train goes south from here, crossing the green central plain, and can reach the provincial capital in five or six hours. There are roads extending to the west, east, and north, leading to several neighboring provinces.

This railway station has two express and slow passenger trains running from the provincial capital every morning and afternoon, and the rest are all coal trucks. The last track of this branch line branching off from the Longhai Railway does not end at this station.

The steel staircase forked into two branches here, climbing uphill and drilling through holes, connecting more than 20 mining areas on the east and west sides along the way. When outsiders mention Tongcheng, they all know that it is a place where coal is produced, so they imagine that the city is probably full of coal everywhere.

In fact, there are only one or two coal mines with very small output near Tongcheng, and the rest of the large mines are in the ravines on the east and west sides.

When you turn into these valleys along the railway branch, you will know how huge the world is there.

These coal mines are only about ten miles apart. Each mining area has tens of thousands of workers, and together with their families, they are almost larger than a mountainous county. The dense population, dense houses, towering derricks, rumbling machines, and noisy sounds make it unbelievable how these small ravines and bays can carry such a huge load? 2. "Muslim Funeral" Author: Hoda The rise and fall of a Muslim family in sixty years, the ups and downs of the fate of three generations, two love tragedies that happened in different eras, have different contents, but are intertwined and twisted.

It reveals their unique psychological structure in the collision and integration of Chinese culture and Islamic culture, as well as their confusion and pursuit of the true meaning of life in the political and religious atmosphere. It shows the ancient national customs and the contradictory reality.

The work is fresh, smooth, simple and unpretentious. It uses delicate brushwork to probe people's soul. After reading it, it will stir your soul and leave you with deep thoughts. 3. "Norwegian Wood" Author: Haruki Murakami This is a love novel that is 100% popular throughout Asia. It once ranked among the "super bestsellers" in the history of Japanese literature.

This is certainly considered Haruki Murakami’s masterpiece. Many people know this Japanese from this book.

The whole book uses memories as clues to express the loneliness and confusion faced by teenagers in adolescence and the helplessness and boredom faced by growing up. Through the pain of survival that young people cannot escape under social pressure, Murakami clearly emphasized for the first time the theme he would repeatedly emphasize in subsequent books: the sadness and powerlessness of life.

This is a sad, painful, 100% love novel. The protagonist of the novel, Watanabe, begins his love entanglement with two girls.

Watanabe’s first love, Naoko, was originally the girlfriend of his high school classmate Kizuki, who later committed suicide. A year later, Watanabe and Naoko met by chance and started dating.

At this time, Naoko has become quiet and shy, with an elusive shadow flashing through her beautiful crystal eyes from time to time. The two of them just walked aimlessly in front of, behind or side by side in the fallen leaves of Tokyo streets day after day.

The two had sex on the night of Naoko's 20th birthday. Unexpectedly, Naoko disappeared the next day. Naoko will come in a few months. 2. Recommend several books to improve self-cultivation

1. "If You Give Me Three Days of Light" by Helen Keller In the 20th century, a unique individual shocked the world with his brave way. She - Helen Keller, a woman who lived in darkness but brought light to mankind, a woman who spent 88 years of her life, but survived 87 years of lightlessness, silence and speechlessness. Weak woman.

However, it is such a person who is claustrophobic in the world of blindness, deafness and muteness. He actually graduated from Harvard University's DeCliffe College; and used all his life's energy to run around and build charity organizations to benefit the disabled. He was selected as one of the top ten heroic idols in the United States in the 20th century by Time Magazine.

Creating this miracle all depends on an indomitable heart. Helen accepted the challenge of life, embraced the world with love, faced difficulties with amazing perseverance, and finally found the bright side of life in the darkness, and finally extended her loving hands to the whole world.

2. "Who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson. This book uses a vivid story to illustrate a simple but often ignored truth: changes are always happening, so Everyone must anticipate changes, track changes, adapt to changes, and change themselves as the environment changes, so that they can enjoy changes. This book is suitable for any age group, and it will take you less than an hour to read the story, but the unique insights contained in it will have a lifelong impact and help on you.

3. "Tolerance" Author: Hendrik Wilhelm Van Roon (USA) Reading this book is an interesting way to understand the changes in the history of civilization. What is human history like? How did it evolve? What is the relationship between people and history? How do people create history? Why do people want to understand history? The author uses an ingenious approach to experience, comprehend, and understand the changes in Western history from the perspective of society or people's tolerance.

"Tolerance" and "intolerance" are exactly a pair of contradictory concepts. Who becomes the center of the era or which one becomes the edge? The historical features of the era may be completely opposite.

Therefore, using this method to understand human civilization, the changes in human history are undoubtedly in a state of constant alternation between disorder and order. The author, Mr. Fang Long, does not directly praise the historical process that meets the standards of tolerance, deny or criticize the historical phenomenon of intolerance, but captures the various forms of "tolerance" and "intolerance" presented in the process of human civilization changes to describe Why does social development change like this?

In this book, the author enters the depths of human civilization through the passage of "tolerance". Such a unique way of writing history not only breaks the utopian fantasy of continuous social progress since the Western Enlightenment, but also further opens up people's thinking space for understanding historical changes and reveals the form of civilization under the postmodern landscape in advance.

4. "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules" author: Cherie Carter Scott (USA) This is a book suitable for women, men, and readers of all ages. In her writing, all the successes and failures in love come together under the author's writing. Love is no longer isolated and unclear.

The writing style of this book is rigorous and the viewpoint is fair. For the first time, love - something that Chinese people think can never be explained clearly - is rationalized and regularized, which is really inspiring. 5. Author of "Prose Notes on a Journey to Hunan": Shen Congwen Reading Shen Lao's prose is like looking at a painting of light colors filled with water. The entire text flows like shallow water, moisturizing the reader's heart.

Although it appears to be applied effortlessly, the resulting lines are clear and clear; the almost line drawing technique, without a trace of discussion, touches the readers' heartstrings without any trace. Although the story is not very touching and the characters are so outdated, every word is shining brightly.

6. "The Truth of Life" Author: Liang Xiaosheng This is an exploration of the depth of spiritual culture. The author experiences beauty in ordinary life, showing the flesh-and-blood connection between the writer and ordinary people, and the connection with the pulse of the times. Thoughts fit. The author is a writer with a strong sense of introspection.

The four words "know how to reflect" are particularly important in today's reality in China. "The Truth of Life" focuses on a wide range of social and cultural topics, such as the archives system, judicial system, charity, urban construction pattern, and film and television themes. , reading guides, etc., as well as terrorism, Olympic spirit, world trends and many other macro concerns, which are all focuses and hot spots related to the national economy and people's livelihood. 7. "My Love My Freedom" author: Isadora Duncan (USA) "My Love My Freedom" is written by Isadora Duncan, the founder of modern dance and a famous American dancer. Duncan's autobiography.

In this book, she fully explains the two major propositions of life - love and freedom; with lava-like enthusiasm, she melts life, love and dance career into the brilliance of words, allowing readers to appreciate a The extraordinary vitality of great women. For some young people who are in adversity and have lofty ambitions, after reading this biography, they should understand that nothing is impossible. Yesterday's dream may not be today's hope and tomorrow's reality. Duncan uses her Personal experience shows the world a woman's process from never being recognized to being highly respected.

8. "Where is the Return" Author: Li Yang "Where is the Return" is also a novel with a very beautiful language. It adopts a unique prose and poetic language form. It describes contemporary youth The history of spiritual transformation of intellectuals calls on contemporary youth to adhere to their ideals and spiritual heights in the collision of diversified values. The contradiction between ideal and reality is vividly expressed in beautiful language.

The author deliberately inherits and promotes traditional Chinese culture in the novel, especially the beauty, breadth and profoundness of traditional literature. Facing the unstoppable trend of Western learning spreading to the East, the author raised the banner of "Eastern learning spreading to the West" and tried her best to practice it in her novels.

From the perspective of language alone, Li Yang’s novel is unique and elegant in the contemporary Chinese literary world. It beautifully interprets the beauty of the sounds, shapes and meanings of the Chinese language, forming a unique The "Liyang" phenomenon.

9. "Ecological City: Building a Living Environment in Balance with Nature" Author: Richard Register (USA) The author gives another interpretation of "sustainable development strategy" in the book - that is, through reasonable Urban planning and design to realize the evolution of the human ecosystem consisting of towns and villages in a good direction, and to provide the greatest development opportunities for all people and all types of cultures, so that human creative enthusiasm can be fully stimulated and enable us to Able to fully enjoy the beautiful environment given by nature. 3. What are some books that can improve your cultural literacy?

If your knowledge of ancient Chinese is not bad, I suggest you read ancient Chinese. Those are books that have been baptized by thousands of years of culture and have endured for a long time. Most of these writers nowadays They are all written for money. The ancients said: Articles are written to suit the occasion, and poems are written to suit the event. "A Dream of Red Mansions", "Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals", "Warring States Policy", "Yuan Opera", "Poems of Ming and Qing Dynasties", "Huangdi Neijing", "Book of Changes"

"Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", "Essential Volume of Zhou Ti"

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas"

"The Romance of the West Chamber"

"Journey to the West"

"Zi Zhi Tong Jian"

" "Water Margin"

"University"

"The Doctrine of the Mean"

"The Analects"

"Mencius"

"Book of Songs"

"Book of Books"

"Book of Changes"

"Book of Rites"

"Spring and Autumn"

"Warring States Policy"

"Historical Records"

"New Theory of the Century"

"The Journey to the West" Military: Sun Tzu's Art of War, Taigong's Art of War, Six Tao, Sanlue, etc.

History and politics: Guoyu, Shangshu, Warring States Period, Zuozhuan, Spring and Autumn Period, and all 24 histories including Shiji, Hanshu, Houhanshu, and Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms.

In terms of literature: Four Great Classics, Xiaolin Guangji, Sanyan Erpai, Jin Pingmei, Fengshen Romance, Search for Gods, Shishuoxinyu, Liaozhaizhiyi, etc.

Science and technology: Tiangong Kaiwu, Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases, Compendium of Materia Medica, Huangdi Neijing, Mengxi Bi Tan, Shui Jing Zhu, Tang Materia Medica, Jiu Zhang Arithmetic, etc.

Encyclopedia Knowledge: Yongle Dadian 4. Please recommend a few books to improve literary literacy

With the popularity of the Internet, the emergence of online literature has subverted the traditional writing and communication model, making small The development of literature has become more diversified, and new forces born in the 1980s and 1990s have begun to enter the literary world and show their amazing creative abilities.

The overall emergence of the martial arts fantasy novel author group represented by Qidian and the romance novel author group represented by Jinjiang (Four Little Queens, Six Little Princesses, and Eight Little Linglong) marks that online novels have become Another creative subject outside of mainstream literature. Representative works: "Midnight", "Ni Huanzhi", "The Golden Family", "Weeping and Laughing Marriage", "Smoke and Cloud in Beijing", "Sinking", "Back View", "Essays of Yuanyuantang", "Four Generations Under One Roof", "Past Events" ", "Under the Roofs of Shanghai", "Border Town", "Ya She Xiao", "The Riptide Trilogy "Home" "Spring" "Autumn"", "Journey to the South", "Ms. Sophie's Diary", "Mei Yu" "Evening", "Thunderstorm", "Besieged City", "The Story of the Hulan River", "Chronicles of Baiyangdian", "Old Things in the South of the City", "Ordinary World", "Impetuous", "Red Sorghum Family", "Lin's Shop", " Rural Trilogy: "Spring Can", "Autumn Harvest", "Candong", "Don't Talk About Love", "Life is Like a String", "Muslim Funeral", "Still Water Waves", "Tea House", "Sad Death", "The Lone Step Dance in Shanghai", "The Story of the Golden Lock", "The Field of Life and Death" and so on.

Seven modern and contemporary love classics: 1. "Muslim Funeral" (Hoda) Love and the beautiful things in human nature can transcend religion and race, although in reality they are often strangled. And it is precisely because of the cruelty of reality that these things become more and more precious. A door separates two worlds.

When her love comes, her life has begun to come to an end little by little... 2. "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" (Wang Anyi) The spiritual history of urban love in Shanghai, a woman's lifelong love and affection, has been... The changes of the times and the rotation of men are intertwined.

The three men swept away her youth, middle age and old age respectively. Each of them left a promise, but each of them left and never came back. The first man who took a picture of her spent his whole life accompanying and caring about her, but he did not get her. , and did not win her heart... 3. "The Ordinary World" (Lu Yao) It seems to be happening around us, quietly changing our outlook on life, values ??and love.

In this ordinary world, those gorgeous flowers of life are blooming quietly without being known to us. The ordinary world is touching, ordinary things and ordinary love, as long as we are serious Treat it positively, and you will no longer be ordinary... 4. "Three Castles" - "Border Town" (Shen Congwen), "Besieged City" (Qian Zhongshu), "Abandoned Capital" (Jia Pingwa) "Border Town": the kind of The original, natural and pure love is placed in a paradise. That kind of love is like flowers in the sun, a beautiful, healthy, natural and not contrary to human nature... "The Besieged City": Marriage is like a besieged city , people outside the city want to come in, and people in the city want to go out. Those who come in can only understand by thinking about the game, and those who go out are filled with sweetness and sourness that only those who have been there can understand... "The Wasted City": The Jin Ping Mei in the modern city has been banned for 17 years, but the author believes that it is the only one that can settle his soul. In the book, all the characters met a sad end. Only that lonely ancient city was slowly abandoned at the end of the century, slowly abandoned... 5. "White Deer Plain" (Chen Zhongshi) Under the irresistible historical trend, in Love and hate happened in a village and a wheat field.

The three women respectively performed three models: marriage for the sake of marriage, marriage for instinctive love, and marriage for some lofty goal. We can also get a glimpse of how unspeakable love was in that era... 6. "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" (Amy) This is a true story.

A girl in love for the first time, and a handsome young man in a white shirt standing under the hawthorn tree waiting for her. As long as you are alive, I am also alive. If you die, then I am truly dead.

What kind of feelings regard one's life as the continuation of one's own life? Perhaps, pure love requires death at the right time... 7. "Tarimu River" (Mu Ran Qianshan) The Tarim River is a magical long river, a long river full of magic, a river of dreams that makes people swim in it and not want to go ashore. There is such a long river deep in everyone's heart: it has a long history, it never dies, and flows with the sorrow, joy, dreams and secrets of each of us.

When you look back in the dark, you will inadvertently realize that it has gone through thousands of years, people and vicissitudes of life... 5. Can you introduce some books to improve your quality?

Poetry Raining and Huang Zhongtongli are in the right place.

Beauty is in it, flowing through all the limbs. ——"Book of Changes" Reciting "Three Hundred Poems" can enable people to enjoy the elegant art with the most oriental characteristics, think calmly and have a new understanding of the past, have a beautiful yearning for the future and make an objective grasp of it. , thus becoming more courageous and confident, facing everything calmly, and reaching the highest state of life of "learning to gather things, asking questions to distinguish things, being tolerant to live in them, and benevolent to practice".

Over the years, from inside and outside the Great Wall to the north and south of the Yangtze River, from school-age children to centenarians, more and more people have used "Three Hundred Poems" as a channel to connect their souls and a bond to deepen their feelings. The carrier of inheriting civilization and the medium of promoting righteousness. "Read the best books and be a noble person."

Once again, it has become the common sense of people in different eras. The ideological and artistic quality of "Three Hundred Poems" are in perfect harmony and highly unified; it directly communicates with God, communicates with the earth at all times, and can soothe people's hearts forever.

Although the song is lofty and unobtrusive, it is not unattainable. It is a call of true love and a catharsis of love from the public. It is a beautiful blessing conveyed to us by the will of God and the people through the author's handwriting. ______ Sweet Spring.

6. Looking for some classic books, preferably ones with strong historical charm

Chinese historian Huang Renyu’s "The Great History of China" and "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" are very classic, with unique angles and atmosphere. You will benefit a lot from this vision.

American historian Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations and the Reconstruction of World Order" will definitely enhance your thinking and world view. It is a world classic historical work

The recently popular "What is History?" is also pretty good. It has a more popular taste and can be used as an introductory book.

Exceptionally, I recommend you to read "The Secret History of Cao Cao" about Cao Cao, a total of three books. Personally, I think It is the most enlightening among all Cao Cao's books

The Cambridge History of China series is also good and has developed into a very classic series

"From Dawn to Decline" is world-famous. Worth reading

Wu Si's "Hidden Rules - Real Games in Chinese History" Haha, well, just by listening to the name, you will know whether it is valuable or not

Finally, best wishes Happy reading!